Warren Norris
Born (1974-09-19) 19 September 1974
St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Height 6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight 185 lb (84 kg; 13 st 3 lb)
Position Centre
Shot Left
Played for St. John's Maple Leafs
Grand Rapids Griffins
Michigan K-Wings
Sheffield Steelers
Slovan Bratislava
Graz 99ers
Lugano
KAC
NHL Draft Undrafted
Playing career 19962011

Warren Norris (born 19 September 1974) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who last played for EC KAC in the Austrian Hockey League. He has previously played in the American Hockey League (AHL) and the International Hockey League (IHL) in North America and in the British Ice Hockey Superleague, the Slovak Extraliga and the Swiss Nationalliga A. He has also played two seasons with the touring Canadian national ice hockey team.

Playing career

Whilst playing for the UMass Minutemen at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1996–97, Norris signed with the St. John's Maple Leafs of the AHL as a free agent. He also played for St. John's the following season, 1997–98, before he joined the Grand Rapids Griffins in the IHL for the 1998–99 and 1999–00 seasons. However, Norris only played a handful of games for Grand Rapids as he spent the majority of those seasons with the Canadian touring team for whom he made 78 appearances.

In 2000, Norris went to the United Kingdom where he joined the Sheffield Steelers for the 2000–01 ISL season. During this season, Norris helped Sheffield win a Grand Slam of all available trophies when they won the Benson & Hedges Cup, the Challenge Cup, the league championship and the playoffs. The following season, 2001–02, Norris joined Slovan Bratislava in the Slovak Extraliga before rejoining Sheffield for the 2002–03 season. During his second spell with Sheffield, Norris again helped them to win the Challenge Cup and the league championship.

Norris signed for the Graz 99ers in the Austrian Hockey League for the 2003–04 season. Playing for Graz for three seasons, he was the club's top point scorer in the 2003–04 and 2004–05 seasons and the club's and the league's top goal scorer in 2004–05. Norris finished the 2005–06 season playing one game for Lugano in the Swiss Nationalliga A playoffs before he returned to the Austrian Hockey League to play for the EC KAC in 2006–07. After three years with EC KAC, Norris signed with League rival Graz 99ers on 23 April 2009 for the 2009–10 season.

Personal life

Norris is the younger brother of the former National Hockey League player Dwayne Norris and the uncle of Ottawa Senators forward Josh Norris.

Records

Career statistics

    Regular season   Playoffs
SeasonTeamLeagueGPGAPtsPIMGPGAPtsPIM
1993–94UMass AmherstNCAA2920274612
1994–95UMass AmherstNCAA351382134
1995–96UMass AmherstNCAA3320204064
1996–97UMass AmherstNCAA3520264648
1996–97St. John's Maple LeafsAHL91014
1997–98St John's Maple LeafsAHL352244
1998–99Grand Rapids GriffinsIHL40000
1999–00Grand Rapids GriffinsIHL30000
1999–00Michigan K-WingsIHL81230
2000–01Sheffield SteelersISL481113248581564
2001–02Slovan BratislavaSlovak Extraliga4661218141623512
2002–03Sheffield SteelersISL32111324321325712
2003–04Graz 99ersAustrian48223254103301112
2004–05Graz 99ersAustrian4440276760
2005–06Graz 99ersAustrian3114173146
2005–06LuganoNationalliga A10000
2006–07KACAustrian4915274289
2007–08KACAustrian4924265083
2008–09KACAustrian5114203422

International play

Played for Canada in:

  • 1998–99 touring team
  • 1999–00 touring team

International statistics

YearTeamCompGPGAPtsPIM
1998–99CanadaInt'l4813213438
1999–00CanadaInt'l25316198
Totals7316375346

References

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