Matt Dalton

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Matt Dalton
Date of birth 4th July 1986
place of birth Clinton , Ontario , Canada
size 187 cm
Weight 89 kg
position goalkeeper
number # 30
Catch hand Left
Career stations
2005-2006 Bozeman IceDogs
2006-2007 Des Moines Buccaneers
2007-2009 Bemidji State University
2009-2011 Providence Bruins
Reading Royals
2011–2012 Vityaz Chekhov
2012-2014 Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
since 2014 Anyang Halla

Matthew Allen "Matt" Dalton (born July 4, 1986 in Clinton , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper with South Korean citizenship who has been under contract with Anyang Halla in the Asia League Ice Hockey (ALIH) since 2014 .

Career

Matt Dalton (2011)

Matt Dalton began his career as a hockey player with the Bozeman IceDogs, for which he was active in the junior league North American Hockey League in the 2005/06 season . During this season, the goalkeeper was elected to the first All-Star Team and the first All-Rookie Team of the league as well as their MVP . He also had the lowest goalscoring and the best catch rate of all goalkeepers in the league. The 2006/07 season he spent with the Des Moines Buccaneers in the United States Hockey League . From 2007 to 2009 he attended Bemidji State University and played parallel for their ice hockey team in the National Collegiate Athletic Association . With his university team, he won the 2009 College Hockey America championship and was elected to the league's second All-Star Team.

In the summer of 2009 Dalton signed a contract with the Boston Bruins from the National Hockey League , for whose professional farm teams Providence Bruins from the American Hockey League and Reading Royals from the ECHL he was on the ice for the next two years. For the 2011/12 season , the Canadian was committed by Vitjas Chekhov from the Continental Hockey League , where he was the first goalkeeper.

Between 2012 and 2014 he was under contract with Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk before moving to Anyang Halla in the Asia League Ice Hockey in the summer of 2014 . In 2015 he was named the best goalkeeper in the Asia League and was also elected to the Asia League First Team. A year later he won the league with Anyang Halla and was voted Most Valuable Player of the Playoffs. In 2017 he was able to defend the title in the Asia League with his team and was once again voted the best goalkeeper and the first team of the league.

International

Matt Dalton in the jersey of the South Korean national team (2017)

At the beginning of April 2016, Dalton was naturalized to South Korea together with defender Eric Regan . Later in the month he was in the World Cup 2016 his debut in the Division I South Korean national team . He achieved the third-best catch quota of the tournament behind the Slovenian Gašper Krošelj and the Austrian Bernhard Starkbaum . Also in 2017 , when he was promoted to the top division for the first time, he played in Division I. At the Winter Asian Games in 2017 , he finished second with the East Asians behind Kazakhstan .

Achievements and Awards

International

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Canadian ice hockey players given South Korean citizenship so they can play at Pyeongchang 2018" on Insidethegames.biz, accessed on May 20, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Dalton, Matt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dalton, Matthew Allen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-South Korean ice hockey goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Clinton , Ontario , Canada