Michael Funk (ice hockey player)

Michael Funk
Date of birth	August 15, 1986
place of birth	Abbotsford , British Columbia , Canada
size	193 cm
Weight	90 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2004 , 2nd round, 43rd position Buffalo Sabers
Career stations
2002-2006	Portland Winter Hawks
2006-2008	Rochester Americans
2008-2009	Portland Pirates
since 2009	Vancouver Canucks

Michael "Mike" Funk (born August 15, 1986 in Abbotsford , British Columbia ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Vancouver Canucks in the National Hockey League since 2009 .

Career

Michael Funk began his career as a hockey player with the Portland Winter Hawks , for whom he was active in the Western Hockey League from 2002 to 2006 . During this time he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2004 in the second round as the 43rd player of the Buffalo Sabers .

For the Sabers he made his debut in the National Hockey League in the 2006/07 season . During this season, the defender played a total of five games in the NHL for Buffalo, in which there were two templates. In the 2007/08 season , the left-shot was four times for Buffalo in the NHL on the ice. However, Funk spent most of his first two years in the Buffalo Sabers franchise with their farm team from the American Hockey League , the Rochester Americans . For the new AHL farm team of the Sabers, the Portland Pirates , the Canadian played only 13 games in the 2008/09 season before he was signed on July 6, 2009 by the Vancouver Canucks .

International

For Canada , Funk took part in the U18 World Junior Championship in 2004 , where he finished fourth with his team.

Achievements and Awards

• 2004 CHL Top Prospects Game

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season	2	9	0	2	2	0
NHL playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
AHL regular season	3	132	3	17th	20th	169
AHL playoffs	1	6th	0	1	1	4th

(Status: end of the 2008/09 season)

Web links

• Michael Funk at hockeydb.com (English)
• Michael Funk at legendsofhockey.net (English)