Grant Potulny

Grant Potulny
Date of birth	March 4th 1980
place of birth	Grand Forks , North Dakota , USA
size	186 cm
Weight	92 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2000 , 5th round, 157th position Ottawa Senators
Career stations
1998-2000	Lincoln Stars
2000-2004	University of Minnesota
2004-2007	Binghamton Senators
2007-2008	Hershey Bears
2008	Springfield Falcons Foxes Duisburg San Antonio Rampage
2008-2009	Norfolk Admirals

Grant Potulny (born March 4, 1980 in Grand Forks , North Dakota ) is a former American ice hockey player and current coach who was under contract with the Norfolk Admirals in the American Hockey League until 2009 . His younger brother Ryan is also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Grant Potulny began his career as a hockey player with the Lincoln Stars, for which he was active from 1998 to 2000 in the junior league United States Hockey League . He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2000 in the fifth round as a total of 157 players by the Ottawa Senators , for whom he never played. Instead, the attacker ran for four years for the University of Minnesota team , with which he won the championship of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association in 2003 and 2004 . During this time Potulny was three years as team captain of the Golden Gophers , as long as no player before him since 1947. From 2004 to 2007, the left shooter for Ottawa's farm team , the Binghamton Senators , was on the ice in the American Hockey League . He also stayed in the AHL, in which he competed for the Hershey Bears and Springfield Falcons in the 2007/08 season .

The 2008/09 season began Potulny with the Füchsen Duisburg in the German ice hockey league . After only seven games in which he scored one goal, the American returned to the AHL, where he played for the San Antonio Rampage and Norfolk Admirals until the end of the season. Following this season, the American ended his playing career due to injury problems and then took over the post of assistant coach with the Golden Gophers , the university team of the University of Minnesota.

Achievements and Awards

• 2003 Broadmoor Trophy win with the University of Minnesota
• 2004 Broadmoor Trophy win with the University of Minnesota

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
DEL main round	1	7th	1	0	1	8th
DEL playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
AHL regular season	6th	297	73	72	145	475
AHL playoffs	2	8th	0	0	0	2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ gophersports.com, Grant Potulny - Biography

Web links

• Grant Potulny at hockeydb.com (English)
• Grant Potulny at eurohockey.com
• Grant Potulny at eliteprospects.com (English)