Ken Magowan (born July 22, 1981) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player, who was active in Germany's highest level hockey league, the DEL, for six years. He was selected by the New Jersey Devils in the seventh round (198th overall) of the 2000 NHL Entry Draft.

Ken Magowan
Ken Magowan, 2012
Born (1981-07-22) July 22, 1981 (age 43)
Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
Height 6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight 201 lb (91 kg; 14 st 5 lb)
Position Left wing
Shot Left
Played for Vienna Capitals
Adler Mannheim
Grizzlys Wolfsburg
NHL draft 198th overall, 2000
New Jersey Devils
Playing career 2004–2016

Playing career

edit

From 1998-2000 he played as a junior with Vernon Vipers in the British Columbia Hockey League. He scored 46 goals and 62 assists in 118 games and won the 1999 Royal Bank Cup with his team. From 2000 he appeared in four seasons with Boston University Terriers and scored in 118 games 31 goals and 35 assists for the US-College team.

In 2004, he played his first professional season, but there was not much opportunities for him with the Devil's AHL affiliation Albany River Rats.[1] So he spent the next three seasons mostly in the ECHL with Augusta Lynx and Toledo Storm. In this time he represented his teams two times (2005, 2007) in the ECHL All-Star Game.[2][3] and got AHL try outs with Philadelphia Phantoms, Rochester Americans and Bridgeport Sound Tigers.[4][5]

For season 2007-08 he changed to Europe and played for SC Riessersee in Germans second level hockey league. In 50 games he scored 26 goals and 24 assists and so he could find a team in Germans highest level hockey league DEL for the next season. In the next 6 years Magowan played in the DEL for Grizzlys Wolfsburg and Adler Mannheim. In his first DEL-season he was best goal scorer of the league (29 goals) and the following three seasons always one of the best goal scorer from his team. In his last two DEL years he was often injured.

In season 2014-15 he started with Löwen Frankfurt in Germans second-level hockey league DEL2 and finished the season with Vienna Capitals in Austrias highest level hockey league.[6] In season 2015-16 he played with Lausitzer Füchse in DEL2 again. For this Saxony team he scored 10 goals and 9 assists in 28 games.

Career statistics

edit
Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1997–98 Kelowna Blazers A1 BC U18 47 45 45 90 80
1998–99 Vernon Vipers BCHL 60 15 25 40 43 14 5 7 12 23
1999–2000 Vernon Vipers BCHL 58 31 37 68 88 18 4 16 20 24
2000–01 Boston University HE 34 5 1 6 22
2001–02 Boston University HE 37 6 15 21 28
2002–03 Boston University HE 38 11 13 24 20
2003–04 Boston University HE 26 6 9 15 22
2003–04 Albany River Rats AHL 5 0 0 0 2
2004–05 Augusta Lynx ECHL 69 21 28 49 107
2004–05 Albany River Rats AHL 4 2 2 4 0
2005–06 Toledo Storm ECHL 68 27 30 57 133 12 2 2 4 24
2005–06 Philadelphia Phantoms AHL 4 0 0 0 0
2005–06 Rochester Americans AHL 2 0 1 1 0
2006–07 Bridgeport Sound Tigers AHL 29 2 3 5 22
2006–07 Toledo Storm ECHL 44 14 14 28 64 1 0 0 0 0
2007–08 SC Riessersee GER.2 50 26 24 50 135 7 1 2 3 31
2008–09 Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg DEL 52 29 28 57 64 9 3 1 4 33
2009–10 Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg DEL 55 28 13 41 76 7 3 3 6 4
2010–11 Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg DEL 41 21 15 36 64 9 10 2 12 26
2011–12 Adler Mannheim DEL 50 19 21 40 75 14 8 9 17 8
2012–13 Adler Mannheim DEL 26 11 4 15 24 6 1 0 1 2
2013–14 Adler Mannheim DEL 25 2 7 9 26 5 0 1 1 0
2014–15 Löwen Frankfurt DEL2 17 9 8 17 14
2014–15 Vienna Capitals AUT 10 2 2 4 4 15 3 5 8 11
2015–16 Lausitzer Füchse DEL2 23 10 8 18 34
ECHL totals 181 62 72 134 304 13 2 2 4 24
DEL totals 249 110 88 198 329 50 25 16 41 73

References

edit
  1. ^ "Devils AHL prospects update". hockey's future. 2005-02-24. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
  2. ^ "Q and A with Ken Magowan". hockey's future. 2005-01-09. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
  3. ^ "Storms Magowan an all-star". The Blade. 2007-01-12. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
  4. ^ "Storms Magowan, Jackson called to next level". The Blade. 2005-11-15. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
  5. ^ "Toledo storm in hole, gets help". The Blade. 2007-04-18. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
  6. ^ "Capitals sign Viper alumni Magowan". viperdiehardfan blog. 2015-02-09. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
edit