Mike Fountain

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
CanadaCanada  Mike Fountain Ice hockey player
Date of birth January 26, 1972
place of birth North York , Ontario , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 82 kg
position goalkeeper
number #1
Catch hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1992 , 2nd round, 45th position
Vancouver Canucks
Career stations
1988-1989 Huntsville Blair McCanns
1989-1990 Chatham Maroons
1990 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds
1990-1992 Oshawa Generals
1992-1994 Hamilton Canucks
1994-1997 Syracuse crunch
1997-1999 Beast of New Haven
1999-2001 Grand Rapids Griffins
2001-2003 HK Lada Tolyatti
2003-2004 Iserlohn Roosters
2004-2005 HK Metschel Chelyabinsk
2005-2006 HK tractor Chelyabinsk
2006-2009 HK Lada Tolyatti

Mike Fountain (born January 26, 1972 in North York , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper who played several NHL games for the Vancouver Canucks , Carolina Hurricanes and Ottawa Senators and later for a long time for the HK Lada Tolyatti in the continental Hockey league was active. He currently works as a goalkeeping coach for the Muskegon Lumberjacks of the United States Hockey League .

Career

Mike Fountain first played in smaller junior leagues before moving to the Ontario Hockey League in 1990 . Here he was for the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds and Oshawa Generals active. In the 1992 NHL Entry Draft , the goalkeeper was selected by the Vancouver Canucks in the second round in 45th place. He then worked for the Canadian national team at the 1992 World Junior Championship .

From the fall of 1992 he played for the Canucks' farm team , the Hamilton Canucks , in the American Hockey League . Even when they were relocated to Syracuse Crunch in 1994 , Fountain stayed with the team. In the 1996/97 season he made his debut in the National Hockey League , where he immediately celebrated a shutout and completed a total of six games for the Canucks. In the summer of 1997, the goalkeeper then signed with the Carolina Hurricanes , for which he was on the ice in three games. Mainly he spent the next two years, however, with the Beast of New Haven in the AHL. In 1999, Fountain became a free agent and joined the Ottawa Senators . Here, too, he played only a few games in the NHL and was mostly used in the International Hockey League at the Grand Rapids Griffins . In 2001 the left catcher moved to Russia and played in the super league for HK Lada Tolyatti . In his first of two years he achieved the best goalscoring average in the entire league.

For the 2003/04 season he switched to the German Ice Hockey League for the Iserlohn Roosters . Here he formed a goalkeeper duo with Dimitrij Kochnev . After he began the next season in the United Hockey League , he finally went back to Russia, this time in the second division. In the following two years he was active for two clubs from Chelyabinsk - first for HK Metschel and then for HK tractor . In 2006 Fountain returned to the HK Lada Tolyatti. Even when his team moved to the newly founded Continental Hockey League in 2008 , he stayed in the team. In 2009 he ended his career.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Playing times Sp Min SO SM GT GTS SVS SVS%
NHL Regular Season 4th 11 483 1 2 28 3.47 220 .877
NHL playoffs - - - - - - - - -
DEL main round 1 34 1957 2 10 104 3.19 921 .899
DEL playoffs - - - - - - - - -

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; 1  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.muskegonlumberjacks.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=924&Itemid=131

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Fountain, Mike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH North York , Ontario , Canada