Justin Kelly (ice hockey)

This article is about the ice hockey player. For other uses, see Justin Kelly (disambiguation).
Justin Kelly
Born (1981-03-17) March 17, 1981
Abbotsford, BC, CAN
Height 6 ft 4 in (193 cm)
Weight 185 lb (84 kg; 13 st 3 lb)
Position Right Wing
Shoots Right
Swe.1 team
Former teams		 IF Troja/Ljungby
Krefeld Pinguine
DEG Metro Stars
NHL Draft Undrafted
Playing career 2002–present

Justin Kelly (born March 17, 1981 in Abbotsford, British Columbia) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He is currently playing for the Bietigheim Steelers in the German league DEL2.

Career

Kelly spent five seasons in the WHL, including three and a half with the Saskatoon Blades. In 2001-02, he tallied 86 points (39 goals, 47 assists) in 72 games for the Blades, which ranked him tenth in the league.[1]

The 2002-03 season saw him skate for Swedish side IF Troja/Ljungby.

Upon his return from Europe, Kelly spent three years playing on five different teams in three different leagues, AHL, UHL and ECHL, before bringing his game back to Europe: In the course of the 2006-07 season, Kelly featured for three different clubs, including Eishockey-Club Olten of Switzerland, EHC Linz of Austria and Val Pusteria of Italy.[2]

Kelly embarked on a three-year stint with German second-division club Bietigheim Steelers in 2008 and would make 129 DEL2 appearances in three seasons, amassing a total of 167 points (64 goals, 103 assists).[3] In 2009-10, he received Player of the Year honors.[4][5] That attracted the attention of German top-tier side Krefeld Pinguine, who signed Kelly for the 2010-11 Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL) season. He moved to fellow DEL club DEG Metro Stars for the following campaign,[6] which was hampered by a knee injury sustained in October 2011.[7]

The 2012-13 season saw him return to IF Troja/Ljungby of Sweden,[8] where he had signed his first overseas contract ten years earlier. Kelly then inked a deal with the Ravensburg Towerstars for the 2013-14 campaign, which turned out to be a very successful one: He scored 32 goals on the season to go along with 58 assists for a shared top spot in the DEL2 scoring ranks.

Kelly then returned to the Bietigheim Steelers for the 2014-15 season[9] and in June 2015, had his contract renewed for 2015-16.[10] In the 2015-16 season, he led the DEL2 in scoring with 85 points[11] and for the second time was named DEL2 Player of the Year.[12]

References

  1. ↑ "WHL Network". www.whl.ca. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  2. ↑ GmbH, Thomas Röstel, Matthias Geissler - Sports Trade. "Statistiken - Spielpläne - Archiv der DEL2". www.del-2.org. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  3. ↑ "RODI-DB - Die deutsche Eishockey-Datenbank". www.rodi-db.de. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  4. ↑ Scheer, Mareike. "Justin Kelly bei DEG: Nach 37 Tagen ausgeflittert". NRZ. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  5. ↑ EISHOCKEY.INFO. "Krefeld Pinguine: Pinguine holen Bundesliga-Topscorer Kelly - Weitere Spieler aus Liga 2 und dem eigenen Nachwuchs". EISHOCKEY INFO. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  6. ↑ DEG Metro Stars 2011/2012 Roster
  7. ↑ "Zwangspause für Eishockey-Stürmer Justin Kelly". BILD.de. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  8. ↑ "Justin Kelly comes back to Troja!" (in Swedish). IF Troja/Ljungby. 2012-08-01. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
  9. ↑ peter. "Justin Kelly - ein Publikumsliebling kehrt zurück ins Ellental". www.esbg.de. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  10. ↑ GmbH, Südwest Presse Online-Dienste. "Auch Justin Kelly bleibt bei den Steelers". swp.de (in German). Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  11. ↑ del-2.org. "DEL2 Topscorer". www.del-2.org (in German). Retrieved 2016-03-01.
  12. ↑ GmbH, Thomas Röstel, Matthias Geissler - Sports Trade. "Justin Kelly bester DEL2-Profi der Saison | del-2.org". del-2.org. Retrieved 2016-03-13.

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