Mark Cullen (ice hockey player)

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Mark Cullen (ice hockey player)
Date of birth October 28, 1978
place of birth Virginia , Minnesota , USA
size 180 cm
Weight 79 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1997-1998 Fargo-Moorhead Ice Sharks
1998-2002 Colorado College
2002-2005 Houston Eros
2005-2006 Chicago Blackhawks
Norfolk Admirals
2006-2007 Philadelphia Phantoms
2007-2008 Grand Rapids Griffins
2008-2009 Manitoba mosses
2009-2010 Rockford IceHogs
2010-2011 Rochester Americans
2011–2012 San Antonio Rampage
2012 Vityaz Chekhov
2012-2014 EC Red Bull Salzburg
2014-2015 HC Bolzano
2015-2016 Dresden Ice Lions

Mark Daniel Cullen (born October 28, 1978 in Virginia , Minnesota ) is an American ice hockey player who was last under contract with the Dresden Ice Lions from the DEL2 .

Career

Mark Cullen began his career as a hockey player with the Fargo-Moorhead Ice Sharks, for which he was active in the junior league United States Hockey League in the 1997/98 season . There he was voted into the all-rookie team and rookie of the year . He then attended Colorado College for four years , for whose ice hockey team he played parallel in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association . He also received several individual awards during his college years.

Mark Cullen at the 2010 AHL All-Star Classic

In April 2002 the center signed a contract as a free agent with the Minnesota Wild from the National Hockey League , but in the following three years it was used exclusively for their farm team Houston Eros in the American Hockey League , with whom he worked in the 2002 / 03 won the Calder Cup . He then moved to the Chicago Blackhawks , for whom he scored seven goals and nine assists in the NHL in the 2005/06 season in 29 games. Again he played mostly in the AHL, where he was on the ice for Chicago's Norfolk Admirals farm team . As a player in the Admirals, he received the Fred T. Hunt Memorial Award for exemplary sportiness.

In the 2006/07 season he ran three times for the Philadelphia Flyers in the NHL, but was again almost exclusively in the AHL with their farm team Philadelphia Phantoms for use. In the following years he was each a year in the AHL for the Grand Rapids Griffins , Manitoba Moose , Rockford IceHogs , Rochester Americans and San Antonio Rampage on the ice. During his time with the Rampage, he also came back to six missions for their cooperation partner Florida Panthers in the NHL in the 2011/12 season . For the 2012/13 season , the American was committed by Vitjas Chekhov from the Continental Hockey League . After 23 KHL games in which he reached a scorer point, the contract was dissolved in December 2012. A few days later, Cullen was signed by EC Red Bull Salzburg and scored 8 goals and 16 assists in 31 games in the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga (EBEL). In July 2013 he extended his contract for one year. A year later he moved to HC Bozen within the EBEL .

In September 2015, after Marcel Rodman's failure, Cullen was signed by the Dresdner Eislöwen from the DEL2 and was one of the top performers at the Eislöwen. After the 2015/16 season, he received no new contract and left the club.

International

For the USA , Cullen took part in the 2006 World Cup. During the tournament he scored one goal and two assists in seven games.

Achievements and Awards

  • 1998 USHL All-Rookie Team
  • 1998 USHL Rookie of the Year
  • 2001 WCHA First All-Star Team
  • 2001 NCAA West Second All-American Team
  • 2002 WCHA First All-Star Team

statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season 3 38 7th 10 17th 4th
NHL playoffs - - - - - -
AHL regular season 10 562 153 286 439 291
AHL playoffs 7th 60 14th 27 41 8th

(Status: end of the 2011/12 season)

family

Mark Cullen comes from a family with a long history of ice hockey. His brothers Joe and Matt are also professional ice hockey players. Her grandfather Barry , her uncle John, and great uncles Brian and Ray were also professional ice hockey players.

Web links

Commons : Mark Cullen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Panthers Forward Mark Cullen Signs With Goon Squad Vityaz. In: thehockeyhouse.net. August 6, 2012, accessed September 24, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Panthers Sign C Mark Cullen. In: panthers.nhl.com. July 22, 2010, accessed September 24, 2015 .
  3. ↑ With Mark Cullen another striker with NHL and Russia experience comes to Salzburg. In: redbull.com. August 23, 2013, accessed September 24, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Editor: Striker Mark Cullen stays with the Red Bulls. In: eishockey-magazin.de. July 2, 2013, accessed September 24, 2015 .
  5. ↑ The two new ones. (No longer available online.) In: Neue Südtiroler Tageszeitung . August 21, 2014, archived from the original on September 25, 2015 ; accessed on September 24, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tageszeitung.it
  6. ↑ Ex-HCB striker Mark Cullen signs in Dresden. In: sportnews.bz. September 23, 2015, accessed September 24, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Cullen, Mark
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cullen, Mark Daniel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Virginia , Minnesota , USA