Mitch Callahan

Mitch Callahan
Date of birth	17th August 1991
place of birth	Whittier , California , USA
size	183 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	Right wing
number	15th
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2009 , 6th lap, 180th position Detroit Red Wings
Career stations
2007-2008	Los Angeles Junior Kings
2008-2011	Kelowna Rockets
2011-2017	Grand Rapids Griffins
2017-2019	Bakersfield Condors
2019-2020	Augsburg panther

Mitchell "Mitch" Callahan (born August 17, 1991 in Whittier , California ) is an American ice hockey player who was last under contract with the Augsburg Panthers in the German Ice Hockey League .

Career

Callahan, who was born and raised in the US state of California , played in the Los Angeles Kings' youth development program until 2008 . The winger then moved to the Kelowna Rockets from the Canadian Western Hockey League . There he spent the next three years and won the Ed Chynoweth Cup with the team in his rookie season . In the following Memorial Cup , the Rockets narrowly missed out on winning the tournament. In total, the American played 248 games for Kelowna over the course of three seasons, collecting 147 points and 510 penalty minutes.

After he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2009 in the sixth round at 180th position by the Detroit Red Wings from the National Hockey League and signed in May 2010, he finally moved to the professional field for the 2011/12 season . Callahan was there for Detroit's farm team , the Grand Rapids Griffins , in the American Hockey League . With the Griffins, the attacker won the Calder Cup in the 2012/13 season , to which he contributed eleven points in 24 play-off games. Callahan was also part of the Griffins squad for the following years. He first came to Red Wings in the 2013/14 season , which he followed four more at the end of the 2016/17 season . In addition, the attacker won the Calder Cup again with the Griffins at the end of the 2016/17 season.

After six years in the organization of the Red Wings, his contract was not extended after the 2016/17 season, so he joined the Edmonton Oilers as a free agent in July 2017 . There he played exclusively in the AHL farm team of the Oilers, the Bakersfield Condors . In July 2019, the Augsburg panthers signed the attacker, this is his first stop outside of North America.

International

Callahan played for his home country at the 2011 U20 World Youth Championship in Buffalo, his home country . He contributed one goal to winning the bronze medal in six tournaments.

Achievements and Awards

• 2009 Ed Chynoweth Cup win with the Kelowna Rockets
• 2013 Calder Cup win with the Grand Rapids Griffins
• 2017 Calder Cup win with the Grand Rapids Griffins

International

• 2011 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championship

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2008/09	Kelowna Rockets	WHL		70	14th	13	27	188		22nd	1	3	4th	43
2009	Kelowna Rockets	Memorial Cup								4th	0	1	1	2
2009/10	Kelowna Rockets	WHL		72	20th	27	47	165		12	2	4th	6th	10
2010/11	Kelowna Rockets	WHL		62	23	31	54	87		10	5	4th	9	17th
2011/12	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		48	6th	3	9	103		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		71	11	9	20th	93		24	6th	5	11	33
2013/14	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		70	26th	18th	44	51		8th	1	4th	5	6th
2013/14	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		48	16	22nd	38	24		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		62	19th	13	32	94		9	0	2	2	9
2016/17	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		66	16	27	43	57		19th	6th	10	16	18th
2016/17	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		4th	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Bakersfield Condors	AHL		45	2	7th	9	23		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Bakersfield Condors	AHL		61	15th	19th	34	22nd		9	1	0	1	4th
WHL overall				204	57	71	128	440		44	8th	11	19th	70
AHL total				471	111	118	229	467		69	14th	21st	35	70
NHL overall				5	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented the USA at:

• U20 World Junior Championship 2011

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2011	United States	U20 World Cup			6th	1	0	1	2
Juniors overall					6th	1	0	1	2

( 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 )

Web links

• Mitch Callahan in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Mitch Callahan at eliteprospects.com (English)