Matt Ellison

Matt Ellison
Date of birth	December 8, 1983
place of birth	Duncan , British Columbia , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	87 kg
position	center
number	# 83
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2002 , 4th round, 128th position Chicago Blackhawks
Career stations
1999-2002	Cowichan Valley Capitals
2002-2003	Red Deer Rebels
2003-2005	Chicago Blackhawks Norfolk Admirals
2005-2007	Philadelphia Phantoms
2007-2008	Milwaukee Admirals
2008-2009	Dinamo Riga
2009-2010	HK MWD Balashikha
2010-2013	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
2013	EHC Biel
2013-2014	KHL Medveščak Zagreb
2014-2017	HK Dinamo Minsk
2017-2019	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk

Matt Ellison (born December 8, 1983 in Duncan , British Columbia ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who was last under contract with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Continental Hockey League .

Career

Ellison in the EHC Biel jersey , August 2013

Ellison began his career as a hockey player with the Cowichan Valley Capitals, for which he was active from 1999 to 2002 in the British Columbia Hockey League . He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2002 in the fourth round as a total of 128th player by the Chicago Blackhawks . Initially, however, the attacker played for the Red Deer Rebels in the Canadian Junior Western Hockey League for a year before making his debut for the Blackhawks in the National Hockey League in the 2003/04 season . In his rookie year , he gave one template in ten games. Mainly he was just like the following year during the lockout in the 2004/05 NHL season for Chicago's farm team , the Norfolk Admirals from the American Hockey League , on the ice.

On December 5, 2005, Ellison was given together with a third-round vote for the NHL Entry Draft 2006 in exchange for Patrick Sharp and Éric Meloche to the Philadelphia Flyers . For this he completed only seven games in the NHL in the following two seasons, while he otherwise played for their AHL farm team Philadelphia Phantoms . After a year with the AHL team of the Milwaukee Admirals , the Canadian joined Dinamo Riga from the newly formed Continental Hockey League for the 2008/09 season . For the Latvians he then scored 39 scorer points in 55 games, after which he moved to their league rivals HK MWD Balaschicha .

After the merger of HK MWD with Dynamo Moscow, Ellison moved to Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod in the summer of 2010 .

2013 moved Ellison to EHC Biel in the National League A . Due to unsatisfactory performance, his contract was terminated after seven games, followed by the change back to the KHL, where the Canadian ran from now on for KHL Medveščak Zagreb .

Between 2014 and 2017 Ellison played for HK Dinamo Minsk in the KHL and during this time he took part in the KHL All-Star Game in both 2016 and 2017 . He also won the Spengler Cup with Team Canada in December 2015 . In 2017 he left the Belarusian capital and was signed by HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk , for whom he played until 2019.

Achievements and Awards

2003 WHL East Second All-Star Team 2003 Jim Piggott Memorial Trophy 2003 CHL Rookie of the Year 2003 CHL All-Rookie Team

2010 Russian runner-up with the HK MWD Balaschicha 2015 Spengler Cup win with Team Canada 2016 participation in the KHL All-Star Game 2017 participation in the KHL All-Star Game

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1999/00	Cowichan Valley Capitals	BCHL		60	11	23	34	95		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	Cowichan Valley Capitals	BCHL		60	22nd	44	66	102		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Cowichan Valley Capitals	BCHL		60	42	75	117	76		10	5	6th	11	8th
2002/03	Red Deer Rebels	WHL		72	40	56	96	80		22nd	7th	13	20th	28
2003/04	Norfolk Admirals	AHL		71	14th	21st	35	115		7th	0	1	1	4th
2003/04	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		10	0	1	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Norfolk Admirals	AHL		71	14th	37	51	44		5	0	1	1	2
2005/06	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		26th	3	9	12	17th		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		5	0	1	1	2		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Philadelphia Phantoms	AHL		48	12	13	25th	35		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		2	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Philadelphia Phantoms	AHL		62	12	27	39	43		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Milwaukee Admirals	AHL		75	26th	32	58	5		5	0	0	0	2
2008/09	Dinamo Riga	KHL		55	15th	22nd	37	84		3	0	1	1	0
2009/10	HK MWD Balashikha	KHL		52	16	18th	34	102		22nd	4th	5	9	10
2010/11	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod	KHL		53	21st	29	50	28		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod	KHL		25th	10	10	20th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod	KHL		33	3	14th	17th	10		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	EHC Biel	NLA		7th	0	1	1	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	KHL Medveščak Zagreb	KHL		38	8th	7th	15th	28		4th	3	0	3	0
2014/15	HK Dinamo Minsk	KHL		58	24	33	57	38		5	1	2	3	2
2015/16	HK Dinamo Minsk	KHL		54	26th	29	55	54		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	HK Dinamo Minsk	KHL		54	16	33	49	85		5	2	0	2	2
2017/18	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk	KHL		55	20th	25th	45	24		10	2	2	4th	27
2018/19	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk	KHL		62	20th	35	55	34		6th	2	0	2	0
BCHL total				180	75	142	217	273		10	5	6th	11	8th
WHL overall				72	40	56	96	80		22nd	7th	13	20th	28
AHL total				327	78	130	208	242		17th	0	2	2	8th
NHL overall				43	3	11	14th	19th		-	-	-	-	-
KHL total				539	179	255	434	501		55	14th	10	24	41

( 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 : Matt Ellison  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Matt Ellison at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Matt Ellison at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ blick.ch Ellison and Biel go their separate ways
2. ↑ Kevin Rothbauer: Making a change: Ellison heads to new KHL destination - Cowichan Valley Citizen. In: cowichanvalleycitizen.com. July 5, 2017, accessed on July 29, 2019 .