Matt Kinch

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CanadaCanada  Matt Kinch Ice hockey player
Date of birth 17th February 1980
place of birth Red Deer , Alberta , Canada
size 182 cm
Weight 83 kg
position defender
number # 27
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1999 , 5th round, 146th position
Buffalo Sabers
Career stations
1995-2001 Calgary Hitmen
2001-2004 Hartford Wolf Pack
2004-2005 EC Red Bull Salzburg
2005-2006 SCL Tigers
ERC Ingolstadt
2006-2007 Straubing Tigers
2007-2008 Binghamton Senators
2008-2009 Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg
2009–2012 EV Ravensburg
since 2013 Bentley Generals

Matt Kinch (born February 17, 1980 in Red Deer , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Bentley Generals in the Chinook Hockey League since January 2013 . In Germany he played with the Straubing Tigers and EV Ravensburg, among others .

Career

Kinch began his career in 1995 in the Canadian Junior Western Hockey League with the Calgary Hitmen . After the defensive player was used in just one game in his first season in Calgary , he was already part of the Hitmen squad the following year. In the 1996/97 season, the Canadian completed 64 games and scored 32 points scorer. So he was one of the defenders with the highest points in the team. Two years later, Kinch and his team won the championship of the Western Hockey League, the Ed Chynoweth Cup , and qualified with the Hitmen as a result for participation in the tournament for the CHL Memorial Cup . There the team was able to win the runner-up. Kinch scored 113 points in 89 league games and was a major contributor to this success.

During the NHL Entry Draft in 1999 , it was those responsible for the Buffalo Sabers who selected him in the fifth round in a total of 146th position. The left shooter then stayed two more seasons in Calgary before he moved to the American Hockey League for the then farm team of the Buffalo Sabers, the Hartford Wolf Pack , in the summer of 2001 . In the three seasons he went on the ice for the Wolf Pack, Matt Kinch never got a chance to prove himself in the National Hockey League and spent most of his time in the AHL and initially in the East Coast Hockey League with the Charlotte Checkers . For the 2004/05 season , the Canadian signed a contract with EC Red Bull Salzburg , for which he was only active for one year and in the following season both in the squad of the SCL Tigers from the Swiss National League A , and in the squad of the ERC Ingolstadt from the German Ice Hockey League .

After another engagement with the Straubing Tigers , Kinch returned to North America for the 2007/08 season . There the defender signed a contract with the Ottawa Senators , who only used him in their farm team, the Binghamton Senators , in the AHL. The then 28-year-old was able to score 25 times in 73 completed games for the Senators. In the 2008/09 season he laced the skates for the Worcester Sharks from the AHL in three games before Kinch decided to return to the German Ice Hockey League. Finally, the management of the Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg took him under contract, for which he completed a season.

In 2009 he was signed by EV Ravensburg , for whom he has played in the 2nd Bundesliga since then.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

    Main round   Play-offs
season team league Sp T A. Pt SM Sp T A. Pt SM
1995/96 Calgary Hitmen WHL 1 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
1996/97 Calgary Hitmen WHL 64 10 22nd 32 31 - - - - -
1997/98 Calgary Hitmen WHL 55 7th 24 31 13 18th 3 2 5 4th
1998/99 Calgary Hitmen WHL 68 14th 69 83 16 21st 7th 23 30th 8th
1999/00 Calgary Hitmen WHL 62 14th 61 75 24 13 5 12 17th 8th
2000/01 Calgary Hitmen WHL 70 18th 66 84 52 12 3 6th 9 6th
2001/02 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 40 1 7th 8th 4th - - - - -
2001/02 Charlotte Checkers ECHL 26th 3 12 15th 13 5 3 2 5 0
2002/03 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 66 7th 22nd 29 28 2 0 0 0 0
2003/04 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 67 1 19th 20th 39 1 0 0 0 0
2004/05 EC Red Bull Salzburg ÖEHL 37 1 12 13 18th - - - - -
2005/06 SCL Tigers NLA 25th 1 4th 5 14th - - - - -
2005/06 ERC Ingolstadt DEL 16 1 2 3 16 7th 0 0 0 4th
2006/07 Straubing Tigers DEL 51 4th 20th 24 36 - - - - -
2007/08 Binghamton Senators AHL 73 9 16 25th 73 - - - - -
2008/09 Worcester Sharks AHL 3 0 2 2 0 - - - - -
2008/09 Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg DEL 23 3 4th 7th 12 10 1 2 3 10
2009/10 EV Ravensburg 2nd BL 52 6th 22nd 28 30th 11 2 6th 8th 20th
2010/11 EV Ravensburg 2nd BL 48 7th 28 35 16 12 2 6th 8th 6th
WHL overall 320 63 243 306 138 64 18th 43 61 26th
AHL total 249 18th 66 84 143 3 0 0 0 0
ECHL total 26th 3 12 15th 13 5 3 2 5 0
DEL total 90 8th 26th 34 64 17th 1 2 3 14th
2. Bundesliga overall 100 13 50 63 46 23 4th 12 16 26th
ÖEHL overall 37 1 12 13 18th - - - - -
NLA total 25th 1 4th 5 14th - - - - -

( 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Kinch, Matt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Red Deer , Alberta, Canada