Mike Lay

Mike Lay
Date of birth	March 22, 1963
place of birth	Meadow Lake , Saskatchewan , Canada
size	178 cm
Weight	77 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1979-1984	Medicine Hat Tigers
1984-1985	SV Bayreuth
1985-1986	Schwenninger ERC
1986	Rochester Americans
1987-1991	Schwenninger ERC
1991-1993	EV Landshut
1994-1997	Schwenninger ERC
1997-1999	REV Bremerhaven

Michael "Mike" Lay (born March 22, 1963 in Meadow Lake , Saskatchewan ) is a former German - Canadian ice hockey player and coach .

Career

Mike Lay was one of the dominant players in the Medicine Hat Tigers and was able to achieve over 100 scorer points in three consecutive seasons of the Western Hockey League . However, he was not in view of the NHL - franchises not and was drafted . For the 1984/85 season he moved to Germany for the second division club SV Bayreuth . With 27 goals and 18 assists in the promotion round, he was involved in almost half of the Bayreuth goals and thus had a large share in the promotion. Lay himself did not stay in Bayreuth but switched to Schwenninger ERC . After the season in Germany he went to the Rochester Americans in the American Hockey League for a few more games . He then paused for 18 months in order not to take up a quota position for foreigners.

For the 1987/88 season Lay returned to Schwenningen and stayed there for four seasons before moving to the reigning German champions , the Düsseldorfer EG , for the 1991/92 season. In the two following seasons with DEG he won the championship title. He continued at EV Landshut . There he started the first DEL season in 1994/95 , but at the end of the year he moved back to Schwenningen, where the team was now called SERC Wild Wings . His last stop from the 1997/98 season was REV Bremerhaven .

Web links

• Mike Lay at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Mike Lay at rodi-db.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ SV Bayreuth season 1984/1985. In: bayreuther-eishockey.de. Retrieved March 5, 2020 .