Kevin Gardner

Kevin Gardner
Date of birth	April 16, 1981
place of birth	Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
size	187 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2000-2005	Northern Michigan University
2005	Idaho steelheads
2005-2006	Stockton Thunder
2006-2007	EV Füssen
2007-2009	Dresden Ice Lions
2009-2010	Arizona Sundogs
2010-2011	Herning Blue Fox

Kevin Gardner (born April 16, 1981 in Edmonton ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who last played for the Herning Blue Fox in the Danish AL-Bank Ligaen as a striker .

Career

Kevin Gardner began his career with the St. Albert Saints in the Alberta Junior Hockey League . From 2000 he played for the Wildcats ice hockey team at Northern Michigan University in the CCHA, a league of the NCAA . He finished his studies with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management and Speech Communication .

After the end of his college days he moved to the North American ECHL for a year with the Idaho Steelheads . After 22 games in Idaho, he was released for defender Tony Johnson to the Stockton Thunder , where he spent the rest of the season. In the summer of 2006 he came to Europe for the first time and played the 2006/07 season with the upper division EV Füssen . The EV Füssen finished the preliminary round only in ninth place and thus missed the entry into the play-offs , Gardner was nevertheless the sixth-best scorer in the league preliminary round with 30 goals and 49 assists. Jan Tabor , the manager of the Eislöwen, commented on his commitment: “Kevin Gardner made a good name for himself last season in a relatively weak team. He is young, capable of development and could certainly make the leap into the 2nd division without any problems ”.

With the Eislöwen he made it to the 2nd Bundesliga and reached the league championship in 2007/08 . With 106 points scorer in 61 games, he made a significant contribution to these successes. From September 2009 he was under contract with the Arizona Sundogs in the Central Hockey League , before he returned to Europe in the summer of 2010 and was signed by the Herning Blue Fox from the Danish AL-Bank Ligaen .

In 2011 he retired from his career and returned to Canada, where he has since worked in a real estate finance company in Edmonton .

Career statistics

season	team	league	GP	G	A.	Pts	PIM
2000/01	Northern Michigan University	NCAA	1	0	0	0	0
2001/02	Northern Michigan University	NCAA	30th	1	3	4th	32
2002/03	Northern Michigan University	NCAA	23	5	7th	12	24
2003/04	Northern Michigan University	NCAA	39	8th	13	21st	24
2004/05	Northern Michigan University	NCAA	33	5	6th	11	20th
2005/06	Idaho steelheads	ECHL	22nd	5	3	8th	10
2005/06	Stockton Thunder	ECHL	39	9	18th	27	36
2006/07	EV Füssen	OIL	49	30th	49	79	0
2007/08	Dresden Ice Lions	OIL	61	45	61	106	46
2008/09	Dresden Ice Lions	2nd BL	45	15th	16	31	32
2009/10	Arizona Sundogs	CHL	46	15th	25th	40	36
2010/11	Herning Blue Fox	THE	49	35	33	68	85

( 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

• Kevin Gardner at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Kevin Gardner at hockeydb.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ eisloewen.de, # 25 Kevin Gardner
2. ↑ centralhockeyleague.com, Kevin Gardner and Jason Beeman signed by Arizona
3. ^ Canada ICI - Kevin Gardner - Junior Associate. (No longer available online.) In: canadaici.com. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016 ; accessed on August 31, 2015 . 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.