Matt Foy

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Matt Foy
Date of birth May 18, 1983
place of birth Oakville , Ontario , Canada
size 188 cm
Weight 99 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2002 , 6th round, 175th position
Minnesota Wild
Career stations
2000-2001 Wexford Raiders
2001-2002 Merrimack College
2002-2003 Ottawa 67's
2003-2007 Houston Eros
2007-2008 Minnesota Wild
2008-2009 Peoria Rivermen
2009-2010 Arizona Sundogs
2011–2012 Stockton Thunder
2012-2015 Polar bears Berlin
2015-2016 Ice pirates Crimmitschau

Matthew Foy (born May 18, 1983 in Oakville , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who was last under contract with the Eispiraten Crimmitschau from the second highest German ice hockey league in the 2015/16 season .

Career

Matt Foy began his career as a hockey player with the Wexford Raiders, for which he was active in the 2000/01 season in the Ontario Junior Hockey League . He then attended Merrimack College for a year , for whose ice hockey team he played parallel in Hockey East . He was then selected in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft in the sixth round as the 175th player of the Minnesota Wild . First, however, he ran in the 2002/03 season for the Ottawa 67’s in Canada's top junior league, the Ontario Hockey League . From 2003 to 2007, the winger was on the ice for Minnesota's farm team Houston Eros in the American Hockey League . For the Minnesota Wild he was only occasionally used in the National Hockey League during this period . For the 2007/08 season he worked out a regular place with the Wild in the NHL, but missed most of the season for health reasons. On July 14, 2008, the right-shooter signed a contract as a free agent with the St. Louis Blues from the NHL, but played only four games for their AHL farm team Peoria Rivermen due to injury in the 2008/09 season . For the same reason, he came in the 2009/10 season not over seven appearances for the Arizona Sundogs from the Central Hockey League , while he had to take a complete break from ice hockey the following year. For the 2011/12 season he returned to professional hockey and scored 56 points in a total of 73 games for the Stockton Thunder from the ECHL , including 17 goals.

For the 2012/13 season , Foy was signed by the Eisbären Berlin from the German Ice Hockey League . In the first season he was able to win the German championship with the Eisbären, but overall his time in Berlin was also characterized by health problems, so that in the 3 years he played a total of 130 games (with appearances in the European Trophy and Champions Hockey League ) completed the polar bears, in which he was able to achieve 75 points (33 goals, 42 assists). After his contract was not renewed after the 2014/15 season , he signed a contract with the Eispiraten Crimmitschau from the DEL2 for the following season .

Achievements and Awards

statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season 3 56 6th 7th 13 48
NHL playoffs 1 1 0 0 0 0
AHL regular season 5 237 65 76 141 428
AHL playoffs 3 14th 6th 5 11 35
DEL regular season 3 99 27 34 61 98
DEL playoffs 2 10 0 3 3 33

(Status: end of the 2014/15 season)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polar Bears Commit Mark Katic and Matt Foy , Die Welt , July 4, 2012, accessed August 9, 2015
  2. ↑ Eisbär Matt Foy is the inexpensive team player with a handicap , Berliner Morgenpost , December 13, 2013, accessed on August 9, 2015
  3. ↑ Eisbären Berlin: Matt Foy's New Start into Unknown , Berliner Zeitung , February 10, 2015, accessed on August 9, 2015
  4. ↑ Just a bit of upheaval among the polar bears , Berliner Morgenpost, March 10, 2015, accessed on August 9, 2015
  5. ↑ Ex-Polar Bear Matt Foy Becomes an Ice Pirate , Ice Hockey Magazine, July 16, 2015, accessed August 9, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Foy, Matt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Foy, Matthew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Oakville , Ontario , Canada