Nikos Tselios

Nikos Tselios
Date of birth	20th January 1979
place of birth	Oak Park , Illinois , USA
size	193 cm
Weight	103 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1997 , 1st round, 22nd position Carolina Hurricanes
Career stations
1996-1997	Belleville Bulls
1997-1999	Plymouth Whalers
1999-2001	Cincinnati Cyclones
2001-2003	Lowell Lock Monsters
2003-2005	Springfield Falcons
2005-2006	KalPa Kuopio Färjestad BK
2006	Chicago Hounds
2006-2008	Örebro HK

Nikos Tselios ( Greek Νίκος Τσέλιος , * 20th January 1979 in Oak Park , Illinois ) is a former is US-American - Greek hockey player , who in his active period from 1996 to 2008 included for the Carolina Hurricanes in the National Hockey League has played . His cousin Chris Chelios was also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Nikos Tselios began his career as a hockey player in the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League , in which he was active from 1996 to 1999 for the Belleville Bulls and Plymouth Whalers . During this period he was selected in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft in the first round as a total of 22nd player by the Carolina Hurricanes . For the Hurricanes, the defender made his debut in the National Hockey League in the 2001/02 season , for which he received six penalty minutes in two games. The rest of the time in the Carolinas franchise , however, he spent with their farm teams , the Cincinnati Cyclones and the Lowell Lock Monsters , in the American Hockey League .

On July 21, 2003 Tselios received a contract as a free agent with the Phoenix Coyotes , but played in the following two years exclusively for their AHL farm teams Springfield Falcons and Utah Grizzlies . For the 2005/06 season, the left shooter went to Europe for the first time, where he first played for KalPa Kuopio in the Finnish SM-liiga before ending the season at Färjestad BK from the Swedish Elitserien , with whom he won the national championship at the end of the season. After four games for the Chicago Hounds from the United Hockey League , the American with Greek roots ran until 2008 in Division 1 , the third Swedish division, for Örebro HK . He then ended his career at the age of 29.

International

For the USA Tselios took part in the U20 World Junior Championship in 1998 , in which he finished fifth with his team.

Achievements and Awards

• 1997 OHL All-Rookie Team
• 1997 CHL All-Rookie Team
• 2006 Swedish champion with the Färjestad BK

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season	1	2	0	0	0	6th
NHL playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
Elitserien main round	1	7th	0	0	0	10
Elitserien Playoffs	1	11	1	0	1	12
SM liiga main round	1	21st	0	2	2	67
SM liiga playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-

Web links

• Nikos Tselios at hockeydb.com (English)
• Nikos Tselios at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Nikos Tselios at eurohockey.com
• Nikos Tselios at eliteprospects.com (English)