Devin Edgerton (born June 11, 1970) is a Canadian former
ice hockey centre.
Career
Edgerton played junior hockey with the
Humboldt Broncos
The Humboldt Broncos are a Canadian junior "A" ice hockey team from Humboldt, Saskatchewan. Established in 1970, the Broncos play in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League.
History
The Broncos were established in 1970 by a group of local organ ...
of the
Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League
The Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League is a Junior 'A' ice hockey league operating in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan and one of nine member leagues of the Canadian Junior Hockey League.
Open to North American-born players 20 years of ...
from 1989 to 1991. In the 1990–91 season, he scored 71 goals and 93 assists for 164 points in 67 games as he was named the SJHL's Most Valuable Player.
He turned professional in 1991 and spent the next five seasons playing in the
East Coast Hockey League and the
International Hockey League. He played for the
Winston-Salem Thunderbirds
The Carolina Thunderbirds were a professional ice hockey team located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States. The Thunderbirds played their home games at the old Winston-Salem Memorial Coliseum before the arena was demolished in 1989. T ...
,
Wheeling Thunderbirds
The Wheeling Nailers are a professional ECHL ice hockey team based in Wheeling, West Virginia. They are the ECHL affiliate of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League and the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey Lea ...
,
Peoria Rivermen Peoria Rivermen is the name of four minor league hockey clubs:
*Peoria Rivermen (IHL), named as such 1984–1996, formerly the Peoria Prancers 1982–1984
*Peoria Rivermen (ECHL), 1996–2005
*Peoria Rivermen (AHL), 2005–2013
*Peoria Rivermen (SP ...
,
Atlanta Knights,
Knoxville Cherokees
The Knoxville Cherokees were an East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) team based in Knoxville, Tennessee.
History
The franchise was formed in 1988 along with the ECHL. The team moved to Florence, South Carolina in 1997 and was renamed the Pee Dee Prid ...
and
Phoenix Roadrunners.
In 1996, Edgerton would leave North America and spend the remainder of his career in the European leagues. He first played for
SC Herisau
SC Herisau is a Swiss ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hocke ...
of the
Nationalliga B in
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
where he scored 40 goals and 40 assists to help them win promotion to
Nationalliga A.
1996-97 SC Herisau roster and statistics
/ref> He would spend a second season woth Herisau before joining EV Zug in 1998.
In 1999, he joined the Frankfurt Lions
The Frankfurt Lions were a German professional men's ice hockey club from Frankfurt, Germany that played in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. The club ceased operations in 2010 due to financial difficulty.
History
The hockey team was founded as a se ...
of Germany's Deutsche Eishockey Liga
The Deutsche Eishockey Liga (for sponsorship reasons called "PENNY Deutsche Eishockey Liga") (; English: ''German Ice Hockey League'') or DEL, is a German professional ice hockey league and the highest division in German ice hockey. Founded in ...
for one season before spending the next six seasons with Adler Mannheim
The Adler Mannheim (English: ''Mannheim Eagles'', formerly Mannheimer ERC) is a professional ice hockey team of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga, the highest-level ice hockey league in Germany. The team is based in Mannheim, a city in the northern pa ...
between 2000 and 2006. He won the DEL Championship in 2001 and also made the DEL All-Star Game that season. He moved to the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga in 2006 with EC VSV where he played two seasons before retiring in 2008.
References
External links
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1970 births
Living people
Adler Mannheim players
Anaheim Bullfrogs players
Atlanta Fire Ants players
Atlanta Knights players
Canadian ice hockey centres
Frankfurt Lions players
SC Herisau players
Humboldt Broncos players
Ice hockey people from Saskatchewan
Knoxville Cherokees players
Peoria Rivermen (IHL) players
Phoenix Roadrunners (IHL) players
Sportspeople from Kindersley
EC VSV players
Wheeling Thunderbirds players
Winston-Salem Thunderbirds players
EV Zug players
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