Steve Palmer (ice hockey player)

Steve Palmer
Date of birth	August 9, 1974
place of birth	Mississauga , Ontario , Canada
size	179 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	center
number	# 26
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1992-1996	Clarkson University
1996-1997	Viennese EV
1997	SHC Fassa
1997-2000	Frankfurt Lions
2000-2001	HC Asiago
2001-2002	Frankfurt Lions
2002-2003	Wolves Freiburg
2003-2004	Cologne Sharks
2004-2005	Wolves Freiburg
2005-2006	Straubing Tigers
2006-2008	Kassel Huskies
2008-2009	EV Duisburg

Steve Palmer (born August 9, 1974 in Mississauga , Ontario ) is a German - Canadian ice hockey player . Most recently he played for the Füchse Duisburg in the DEL in the position of the striker .

Career

Palmer played in his youth for Clarkson University until he moved to Europe for the 1996/97 season and continued his career at Wiener EV in the Austrian Ice Hockey League . With 50 scorer points in the first season, the center was lured away by the Frankfurt Lions in the following season . In his third season with the Lions, however, Palmer only made 22 appearances and temporarily moved to the Italian Serie A at AS Asiago for the 2000/01 season until he signed a contract with the Lions again after a year. Although the Canadian with German citizenship played 57 games for Frankfurt in the German Ice Hockey League in the 2001/02 season , he was unable to convince with 10 goals as a striker.

When he then moved to the EHC Freiburg in the 2nd Bundesliga in the 2002/03 season and was able to convince with 81 points, Hans Zach brought him to the Kölner Haien in the meantime , but Palmer again only managed five goals in 58 games in the DEL and then returned to the EHC Freiburg. For the 2005/06 season , the left shooter moved to the Straubing Tigers , with whom he was second division champions in the same season. His contract for the following season in the DEL was not extended.

For this reason, Steve Palmer then switched to the Kassel Huskies , who had been relegated to the second division the year before. With the Huskies Palmer dominated the second division, but lost the play-off final in the first second division season and only reached the second division championship title in the following season. At the beginning of the 2008/09 season, Palmer was suspended from the Huskies due to differences with coach Stéphane Richer , whereupon he moved to league rivals Füchse Duisburg . After the Duisburg had to file for bankruptcy in the summer of 2009 , Palmer left the club.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1992/93	Clarkson University	NCAA		35	10	11	21st	20th
1993/94	Clarkson University	NCAA		34	17th	24	41	32
1994/95	Clarkson University	NCAA		36	18th	12	30th	62
1995/96	Clarkson University	NCAA		37	15th	25th	40	50
1996/97	Viennese EV	OIL		40	24	26th	50	30th
1996/97	SHC Fassa	SerA			9	15th	24	0
1997/98	Frankfurt Lions	DEL		45	13	10	23	40
1998/99	Frankfurt Lions	DEL		51	15th	19th	34	103		7th	2	4th	6th	6th
1999/00	Frankfurt Lions	DEL		22nd	2	8th	10	22nd		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	HC Asiago	SerA		8th	6th	0	6th	10		8th	5	4th	9	14th
2001/02	Frankfurt Lions	DEL		57	10	9	19th	73		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Wolves Freiburg	2nd BL		54	36	45	81	132		12	6th	6th	12	32
2003/04	Cologne Sharks	DEL		52	4th	10	14th	64		6th	1	0	1	2
2004/05	Wolves Freiburg	2nd BL		46	17th	29	46	84		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Straubing Tigers	2nd BL		33	5	12	17th	0		15th	3	4th	7th	22nd
2006/07	Kassel Huskies	2nd BL		39	14th	24	38	0		10	3	6th	9	14th
2007/08	Kassel Huskies	2nd BL		51	19th	21st	40	107		15th	5	3	8th	20th
2008/09	Kassel Huskies	DEL		9	0	2	2	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	EV Duisburg	DEL		35	8th	9	17th	42		-	-	-	-	-
NCAA overall				142	60	72	132	164
2. Bundesliga overall				223	91	131	222	323		52	17th	19th	36	88
DEL total				236	44	58	102	306		13	3	4th	7th	8th

( 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

• Steve Palmer at hockeydb.com (English)
• Steve Palmer at eurohockey.com