Mike Craig

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Mike Craig
Date of birth June 6, 1971
place of birth London , Ontario , Canada
size 182 cm
Weight 81 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1989 , 2nd round, 28th position
Minnesota North Stars
Career stations
1987-1990 Oshawa Generals
1990-1993 Minnesota North Stars
1993-1994 Dallas Stars
1994-1997 Toronto Maple Leafs
1997-1998 San Antonio Dragons
Kansas City Blades
1998-2000 Kentucky Thoroughblades
2000-2001 Hershey Bears
2001-2002 Cleveland Barons
2002-2003 SCL Tigers
2003-2007 Vienna Capitals
2007-2011 EC KAC
2011–2012 EC VSV
2013 HC Neumarkt

Michael "Mike" Craig (born June 6, 1971 in London , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and coach as well as current scout , who played 449 games for the Minnesota North Stars , Dallas, between 1987 and 2013 Stars , Toronto Maple Leafs and San Jose Sharks in the National Hockey League on the position of right winger . Craig also spent a considerable part of this time in the American Hockey League and the Austrian Erste Bank Eishockey Liga , where he won the Austrian Championship in 2005 with the Vienna Capitals and in 2009 with the EC KAC . In 1990 and 1991, he won the gold medal at the Junior World Championship with the Canadian U20 national team and twice the prestigious Spengler Cup in Team Canada .

Career

Craig first played three years from 1987 to 1990 in the Ontario Hockey League with the Oshawa Generals, a solid junior career in which he was able to increase his number of points every year. In the last season with the Generals, which also included Eric Lindros , he was able to win both the J. Ross Robertson Cup and the Memorial Cup . He also took part with his home country in the 1990 World Junior Championship , where he won the gold medal. He was able to defend the title again the following year.

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After Craig was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1989 in the second round in 28th position by the Minnesota North Stars , they submitted to him before the 1990/91 season the first professional contract. After 39 appearances in his rookie season , the Canadian was part of the North Stars' regular squad from the second season onwards and before the 1993/94 season moved with the team to Dallas, Texas . Despite a 38-point 1992/93 season and 37-point season 1993/94, the Stars did not extend Craig's contract and let him move to the Toronto Maple Leafs as a free agent , as they had secretly hoped for more from him. In Toronto, the right winger could not meet the expectations placed on him in the following four years and was deported to the International Hockey League in the last of his year contract with the farm team . In the summer of 1998, he therefore moved to the San Jose Sharks , in whose NHL squad he did not find a place. After three years and only one NHL game, he moved again in the summer of 2000. This time the Colorado Avalanche was his goal, but did not come into play in the NHL either. Craig moved to San Jose again for the 2001/02 season , but was again only on the farm team. The two NHL appearances this season were his last.

Since the Canadian no longer saw any prospects in the NHL, he signed a one-year contract with the SCL Tigers from the Swiss National League A for the 2002/03 game year . Due to his commitment in Switzerland he played for Team Canada in the traditional Spengler Cup of HC Davos, which the Canadians won this year. The following year he went to the neighboring country in Austria to join the Vienna Capitals , where he stayed for four years. With Team Canada he defended the 2003 Spengler Cup title. In the 2004/05 season he led the team as the league's top scorer to win the Austrian championship . From the 2007/08 season until the end of the 2010/11 season he played for the Austrian record champions EC KAC . From October 2011 he played for the EC VSV.

In January 2013 he moved to Italy, where he played at HC Neumarkt from the A2 series before ending his career after the 2012/13 season. The Canadian then began to work as a coach and worked as an assistant coach for the Lethbridge Hurricanes from the Western Hockey League between summer 2013 and summer 2017 . Since the beginning of the 2017/18 season he has been employed as a scout by the Calgary Flames from the NHL .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1987/88 Oshawa Generals OHL 61 6th 10 16 39 7th 0 1 1 11
1988/89 Oshawa Generals OHL 63 36 36 72 34 6th 3 1 4th 6th
1989/90 Oshawa Generals OHL 43 36 40 76 85 17th 10 16 26th 46
1990 Oshawa Generals Memorial Cup 3 5 4th 9 10
1990/91 Minnesota North Stars NHL 39 8th 4th 12 32 10 1 1 2 20th
1991/92 Minnesota North Stars NHL 67 15th 16 31 155 4th 1 0 1 7th
1992/93 Minnesota North Stars NHL 70 15th 23 38 106 - - - - -
1993/94 Dallas Stars NHL 72 13 24 37 139 4th 0 0 0 2
1994/95 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 37 5 5 10 12 2 0 1 1 2
1995/96 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 70 8th 12 20th 42 6th 0 0 0 18th
1996/97 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 65 7th 13 20th 62 - - - - -
1997/98 San Antonio Dragons IHL 12 4th 1 5 18th - - - - -
1997/98 Kansas City Blades IHL 59 14th 33 47 68 11 5 5 10 28
1998/99 San Jose Sharks NHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1998/99 Kentucky Thoroughblades AHL 52 27 17th 44 72 12 5 4th 9 18th
1999/00 Kentucky Thoroughblades AHL 76 39 39 78 116 9 5 5 10 14th
2000/01 Hershey Bears AHL 57 21st 22nd 43 73 12 3 2 5 20th
2001/02 Cleveland Barons AHL 69 35 25th 60 187 - - - - -
2001/02 San Jose Sharks NHL 2 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
2002/03 SCL Tigers NLA 44 17th 18th 35 97 - - - - -
2003/04 Vienna Capitals EBEL 46 24 22nd 46 76 - - - - -
2004/05 Vienna Capitals EBEL 41 32 39 71 84 10 5 6th 11 22nd
2005/06 Vienna Capitals EBEL 47 25th 34 59 103 5 2 0 2 8th
2006/07 Vienna Capitals EBEL 56 43 43 86 130 3 3 3 6th 0
2007/08 EC KAC EBEL 34 19th 14th 33 60 3 0 0 0 24
2008/09 EC KAC EBEL 54 25th 24 49 78 16 8th 12 20th 28
2009/10 EC KAC EBEL 45 24 14th 38 54 7th 1 3 4th 8th
2010/11 EC KAC EBEL 46 24 14th 38 81 14th 6th 5 11 20th
2011/12 EC VSV EBEL 37 14th 15th 29 40 - - - - -
2012/13 HC Neumarkt A2 series 11 7th 8th 15th 22nd 7th 1 4th 5 12
OHL total 167 78 86 164 158 30th 13 18th 31 63
AHL total 254 122 103 225 348 33 13 11 24 52
NHL overall 423 71 97 168 550 26th 2 2 4th 49
EBEL total 406 230 219 449 706 58 25th 29 54 110

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1990 Canada June World Cup 1st place, gold 7th 3 0 3 8th
1991 Canada June World Cup 1st place, gold 7th 6th 5 11 8th
Juniors overall 14th 9 5 14th 16

( 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Craig, Mike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Craig, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, coach and scout
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH London , Ontario , Canada