Steve Kelly

Steve Kelly
Date of birth	October 26, 1976
place of birth	Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada
size	188 cm
Weight	95 kg
position	center
number	# 11
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1995 , 1st lap, 6th position Edmonton Oilers
Career stations
1992-1996	Prince Albert Raiders
1996-1997	Edmonton Oilers
1997-1999	Tampa Bay Lightning
1999-2000	Albany River Rats
2000-2001	New Jersey Devils
2001-2004	Los Angeles Kings
2004-2005	Adler Mannheim
2005-2007	Frankfurt Lions
2007-2008	Houston Eros
2008-2009	Syracuse crunch
2009	HDD Olimpija Ljubljana

R. Steven Kelly (born October 26, 1976 in Vancouver , British Columbia ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who was under contract with HDD Olimpija Ljubljana in the Austrian ice hockey league until October 2009 .

Career

After three years with the Prince Albert Raiders in the Western Hockey League , Kelly was selected by the Edmonton Oilers in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft . He stayed in Prince Albert for another year and shone there with over 100 points.

From the 1996/97 season he played for the Oilers, but was mostly used in the farm team. Even after his move to the Tampa Bay Lightning in late 1997 , that didn't change. His journey through the NHL led him to the New Jersey Devils and the Los Angeles Kings , but nowhere did he make the leap to become a regular. Kelly completed a total of 163 games in the National Hockey League and scored twelve goals.

In 2004 the striker moved from the Manchester Monarchs from the AHL to the German record champions of the German Ice Hockey League , the Adler Mannheim . A year later, Kelly switched to the Adler's arch-rival, the 2004 German champions, the Frankfurt Lions . The reason for this was the suspension of Kelly after an argument with the then Adler trainer Stéphane Richer . The Canadian striker with the number 19 signed a one-year contract in Frankfurt.

In the summer of 2007 he moved to the Minnesota Wild , but could not assert himself there in the training camp and had to join the American Hockey League with the Houston Eros , the farm team of the Wild. Before the 2008/09 season, Kelly moved to the Columbus Blue Jackets , but was unable to qualify there as in the previous year for the NHL squad and began the season with the Blue Jackets farm team, the Syracuse Crunch in the AHL. At the beginning of the 2009/10 season Kelly played at HDD Olimpija Ljubljana in the Austrian Ice Hockey League . After an injury early in the season, the Slovenes terminated the contract in October for financial reasons.

Achievements and Awards

• 2004 AHL All-Star Classic

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season	9	149	9	12	21st	83
NHL playoffs	4th	25th	0	0	0	8th
DEL main round	3	134	30th	82	112	582
DEL playoffs	2	20th	3	12	15th	102

(Status: end of the 2008/09 season)

Web links

• Steve Kelly at hockeydb.com (English)