Mark Bell (ice hockey player)

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Mark Bell (ice hockey player)
Date of birth 5th August 1980
place of birth St. Paul’s , Ontario , Canada
size 193 cm
Weight 100 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1998 , 1st round, 8th position
Chicago Blackhawks
Career stations
1996-2000 Ottawa 67's
2000-2006 Chicago Blackhawks
2004-2005 Trondheim Black Panthers
2006-2007 San Jose Sharks
2007-2009 Toronto Maple Leafs
2008-2009 Toronto Marlies
2009 Hartford Wolf Pack
2009-2011 Kloten Flyers
2011–2012 Syracuse crunch
2012-2013 Iserlohn Roosters
2013-2016 Polar bears Berlin

Mark Bell (born August 5, 1980 in St. Paul’s , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach and scout who played 459 games for the Chicago Blackhawks and San Jose Sharks between 1996 and 2016 and Toronto Maple Leafs played in the National Hockey League on the left winger position . In addition, Bell, who embodied the power forward player type , was also in the SwissNational League A and the German Ice Hockey League active.

Career

Mark Bell began his career in 1996 in the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League with the Ottawa 67’s . While he was still struggling in his rookie season , he made a jump from twelve to 60 points in his second season. The Chicago Blackhawks selected him in the first round of the 1998 NHL Entry Draft in eighth place. In another two years in the OHL, he continued to demonstrate his skills as a scorer, and his last season was also his best, scoring 72 points in 48 games.

Then Bell moved in 2000 to the Norfolk Admirals in the American Hockey League , which served as the farm team of the Chicago Blackhawks. After he also brought convincing performances there, he was appointed to the National Hockey League for eleven games and was part of the Blackhawks' permanent squad from the 2001/02 season . From year to year he increased his points. The 2004/05 season he spent in the Norwegian GET league with the Trondheim Black Panthers , as the NHL season was canceled due to the lockout . Bell led the team this season to the championship finals, in which it was defeated by Vålerenga IF .

Mark Bell in the jersey of the San Jose Sharks

The 2005/06 NHL season was played after the lockout had ended, but Bell still failed to get his scorer qualities from his youth, although he achieved his best result with 48 points in 82 games. In the summer of 2006, Bell was part of a transfer deal between the Blackhawks, the Ottawa Senators, and the San Jose Sharks . Ottawa transferred Bryan Smolinski and Martin Havlát to Chicago, the Sharks sent Tom Preissing and Josh Hennessy to Ottawa, while the Blackhawks made Mark Bell to San Jose and Michal Barinka and a draft pick to Ottawa. In San Jose Bell fulfilled the hopes placed in him on the side of the duo Joe Thornton and Jonathan Cheechoo , which is why he was transferred to the Toronto Maple Leafs after a season in the summer of 2007 together with goalkeeper Vesa Toskala .

In August 2007, a court sentenced Bell to six months' imprisonment for hit and run and drunk driving after the end of the 2007/08 season . The NHL responded a month later, suspending him indefinitely for his offense against the NHL / NHLPA Substance Abuse & Behavioral Health Program . On September 12, the league management announced that Bell would be suspended for a total of 15 games without a salary for his offense. Bell served the sentence at the start of the season before joining the team in November. After he had acclimatized there, a fracture of the orbital bone he suffered in January forced him to take a month and a half off, which meant that he only played 35 games. The Canadian finally began his sentence during the summer break. The resulting suboptimal preparation for the season led to the fact that he was sorted out from the squad by the new head coach Ron Wilson , under whom he had already played in San Jose, and sent to the farm team for the Toronto Marlies from the AHL. With the Marlies, the striker spent the entire 2008/09 season into February before he was signed  by the New York Rangers on the waiver list - as one of the first acts of the new head coach John Tortorella . There he mainly worked for the Hartford Wolf Pack farm team .

