Chris Kelland

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Chris Kelland
Born (1957-12-22) December 22, 1957 (age 65)
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
Height 5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Weight 180 lb (82 kg; 12 st 12 lb)
Position Defence
Played for Murrayfield Racers
Nottingham Panthers
Sheffield Steelers
Solihull Blaze
Hull Thunder
Coventry Blaze
National teamFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Playing career 19802001

Chris Kelland (born December 22, 1957) is a Canadian retired ice hockey defender who played his entire professional career in the United Kingdom. He also played for the Great Britain national team between 1991 and 1994. He was inducted into the British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 2002.

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Kelland was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. After retiring from ice hockey, he joined the South Yorkshire fire service as crew manager at Mansfield Road Fire Station and appeared on TV series Total Emergency

Awards and honours

Career statistics

Club

   Regular season [4] [5]   Playoffs [5]
Season TeamLeagueGP G A Pts PIM GPGAPtsPIM
1980–81 Murrayfield Racers Northern / SNL 2011152673
1981–82Murrayfield RacersNorthern / SNL19221537102
1982–83Murrayfield Racers BHL 1 242623499521019
1983–84Murrayfield Racers BHL Prem 2012263858524658
1984–85Murrayfield RacersBHL Prem32183452145636923
1985–86Murrayfield RacersBHL Prem3533589113963698
1986–87Murrayfield RacersBHL Prem3518931111076591414
1987–88Murrayfield RacersBHL Prem3128659311157101715
1988–89Murrayfield RacersBHL Prem3530781087831124
1989–90Murrayfield RacersBHL Prem239233230623510
1990–91Murrayfield RacersBHL Prem36102939112
1991–92 Nottingham Panthers BHL Prem36103848118803314
1992–93Nottingham PanthersBHL Prem2711425342
1993–94 Sheffield Steelers BHL Prem4274148127817824
1994–95Sheffield SteelersBHL Prem441454689085498
1995–96Sheffield SteelersBHL Prem35823315182356
1996–97 Sheffield Steelers ISL 422792080002
1997–98 Sheffield SteelersISL250441080116
1998–99 Solihull Blaze ENIHL 2110354528
1999–00 Hull Thunder BNL 604410603322
2000–01 Coventry Blaze BNL50112

International

  Tournament [5]
YearTeamEventGPGAPtsPIM
1991 Great Britain World Championships Pool C 732522
1992Great BritainWorld Championships Pool C51454
1993Great Britain World Championships Pool B 50004
1994Great Britain World Championships Pool A 60008

Footnotes

  1. "All Star Team". Ice Hockey Journalists UK. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 20 November 2007.
  2. "World Championship Best Defenceman Award Winners". A to Z Encyclopaedia of Ice Hockey. Retrieved 20 November 2007.
  3. "Capitals gearing up for Kelland's shirt retirement". Edinburgh Capitals. 12 December 2007. Retrieved 17 December 2007.
  4. "Chris Kelland's profile at hockeydb.com". The Internet Hockey Database. Retrieved 20 November 2007.
  5. 1 2 3 "Chris Kelland - player profile and career stats". European Hockey.Net. Retrieved 20 November 2007.

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