Steve Carpenter

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Steve Carpenter
Born (1971-03-30) March 30, 1971
Prince George, BC, Canada
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight 185 lb (84 kg; 13 st 3 lb)
Position Defence
Shot Left
Played for Richmond Renegades
Fresno Falcons
Solihull Blaze
Nottingham Panthers
Sheffield Steelers
Coventry Blaze
Milton Keynes Lightning
Playing career 1995–2005

Steve Carpenter (born March 30, 1971 in Prince George, British Columbia) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. Between 1995 and 1997 he played in the ECHL and the West Coast Hockey League before moving to the United Kingdom, where he played until he retired from ice hockey in 2005.

Playing career

Carpenter attended Northern Michigan University between 1990 and 1994. Whilst there he played for the ice hockey team, the Wildcats, and was honoured by both the league and the team.[1][2] After university, Carpenter joined the Richmond Renegades in the ECHL for the 1995–96 season. The following season he went to the United Kingdom where he joined the Solihull Blaze in the British National League (BNL), before he returned to the United States to finish the season with the Fresno Falcons in the West Coast Hockey League.

For the 1997–98 season Carpenter returned to the United Kingdom to join the Nottingham Panthers in the Ice Hockey Superleague (ISL). He stayed with the Panthers for the next three seasons helping them to win the Benson & Hedges Cup in 1998 and to get to three other major trophy finals. For the 2000–01 season he joined the Panthers rivals, the Sheffield Steelers, who he helped to win the Grand Slam of all four major competitions that season.

He joined the Coventry Blaze in the second tier BNL in 2001–02. In the 2002–03 season he helped them to win the league and the playoffs and was himself named to the BNL All Star First Team. Coventry joined the new first tier Elite Ice Hockey League for 2003–04 season where Carpenter played. He then joined the Milton Keynes Lightning in the second tier English Premier Ice Hockey League for the 2004–05 season and helped them to win the league and playoffs before he retired from playing in May 2005.

Awards and honours

Career statistics

Club

    Regular season[4][5]   Playoffs[4]
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1980–91 Northern Michigan University NCAA 32 0 7 7 24
1991–92 Northern Michigan University NCAA 34 2 11 13 78
1992–93 Northern Michigan University NCAA 38 2 20 22 123
1993–94 Northern Michigan University NCAA 33 11 19 30 123
1995–96 Richmond Renegades ECHL 43 9 29 38 100 — — — — —
1996–97 Solihull Blaze BNL 45 27 41 68 178
1996–97 Fresno Falcons WCHL 6 2 4 6 10 5 1 1 2 30
1997–98 Nottingham Panthers ISL 27 2 6 8 24 6 2 0 2 2
1998–99 Nottingham Panthers ISL 28 3 12 15 26 8 0 3 3 42
1999–00 Nottingham Panthers ISL 30 4 17 21 114 6 0 1 1 44
2000–01 Sheffield Steelers ISL 37 4 10 14 67 8 1 3 4 22
2001–02 Coventry Blaze BNL 42 18 34 52 102 10 1 8 9 30
2002–03 Coventry Blaze BNL 36 14 24 38 106 10 2 7 9 14
2003–04 Coventry Blaze EIHL 40 9 20 29 84 4 1 0 1 8
2004–05 Milton Keynes Lightning EPIHL 28 9 23 32 110 5 1 3 4 24

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "National Awards and Honors". Northern Michigan University. Retrieved 2007-12-17. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Team Awards and Honors". Northern Michigan University. Retrieved 2007-12-17. 
  3. ↑ "All Star Team Season 2002-2003". Ice Hockey Journalists UK. Retrieved 2007-12-17. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Steve Carpenter - player profile and career stats". European Hockey.Net. Retrieved 2007-12-17. 
  5. ↑ "Steve Carpenter's profile at hockeydb.com". The Internet Hockey Database. Retrieved 2007-12-17. 

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