Mike Hammond

Mike Hammond
Date of birth	February 21, 1990
place of birth	Brighton , England , UK
size	178 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
2006-2007	Victoria Cougars Kelowna Rockets
2007-2009	Victoria Grizzlies
2008-2010	Victoria Cougars
2009-2011	Cowichan Valley Capitals
2011	Salmon Arm Silverbacks
2011-2015	Lakehead Thunderwolves
2015-2016	Cincinnati Cyclones
2016	Brampton Beast
2016-2017	Braehead clan
2017-2019	Manchester Storm
since 2019	Lusatian foxes

Mike Hammond (born February 21, 1990 in Brighton , England ) is a British - Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Lausitzer Füchsen in the DEL2 since July 2019 .

Career

Mike Hammond, who was born in the seaside resort of Brighton in the south of England , began playing ice hockey in western Canada. There he first played for various lower-class junior teams in Victoria , the capital of British Columbia , but was also used once by the WHL club Kelowna Rockets . In 2007 he won the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League with the Victoria Cougars, to which he made a significant contribution as the league's top scorer. In 2010 he was named the most athletic player in the British Columbia Hockey League's Coastal Conference . A year later he was elected to the First All-Star Team of the Interior Conference and was the top scorer of the entire BCHL. He then took up studies at Lakehead University and played the following four years for their student team Lakehead Thunderwolves in the West Division of the Ontario University Athletics , a sub-association of the Canadian University Sports Association U Sports . He was elected to the All-Rookie Team in 2012 and in 2015, when he was also named the sportiest player, to the First All-Star Team of the West Division. After graduating, he played another year in the ECHL , where he was used by the Cincinnati Cyclones and the Brampton Beast .

In 2016 Hammond returned to the United Kingdom and initially joined the Scottish Braehead clan from the Elite Ice Hockey League . After a year he moved to league rivals Manchester Storm , for whom he has played since then. In 2018 he was elected to the EIHL All-Star First Team as the league's top scorer.

In July 2019, Hammond left his home country and signed a contract with the Lausitzer Füchsen from the DEL2 , where he met British national coach Corey Neilson .

International

With the British national team , Hammond took part in the 2018 World Cup for the first time when the British returned to the top division for the first time since relegation in the 1994 world championships . At the 2019 World Cup , Hammond scored four goals in seven games, making it the most successful goalscorer and top scorer of the British team, which surprisingly managed to stay in league.

Achievements and Awards

• 2007 Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League win with the Vancouver Cougars
• 2007 top scorer in the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League
• 2010 most athletic player in the British Columbia Hockey League's Coastal Conference
• 2011 First All-Star Team of the Interior Conference of the British Columbia Hockey League
• 2011 top scorer in the British Columbis Hockey League
• 2012 Ontario University Athletics Western Division All-Rookie Team
• 2015 First All-Star-Team and athletic player in the Western Division of the Ontario University Athletics
• 2017 All-Star First Team and top scorer of the Elite Ice Hockey League
• 2018 Promotion to the top division at the World Championship Division I, Group A.

EIHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	3	152	75	129	204	32
Playoffs	1	2	1	4th	5	2

(Status: end of the 2018/19 season)

Web links

• Mike Hammond at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Lausitzer Füchse sign British World Cup goal scorer Mike Hammond and US goalie Mac Carruth. In: eishockeynews.de. July 10, 2019, accessed September 10, 2019 .