Matt Armstrong

Matt Armstrong
Date of birth	August 9, 1982
place of birth	Orleans , Ontario , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	90 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1998-1999	Cumberland Grads
1999-2001	Kitchener Rangers
2001-2002	Peterborough Petes
2002-2003	Plymouth Whalers Barrie Colts
2003-2005	Concordia University
2006-2007	H.IJ.S. Calco Wolves
2007-2008	ESV Hügelsheim
2008-2009	Nijmegen Devils
2009-2010	Quad City Mallards Knoxville Ice Bears Deggendorfer SC
since 2010	Melbourne Ice

Matt Armstrong (born August 9, 1982 in Orleans , Ontario ) is a Canadian - Australian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Melbourne Ice in the Australian Ice Hockey League since 2010 .

Career

Matt Armstrong began his career with the Cumberland Grads in the Central Junior Hockey League. After he was drafted in 1999 at the OHL Priority Selection by the Kitchener Rangers in the 4th round as a total of 65th player, he moved to the club from the greater Toronto area. In the middle of the 2000/01 season he joined the OHL league competitor Peterborough Petes , where he played until 2002. He spent his last junior season with the Plymouth Whalers and the Barrie Colts also in the OHL. After two years on the Concordia University team , he moved to Europe, where he was on the ice in the Netherlands and Germany and in 2009 won the Dutch cup competition with the Nijmegen Devils . After this success he first returned to North America and played there for the Quad City Mallards and the Knoxville Ice Bears , before moving to Deggendorfer SC shortly before the end of the 2010 season, for which he played four more games.

In the summer of 2010 Armstrong moved to the southern hemisphere and joined Melbourne Ice , for which he has since played in the Australian Ice Hockey League . With the club he won the Goodall Cup , the Australian championship , in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2017 . In addition, he won the H Newman Reid Trophy in 2011 as the regular season winner. In 2018 he was nominated for the AIHL All-Star Team.

International

At the 2018 World Cup , Armstrong played for Australia in Division II for the first time after his naturalization .

Achievements and Awards

• 2009 Dutch cup winner with the Nijmegen Devils
• 2010 Goodall Cup win with Melbourne Ice
• 2011 Goodall Cup and H Newman Reid Trophy win with Melbourne Ice
• 2012 Goodall Cup win with Melbourne Ice
• 2017 Goodall Cup win with Melbourne Ice

Web links

• Matt Armstrong at eliteprospects.com (English)