Grant Lewis

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Grant Lewis
Date of birth 20th January 1985
place of birth Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , USA
size 191 cm
Weight 88 kg
position defender
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2004 , 2nd round, 40th position
Atlanta Thrashers
Career stations
2002-2003 Pittsburgh Forge
2003-2007 Dartmouth College
2007-2010 Chicago Wolves
2010 Hershey Bears
2010-2011 Milwaukee Admirals
2011–2012 HC Lev Poprad
2012-2013 Straubing Tigers
2013-2015 EHC Red Bull Munich
2015 EHC Linz

Grant Lewis (born January 20, 1985 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ) is an American ice hockey player who was last under contract with the EHC Linz in the Austrian ice hockey league .

Career

Grant Lewis (center) in the HC Lev Poprad jersey
Grant Lewis (r.) At a Chicago Wolves game

Grant Lewis began his career as a hockey player in his hometown with the Pittsburgh Forge, for which he was active in the junior league North American Hockey League in the 2002/03 season . He then attended Dartmouth College for four years , for whose ice hockey team he took part in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . There he was able to convince and was elected to the All-Rookie Team and the first All-Star Team in 2004 and to the second All-Star Team of ECAC Hockey in 2006. During his university days, the defender was selected in the second round of the 2004 NHL Entry Draft as a total of 40th player by the Atlanta Thrashers . For their farm team Chicago Wolves he played in the American Hockey League from 2007 to 2010 and won the Calder Cup with the team in the 2007/08 season . For the Atlanta Thrashers himself, he came to his only appearance in the National Hockey League during the 2008/09 season . The 2009/10 season he ended with the Hershey Bears , with whom he also won the Calder Cup.

In September 2010 Lewis was transferred to the Nashville Predators , but played exclusively for their AHL farm team Milwaukee Admirals throughout the 2010/11 season . For the 2011/12 season , the American was committed to HC Lev Poprad from the Continental Hockey League . After a year in the KHL, Lewis switched to the Straubing Tigers from the German Ice Hockey League in August 2012 . Just one season later, EHC Red Bull Munich announced the commitment of the defender, who initially signed a one-year contract.

In November 2014, Lewis suffered a shoulder injury and missed most of the 2014-15 season as a result.

In November 2015 he was signed by EHC Linz from the Austrian Ice Hockey League . A few weeks after moving to Linz, he suffered another shoulder injury after a check-up, had to undergo an operation and was out for the rest of the season. He has been without a club since then.

Achievements and Awards

statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season 1 1 0 0 0 0
NHL playoffs - - - - - -
AHL regular season 4th 180 11 56 67 185
AHL playoffs 3 14th 0 4th 4th 20th

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tigershockey.de: Straubing Tigers squad complete: US boy Grant Lewis comes from the KHL
  2. ↑ redbullmuenchen.de: Defender Grant Lewis moves to Munich
  3. ^ OP: Grant Lewis has been absent from EHC Munich for months - EHC Munich. In: merkur.de. November 27, 2014, accessed September 29, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Black Wings Linz sign defender Travis Roche. In: sportreport.biz. February 2, 2016, accessed September 27, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Lewis, Grant
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 20th January 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , USA