Since his expiring contract was not extended, Bell received an invitation to the Philadelphia Flyers training camp , where he also failed to make the jump into the NHL roster. From the end of September 2009 to June 2011, Mark Bell was under contract with Kloten Flyers in Switzerland . The Kloten Flyers announced at the end of November 2010 that they would not extend the contract that was running out at the end of the season. He then signed on July 20, 2011 a contract for one season with the Anaheim Ducks from the National Hockey League, but completed only five games there. He got his assignments in the farm team Syracuse Crunch in the AHL. In September 2012 he decided to move to Europe again and got a contract with the Iserlohn Roosters from the German Ice Hockey League . On February 23, 2013, he extended his contract for another season at the Iserlohner Seilersee. After an operation in the summer of 2013 due to a shoulder injury, Bell failed the sports medicine exam, so that his contract was no longer valid. Nevertheless, he initially stayed in Iserlohn, where he worked on his comeback. On November 16, 2013 Bell left Iserlohn because he could not agree on a new contract with the Roosters. After he was injured at the beginning of the season, he trained again with the Roosters for several weeks before he left the club and joined the Eisbären Berlin within the league . During his time with the polar bears, Bell was plagued by injuries: In the closing stages of the 2014/15 season he suffered a concussion, after which an ankle injury put him out of action. At the end of January 2016, he returned in a DEL game after almost a year off. He ended his career after the 2015/16 season.

After his career, Bell initially looked after a Canadian junior team for a season before he was hired by the Arizona Coyotes from the NHL as a scout and coach.

International

For his home country, Bell took part in the U20 World Junior Championship in 2000 in Skellefteå and Umeå . He reached third place with the team and thus secured the bronze medal. In seven tournament games he scored two goals.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1996/97 Ottawa 67's OHL 65 8th 12 20th 40 24 4th 7th 11 13
1997/98 Ottawa 67's OHL 55 34 26th 60 87 13 6th 5 11 14th
1998/99 Ottawa 67's OHL 44 29 26th 55 69 9 6th 5 11 8th
1999 Ottawa 67's Memorial Cup 5 2 6th 8th 8th
1999/00 Ottawa 67's OHL 48 34 38 72 95 2 0 1 1 0
2000/01 Norfolk Admirals AHL 61 15th 27 42 126 9 4th 3 7th 10
2000/01 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 13 0 1 1 4th - - - - -
2001/02 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 80 12 16 28 124 5 0 0 0 8th
2002/03 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 82 14th 15th 29 113 - - - - -
2003/04 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 82 21st 24 45 106 - - - - -
2004/05 Trondheim Black Panthers UPC leagues 25th 10 17th 27 87 11 6th 6th 12 44
2005/06 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 82 25th 23 48 107 - - - - -
2006/07 San Jose Sharks NHL 71 11 10 21st 83 4th 0 0 0 2
2007/08 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 35 4th 6th 10 60 - - - - -
2008/09 Toronto Marlies AHL 56 12 15th 27 34 - - - - -
2008/09 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 18th 6th 8th 14th 31 5 1 0 1 4th
2009/10 Kloten Flyers NLA 39 13 14th 27 69 10 1 4th 5 29
2010/11 Kloten Flyers NLA 41 16 9 25th 58 18th 6th 3 9 60
2011/12 Anaheim Ducks NHL 5 0 0 0 5 - - - - -
2011/12 Syracuse crunch AHL 39 7th 10 17th 41 4th 3 1 4th 0
2012/13 Iserlohn Roosters DEL 43 13 15th 28 122 - - - - -
2013/14 Polar bears Berlin DEL 32 10 20th 30th 34 3 0 0 0 2
2014/15 Polar bears Berlin DEL 25th 5 6th 11 64 - - - - -
2014/15 Polar bears Berlin DEL 12 2 1 3 12 7th 0 2 2 16
OHL total 212 105 102 207 291 48 16 18th 34 35
AHL total 174 40 60 100 232 18th 8th 4th 12 14th
NHL overall 450 87 95 182 602 9 0 0 0 10
NLA total 80 29 23 52 127 28 7th 7th 14th 89
DEL total 112 30th 42 72 232 10 0 2 2 18th

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2000 Canada U20 World Cup 3rd place, bronze 7th 2 0 2 8th
Juniors overall 7th 2 0 2 8th

( 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

Commons : Mark Bell  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://slapshot.ch.sportalsports.com/sportch/generated/article/tnt_eishockey/2010/12/02/13663100000.html
  2. ↑ Ice hockey - DEL: Eisbären Berlin sign Canadians Bell. In: Focus Online . November 19, 2013, accessed January 18, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Marcel Stein: Mark Bell returns after a year break. In: www.morgenpost.de. Retrieved April 2, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Eisbären Berlin: Eisbären Berlin :: Six polar bear players leave Berlin. In: www.eisbaeren.de. Retrieved April 2, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Bell, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, coach and scout
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Paul’s , Ontario, Canada