Greg Classen

Greg Classen
Date of birth	August 24, 1977
place of birth	Aylsham , Saskatchewan , Canada
size	184 cm
Weight	89 kg
position	center
number	# 79
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1998-2000	Merrimack College
1999-2004	Milwaukee Admirals
2004-2005	Porin Ässät
2005-2006	Milwaukee Admirals
2006-2007	Hamburg Freezers
2007-2008	Manitoba mosses
2008	Providence Bruins San Antonio Rampage
2008-2009	Iserlohn Roosters
2009-2010	EHC Basel
2010-2013	Cologne Sharks
2013-2014	ERC Ingolstadt
2014-2016	Lusatian foxes
2016-2017	Starbulls Rosenheim

Gregory Classen (born August 24, 1977 in Aylsham , Saskatchewan ) is a German - Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Rostock Piranhas since the 2017/18 season .

Career

After Classen first played in his homeland for the Nipawin Hawks in the lower-class Canadian junior league Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League , he moved to Merrimack College in 1998 and played there for the Merrimack College Warriors in Hockey East , a league in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . In his first season at college, the center was elected to the all-rookie team and initially stayed for another year.

At the end of the 1999/00 season he signed his first professional contract as a free agent with the Nashville Predators and made his professional debut with their farm team , the Milwaukee Admirals , in the International Hockey League . Then Classen played three years in both the IHL and the American Hockey League , in which the Admirals had moved, and in the National Hockey League , where he was able to achieve 17 scorer points in 90 games. In the 2003/04 season , the left shooter only played in the AHL, but managed to win the regular season and the play-offs with his team and won the Calder Cup .

The attacker then moved to Europe , where he first played for Porin Ässät in the Finnish SM-liiga . In the 2005/06 season Classen returned to the Admirals and again reached the final of the Calder Cup, but signed a contract with the Hamburg Freezers from the German Ice Hockey League after the season . In the next year, however, the Canadian played again in North America, this time for the Manitoba Moose . Here, too, he only stayed one season and then joined the Providence Bruins . After just one game, Classen went on to the San Antonio Rampage , which he also left after 19 games.

Before he could play a game for his new team, the Rochester Americans , the striker signed a contract until the end of the 2008/09 season with the Iserlohn Roosters from the DEL , who signed him as a replacement for the long-term injured Brad Tapper . After the season, Classen received no new contract offer and moved to EHC Basel in the Swiss National League B in October 2009 . However, since he worked for three different teams in Switzerland within a year, he moved back to Germany in summer 2010, where he signed a one-year contract with the Kölner Haien . In August 2013 he signed a two-month contract with ERC Ingolstadt .

For the 2014/15 season, Greg Classen moved to the second German ice hockey league to the Lausitzer Füchsen in Weißwasser. After the end of the season he was seriously injured in a knife attack in Dresden on March 14, 2015 .

Classen left the Füchse after the 2015/16 season and was signed by DEL2 competitor Starbulls Rosenheim at the end of August 2016 .

Achievements and Awards

• 1999 Hockey East All-Rookie Team
• 2004 Calder Cup win with the Milwaukee Admirals
• 2014 German champion with the ERC Ingolstadt

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1997/98	Nipawin Hawks	SJHL		59	32	50	82	50		14th	8th	13	21st	6th
1998/99	Merrimack College	NCAA		36	14th	11	25th	28
1999/00	Merrimack College	NCAA		36	14th	16	30th	16
1999/00	Milwaukee Admirals	IHL		11	1	0	1	2		2	0	0	0	2
2000/01	Milwaukee Admirals	IHL		23	5	10	15th	31		5	0	0	0	0
2000/01	Nashville Predators	NHL		27	2	4th	6th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Milwaukee Admirals	AHL		8th	2	4th	6th	12		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Nashville Predators	NHL		55	5	6th	11	30th		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Milwaukee Admirals	AHL		72	20th	28	48	61		6th	1	1	2	4th
2002/03	Nashville Predators	NHL		8th	0	0	0	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Milwaukee Admirals	AHL		68	18th	29	47	95		20th	4th	3	7th	12
2004/05	Porin Ässät	FNL		42	8th	10	18th	74		2	0	0	0	0
2005/06	Milwaukee Admirals	AHL		76	24	26th	50	67		21st	1	15th	16	18th
2006/07	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		50	9	26th	35	70		7th	1	0	1	14th
2007/08	Manitoba mosses	AHL		77	11	15th	26th	67		6th	1	1	2	6th
2008/09	Providence Bruins	AHL		1	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		19th	2	5	7th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL		24	5	5	10	10		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	EHC Basel	NLB		22nd	2	9	11	24		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Rapperswil-Jona Lakers	NLA		2	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	HC Sierre	NLB		-	-	-	-	-		4th	0	1	1	2
2010/11	Cologne Sharks	DEL		45	10	17th	27	30th		5	1	1	2	2
NCAA overall				72	28	27	55	44
IHL total				34	6th	10	16	33		7th	0	0	0	2
AHL total				321	77	107	184	318		53	7th	20th	27	40
NHL overall				90	7th	10	17th	48		0	0	0	0	0
DEL total				119	24	48	72	110		12	2	1	3	16
NLA / NLB total				24	2	9	11	26th		4th	0	1	1	2

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

• Greg Classen at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Greg Classen at legendsofhockey.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Player of the Rostock Piranhas . In: Rostock Piranhas . ( piranhas.de [accessed on November 4, 2018]).
2. ↑ Transfer coup : Füchse sign DEL master players. (No longer available online.) Lausitzer Füchse, May 19, 2014, archived from the original on May 28, 2014 ; Retrieved July 2, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Greg Classen from Lausitzer Füchsen seriously injured in knife attack - ex-DEL player stabbed. Sport1 , March 15, 2015, accessed March 15, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Clear test game win and new center forward! (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on August 28, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.