Kurtis McLean

Kurtis McLean
Date of birth	November 2, 1980
place of birth	Kirkland Lake , Ontario , Canada
size	181 cm
Weight	87 kg
position	center
number	71
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1997-1998	Durham Huskies
1999-2001	Trenton Sting
2001-2005	Norwich University
2005-2008	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins
2008-2009	Bridgeport Sound Tigers
2009-2011	Lukko Rauma
2011-2013	SCL Tigers
2013-2014	Metallurg Novokuznetsk
2014	Jokerit Helsinki
2014-2015	KHL Medveščak Zagreb
2015-2016	Vienna Capitals
2016	Grizzlies Wolfsburg
2016-2018	EC Graz 99ers
since 2018	TUTO hockey

Kurtis McLean (born November 2, 1980 in Kirkland Lake , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract since October 2018 since TUTO Hockey from the Mestis .

Career

McLean was initially active for the Durham Huskies in a local Canadian junior league, before running up in 1999 in the jersey of the Trenton Sting from the Ontario Junior Hockey League . Following this, the Canadian studied from 2001 to 2005 at Norwich University and went on the ice for their ice hockey team in Division III of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . McLean, who had never been drafted , was signed on September 29, 2005 as a free agent by the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League . The center forward played the following two seasons both in the dress of the Baby Pens and in some games for their farm team , the Wheeling Nailers , from the ECHL . In the course of his involvement in Wilkes-Barre, the Canadian was signed by their partner team, the Pittsburgh Penguins , who play in the National Hockey League . However, the right-handed shooter never played an NHL game for this.

After he had spent the 2007/08 season exclusively in the American Hockey League, he signed a contract with the New York Islanders in July 2008 . In the following season McLean was again predominantly in the AHL - now in the Bridgeport Sound Tigers jersey - active, but also played four NHL games for the Islanders, in which the attacker scored a goal. After only one season he was involved with Lukko Rauma in the Finnish SM-liiga , where McLean was voted the best foreigner in the league. After two years of activity, he signed a working paper for the SCL Tigers from the National League A . The center convinced in its first season in Langnau, in a storm formation with Lukas Haas and Simon Moser , was the best scorer (47 points), most successful player in power play (12 points), scored the most underpaid goals (3), had the best plus Minus balance (+11) and won the most face-offs (54 percent).

In June 2013 he was signed by Metallurg Novokuznetsk from the Continental Hockey League , for which he collected 22 scorer points in 49 KHL games. He was then committed in June 2014 by KHL newcomer Jokerit Helsinki , but dismissed in November of the same year. From December 2014 he was under contract with the KHL Medveščak Zagreb , but was only a supplementary player there and therefore moved to the Vienna Capitals in the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga in July 2015 . In February 2016 McLean signed a contract with the Grizzlys Wolfsburg from the German Ice Hockey League until the end of the 2015/16 season .

From the end of August 2016 to October 2018 he was under contract with the EC Graz 99ers .

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1998/99	Trenton Sting	OPJHL		51	40	58	98	63		-	-	-	-	-
1999/00	Trenton Sring	OPJHL		49	31	56	87	33		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	Trenton Sting	OPJHL		47	37	38	75	16		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Norwich University	NCAA III		32	28	24	52	12		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Norwich University	NCAA III		29	25th	23	48	26th		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Norwich University	NCAA III		26th	29	26th	55	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Richmond RiverDogs	UHL		4th	1	2	3	2		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		32	4th	11	15th	8th		7th	0	0	0	4th
2005/06	Wheeling Nailers	ECHL		41	31	25th	56	32		5	4th	4th	8th	4th
2006/07	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		55	16	16	32	24		10	4th	3	7th	4th
2006/07	Wheeling Nailers	ECHL		16	11	12	23	21st		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		76	22nd	32	54	58		23	4th	15th	19th	8th
2008/09	New York Islanders	NHL		4th	1	0	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Bridgeport Sound Tigers	AHL		62	15th	37	52	30th		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Rauman Lukko	Liiga		42	18th	25th	43	28		4th	0	1	1	10
2010/11	Rauman Lukko	Liiga		60	16	39	55	24		13	6th	4th	10	4th
2011/12	SCL Tigers	NLA		49	14th	28	42	34		4th	3	2	5	2
2012/13	SCL Tigers	NLA		46	7th	34	41	30th		12	2	5	7th	18th
2012/13	SCL Tigers	NLA Q		-	-	-	-	-		5	2	4th	6th	2
2013/14	Metallurg Novokuznetsk	KHL		47	9	13	22nd	26th		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Jokerite	KHL		20th	1	0	1	18th		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	KHL Medveščak Zagreb	KHL		11	2	3	5	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Vienna Capitals	EBEL		39	10	17th	27	18th		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Grizzlies Wolfsburg	DEL		5	2	3	5	2		15th	1	4th	5	6th
2016/17	Graz 99ers	EBEL		54	17th	33	50	20th		5	0	2	2	6th
2017/18	Graz 99ers	EBEL		47	6th	19th	25th	37		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	TUTO hockey	Mestis
AHL total				225	57	96	153	120		40	8th	18th	26th	16
EBEL total				140	33	69	102	75		5	0	2	2	6th
Liiga overall				102	34	64	98	52		17th	6th	5	11	14th
NLA total				95	21st	62	83	64		16	5	7th	12	20th

( 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

• Kurtis McLean at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Kurtis McLean at legendsofhockey.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ grizzlys.de Grizzlys sign Kurtis McLean
2. ↑ Ice hockey: Graz 99ers sign Canadian Center McLean. In: kurier.at. August 30, 2016, accessed September 1, 2016 .