Kris Beech

Kris Beech
Date of birth	5th February 1981
place of birth	Salmon Arm , British Columbia , Canada
size	188 cm
Weight	92 kg
position	center
number	# 15
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1999 , 1st round, 7th position Washington Capitals
Career stations
1996-2001	Calgary Hitmen
2001	Washington Capitals
2001-2005	Pittsburgh Penguins
2005-2006	Milwaukee Admirals
2006-2007	Washington Capitals
2007-2008	Columbus Blue Jackets
2008	Vancouver Canucks Pittsburgh Penguins
2008-2011	HV 71 Jönköping
2011–2012	Rauman Lukko
2012-2013	HC Pardubice AIK Solna
2013-2014	Straubing Tigers
2014	Vienna Capitals
2014-2015	HC Innsbruck
2015-2016	Belfast Giants

Kristopher Beech (born February 5, 1981 in Salmon Arm , British Columbia ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who was last under contract with the Belfast Giants in the British Elite Ice Hockey League .

Career

The 1.88 m tall center began his career with the Calgary Hitmen in the Canadian Junior League WHL before he was selected in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft as seventh in the first round by the Capitals.

His first four NHL missions completed the left shooter towards the end of the 2000/01 season , at the beginning of the following season Beech was transferred to the Pittsburgh Penguins together with Michal Sivek and Ross Lupaschuk in a swap against Jaromír Jágr and František Kučera .

The Canadian played 79 games in his first season for the Penguins and scored ten goals and 15 assists , but those in charge in Pittsburgh were dissatisfied with the further development of their new purchase, so that Kris Beech on September 9, 2005 for a draft pick in the next entry Draft was sent to the Nashville Predators . On March 9, 2006, he finally returned to Washington in exchange for a first-round pick and defender Brendan Witt . There Beech played first at the AHL - farm team , the Hershey Bears , with whom he the Calder Cup of the season won 2005/06. Since this success, Kris Beech was back in the NHL regulars of the capital city.

In the summer of 2007 he signed a one-year contract with the Columbus Blue Jackets . There he managed - as with his next two short-term stints, the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Vancouver Canucks - but at no time made the permanent jump into the NHL regular squad, so that the attacker left the league after the 2007/08 season at HV 71 Jönköping in the Swedish Elitserien to lace up the skates. With HV71, the Canadian was runner-up in the 2008/09 season before the Swedish championship was won in the following season. In May 2011 he signed a contract with Rauman Lukko in the SM-liiga .

In October 2013, the previously clubless center first took part in the training of the German first division club Straubing Tigers before signing a one-year contract on October 24, 2013.

Kris Beech in the jersey of HV 71 Jönköping

On February 27, 2014, the Tigers announced that Beech would be loaned to Vienna Capitals , which play in the Erste Bank ice hockey league, until the end of the season . After the surprise elimination in the playoff quarter-finals against EC VSV , his stint at the capital city ended, where he only played seven games. In the summer of 2014, the change to HC Innsbruck became public. The club from Tyrol was the fifth stop for Beech in the past two years. However, the striker could not meet the expectations placed in him, which led to another club change. From summer 2015 Beech was under contract with the Belfast Giants from the EIHL .

Achievements and Awards

• 1999 President's Cup win with the Calgary Hitmen
• 2006 Calder Cup win with the Hershey Bears
• 2010 Swedish champion with HV 71 Jönköping

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1996/97	Calgary Hitmen	WHL		8th	1	1	2	0		-	-	-	-	-
1997/98	Calgary Hitmen	WHL		58	10	15th	25th	24		12	4th	5	9	14th
1998/99	Calgary Hitmen	WHL		68	26th	41	67	103		6th	1	4th	5	8th
1999/2000	Calgary Hitmen	WHL		66	32	54	86	99		5	3	5	8th	16
2000/01	Calgary Hitmen	WHL		40	22nd	44	66	103		10	2	8th	10	26th
2000/01	Washington Capitals	NHL		4th	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		79	10	15th	25th	45		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		50	19th	24	43	76		5	1	1	2	0
2002/03	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		12	0	1	1	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		53	20th	25th	45	97		22nd	9	6th	15th	4th
2003/04	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		4th	0	1	1	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		68	14th	48	62	146		11	4th	6th	10	14th
2005/06	Milwaukee Admirals	AHL		22nd	10	13	23	30th		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Nashville Predators	NHL		5	1	2	3	0		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Washington Capitals	NHL		5	0	0	0	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Hershey Bears	AHL		10	8th	6th	14th	6th		21st	14th	14th	28	30th
2006/07	Washington Capitals	NHL		64	8th	18th	26th	46		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Syracuse crunch	AHL		16	5	10	15th	22nd		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		16	5	4th	9	2		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		4th	1	1	2	0		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		5	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	HV 71 Jönköping	SHL		45	17th	17th	34	116		18th	3	3	6th	22nd
2009/10	HC Servette Genève	NLA		8th	2	0	2	12		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	HV 71 Jönköping	SHL		44	4th	8th	12	56		16	5	2	7th	10
2010/11	HV 71 Jönköping	SHL		48	14th	17th	31	50		4th	0	0	0	6th
2011/12	Rauman Lukko	SM-liiga		59	15th	20th	35	79		3	0	0	0	4th
2012/13	HC Pardubice	Extra league		21st	2	6th	8th	16		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	AIK ishockey	SHL		23	3	2	5	16		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Straubing Tigers	DEL		36	8th	16	24	36		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Vienna Capitals	EBEL		2	1	3	4th	4th		5	2	0	2	14th
2014/15	HC TWK Innsbruck	EBEL		51	9	17th	26th	83		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Belfast Giants	EIHL		52	22nd	22nd	44	58		2	0	1	1	0
WHL overall				240	91	165	256	329		33	10	22nd	32	64
AHL total				245	84	145	229	395		59	28	27	55	47
NHL overall				198	25th	42	67	113		-	-	-	-	-
SHL total				160	38	44	82	238		38	8th	5	13	38

( 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

• Kris Beech at hockeydb.com (English)
• Kris Beech at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Kris Beech at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ idowa.de: Now it's official: Beech becomes a tiger
2. ↑ eishockey-24.de: HC TWK Innsbruck signs Kris Beech from the Vienna Capitals ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ belfastgiants.com: Former NHLer Kris Beech Joins The Stena Line Belfast Giants