Michael Vernace

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Michael Vernace
Date of birth May 26, 1986
place of birth Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size 188 cm
Weight 91 kg
position defender
number # 48
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2004 , 7th round, 201st position
San Jose Sharks
Career stations
2003-2006 Brampton Battalion
2006-2007 Arizona Sundogs
Albany River Rats
2007-2009 Lake Erie Monsters
2009-2010 Chicago Wolves
2010-2011 Norfolk Admirals
2011–2012 San Antonio Rampage
2012-2013 Connecticut Whale
2013-2014 Adler Mannheim
2014-2015 Rögle BK
since 2015 Brampton Beast

Michael "Mike" Vernace (born May 26, 1986 in Toronto , Ontario ) is an Italian - Canadian ice hockey player who has been playing for the Brampton Beasts in the East Coast Hockey League since October 2015 . His brother Daniel Vernace is also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Michael Vernace began his career as an ice hockey player with the Brampton Battalion , for which he was active from 2003 to 2006 in the Canadian top junior league Ontario Hockey League . During this period he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2004 in the seventh round as a total of 201st player by the San Jose Sharks , for which he however never played, since he was on June 1, 2006 in exchange for a six-round suffrage in the NHL Entry Draft 2007 was submitted to the Colorado Avalanche . In the 2006/07 season, the defender was on the ice for the then farm teams of the Avalanche, the Arizona Sundogs from the Central Hockey League and Albany River Rats from the American Hockey League . He then played mainly for Colorado's new AHL farm team, the Lake Erie Monsters, for the next two years . In addition, the left shooter made his debut in the National Hockey League for the Denver team in the 2008/09 season , for which he remained pointless in twelve games in his rookie year .

After his contract was not renewed, Vernace signed on July 30, 2009 a one-year contract with the Atlanta Thrashers . He started the 2009/10 season on the farm team with the Chicago Wolves in the American Hockey League and was there regularly during the season. In the same season, Vernace also went on the ice for the Hamilton Bulldogs before he was given in a transfer deal to the San Jose Sharks in June 2010 . After they hadn't signed him, Vernace signed a contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning about a month later .

In December 2011 the Bolts transferred him to the Florida Panthers together with James Wright in exchange for Mike Kostka and Evan Oberg . This gave him shortly before the trade deadline , on February 25, 2012, together with a third-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft 2013 in exchange for Wojtek Wolski to the New York Rangers . In the following year and a half, Vernace was only used there for the Connecticut Whale farm team , before he decided to work in Europe in the summer of 2013 and joined the Adler Mannheim from the German Ice Hockey League . Following the 2013/14 season , his contract in Mannheim was not extended, so he signed with Rögle BK from the second-class HockeyAllsvenskan and with the team achieved promotion to the Svenska Hockeyligan at the end of the season .

In October 2015 Vernace returned to North America and was signed by the Brampton Beasts from the East Coast Hockey League .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2003/04 Bramalea Blues OPJHL 33 3 12 15th 16 - - - - -
2003/04 Brampton Battalion OHL 2 1 1 2 0 11 2 3 5 8th
2004/05 Brampton Battalion OHL 68 12 38 50 42 6th 2 2 4th 0
2005/06 Brampton Battalion OHL 68 10 62 72 54 11 1 5 6th 6th
2006/07 Arizona Sundogs CHL 24 3 11 14th 20th - - - - -
2006/07 Albany River Rats AHL 30th 1 11 12 35 - - - - -
2007/08 Lake Erie Monsters AHL 79 3 26th 29 59 - - - - -
2008/09 Lake Erie Monsters AHL 65 3 14th 17th 52 - - - - -
2008/09 Colorado Avalanche NHL 12 0 0 0 8th - - - - -
2009/10 Chicago Wolves AHL 47 2 10 12 29 - - - - -
2009/10 Hamilton Bulldogs AHL 15th 0 1 1 23 18th 0 4th 4th 8th
2010/11 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 10 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
2010/11 Norfolk Admirals AHL 68 7th 21st 28 60 6th 0 2 2 8th
2011/12 Norfolk Admirals AHL 22nd 2 10 12 23 - - - - -
2011/12 San Antonio Rampage AHL 22nd 0 4th 4th 7th - - - - -
2011/12 Connecticut Whale AHL 21st 1 1 2 20th 9 0 2 2 0
2012/13 Connecticut Whale AHL 69 8th 27 34 51 - - - - -
2013/14 Adler Mannheim DEL
OHL total 138 23 101 124 96 28 5 10 15th 14th
CHL total 24 3 11 14th 20th - - - - -
AHL total 438 27 125 152 359 33 0 8th 8th 16
NHL overall 22nd 0 1 1 10 - - - - -

( 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 )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ adler-mannheim.de Adler signed Mike Vernace ( memento of the original from October 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.adler-mannheim.de

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personal data
SURNAME Vernace, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vernace, Mike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario , Canada