Kent Huskins

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Kent Huskins
Date of birth 4th May 1979
place of birth Almonte , Ontario , Canada
size 191 cm
Weight 98 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1998 , 6th round, 156th position
Chicago Blackhawks
Career stations
1995-1997 Kanata Valley Lasers
1997-2001 Clarkson University
2001-2003 Norfolk Admirals
2003-2004 San Antonio Rampage
2004-2005 Manitoba mosses
2005-2009 Anaheim Ducks
2009-2011 San Jose Sharks
2011–2012 St. Louis Blues
2013 Norfolk Admirals
Detroit Red Wings
Philadelphia Flyers
2013-2015 Utica Comets

Kent Huskins (born May 4, 1979 in Almonte , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 366 games for the Anaheim Ducks , San Jose Sharks , St. Louis Blues , Detroit Red Wings during his playing career between 1997 and 2015 and Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League on the position of the defender has denied. Huskins, who also spent a large part of his career in the American Hockey League , celebrated his greatest career success in the service of the Anaheim Ducks by winning the Stanley Cup in 2007 .

Career

Huskins began his career at the age of 16 in the Central Junior A Hockey League , a sub-class Canadian junior league, with the Kanata Valley Lasers . In the two seasons between 1995 and 1997, the defender played 102 games in which he scored 74 points . In the summer of 1997, the Canadian enrolled at Clarkson University , where he was active alongside his studies for the university team in ECAC Hockey , a league in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . The first year of college Huskins finished with ten points from 38 encounters and was selected the following summer during the NHL Entry Draft 1998 as a total of 156 players by the Chicago Blackhawks . Nevertheless, the defensive specialist remained in college for the next three years and was able to celebrate numerous successes. He also gradually improved his statistics on the offensive. Between the playing years 1998/99 and 2000/01 he was able to win the championship of the ECAC once with the team and therefore took part in the Memorial Cup . He was also elected twice to the First All-Star Team of the ECAC and in 2001 was named the best defensive defender in the league as well as the East First All-American Team of the NCAA.

Huskins in the jersey of the San Jose Sharks

After a total of four years at Clarkson University, Huskins switched to the professional field in the summer of 2001, at the age of 22, after the Chicago Blackhawks had provided him with a two-year contract for the American Hockey League . There he played for their farm team , the Norfolk Admirals , and knew how to convince with his solid defensive and offensive performances. In 145 games in the regular season, he was able to collect 42 scorer points and show a positive plus / minus value. Nevertheless, the Blackhawks decided in the summer of 2003 not to extend the Canadian's expiring contract, which led to the latter joining the Florida Panthers organization as a free agent . In their farm team, the San Antonio Rampage , Huskins fulfilled his one-year contract and joined the AHL league rivals Manitoba Moose for the 2004/05 season - again as a free agent . Again, he only spent one season with the team, since the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim signed him in the summer of 2005 . Having the entire 2005/06 season and the beginning of the 2006/07 season at the Farm Team Portland Pirates had played in the AHL, he was on 23 December 2006, the first of the now in the NHL squad Anaheim Ducks renamed franchises appointed to the to replace injured Sean O'Donnell . Due to the failure of Chris Pronger, his consistent performance brought him a new appointment. Through some transfer deals of the Ducks during the trade deadline in March 2007 Huskins finally got a regular place in the defense of the Ducks and was able to win the Stanley Cup with the team in the same year . He was used in all of the team's 21 playoff games.

Also in the following season, the Canadian was an integral part of the Californian defensive and played in 76 games. He scored 19 points, including four goals. The beginning of the 2008/09 game year was similarly successful , but the defender injured himself so badly in mid-December when an opponent tried to block his right foot that he had to undergo an operation after a few weeks to correct the bone fracture. So he was only able to play 33 games until the beginning of March and was handed over to rival San Jose Sharks a little later together with his teammate Travis Moen . In return, they transferred Timo Pielmeier , Nick Bonino and a conditional draft right between the second and fourth round in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft to Anaheim. Although the defender had no use for the rest of the season due to the foot injury and the Sharks' early elimination from the playoffs, they extended the expiring contract by two years.

On July 2, 2011, Huskins signed a one-year contract with the St. Louis Blues . However, he played only 26 games for the team during the season after he was out most of the season due to an ankle injury. As a result, the defender was unable to find a new employer due to the lockout before the start of the 2012/13 season. It was only in January 2013 that his ex-team Norfolk Admirals signed the free agent, before he received a contract offer from the Detroit Red Wings just five days later and after two completed games . There he was active for two months before he was transferred to league rivals Philadelphia Flyers at the end of March , where he ended the season. Before the 2013/14 season , Huskins was signed by the Utica Comets from the AHL, where he ended his career, which he declared in the summer of 2015 at the age of 36 for an end.

Achievements and Awards

  • 1999 ECAC championship with Clarkson University
  • 2000 ECAC First All-Star Team
  • 2001 ECAC First All-Star Team
  • 2001 ECAC Best Defensive Defender

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1995/96 Kanata Valley Lasers CJHL 49 6th 21st 27 18th
1996/97 Kanata Valley Lasers CJHL 53 11 36 47 89
1997/98 Clarkson University ECAC 35 2 8th 10 46
1998/99 Clarkson University ECAC 37 5 11 16 28
1999/00 Clarkson University ECAC 28 2 16 18th 30th
2000/01 Clarkson University ECAC 35 6th 28 34 22nd
2001/02 Norfolk Admirals AHL 65 4th 11 15th 44 4th 0 1 1 0
2002/03 Norfolk Admirals AHL 80 5 22nd 27 48 9 2 2 4th 4th
2003/04 San Antonio Rampage AHL 79 5 14th 19th 42 - - - - -
2004/05 Manitoba mosses AHL 65 5 11 16 41 14th 0 2 2 12
2005/06 Portland Pirates AHL 80 8th 23 31 64 18th 3 6th 9 14th
2006/07 Portland Pirates AHL 39 3 12 15th 23 - - - - -
2006/07 Anaheim Ducks NHL 33 0 3 3 14th 21st 0 1 1 11
2007/08 Anaheim Ducks NHL 76 4th 15th 19th 59 6th 0 1 1 2
2008/09 Anaheim Ducks NHL 33 2 4th 6th 27 - - - - -
2009/10 San Jose Sharks NHL 82 3 19th 22nd 47 15th 0 0 0 6th
2010/11 San Jose Sharks NHL 50 2 8th 10 12 5 0 1 1 2
2011/12 St. Louis Blues NHL 25th 2 5 7th 10 1 0 0 0 2
2012/13 Norfolk Admirals AHL 2 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
2012/13 Detroit Red Wings NHL 11 0 0 0 4th - - - - -
2012/13 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 8th 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
2013/14 Utica Comets AHL 65 3 7th 10 31 - - - - -
2014/15 Utica Comets AHL 50 1 5 6th 8th 20th 1 2 3 6th
CJHL overall 102 17th 57 74 107
NCAA overall 135 15th 63 78 126
AHL total 525 33 106 140 303 65 6th 13 19th 36
NHL overall 318 13 55 68 173 48 0 3 3 23

( 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Huskins, Kent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th May 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Almonte , Ontario