Gregory Schmidt

Gregory Schmidt
Date of birth	April 19, 1976
place of birth	North Battleford , Saskatchewan , Canada
size	180 cm
Weight	78 kg
position	center
number	# 72
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1994-1997	Red Deer Rebels
1998-2001	South Carolina Stingrays
2005-2007	Dresden Ice Lions
2007-2008	Straubing Tigers
2008-2010	Bietigheim Steelers

Gregory "Greg" Schmidt (born April 19, 1976 in North Battleford , Saskatchewan ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played for the Bietigheim Steelers in the 2nd Bundesliga ice hockey on the position of the center until the 2009/10 season .

Career

Greg Schmidt began his career in the Western Hockey League , one of the top three junior leagues in the Canadian Hockey League in Canada. There he quickly developed into one of the top scorers of the Red Deer Rebels - his total of 205 scorer points in three years are still in the top ten of the Rebels. The jump into professional hockey was initially not so successful (he was never drafted) - in the 1998/99 season he only scored seven points in the International Hockey League and East Coast Hockey League .

The three following years that he spent with the South Carolina Stingrays were much more successful . He was able to increase his performance every year, his 18 points scorer in 18 games of the 2000/01 play-offs helped the Stingrays to win the Kelly Cup. His 68 goals and 71 assists in 187 games with 288 penalty minutes can be found in the top ten of the Stingrays.

After this successful time in South Carolina, Schmidt moved to the West Coast Hockey League and the ECHL for one year (76 points in 77 games for the Pee Dee Pride ). Since he was not granted the breakthrough in a higher league, Greg decided to move to Europe to the Lausitzer Füchsen before the 2003/04 season . Here, too, he showed attractive performances and was able to help the Füchse rise to the 2nd Bundesliga, but then played no role in the squad planning for the second division, so he switched to the Schweinfurt Mighty Dogs .

During the 2004/05 season, however, the Mighty Dogs got into financial difficulties, so Greg moved to Dresden before the end of the transition period in January 2005. Both in the championship round and in the play-offs, Schmidt impressed with a brilliant combination game, his eye for the man next to him and an accurate (left) hand. Among other things the team through the reinforcement with Greg Dresdner Eislöwen could be in the play-offs league champions are and the sporting qualification for the 2. Bundesliga create.

The following season was also very successful for Greg, he was always one of the top performers of the team and formed a congenial trio with Mikhail Nemirovsky and Andrej Kaufmann , which was feared by many defenders. After a change in the team before the 2006/07 season , he then played in a row with Daniel Menge and Martin Sekera , which was again the most dangerous attacking formation of the Ice Lions. After relegation in the Oberliga, he moved to the Straubing Tigers in the German Ice Hockey League .

Greg started the DEL season with the Straubing Tigers very successfully in the first row and scored numerous points. However, he was seriously injured several times during the season (knee, back, shoulder), so that he was hardly ever used at the end of the season. On March 4, 2008, the Bietigheim Steelers announced the commitment of Schmidt for the 2008/09 season . At the end of this season Schmidt won the championship title of the 2nd Bundesliga with the Steelers. After the 2009/10 season he left the club and ended his career.

Achievements and Awards

• Winning the Kelly Cup 2000/01 with the South Carolina Stingrays
• Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga and top division champions with the Dresdner Eislöwen 2004/05
• Champion of the 2nd Bundesliga with the Bietigheim Steelers in 2009

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		GP	G	A.	Pts	PIM		GP	G	A.	Pts	PIM
1994/95	Red Deer Rebels	WHL		58	4th	12	16	89		-	-	-	-	-
1995/96	Red Deer Rebels	WHL		70	45	46	91	154		10	5	6th	11	19th
1996/97	Red Deer Rebels	WHL		66	45	53	98	134		16	6th	15th	21st	20th
1997/98	Pensacola Ice Pilots	ECHL		2	0	1	1	4th		-	-	-	-	-
1997/98	Quebec Rafales	IHL		23	3	3	6th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
1998/1999	South Carolina Stingrays	ECHL		62	13	18th	31	99		3	0	0	0	0
1999/2000	South Carolina Stingrays	ECHL		69	30th	27	57	114		10	3	6th	9	28
2000/01	South Carolina Stingrays	ECHL		56	25th	26th	51	75		18th	9	9	18th	36
2001/02	Colorado Gold Kings	WCHL		61	15th	27	42	102		5	0	1	1	4th
2002/03	Pee Dee Pride	ECHL		70	20th	52	72	136		7th	1	3	4th	4th
2003/04	ES white water	OIL		34	12	32	44	132		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	ES white water	OL MR		18th	7th	12	19th	40		4th	4th	1	5	35
2004/05	Schweinfurt Mighty Dogs	OL NO		21st	12	27	39	93		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Dresden Ice Lions	OL NO		11	6th	14th	20th	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Dresden Ice Lions	OL MR		10	3	6th	9	14th		9	5	2	7th	33
2005/06	Dresden Ice Lions	2nd BL		47	23	32	55	90		10	2	4th	6th	74
2006/07	Dresden Ice Lions	2nd BL		50	18th	36	54	120		6th	2	2	4th	6 1
2007/08	Straubing Tigers	DEL		29	3	11	14th	28		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Bietigheim Steelers	2nd BL		46	11	30th	41	68		12	4th	3	7th	10
2009/10	Bietigheim Steelers	2nd BL		52	4th	2	6th	30th		12	1	0	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

• Gregory Schmidt at eurohockey.com
• Gregory Schmidt at hockeydb.com (English)