Mike Blunden

Mike Blunden
Date of birth	December 15, 1986
place of birth	Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size	191 cm
Weight	94 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 46
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2005 , 2nd round, 43rd position Chicago Blackhawks
Career stations
2002-2006	Erie Otters
2006-2007	Norfolk Admirals
2007-2009	Rockford IceHogs
2009	Syracuse crunch
2009-2011	Columbus Blue Jackets
2011-2014	Canadiens de Montréal Hamilton Bulldogs
2014-2016	Tampa Bay Lightning Syracuse Crunch
2016-2018	Ottawa Senators Belleville Senators
2018-2019	HC Bolzano
since 2019	Schwenninger Wild Wings

Michael "Mike" Charles Blunden (born December 15, 1986 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Schwenninger Wild Wings of the German Ice Hockey League since April 2019 .

Career

Michael Blunden began his career as a hockey player with the Erie Otters , for whom he was active in the Canadian junior league Ontario Hockey League from 2002 to 2006 . During this period he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2005 in the second round as a total of 43rd player by the Chicago Blackhawks , for whom he made his debut in the National Hockey League in the 2006/07 season . In his rookie year , the attacker received ten penalty minutes in nine games. The rest of the time he spent, however, with their farm team from the American Hockey League , the Norfolk Admirals . In the 2007/08 season , the right-shooter was only in one game for Chicago in the NHL on the ice and ran the rest of the season for the Rockford IceHogs in the AHL.

After the 2008/09 season began with the IceHogs, he was January 10, 2009 in exchange for Adam Pineault to the Columbus Blue Jackets made. Until the end of the season, however, he was only used for their AHL farm team Syracuse Crunch . At the beginning of the 2009/10 season , the Canadian was appointed to the NHL squad of the Blue Jackets. During the season he came to 40 missions in the National Hockey League and scored four points. Also the following season he began with an assignment in the NHL, but then he was sent to the farm team for the Springfield Falcons .

On July 7, 2011, the Columbus Blue Jackets transferred him to the Montréal Canadiens in exchange for Ryan Russell . There Blunden mainly played for the Hamilton Bulldogs , the Canadiens' farm team, before he left the franchise after three years and joined the Tampa Bay Lightning in July 2014 . There, too, he is mainly used in the AHL at the Syracuse Crunch . His contract, which expired after the 2015/16 season, was not renewed, so he joined the Ottawa Senators as a free agent in July 2016 .

As a result, Blunden was active in Ottawa for two years before he decided to move to Europe for the first time and signed a contract with HC Bozen in the Austrian ice hockey league .

In April 2019, Blunden signed a contract with the Schwenninger Wild Wings from the German Ice Hockey League .

International

For Canada , Blunden took part in the U20 World Junior Championship in 2006 , where he became world champion with his team.

Achievements and Awards

• 2006 gold medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
• 2006 OHL Third All-Star Team

Career statistics

Status: end of season 2017/18

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2002/03	Erie Otters	OHL		63	10	7th	17th	55		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Erie Otters	OHL		52	22nd	17th	39	53		3	0	0	0	0
2004/05	Erie Otters	OHL		61	22nd	19th	41	75		2	0	0	0	2
2005/06	Erie Otters	OHL		60	46	38	84	63		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Norfolk Admirals	AHL		11	1	5	6th	2		1	0	0	0	0
2006/07	Norfolk Admirals	AHL		17th	4th	5	9	15th		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		9	0	0	0	10		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Rockford IceHogs	AHL		74	16	21st	37	83		12	1	3	4th	35
2007/08	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Rockford IceHogs	AHL		37	3	7th	10	42		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Syracuse crunch	AHL		39	9	12	21st	68		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		40	2	2	4th	59		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Syracuse crunch	AHL		25th	7th	9	16	43		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Springfield Falcons	AHL		37	12	9	21st	41		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Hamilton Bulldogs	AHL		17th	3	5	8th	12		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		39	2	2	4th	27		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Hamilton Bulldogs	AHL		54	10	12	22nd	76		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		5	0	0	0	4th		1	0	0	0	10
2013/14	Hamilton Bulldogs	AHL		68	18th	19th	37	79		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		7th	0	0	0	5		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Syracuse crunch	AHL		33	13	9	22nd	28		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		5	1	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Syracuse crunch	AHL		49	21st	17th	38	68		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		20th	3	2	5	34		7th	0	0	0	4th
2016/17	Binghamton Senators	AHL		67	14th	15th	29	57		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Ottawa Senators	NHL		2	0	0	0	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Belleville Senators	AHL		45	6th	10	16	95		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Ottawa Senators	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
OHL total				236	100	81	181	246		5	0	0	0	2
AHL total				573	137	155	292	709		13	1	3	4th	35
NHL overall				127	7th	6th	13	145		8th	0	0	0	14th

International

Represented Canada to:

• U20 World Cup 2006

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2006	Canada	U20 World Cup			6th	2	3	5	8th
Juniors overall					6th	2	3	5	8th

( 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 : Mike Blunden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Mike Blunden in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Mike Blunden at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fix: Blunden is moving to Germany. Retrieved June 13, 2019 .