Steve Carpenter

Infobox Ice Hockey Player


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position = Defence
played_for = Richmond Renegades Fresno Falcons Solihull Blaze Nottingham Panthers Sheffield Steelers Coventry Blaze Milton Keynes Lightning
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height_ft = 5
height_in = 11
weight_lb = 185
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nationality = Canada
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birth_date = birth date and age|1971|03|30
birth_place = Prince George, BC, Canada
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career_start = 1995
career_end = 2005
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Steve Carpenter (born birth date|1971|03|30 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. After university, Caprenter 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 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

*Named to the Western Collegiate Hockey Association 2nd All-League Team in 1994.cite web | publisher = Northern Michigan University | url = http://webb.nmu.edu/SportsAthletics/Sports/MensHockey/HockeyAwardsandHonors-NationalandConference.shtml | title = National Awards and Honors | accessdate = 2007-12-17 ]
*Named to the Western Collegiate Hockey Association All-Academic Team in 1993 and 1994.
*Named to the Western Collegiate Hockey Association All-Tournament Team in 1993.
*Awarded the Northern Michigan University Tom Laidlaw Best Defenseman Award in 1992, 1993 and 1994.cite web | publisher = Northern Michigan University | url = http://webb.nmu.edu/SportsAthletics/Sports/MensHockey/HockeyAwardsandHonors-Team.shtml | title = Team Awards and Honors | accessdate = 2007-12-17 ]
*Named to the British National League First All Star Team in 2003. [cite web | publisher = Ice Hockey Journalists UK | url = http://www.ihjuk.co.uk/All_Stars/02-03.htm | title = All Star Team Season 2002-2003 | accessdate = 2007-12-17 ]

Career statistics

Club

Footnotes

References

* [http://www.eurohockey.net/ European Hockey.Net]
* [http://www.ihjuk.co.uk/ Ice Hockey Journalists UK]
* [http://www.hockeydb.com/ The Internet Hockey Database]
* [http://webb.nmu.edu/Sports/ Northern Michigan University Sports]

External links

*Eurohockey|8116
*hockeydb|838

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NAME= Carpenter, Steve
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= Ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH= 1971-03-30
PLACE OF BIRTH= Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
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