Curtis Huppe

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Curtis Huppe
Born (1979-02-21) February 21, 1979 (age 44)
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Height 6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight 195 lb (88 kg; 13 st 13 lb)
Position Right Wing
Shot Right
Played for Muskegon Fury
Greenville Grrrowl
Greensboro Generals
Jackson Bandits
Arkansas RiverBlades
Cincinnati Cyclones
South Carolina Stingrays
Belfast Giants
Coventry Blaze
Corpus Christi IceRays
Hull Stingrays
Manchester Phoenix
Guildford Flames
Milton Keynes Lightning
Playing career 2000–2015

Curtis Huppe (born February 21, 1979) is a Canadian former ice hockey forward.

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Career

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Huppe began his junior career in the Western Hockey League for the Medicine Hat Tigers, Lethbridge Hurricanes and the Tri-City Americans. After a brief spell in the United Hockey League for the Muskegon Fury during their playoff run, Huppe spent the next four seasons in the East Coast Hockey League, where he played for Greenville Grrrowl, Greensboro Generals, Jackson Bandits, Arkansas RiverBlades, Cincinnati Cyclones and the South Carolina Stingrays. [1]

In 2004, Huppe joined the Belfast Giants and quickly became a huge fan favourite at the Odyssey Arena. He represented the Giants for three seasons, helping the side to the Elite League Championship in 2005/06 playing on the giants most successful line with Theo Fleury and Ed Courtenay.

Huppe finished his stint with the Belfast Giants in 2007. [2]

On June 12, 2007, he was announced as having signed for the Coventry Blaze.

On March 9, 2008, Coventry Blaze retained the Elite League Championship, with Huppe scoring the Championship winning goal against the Belfast Giants. Huppe finished the 2008 Elite League season with an impressive 74 points in 58 games, his most productive year to date.

On April 24, 2008, Huppe announced his retirement from Hockey, but was tempted out of retirement by former Coventry Blaze colleague Sylvain Cloutier in December 2008 and went on to play in the CHL for Corpus Christi Icerayz where he played for a couple of months. On April 29, 2009, Huppe signed a contract with the Hull Stingrays as player assistant coach, marking a return to the Elite League and re-uniting him with Cloutier who is now the Head-coach of the Stingrays. [3] it was at the end of this season Huppe decided not to remain with the club and gave his notice for the 2nd year of his 2-year contract and was then signed up by Manchester Phoenix in the English Premier League where he accumulated 61 goals and 54 assists and won another league championship.

On May 16, 2011, Huppe was announced as signing for Guildford Flames Ice Hockey Club who were 2010-11 English Premier League Playoff Winners. It was here Huppe won another league championship in the 11/12 season and again in the 12/13 season. Huppe finally parted ways with the Guildford Flames in November 2014 after returning from injury and signed for the rest of the season with his former team the Belfast Giants playing his first game against Braehead on 28 December 2014. On January 30, 2015, he was released from his contract by the Belfast Giants to return to Milton Keynes.

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
Season TeamLeagueGP G A Pts PIM GPGAPtsPIM
1995–96 Medicine Hat Tigers WHL 555382441010
1996–97 Medicine Hat TigersWHL68117187240000
1997–98 Medicine Hat TigersWHL26741130—————
1997–98 Lethbridge Hurricanes WHL37717243520000
1998–99 Lethbridge HurricanesWHL4833235634—————
1998–99 Tri-City Americans WHL18121022101242612
1999–00 Tri-City AmericansWHL17712192340112
1999–00 Muskegon Fury UHL —————113366
2000–01 Greenville Grrrowl ECHL 204592—————
2000–01 Greensboro Generals ECHL4718234123—————
2001–02 Jackson Bandits ECHL121122—————
2001–02 Arkansas RiverBlades ECHL101126—————
2001–02 Cincinnati Cyclones ECHL462016361431010
2002–03 South Carolina Stingrays ECHL722336596440112
2003–04 South Carolina StingraysECHL712727544472464
2004–05 Belfast Giants EIHL 281613292883258
2005–06 Belfast GiantsEIHL332120414476284
2006–07 Belfast GiantsEIHL4224285260—————
2007–08 Coventry Blaze EIHL463232643242134
2008–09 Corpus Christi IceRays CHL 28861416—————
2009–10 Hull Stingrays EIHL521923423620000
2010–11 Manchester Phoenix EPIHL 5459511105632352
2011–12 Guildford Flames EPIHL352925542021010
2012–13 Guildford FlamesEPIHL505031814244260
2013–14 Guildford FlamesEPIHL84374—————
2014–15 Guildford FlamesEPIHL54156—————
2014–15 Belfast GiantsEIHL20000—————
2014–15 Milton Keynes Lightning EPIHL164610033030
EIHL totals203112116228200211151616

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References

  1. ↑ Curtis Huppe by The WHL Official Website on http://www.whl.ca
  2. ↑ Giants-History.com » #39 Curtis Huppe, LW Archived 2008-08-21 at the Wayback Machine on http://www.giants-history.com Archived 2007-07-15 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Huppe coup for Stingrays [ permanent dead link ] on http://www.hullstingrays.co.uk Archived 2006-02-06 at the Wayback Machine
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