John Curry (ice hockey player)

John Curry
Date of birth	February 27, 1984
place of birth	Shorewood , Minnesota , USA
size	180 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	goalkeeper
number	33
Catch hand	Left
Career stations
2002-2003	Taft School
2003-2007	Boston University
2007-2011	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins
2011–2012	Hamburg Freezers
2012-2013	Orlando Solar Bears
2013-2015	Iowa Wild Orlando Solar Bears

John Clifford Curry (born February 27, 1984 in Shorewood , Minnesota ) is an American ice hockey goalkeeper who was last under contract with the Iowa Wild in the American Hockey League until the summer of 2015 .

Career

John Curry went on the ice for Taft School in the United States high school league system from 2002 to 2003 while he was junior . He then began studying at Boston University and played ice hockey for their team, the Boston University Terriers , in Hockey East , a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . In the 2005/06 season, the goalkeeper won the championship of Hockey East with the team. A season later, the title defense was missed, but Curry completed an individually successful season when he posted seven shutouts in 36 missions and achieved a catch rate of 92.8 percent. For these achievements he was named Hockey East Player of the Year .

Curry in the jersey of the Hamburg Freezers (2012)

In July 2007 he signed a contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins as a free agent . In his rookie season he came to 40 missions for the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins in the American Hockey League during the regular season, in which he achieved a catch rate of 91.5 percent and 23 playoff games. In December 2007, the goalkeeper was voted Rookie of the Month for the AHL when he parried 93.9 percent of the shots. Curry made it to the finals of the Calder Cup with the Penguins , in which they were defeated in six games by the Chicago Wolves . In the same season he also worked for the Las Vegas Wranglers and Wheeling Nailers in the ECHL . He also spent the following season mainly with the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins, where he held the position as a regular goalkeeper. Curry made his debut for the Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League in the course of the calendar year 2008 , when he was called up on November 26, 2008 due to the injury-related absence of Marc-André Fleury in the NHL squad. In the game against the New York Islanders he was used during the second period for Dany Sabourin and parried all eleven shots on goal of the Islanders until the end of the game. In the following two years, however, he was only used sporadically for the Pittsburgh Penguins and was still a regular goalkeeper in the farm team in Wilkes-Barre. In January 2011 he was nominated for the AHL All-Star Classic because his teammate Brad Thiessen had to sit out due to an injury.

In June 2012 Curry was signed by the Hamburg Freezers from the German Ice Hockey League , with whom he signed a contract for the 2011/12 season. The goalkeeper was voted the crowd's favorite and the Hamburg fans' player of the season. With the declared goal of playing in North America again in the future, Curry refused to extend his contract in Hamburg after the past season. After his return to the USA, the left catcher decided in October 2012 to join the Orlando Solar Bears in the East Coast Hockey League and also made a loan for the Houston Eros from the American Hockey League during the 2012/13 season . For the 2013/14 season , Curry was initially acquired by trial contract ( try-out ) and later with a permanent position from the Iowa Wild from the AHL, but came again for the ECHL farm team in Orlando in the course of the following two seasons Use and even played four games for cooperation partner Minnesota Wild in the National Hockey League .

Achievements and Awards

2006 Hockey East Championship with Boston University 2006 NCAA East Second All-American Team 2007 NCAA East First All-American Team 2007 Hockey East Player of the Year 2007 NCAA New England Most Valuable Player

2007 AHL Rookie of the Month for December 2008 AHL All-Rookie Team 2011 AHL All-Star Classic 2011 Harry "Hap" Holmes Memorial Award (together with Brad Thiessen )

Web links

• John Curry at hockeydb.com (English)
• John Curry at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• John Curry at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ theahl.com, Seven added to All-Star rosters
2. ↑ Curry's sad farewell. In: bild.de. April 9, 2012, accessed March 27, 2015 . 
3. ↑ orlandosolarbearshockey.com Solar Bears add AHL All-Star John Curry ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ iowawild.com Iowa signs goalie John Curry ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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.