Matthew Beveridge

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Matthew Beveridge
Born (1975-03-18) March 18, 1975 (age 48)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Height 5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Weight 174 lb (79 kg; 12 st 6 lb)
Position Forward
Shot right
Played for Newcastle Vipers
Manchester Phoenix
Playing career 19962007

Matthew Beveridge (born March 18, 1975) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player. Beveridge also used to coach for Lucas Miller's Hi-Performance Hockey in Brampton, Ontario.

Beveridge was born in Toronto, Ontario. Although drafted into the OHL by the Peterborough Petes, Beveridge's senior professional career was kick started with his move to the United Kingdom in 1996, where he played for the Whitley Warriors, a team once coached by Mike Babcock. At the British National League level, he scored 100 points in just 36 games.

This productivity saw him move to Germany for the 1997/1998 term, which he spent as an ESC Dorfen player in the German second division. Once again Beveridge scored points easily, with 68 in just 50 games. He returned to the U.K. the following season and played in the BNL, although this time with the Peterborough Pirates. His points ratio of greater than a point per game helped the Pirates into the post season. A further move within the BNL followed in the summer of 2000, this time to the Paisley Pirates. Beveridge's productivity continued, this time with 48 points in 34 games.

Despite this, the Pirates failed to make the post-season and so Beveridge left for the Invicta Dynamos of the recently founded EPL. Beveridge spent three seasons in Gillingham, scoring 252 points. This prompted a chance at the higher BNL level again, with Beveridge moving north to the former ISL team the Newcastle Vipers. Through the 2003/04 and 2004/05 seasons, Beveridge was again a leading scorer for the Vipers.

As one of the leading BNL teams, the Vipers were invited to join the newly formed EIHL in 2005/06. At this higher level, Beveridge scored 25 points in 44 games and was unable to match his previous scoring rate. This led to the Vipers releasing him in the summer of 2006. His signature was quickly snapped up by the Manchester Phoenix, icing in their debut season in the EIHL. Beveridge played just three games for the Phoenix however, before re-joining Newcastle mid-season.

He failed to settle however, despite scoring 5 points in the 9 games in which he featured and another mid-season move followed, this time to the Sheffield Scimitars, the EPL team of the Sheffield Steelers organisation. Beveridge made just one appearance before moving on again however, this time to the Bracknell Bees, where he totalled a remarkable 61 points in 24 games, a ratio of almost three points per game.

At the end of the 2006/07 season, Beveridge announced his retirement from the playing side of the sport, and returned home to Ontario, where he found work as a coach for an ice hockey school in Brampton.

Career stats

  Regular season Playoffs
SeasonTeamLeagueGPGAPtsPIMGPGAPtsPIM
1996-97 Whitley Warriors BNL 36435710016-----
1997-98ESC DorfenGer. 25031376832-----
1998-99 Peterborough Pirates BNL 30823311662352
1999-00 Paisley Pirates BNL 3414344812-----
2000-01 Invicta Dynamos EPL 3041478838-----
2001-02 Invicta Dynamos EPL 2625345910-----
2002-03 Invicta Dynamos EPL 38465910534-----
2003-04 Newcastle Vipers BNL 3618325032-----
2004-05 Newcastle Vipers BNL 3410304024-----
2005-06 Newcastle Vipers EIHL 4410152522-----
2006-07 Manchester Phoenix EIHL 30110-----
2006-07 Newcastle Vipers EIHL 941530-----
2006-07 Sheffield Scimitars EPL 10110-----
2006-07 Bracknell Bees EPL 2428336152-----
Career Totals39527840468231862352

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