Kevin Westgarth

Kevin Westgarth
Date of birth	7th February 1984
place of birth	Amherstburg , Ontario , Canada
size	193 cm
Weight	104 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
2003-2007	Princeton University
2007-2010	Manchester monarchs
2010-2013	Los Angeles Kings
2013	Carolina Hurricanes
2013-2014	Calgary Flames
since 2014	Belfast Giants

Kevin Westgarth (born February 7, 1984 in Amherstburg , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who was under contract with the Belfast Giants in the British Elite Ice Hockey League since October 2014 . His brother Brett was also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Kevin Westgarth began his career as a hockey player at Princeton University , which he attended from 2003 to 2007, while playing for their ice hockey team in the National Collegiate Athletic Association . On March 16, 2007, the winger signed a contract as a free agent with the Los Angeles Kings , for whose farm team Manchester Monarchs from the American Hockey League he made his professional ice hockey debut towards the end of the 2006/07 season . In the following three seasons he was also a regular with the Monarchs in the AHL, where he came in parallel for the Los Angeles Kings to his first nine appearances in the National Hockey League in the 2008/09 season . In the 2010/11 season , the Canadian spent an entire season in the NHL for the first time and prepared five goals for the LA Kings in a total of 62 games. In the 2011/12 season he won the Stanley Cup for the first time with the Los Angeles Kings and was immortalized on the cup, although he had only played 25 games in the regular season. In January 2013, Westgarth was transferred to the Carolina Hurricanes in exchange for Anthony Stewart , a four-round suffrage in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft and a six- round suffrage in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft . On December 30th he was swapped for Greg Nemisz to the Calgary Flames that same year .

With the Flames, his contract was not renewed at the end of the 2013/14 season, so that from then on he was looking for a new employer as a free agent . He found this at the end of October 2014 in the Belfast Giants from the British Elite Ice Hockey League .

Achievements and Awards

• 2012 Stanley Cup win with the Los Angeles Kings

statistics

Status: end of the 2013/14 season

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL: Regular season	5	169	7th	9	16	266
NHL: playoffs	1	6th	0	2	2	14th
AHL: Regular season	4th	224	22nd	28	50	580
AHL: playoffs	2	10	1	0	1	16

Web links

Commons : Kevin Westgarth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kevin Westgarth at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Kevin Westgarth at eliteprospects.com (English)