Michael Wall

Michael Wall
Date of birth	July 25, 1985
place of birth	Telkwa , British Columbia , Canada
size	187 cm
Weight	95 kg
position	goalkeeper
Catch hand	Left
Career stations
2001-2003	Prince George Cougars
2003-2005	Everett Silvertips
2005-2006	Portland Pirates Augusta Lynx
2006-2007	Portland Pirates
2007-2008	Lake Erie Monsters

Michael Wall (born July 25, 1985 in Telkwa , British Columbia ) is a former Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper who was active during his active career for the Anaheim Ducks in the National Hockey League .

Career

Michael Wall began his active career as an ice hockey goalkeeper in the top Canadian junior league Western Hockey League with the Prince George Cougars , for which he was active from 2001 to 2003. He then joined the Everett Silvertips . In the following two years, Wall asserted himself as a regular goalkeeper at the Silvertips and set his career best in the 2004/05 season with a catch rate of around 93 percent. In 56 games of the regular season he managed a total of ten shutouts for the Everett Silvertips. After he had not previously been drafted , Wall signed on September 29, 2005 as a free agent with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim . The goalkeeper spent the following season with their farm teams , the Portland Pirates in the American Hockey League and the Augusta Lynx in the ECHL . After he had completed 21 games for the Lynx and eleven games for the Pirates, each with a shutout, he was in the squad of the Portland Pirates the following season.

Although the now in Anaheim Ducks renamed franchise with Ilya Brysgalow and Jean-Sébastien Giguère had two potential first-choice goalkeeper and 2006 in December Sebastien Caron in a swap deal from the Chicago Blackhawks was hired Wall received during the 2006/07 season two appeals in the NHL -Cad of the Californians. He completed a total of four NHL games, in which he received ten goals. His tenure with the Ducks ended on February 27, 2007 when he was transferred to the Colorado Avalanche in exchange for Brad May . For the Avalanche, however, he did not play a game and was in the same season for the Portland Pirates and the Arizona Sundogs in action. During the same season, Wall scored the third goalkeeper in Central Hockey League history after Bryan McMullen (2002) and Phil Groeneveld (1995) when he hit the empty net in a game against Corpus Christi Rayz . Also for the 2007/08 season he was unable to return to the NHL and the goalkeeper played 33 games for the Lake Erie Monsters in the AHL, which he succeeded in a shutout. Following this season, Wall ended his active career.

Web links

• Michael Wall at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Michael Wall at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Michael Wall at hockeydb.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ centralhockeyleague.com, Wall Scores, Sundogs Clinch ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.