Mark Beaufait

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Mark Beaufait
Date of birth May 13, 1970
place of birth Royal Oak , Michigan , USA
size 175 cm
Weight 77 kg
position center
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Supplemental Draft 1991 , 1st lap, 7th position
San Jose Sharks
Career stations
1988-1992 Northern Michigan University
1992-1994 Kansas City Blades
1994-1995 San Diego Gulls
1995-2001 Orlando Solar Bears
2001-2002 Houston Eros
2002-2009 Polar bears Berlin

Mark David Beaufait (born May 13, 1970 in Royal Oak , Michigan ) is a former American ice hockey player who played for the Eisbären Berlin in the German Ice Hockey League from 2002 until the end of his career in 2009 and became a four-time German ice hockey champion with them.

Player career

The 1.75 m tall striker began his career in 1988 on the Northern Michigan University team in the NCAA game operations , with which he won the 1991 national college championship. When NHL Supplemental Draft in 1991 he was finally seventh of the San Jose Sharks selected ( drafted ) and came in the 1992/93 season with the Kansas City Blades , the IHL - farm team of the Sharks, is used. In addition, the right-shooter completed his first and last five appearances in the National Hockey League this season, where he also scored a goal.

For the 1993/94 season Beaufait moved within the IHL to the San Diego Gulls , after only one year an engagement with the Orlando Solar Bears followed , with whom he reached the IHL Turner Cup final in 1996 , but there with 0: 4 games lost to the Utah Grizzlies . In the last IHL season in 2001, however, he managed to win the Turner Cup with the Solar Bears, after the league was dissolved, the American moved to the Houston Eros in the American Hockey League , which he headed towards after only one season Left Berlin.

With the Eisbären, the center won the German ice hockey championship twice in a row in 2005 and 2005/06 , plus the lost play-off final in 2004 against the Frankfurt Lions . In his first season in Berlin, Mark Beaufait was top scorer of the DEL after the regular season with 54 points. After the regular season of the 2006/07 season he was the second best assists in the DEL with 40 assists behind David McLlwain from Cologne . In 2009 the attacker with the Eisbären Berlin became German champions for the fourth time in his career and then announced that he would be retired. In honor of his services to the polar bears, Beaufait's shirt number 19 was pulled under the hall roof on January 2, 2011 and no longer awarded within the club.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1988/89 Northern Michigan University NCAA 11 2 1 3 2
1989/90 Northern Michigan University NCAA 34 10 14th 24 12
1990/91 Northern Michigan University NCAA 47 19th 30th 49 18th
1991/92 Northern Michigan University NCAA 41 31 50 81 47
1992/93 Kansas City Blades IHL 66 19th 40 59 22nd 9 1 1 2 8th
1992/93 San Jose Sharks NHL 5 1 0 1 0 - - - - -
1993/94 Kansas City Blades IHL 21st 12 9 21st 18th - - - - -
1994/95 San Diego Gulls IHL 68 24 39 63 22nd 5 2 2 4th 2
1995/96 Orlando Solar Bears IHL 77 30th 79 109 87 22nd 9 19th 28 22nd
1996/97 Orlando Solar Bears IHL 80 26th 65 91 63 10 5 8th 13 18th
1997/98 Orlando Solar Bears IHL 76 24 61 85 56 17th 6th 16 22nd 10
1998/99 Orlando Solar Bears IHL 71 28 43 71 38 15th 2 12 14th 14th
1999/00 Orlando Solar Bears IHL 78 28 50 78 87 6th 2 0 2 4th
2000/01 Orlando Solar Bears IHL 54 23 42 65 34 9 1 9 10 2
2001/02 Houston Eros AHL 63 14th 37 51 36 12 5 4th 9 4th
2002/03 Polar bears Berlin DEL 50 22nd 32 54 74 9 2 5 7th 2
2003/04 Polar bears Berlin DEL 45 15th 24 39 51 11 5 8th 13 10
2004/05 Polar bears Berlin DEL 47 13 27 40 46 12 7th 8th 15th 12
2005/06 Polar bears Berlin DEL 50 14th 30th 44 36 11 4th 7th 11 10
2006/07 Polar bears Berlin DEL 51 14th 40 54 48 3 0 0 0 0
2007/08 Polar bears Berlin DEL 39 15th 30th 45 44 9 3 5 8th 10
2008/09 Polar bears Berlin DEL 52 17th 28 45 56 4th 1 4th 5 2
NCAA overall 133 61 95 157 79
IHL total 591 214 428 642 427 93 28 67 95 80
AHL total 63 14th 37 51 36 12 5 4th 9 4th
DEL total 334 110 211 321 355 59 22nd 37 59 46
NHL overall 5 1 0 1 0 - - - - -

( 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. ↑ Announcement about resignation from active competitive sport , hockeyweb.de (April 16, 2009)
  2. ↑ Beaufait's jersey is hung under the roof of Morgenpost.de, accessed on January 2, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Beaufait, Mark
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beaufait, Mark David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Royal Oak , Michigan