Michael Swift
 Michael Swift 
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| Date of birth | March 26, 1987 |
| place of birth | Peterborough , Ontario , Canada |
| size | 175 cm |
| Weight | 79 kg |
| position | center |
| number | # 23 |
| Shot hand | Left |
| Career stations | |
| 2000-2001 | Brampton Capitals |
| 2002-2004 | Peterborough Bees |
| 2004-2007 | Mississauga IceDogs |
| 2007 | Laredo Bucks |
| 2007-2008 | Niagara IceDogs |
| 2008-2010 | Lowell Devils |
| 2010-2011 | Albany Devils |
| 2011 | Worcester Sharks |
| since 2011 | High1 |
Michael Owen Swift ( Korean 마이클 스위프트 * 26. March 1987 in Peterborough , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player with South Korean citizenship, since August 2011 at High1 in the Asia League Ice Hockey on the position of the center plays. His cousin Bryan Young is also a professional ice hockey player and a naturalized South Korean.
Career
Swift first played until 2004 with several teams in the Ontario Provincial Junior Hockey League (OPJHL). After he was selected in the OHL Priority Selection 2003 in the tenth round in 186th place by the Mississauga IceDogs from the Ontario Hockey League , he joined the team at the end of the 2003/04 season . He remained loyal to the team until they moved to St. Catharines and renamed the Niagara IceDogs . The striker spent the play-offs of the 2006/07 season with the Laredo Bucks in the Central Hockey League before joining the Niagara IceDogs for the 2007/08 season. In his last OHL season, he was awarded the Leo Lalonde Memorial Trophy for the best Overage player - an actor who is already 20 years old at the start of the season.
Since Swift remained undrafted , he signed in the summer of 2008 as a free agent with the Lowell Devils from the American Hockey League , the then farm team of the New Jersey Devils from the National Hockey League . The center played for the team for two years and was part of the successor franchise Albany Devils in the 2010/11 season before it was transferred to the San Jose Sharks together with Patrick Davis in February 2011 . In return, Jay Leach and Steven Zalewski moved to New Jersey. At his new club, Swift was used exclusively in the AHL farm team Worcester Sharks for the next two months . His expiring contract was not subsequently extended.
Again as a player without a contract, Swift joined High1 from the supranational Asia League Ice Hockey in August 2011 . In his first season there he was voted the most valuable player in the league. In addition, he was the league leader in all relevant offensive statistics. He repeated this the following season with the exception of the MVP title. In the 2013/14 season he was the top scorer in the entire league for the third time in a row. The team also qualified for the play-offs for the first time since the 2009/10 season . In 2015 and 2016 he was again top scorer in the Asia League.
International
Swift was naturalized in January 2014 and was entitled to play for the South Korean national ice hockey team because he had already spent two full seasons with a South Korean team and had previously not recorded any international appearances for the Canadian national ice hockey team. He made his debut for South Korea at the 2014 Division IA World Cup . Swift was able to contribute three scorer points in five tournament games , but could not prevent relegation to Group B of Division I on home ice in Goyang . With his cousin Bryan Young and Brock Radunske , two other native Canadians were part of the South Korean World Cup squad.
At the World Cup Division I, Group B, 2015 in Eindhoven , Swift scored five goals and four assists in five games and became the tournament's best scorer. With this performance he had a large share in the performance of the South Korean team (four wins and one loss in five games) and was able to celebrate promotion to the A group of Division I. There the South Koreans were able to hold their own at the 2016 World Cup with two victories against Poland and Japan , to which Swift made a significant contribution as top scorer (together with Tomasz Malasiński from Poland ), who was also elected to the tournament's all-star team. At the 2017 World Cup , Swift made it into the top division for the first time with the South Koreans.
Achievements and Awards
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International
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Career statistics
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| season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
| 2000/01 | Brampton Capitals | OPJHL | 35 | 3 | 3 | 6th | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2002/03 | Peterborough Bees | OPJHL | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2003/04 | Peterborough Bees | OPJHL | 45 | 25th | 19th | 44 | 103 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2003/04 | Mississauga IceDogs | OHL | 9 | 2 | 2 | 4th | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2004/05 | Mississauga IceDogs | OHL | 67 | 15th | 17th | 32 | 46 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4th | ||
| 2005/06 | Mississauga IceDogs | OHL | 65 | 22nd | 32 | 54 | 46 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2006/07 | Mississauga IceDogs | OHL | 67 | 34 | 59 | 93 | 76 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6th | ||
| 2006/07 | Laredo Bucks | CHL | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | 1 | 3 | 4th | 8th | ||
| 2007/08 | Niagara IceDogs | OHL | 68 | 38 | 62 | 100 | 130 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 18th | 22nd | ||
| 2008/09 | Lowell Devils | AHL | 52 | 12 | 15th | 27 | 50 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2009/10 | Lowell Devils | AHL | 76 | 24 | 31 | 55 | 71 | 4th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4th | ||
| 2010/11 | Albany Devils | AHL | 48 | 16 | 12 | 28 | 48 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2010/11 | Worcester Sharks | AHL | 18th | 1 | 6th | 7th | 28 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2011/12 | High1 | ALIH | 36 | 44 | 46 | 90 | 84 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2012/13 | High1 | ALIH | 40 | 39 | 58 | 97 | 119 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2013/14 | High1 | ALIH | 41 | 37 | 30th | 67 | 110 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6th | ||
| 2014/15 | High1 | ALIH | 48 | 34 | 46 | 80 | 114 | 6th | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8th | ||
| 2015/16 | High1 | ALIH | 48 | 31 | 39 | 70 | 119 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2015/16 | High1 | ALIH | 46 | 23 | 34 | 57 | 116 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2016/17 | High1 | ALIH | 46 | 23 | 34 | 57 | 116 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2017/18 | High1 | ALIH | 27 | 14th | 28 | 42 | 71 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| OPJHL total | 83 | 28 | 22nd | 50 | 121 | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| OHL total | 276 | 111 | 172 | 283 | 304 | 20th | 9 | 10 | 19th | 32 | ||||
| CHL total | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | 1 | 3 | 4th | 8th | ||||
| AHL total | 194 | 53 | 64 | 117 | 197 | 4th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4th | ||||
| ALIH total | 286 | 222 | 281 | 503 | 733 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 7th | 14th | ||||
International
Represented South Korea at:
| year | team | event | result | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | |
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| 2014 | South Korea | WM Div. IA | 6th place | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 29 | |
| 2015 | South Korea | WM Div. IB | 1st place | 5 | 5 | 4th | 9 | 14th | |
| 2016 | South Korea | WM Div. IA | 5th place | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 12 | |
| 2017 | South Korea | Winter Asian Games |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2017 | South Korea | WM Div. IA | 2nd place | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4th | 6th | |
| 2018 | South Korea | Olympia | 12th place | 4th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 2018 | South Korea | WM | 16th place | 7th | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 | |
| Men overall | 34 | 15th | 11 | 26th | 73 | ||||
( 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
- Michael Swift at eliteprospects.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Canadians naturalized to join S. Korean ice hockey team. The Hankyoreh - English Online Edition , January 22, 2014, accessed April 28, 2014 (English).
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| SURNAME | Swift, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Swift, Michael Owen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South Korean-Canadian ice hockey player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1987 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Peterborough , Canada |