Brandon Maxwell (ice hockey)
Brandon Maxwell | |||
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Born |
Winter Park, Florida, U.S. | March 22, 1991||
Height | 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) | ||
Weight | 196 lb (89 kg; 14 st 0 lb) | ||
Position | Goaltender | ||
Catches | Left | ||
team Former teams |
EC VSV Berkut Kiev Rögle BK Utah Grizzlies HC Vítkovice HC Dynamo Pardubice BK Mladá Boleslav Mountfield HK | ||
National team | United States | ||
NHL draft |
154th overall, 2009 Colorado Avalanche | ||
Playing career | 2012–present |
Brandon Maxwell (born March 22, 1991 in Winter Park, Florida) is an American professional ice hockey goaltender who is currently playing for the EC VSV of the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga. He was drafted 154th overall in the sixth round by the Colorado Avalanche in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft, but went unsigned.
Playing career
Maxwell took the AHMMPL junior league, where he defended the Cambridge Hawks during the 2006–07 season, through the USA Hockey National Team Development Program in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he was a member of the U17 and U18 national team. In both age categories, he captured the 2008 World U18 Championship tournament and has won the bronze medal.[1] From 2009 to 2012, he worked in the Canadian junior league, the Ontario Hockey League (Kitchener Rangers, Sarnia Sting, Mississauga St. Michael's Majors). During the 2012–13 season, he played hockey at the University of Guelph and also tried the Ukrainian Hockey League team, the Berkut Kiev. The following year he spent in the Swedish Hockey League, where he captured 40 games for Rögle BK.
In the 2014–15 season, when he had one for Utah Grizzlies of the ECHL, he was approached by the HC Vítkovice. Maxwell, however, despite his good introduction to the Ostrava region, he did not last long. He entered five matches with a mean of 3.73 and a hit rate of 85.37%. Otherwise, he usually covered the back of his partner Daniel Dolejš. After a year in Vítkovice, he finished, but he remained in the Czech Extraliga. Before the start of the 2015–16 season, the HC Dynamo Pardubice was signed. Even though he only played in the first season in eastern Bohemia, he was one of the best Pardubice players throughout the season.
He has also captured a total of 87 matches in the Czech Extraliga with an average of goals of 2.55 and a success rate of 91.71%. In eight cases he did not. Next season, he played for the BK Mladá Boleslav.
International play
Medal record | ||
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Ice hockey | ||
Representing United States | ||
IIHF World U18 Championship | ||
2008 Russia |
Maxwell was a member of the United States team that competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics.[2][3]
Personal life
Although Maxwell competes for the United States internationally, he holds dual citizenship with both the US and Canada.[4]
References
- ^ "2008-09 U.S. National Under-18 Team". usahockeyntdp.com. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^ "BRANDON MAXWELL". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^ "NTDP Has Five Alumni Named to Olympic Roster". usahockeyntdp.com. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^ Doucet, Bill (January 13, 2018). "UPDATE: Brandon Maxwell named to U.S. Olympic men's hockey team". Cambridge Times. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
External links
- Biographical information and career statistics from NHL.com, or Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com, or The Internet Hockey Database
- 1991 births
- Living people
- American expatriate ice hockey players in Canada
- American expatriate sportspeople in Russia
- American expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
- American expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic
- American expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine
- American men's ice hockey goaltenders
- BK Mladá Boleslav players
- Colorado Avalanche draft picks
- Hamilton Bulldogs (AHL) players
- HC Berkut players
- HC Dynamo Pardubice players
- HC Vítkovice players
- Hokej Šumperk 2003 players
- Ice hockey people from Florida
- Ice hockey players at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Kitchener Rangers players
- Metallurg Novokuznetsk players
- Mississauga St. Michael's Majors players
- Stadion Hradec Králové players
- Olympic ice hockey players of the United States
- Rögle BK players
- Sarnia Sting players
- Sportspeople from Winter Park, Florida
- University of Guelph alumni
- USA Hockey National Team Development Program players
- Utah Grizzlies (ECHL) players
- American ice hockey goaltender stubs