Kellen Briggs

Kellen Briggs
Date of birth	June 28, 1983
place of birth	Colorado Springs , Colorado , USA
size	180 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	goalkeeper
number	# 34
Catch hand	Left
Career stations
2000-2003	Sioux Falls Stampede
2003-2007	University of Minnesota
2007-2008	Idaho steelheads
2008-2009	Ontario Reign Portland Pirates
2009-2010	Dresden Ice Lions
2010	Ontario Reign
2011	Heilbronn falcon
2011-2013	Dresden Ice Lions

Kellen Briggs (born June 28, 1983 in Colorado Springs , Colorado ) is an American ice hockey goalkeeper who was most recently under contract with the Dresdner Eislöwen in the 2nd Bundesliga . His brother Preston is also a hockey player and was most recently under contract with the Bloomington Prairie Thunders .

Career

Briggs attended Roosevelt High School in Sioux Falls , South Dakota , where he graduated in 2003. While attending school, he played for the Sioux Falls Stampede in the United States Hockey League , the most important youth league in the United States . For the next four years he played for the Minnesota Golden Gophers , the University of Minnesota ice hockey team . During this time he also studied business and marketing education at the university. In his first season for the university team, he achieved 25 victories, setting a new freshman record. In his sophomore year, he reached the NCAA's final tournament , the Frozen Four , with the Golden Gophers and received the John Mariucci Team MVP Award .

Briggs in the Jersey of the Ontario Reign

Briggs was named assistant captain in his senior year at the university - an honor no Golden Gophers goalkeeper has received since 1973. With the Golden Gophers, Briggs won the 2007 McNaughton Cup as the regular season winner of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association , and the Broadmoor Trophy as the league play-off winner. Since leaving university, Briggs has held the records for career wins and shutouts for the Golden Gophers.

In the summer of 2007 Briggs took part in a training camp for the Iowa Stars , but then played for their partner team, the Idaho Steelheads , in the ECHL . In the following months he was one of the best goalkeepers in the league and was consequently nominated for the ECHL's All-Star Game . In January 2008 he was called to the American Hockey League for the first time to the Rockford IceHogs , because Wade Flaherty was injured. After a week he returned to the Steelheads without AHL use.

In the 2008/09 season he first played for Ontario Reign in the ECHL before he was signed by the Portland Pirates from the AHL in February 2009 . With the Pirates he played a total of seven games before he came to Europe in spring 2009 and signed a contract with the Dresdner Eislöwen .

In the summer of 2010 Briggs decided to return to the Ontario Reign and was one of the best goalkeepers in the ECHL the following season, before he was signed by the Heilbronner Falken in early January 2011 . In July 2011 he was awarded a contract for two years by the Dresdner Eislöwen, which was not extended after it expired.

Achievements and Awards

• 2005 Frank Pond Rookie of the Year
• 2005 MVP of the Frozen Four tournament
• 2006 WCHA All-Academic Team
• 2007 Broadmoor Trophy win with the University of Minnesota
• 2008 ECHL All-Star Game

Career statistics

season	team	league		Sp	S.	N	U	Min	GT	SO	GTS	Sv%
2000-2001	Sioux Falls Stampede	USHL		25th	16	7th	0	1224	69	0	3.38	90.0
2001-2002	Sioux Falls Stampede	USHL		45	25th	15th	1	2366	134	2	3.40	90.3
2002-2003	Sioux Falls Stampede	USHL		45	16	23	4th	2526	156	2	3.71	90.1
2003-2004	Minnesota Golden Gophers	NCAA		40	25th	10	3	2199	96	4th	2.62	89.4
2004-2005	Minnesota Golden Gophers	NCAA		33	21st	11	0	1895	75	4th	2.37	91.4
2005-2006	Minnesota Golden Gophers	NCAA		32	21st	6th	3	1832	78	3	2.55	90.4
2006-2007	Minnesota Golden Gophers	NCAA		26th	17th	7th	2	1519	54	2	2.13	91.7
2007-2008	Idaho steelheads	ECHL		31	17th	11	2	1802	54	2	2.36	92.0
2008-2009	Ontario Reign	ECHL		12	7th	5	0	716	29	1	2.43	92.7
	Portland Pirates	AHL		6th	3	3	-	358	17th	0	2.85	90.3
2009-2010	Dresden Ice Lions	2nd BL		46	23	22nd	-	2757	129	5	2.81

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; ¹  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

Web links

• Kellen Briggs at hockeydb.com (English)
• Kellen Briggs at hockeygoalies.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ gophersports.com, Hockey Profile: Kellen Briggs
2. ↑ gophersports.com, Kellen Briggs and Alex Goligoski Named 2006-07 Minnesota Assistant Captains. Last accessed October 23, 2009
3. ↑ idahosteelheads.com, Kellen Briggs 34 - goalie
4. ↑ hockeysfuture.com, Q&A with Kellen Briggs
5. ↑ mainehockeyjournal.com, Pirates sign Briggs to man the pipes ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2009 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.