Mark Voakes

Mark Voakes
Date of birth	April 6, 1984
place of birth	Windsor , Ontario , Canada
size	184 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	center
number	# 49
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2002-2003	St. Thomas Stars
2003-2004	Bowling Green State University
2005-2009	Wilfrid Laurier University
2009-2010	Cincinnati Cyclones
2010	Bakersfield Condors
2010-2011	Greenville Road Warriors Portland Pirates
2011–2012	Rochester Americans
2012-2014	Krefeld penguins
2014-2018	Grizzlies Wolfsburg
since 2018	EHC Red Bull Munich

Mark Voakes (born April 6, 1984 in Windsor , Ontario , Canada ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with EHC Red Bull Munich in the German Ice Hockey League since May 2018 .

Career

Mark Voakes started ice hockey in his hometown with the St. Thomas Stars. After a short interlude at Bowling Green State University in Ohio , the Canadian quickly returned to Ontario , where he studied at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo and played ice hockey again at Canadian Interuniversity Sport for his university after a year off. After four years and numerous personal awards, including being voted Most Valuable Player in the 2008/09 season , he moved to the Cincinnati Cyclones in the ECHL for the 2009/10 season . On October 23, 2009, he scored his first goal in the league while visiting the Wheeling Nailers . During the duel, Voakes scored two more hits, which meant a hat trick . In March 2010 the Cyclones transferred him together with Scott Marchesi in exchange for Mathieu Aubin to the Bakersfield Condors . There he was able to convince in the few remaining games, but decided to switch to the newly founded Greenville Road Warriors . After the team finished second in the main round, the team was eliminated early in the play-offs. Voakes finished the season with the Portland Pirates , a team from the American Hockey League . On his debut against the Springfield Falcons , he scored once and also prepared a goal. In the following four games he always contributed at least one scorer point . The Canadian celebrated an anniversary on March 19, 2011. In the away game against the Hershey Bears , Voakes completed his hundredth appearance as a professional. In the 2011 play-offs, Voakes failed with the Pirates in the second round after the team had been second in the main round table. In these Voakes was behind Mark Mancari and Derek Whitmore third-best scorer of his team.

For the 2011/12 season the center joined the organization of the Buffalo Sabers , where it was used exclusively in the Sabers farm team, the Rochester Americans . For the Americans, Voakes completed his first professional season, in which he played exclusively for a team. The attacker was his team's fifth-best scorer in the main round.

On June 1, 2012, the Krefeld Penguins from the German Ice Hockey League , with whom he signed a one-year contract, announced the Canadian's commitment. It was his first stop outside of North America. After initial problems with the larger European ice surface, the attacker improved over the course of the season. He harmonized perfectly with his new row partners Adam Courchaine and François Méthot . The center scored his first goal in the DEL on September 16, 2012, when he scored the decisive goal in the 5-4 away win against Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg . In the play-offs, in the 1: 2 defeat against ERC Ingolstadt , Voakes suffered a leg injury and was therefore out for the rest of the season. On April 30, 2013, the team from North Rhine-Westphalia announced the extension of the expiring contract.

For the 2014/15 season Voakes switched to DEL competitor Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg . In January 2016 he signed a contract extension there until 2018.

After his contract in Wolfsburg expired, Voakes moved to EHC Red Bull Munich .

Style of play

Voakes is an excellent face-off player who has his strengths both defensively and offensively, and he is also very strong. He often takes the puck from the opposing player and initiates dangerous counterattacks with his speed. The supervisory board member of the Krefeld Penguins Wolfgang Schulz attested him a good vision and compares it with the former DEL player Brad Purdie : "This is a guy like Purdie, he distributes well and is a goal threat."
Furthermore Des shines Voakes very fair player. In 2007 he received the trophy for the Most Sportsmanlike Player of the CIS . The trophy honors the player with the most exemplary behavior on and off the ice.

Achievements and Awards

2007 CIS ( OUA West) Most Sportsmanlike Player 2007 CIS (OUA West) Second All-Star Team 2008 CIS (OUA West) First All-Star Team

2009 CIS (OUA West) First All-Star Team 2009 CIS (OUA West) Most Valuable Player 2009 CIS (OUA) Outstanding Player in League Play "Bill L'Heureux Trophy"

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		GP	G	A.	Pts	PIM		GP	G	A.	Pts	PIM
2003/04	Bowling Green State University	CCHA		14th	0	0	0	29		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Wilfrid Laurier University	CIS		20th	10	9	19th	50		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Wilfrid Laurier University	CIS		28	18th	25th	43	22nd		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Wilfrid Laurier University	CIS		26th	15th	27	42	41		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Wilfrid Laurier University	CIS		28	13	37	50	60		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Cincinnati Cyclones	ECHL		24	8th	7th	15th	20th		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Bakersfield Condors	ECHL		9	3	3	6th	12		8th	3	5	8th	2
2010/11	Greenville Road Warriors	ECHL		60	17th	37	54	28		2	2	1	3	0
2010/11	Portland Pirates	AHL		18th	6th	5	11	6th		10	3	5	8th	8th
2011/12	Rochester Americans	AHL		75	8th	26th	34	36		3	0	0	0	0
2012/13	Krefeld penguins	DEL		52	11	24	35	26th		5	1	0	1	8th
2013/14	Krefeld penguins	DEL		37	13	20th	33	30th		2	0	1	1	0
2014/15	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg	DEL		33	11	26th	37	18th		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Grizzlies Wolfsburg	DEL		45	17th	24	41	24		15th	8th	10	18th	12
CIS total				102	56	98	154	173		-	-	-	-	-
ECHL total				93	28	47	75	60		10	5	6th	11	2
AHL total				93	14th	31	45	42		13	3	5	8th	8th
DEL total				167	52	94	146	98		22nd	9	11	20th	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

• Mark Voakes at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ amerks.com Rochester Americans sign Mark Voakes to AHL contract
2. ↑ portal. krefeld-pinguine.de Mark Voakes switches to the Krefeld Penguins  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ del.org Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg 4, Krefeld Pinguine 5 ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
4. ↑ sportal.de Next failure with the Krefeld Penguins
5. ↑ eishockey.info Mark Voakes will stay in Krefeld until 2014
6. ↑ So EHC access Mark Voakes became the surprise top scorer. In: www.waz-online.de. Retrieved March 4, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Mark Voakes and Tyson Mulock extend until 2018. In: hockeyweb.de. Retrieved March 4, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Now officially: Wolfsburg's Mark Voakes goes to Munich. In: wolfsburger-nachrichten.de. May 7, 2018, accessed August 13, 2018 . 
9. ↑ rp-online.de penguins get Mark Voakes