Ken Klee

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United StatesUnited States  Ken Klee Ice hockey player
Date of birth April 24, 1971
place of birth Indianapolis , Indiana , USA
size 183 cm
Weight 95 kg
position defender
number # 2
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1990 , 9th round, 177th position
Washington Capitals
Career stations
1989-1992 Bowling Green State University
1993-1993 Baltimore Skipjacks
1993-1995 Portland Pirates
1995-2003 Washington Capitals
2003-2006 Toronto Maple Leafs
2006 New Jersey Devils
2006-2007 Colorado Avalanche
2007-2008 Atlanta Thrashers
2008 Anaheim Ducks
2008-2009 Phoenix Coyotes

Kenneth "Ken" Klee (born April 24, 1971 in Indianapolis , Indiana ) is a former American ice hockey player and current coach . In his professional career, which lasted from 1992 to 2009, the defender completed over 900 games in the National Hockey League , most of them for the Washington Capitals , which had selected him in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft . As a coach, he led the United States women's national ice hockey team to gold medals at the 2015 and 2016 World Championships .

Career

Player career

Ken Klee in the Colorado Avalanche jersey , 2006

Klee was selected during the 1990 NHL Entry Draft as the 177th player by the Washington Capitals , with whom he spent most of his NHL career. However, it was not until the 1994/95 season that he was also on the ice for the Capitals. Until then he played for Bowling Green State University in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association , to which he came in 1989 when he was 18, as well as for the Baltimore Skipjacks and the Portland Pirates in the American Hockey League (AHL). He won the AHL playoffs for the Calder Cup with the Pirates in 1994 . As a result, Klee was on the ice for the Capitals in the NHL for a total of nine years, completed 570 games in the capital during this period and was able to reach the playoffs six times with his team. After the 2002/03 season, his contract with the Capitals was not renewed, so the defender joined the Toronto Maple Leafs on September 27, 2003 as a free agent .

Although he missed 16 games in his first season with the Maple Leafs, Klee was able to record personal bests on the offensive with four goals and 25 assists . On March 8, 2006, just one day before the end of the trade deadline , the defense attorney was given to the New Jersey Devils in exchange for Alexander Suglobow . There he ended the season and signed in July of the same year with the Colorado Avalanche as a player without a contract. A year later he also went to the Atlanta Thrashers as a free agent , having previously played for Colorado in 81 of the possible 82 main round games, which was a personal record for Klee.

On September 26, 2008, Klee moved to the Anaheim Ducks with his teammates Brad Larsen and Chad Painchaud in exchange for Mathieu Schneider . After just three games, they put him on the waiver list, from where the Phoenix Coyotes signed him . With the Coyotes, Klee completed 68 games in the NHL and collected eleven points scorer. After the 2008/09 season, the American ended his active career, where he had completed a total of 934 games in the regular season in the NHL and had 195 points.

International

For the first time Klee represented his home country at the Junior World Championship in 1991 , where he finished fourth with Team USA. With the senior national team of the United States , the defender also played the 1992 and 1997 World Championships and the 2004 World Cup of Hockey and missed the medal ranks.

Coaching career

After retiring from his active career, Klee coached several youth teams in the Denver region of his adopted country , before taking on the position of head coach for the United States women's national ice hockey team in 2014 . In the following two years he led this to two gold medals at the World Championships in 2015 and 2016 as well as to a gold medal at the 4 Nations Cup in 2015. In March 2017 it was announced that Klee would appoint the team whose coach is being redefined from tournament to tournament. at the upcoming 2017 World Cup .

Achievements and Awards

As a player
As a trainer

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1989/90 Bowling Green State University NCAA 41 0 5 5 56
1990/91 Bowling Green State University NCAA 37 7th 28 35 50
1991/92 Bowling Green State University NCAA 10 0 1 1 14th
1992/93 Baltimore Skipjacks AHL 77 4th 14th 18th +2 93 7th 0 1 1 15th
1993/94 Portland Pirates AHL 65 2 9 11 ± 0 87 17th 1 2 3 +3 14th
1994/95 Portland Pirates AHL 49 5 7th 12 +12 89 - - - - - -
1994/95 Washington Capitals NHL 23 3 1 4th +2 41 7th 0 0 0 +1 4th
1995/96 Washington Capitals NHL 66 8th 3 11 -1 60 1 0 0 0 ± 0 0
1996/97 Washington Capitals NHL 80 3 8th 11 -5 115 1 0 0 0 ± 0 0
1997/98 Washington Capitals NHL 51 4th 2 6th -3 46 9 1 0 1 +2 10
1998/99 Washington Capitals NHL 78 7th 13 20th –9 80 - - - - - -
1999/00 Washington Capitals NHL 80 7th 13 20th +8 79 5 0 1 1 -1 10
2000/01 Washington Capitals NHL 54 2 4th 6th -5 60 6th 0 1 1 ± 0 8th
2001/02 Washington Capitals NHL 68 8th 8th 16 +4 38 - - - - - -
2002/03 Washington Capitals NHL 70 1 16 17th +22 89 6th 0 0 0 +2 6th
2003/04 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 66 4th 25th 29 -1 36 11 0 0 0 -1 6th
2004/05 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL not played because of lockout
2005/06 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 56 3 12 15th -1 66 - - - - - -
2005/06 New Jersey Devils NHL 18th 0 0 0 -3 14th 6th 1 0 1 -1 6th
2006/07 Colorado Avalanche NHL 81 3 16 19th +18 68 - - - - - -
2007/08 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 72 1 9 10 -5 60 - - - - - -
2008/09 Anaheim Ducks NHL 3 0 0 0 ± 0 4th - - - - - -
2008/09 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 68 1 10 11 +9 24 - - - - - -
NCAA overall 88 7th 34 41 120
AHL total 191 11 30th 41 +14 269 24 1 3 4th 29
NHL overall 934 55 140 195 +30 880 51 2 2 4th +2 50

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1991 United States U20 World Cup 4th Place 7th 1 1 1 2
1992 United States WM 7th place 2 0 0 0 0
1997 United States WM 6th place 8th 1 0 1 12
2004 United States World cup 4th Place 4th 0 0 0 0
Juniors overall 7th 1 1 1 2
Men overall 14th 1 0 1 12

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hilary Knight: US women's hockey team doesn't have a coach. espn.com, March 5, 2017, accessed March 6, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Klee, Ken
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klee, Kenneth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Indianapolis , Indiana , United States