Michael Haley

Michael Haley
Date of birth	March 30, 1986
place of birth	Guelph , Ontario , Canada
size	178 cm
Weight	93 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2002-2005	Sarnia Sting
2005-2007	Toronto St. Michael's Majors
2007	South Carolina Stingrays
2007–2012	Bridgeport Sound Tigers
2012-2013	Connecticut Whale
2013-2014	Hartford Wolf Pack
2014-2015	Worcester Sharks
2015-2016	San Jose Barracuda
2016-2017	San Jose Sharks
2017-2019	Florida panthers
2019	San Jose Sharks
since 2019	New York Rangers

Micheal Haley (born March 30, 1986 in Guelph , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the New York Rangers from the National Hockey League since October 2019 and plays for them on the position of the center . Haley embodies the Enforcer type of player .

Career

Haley in the jersey of the New York Islanders

Haley - a so-called enforcer or grinder - played during his junior years between 2002 and 2007 for the Sarnia Sting and Toronto St. Michael's Majors , to whom he was transferred in December 2005, in the Ontario Hockey League . During this period, the striker completed a total of 286 games in the Canadian Junior League and collected 127 points scorer , including 69 goals.

Upon completion of the 2006-07 season in the junior Haley joined ungedraftet the South Carolina Stingrays of the ECHL , where he finished the game year. Then he took the Bridgeport Sound Tigers from the American Hockey League under contract. There the Canadian spent the 2007/08 season , as well as with the Utah Grizzlies from the ECHL. The 2008/09 season he spent entirely with the Sound Tigers. From the 2009/10 season, the Canadian came to sporadic missions with the cooperation partner, the New York Islanders from the National Hockey League , until his commitment there ended in the summer of 2012 and he joined the organization of the New York Rangers . There he came between 2012 and 2014 both in the NHL and in their farm teams Connecticut Whale and Hartford Wolf Pack in the AHL.

For the 2014/15 season , Haley joined the San Jose Sharks as a free agent . There, too, he played in the NHL for the next two years and for the farm teams Worcester Sharks and San Jose Barracuda in the AHL, before making it into the NHL squad in the 2016/17 season . When his contract expired in the summer of 2017, he moved to the Florida Panthers again as a free agent in July 2017 and signed a two-year contract with the Panthers. A few weeks earlier, Bob Boughner, the former assistant coach of the Sharks, had been employed there as head coach. In the following 2017/18 season , Haley led the entire NHL in penalty minutes (212), a large part of which resulted from fist fights. In the following game year, the attacker was only used sporadically and only played 24 games for Florida by February 2019. When trying to send him to the AHL via the waiver , he was selected by his ex-team from San Jose to take over his contract that ran until the end of the season. This was not renewed the following summer, so he joined the New York Rangers again as a free agent in October 2019. For this he played 22 games before he was out due to a muscle injury until the end of the season.

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2002/03	Sarnia Sting	OHL		43	3	3	6th	32		6th	0	0	0	2
2003/04	Sarnia Sting	OHL		51	8th	8th	16	69		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Sarnia Sting	OHL		61	14th	16	30th	122		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Sarnia Sting	OHL		23	2	6th	8th	83		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Toronto St. Michael's Majors	OHL		30th	12	0	12	78		4th	0	1	1	11
2006/07	Toronto St. Michael's Majors	OHL		68	30th	24	54	174		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	South Carolina Stingrays	ECHL		7th	5	1	6th	13		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Utah grizzlies	ECHL		28	11	8th	19th	115		14th	7th	6th	13	49
2007/08	Bridgeport Sound Tigers	AHL		36	2	2	4th	75		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Bridgeport Sound Tigers	AHL		45	5	3	8th	99		5	1	0	1	10
2009/10	Bridgeport Sound Tigers	AHL		65	6th	8th	14th	196		3	0	0	0	4th
2009/10	New York Islanders	NHL		2	0	0	0	9		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Bridgeport Sound Tigers	AHL		50	12	10	22nd	144		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	New York Islanders	NHL		27	2	1	3	85		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Bridgeport Sound Tigers	AHL		51	15th	10	25th	125		3	0	0	0	2
2011/12	New York Islanders	NHL		14th	0	0	0	57		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Connecticut Whale	AHL		69	10	13	23	170		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	New York Rangers	NHL		9	0	0	0	12		2	0	0	0	0
2013/14	Hartford Wolf Pack	AHL		53	7th	11	18th	131		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Worcester Sharks	AHL		68	18th	13	31	106		4th	2	1	3	2
2014/15	San Jose Sharks	NHL		4th	0	0	0	11		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	San Jose Barracuda	AHL		41	12	11	23	52		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	San Jose Sharks	NHL		16	1	0	1	48		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	San Jose Sharks	NHL		58	2	10	12	128		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Florida panthers	NHL		75	3	6th	9	212		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Florida panthers	NHL		24	1	2	3	30th		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Springfield Thunderbirds	AHL		2	1	1	2	7th		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	New York Rangers	NHL		22nd	1	0	1	50		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	San Jose Sharks	NHL		19th	1	2	3	45		11	0	0	0	18th
OHL total				276	69	57	126	558		10	0	1	1	13
ECHL total				35	16	9	25th	128		14th	7th	6th	13	49
AHL total				480	88	82	170	1105		15th	3	1	4th	18th
NHL overall				270	11	21st	32	687		13	0	0	0	18th

( 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

Commons : Micheal Haley  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Player biography on the New York Rangers website
• Micheal Haley at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Micheal Haley at hockeydb.com (English)