Craig Mills

Craig Mills
Born	(1976-08-27) August 27, 1976 (age 47) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Height	6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Weight	198 lb (90 kg; 14 st 2 lb)
Position	Right wing
Shot	Right
Played for	Winnipeg Jets Chicago Blackhawks Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Brûleurs de Loups
NHL draft	108th overall, 1994 Winnipeg Jets
Playing career	1996–2006

Craig Mills (born August 27, 1976) is a Canadian former ice hockey winger who played for the Winnipeg Jets and Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League between 1996 and 1999. He is the son of Ontario politician Dennis Mills, and was born in Toronto, Ontario. ^{[ citation needed ]}

Playing career

As a youth, Mills played in the 1990 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from North York. ^[1]

Mills was the recipient of the OHL Humanitarian of the Year and the CHL Humanitarian of the Year Award in 1996.^{[ citation needed ]} He was also part of Canada's gold medal-winning hockey team in the 1996 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.^{[ citation needed ]} He captained the Belleville Bulls of the OHL from 1994 to 1996.^{[ citation needed ]}

Mills was drafted 108th overall by the Jets in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft. ^{[ citation needed ]} He played 31 career NHL games, with zero goals and five assists. On August 16, 1996, Mills was traded by the Phoenix Coyotes with Alexei Zhamnov and a first-round draft choice (Ty Jones) to the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for Jeremy Roenick. ^{[ citation needed ]} On June 12, 2001, Mills was traded by the Phoenix Coyotes again with Robert Reichel and Travis Green to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for Daniil Markov. ^{[ citation needed ]}

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

				Regular season						Playoffs
Season	Team	League		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1992–93	St. Michael's Buzzers	MetJAHL		44	9	21	30	42		15	1	6	7	8
1993–94	Belleville Bulls	OHL		63	15	18	33	88		12	2	1	3	11
1994–95	Belleville Bulls	OHL		62	39	41	80	104		13	7	9	16	8
1995–96	Belleville Bulls	OHL		48	10	19	29	113		14	4	5	9	32
1995–96	Springfield Falcons	AHL		—	—	—	—	—		2	0	0	0	0
1995–96	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		4	0	2	2	0		1	0	0	0	0
1996–97	Indianapolis Ice	IHL		80	12	7	19	199		4	0	0	0	4
1997–98	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		20	0	3	3	34		—	—	—	—	—
1997–98	Indianapolis Ice	IHL		42	8	11	19	119		5	0	0	0	27
1998–99	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		7	0	0	0	2		—	—	—	—	—
1998–99	Portland Pirates	AHL		48	7	11	18	59		—	—	—	—	—
1998–99	Indianapolis Ice	IHL		12	2	3	5	14		6	1	0	1	5
1999–00	Springfield Falcons	AHL		78	10	13	23	151		5	2	1	3	6
2000–01	Springfield Falcons	AHL		64	8	5	13	131		—	—	—	—	—
2001–02	St. John's Maple Leafs	AHL		74	10	21	31	137		11	3	3	6	22
2002–03	St. John's Maple Leafs	AHL		65	10	16	26	121		—	—	—	—	—
2004–05	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	RSL		1	0	0	0	12		—	—	—	—	—
2004–05	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl-2	RUS-3		2	0	1	1	4		—	—	—	—	—
2002–03	Nybro Vikings	SWE-2		22	6	4	10	45		—	—	—	—	—
2005–06	Brûleurs de Loups	FRA		25	9	8	17	67		7	3	0	3	10
AHL totals				329	45	66	111	599		18	5	4	9	28
NHL totals				31	0	5	5	36		1	0	0	0	0

International

Year	Team	Event		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1996	Canada	WJC		6	0	0	0	4
Junior totals				6	0	0	0	4

References

1. "Pee-Wee players who have reached NHL or WHA" (PDF). Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament. 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 6, 2019. Retrieved January 31, 2019.

External links

• Biographical information and career statistics from NHL.com , or  Eliteprospects.com , or  Eurohockey.com , or  Hockey-Reference.com , or  The Internet Hockey Database