Nathan Robinson
Robinson with the Espoo Blues during the 2010-11 season.
Born (1981-12-31) December 31, 1981
Amherstview, Ontario, Canada
Height 5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
Weight 181 lb (82 kg; 12 st 13 lb)
Position Left wing
Shot Left
Played for Detroit Red Wings
Boston Bruins
Adler Mannheim
Eisbären Berlin
Espoo Blues
Vienna Capitals
Kölner Haie
Nottingham Panthers
Belfast Giants
NHL Draft Undrafted
Playing career 20022020

Nathan Robinson (born December 31, 1981) is a Canadian former ice hockey forward. He played 7 games in the National Hockey League with the Detroit Red Wings and Boston Bruins between 2003 and 2006. The rest of his career, which lasted from 2002 to 2020, was primarily spent in Europe.

Playing career

Robinson with the Providence Bruins in 2005

Robinson played major junior hockey with the Belleville Bulls of the Ontario Hockey League, where he won the OHL scoring title in the 2001-02 season. He was passed over in the NHL Entry Draft but signed with the Detroit Red Wings as a free agent on October 15, 2002. He made his NHL debut with the Red Wings during the 2003–04 NHL season, playing five games in all, going scoreless. After three years within the Red Wings organization on August 15, 2005, he signed with the Boston Bruins and over the course of the 2005–06 season played two more games in the NHL but again went pointless receiving very little playing time to prove his potential.

In 2006, he left for Europe signing with Adler Mannheim in Germany and then moved to Eisbären Berlin the next season becoming an elite player in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. Prior to the 2009–10 season he signed a two-year contract to return with Adler Mannheim.[1] In his first season in his return to Mannheim, Robinson helped the Eagles become DEL Champions, marking his third successive DEL Championship.

During the 2010–11 season, in his final year of his deal with Mannheim, Robinson struggled to maintain his previous form and was subsequently released to join eventual silver medalists Espoo Blues of the Finnish SM-liiga, for the remainder of the season finishing on January 27, 2011.[2] In September 2011, he signed a contract with the Vienna Capitals of the Austrian Hockey League.

On September 5, 2012, he signed a one-year contract as a free agent in Germany with the Kölner Haie of the DEL.

On July 28, 2014, Robinson was announced as signing a short term deal with the Nottingham Panthers of the UK's EIHL who, for the first time in their history, are to compete in the Champions Hockey League in 2014/15. He had to leave the club in November 2014 as his work permit expired.[3] Robinson then signed with the Belfast Giants of the EIHL.[4]

Following the 2014-15 season, Robinson signed with HC Slavia Praha of the 1st Czech Republic Hockey League, a second level ice hockey league in the Czech Republic. For the 2016-17 season, Robinson signed with Shakhtyor Soligorsk of the Belarusian Extraliga, and later signed with EHC Bayreuth in the DEL2. Despite originally signing with HC 07 Detva in the Slovak Extraliga,[5] Robinson switched to the Saale Bulls Halle in the German league Oberliga for the 2017-18 season after playing 4 games.[6][7]

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GPGAPtsPIM GPGAPtsPIM
1997–98 Kingston Voyageurs OPJHL 4614253955
1998–99 Belleville Bulls OHL 501181923 2144814
1998–99 Belleville Bulls M-Cup 40000
1999–00 Belleville Bulls OHL 6119183745 1534710
2000–01 Belleville Bulls OHL 6632376957 10610167
2001–02 Belleville Bulls OHL 67476311074 11861410
2002–03 Toledo Storm ECHL 9591429
2002–03 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 533141724 80330
2003–04 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 6924265041 30002
2003–04 Detroit Red Wings NHL 50002
2004–05 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 508162410
2004–05 Syracuse Crunch AHL 196142018
2005–06 Providence Bruins AHL 7029316055 64592
2005–06 Boston Bruins NHL 20000
2006–07 Adler Mannheim DEL 5015294434 11471126
2007–08 Eisbären Berlin DEL 5614405462 134111529
2008–09 Eisbären Berlin DEL 4814375192 12571224
2009–10 Adler Mannheim DEL 5410324250 20110
2010–11 Adler Mannheim DEL 32661228
2010–11 Blues SM-l 144592 51238
2011–12 Vienna Capitals EBEL 415192442 714511
2012–13 Kölner Haie DEL 5210223262 125496
2013–14 Kölner Haie DEL 394131732
2014–15 Nottingham Panthers EIHL 133111411
2014–15 Belfast Giants EIHL 103364 433610
2015–16 HC Slavia Praha CZE-2 5116304656 815610
2016–17 Shakhtyor Soligorsk BLR 17691521
2016–17 EHC Bayreuth DEL2 1256112 70226
2017–18 HC 07 Detva SVK 40222
2017–18 Saale Bulls Halle GER-3 2616163231 30224
2018–19 Saale Bulls Halle GER-3 2110132337
2019–20 EC Harzer Falken GER-4 61672 5510154
DEL totals 33173179252360 5018304885
NHL totals 70002

See also

References

  1. "Robinson to Mannheim". eishockeynews.de (in German). 16 April 2009. Archived from the original on 19 April 2009. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
  2. "Nathan Robinson to strengthen Blues attack". Espoo Blues. 27 January 2011. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
  3. "Nathan Robinson: Nottingham Panthers forward leaves club". bbc.com. 12 November 2014. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  4. McKinley, Stuart (10 February 2015). "Belfast Giants snap up ice hockey hotshot Nathan Robinson". belfasttelegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  5. "Naše mužstvo posilní Nathan Robinson!". hc07detva.net (in Slovak). 27 September 2017. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  6. "Dlho sa neohrial. Nathan Robinson ušiel z Detvy do Nemecka". huste.joj.sk (in Slovak). 10 October 2017. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  7. Von Christian, Elsaeßer (16 November 2017). "Der etwas andere Eishockey-Profi Wie Nathan Robinson in Halle landete" (in German). Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
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