Steve Carpenter (born March 30, 1971, in
Prince George,
British Columbia) is a
Canadian retired professional
ice hockey defenceman. Between 1995 and 1997 he played in the
ECHL and the
West Coast Hockey League before moving to the
United Kingdom, where he played until he retired from ice hockey in 2005.
Playing career
Carpenter attended
Northern Michigan University between 1990 and 1994. Whilst there he played for the ice hockey team, the Wildcats, and was honoured by both the league and the team.
[ After university, Carpenter joined the Richmond Renegades in the ECHL for the 1995–96 season. The following season he went to the United Kingdom where he joined the ]Solihull Blaze
Coventry Blaze are an ice hockey team based in Coventry, England. They currently compete in the British Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL) and play their home games at SkyDome Arena. The club was founded in 1965 as the ''Solihull Barons'' and rena ...
in the British National League (BNL), before he returned to the United States to finish the season with the Fresno Falcons in the West Coast Hockey League.
For the 1997–98 season Carpenter returned to the United Kingdom to join the Nottingham Panthers in the Ice Hockey Superleague
The British Ice Hockey Superleague (BISL, also known as the Sekonda Ice Hockey Superleague from 1998 to 1999 for sponsorship reasons) was a professional ice hockey league in the United Kingdom between 1996 and 2003. Devised in 1995, it replaced ...
(ISL). He stayed with the Panthers for the next three seasons helping them to win the Benson & Hedges Cup
The Benson & Hedges Cup was a one-day cricket competition for first-class counties in England and Wales that was held from 1972 to 2002, one of cricket's longest sponsorship deals.
It was the third major one-day competition established in Englan ...
in 1998 and to get to three other major trophy finals. For the 2000–01 season he joined the Panthers rivals, the Sheffield Steelers, who he helped to win the Grand Slam of all four major competitions that season.
He joined the Coventry Blaze in the second tier BNL in 2001–02. In the 2002–03 season he helped them to win the league and the playoffs and was himself named to the BNL All Star First Team. Coventry joined the new first tier Elite Ice Hockey League
The Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL), sometimes referred to as the British Elite League or, for sponsorship reasons, the Viaplay Elite League, is an ice hockey league in the United Kingdom. Formed in 2003 following the demise of the Ice Hockey ...
for 2003–04 season where Carpenter played. He then joined the Milton Keynes Lightning in the second tier English Premier Ice Hockey League
The English Premier Ice Hockey League (EPIHL) was an ice hockey league of 10 teams, all of which were based in England. Headquartered in Blackpool, the EPIHL was one of two professional ice hockey leagues in the United Kingdom (the other being th ...
for the 2004–05 season and helped them to win the league and playoffs before he retired from playing in May 2005.
Awards and honours
*Named to the Western Collegiate Hockey Association 2nd All-League Team in 1994.[
*Awarded the Northern Michigan University Tom Laidlaw Best defenceman Award in 1992, 1993 and 1994.]
Career statistics
Club
Footnotes
References
European Hockey.NetIce Hockey Journalists UKThe Internet Hockey DatabaseNorthern Michigan University Sports
External links
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1971 births
Living people
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Coventry Blaze players
Fresno Falcons players
Ice hockey people from British Columbia
Milton Keynes Lightning players
Northern Michigan University alumni
Nottingham Panthers players
Richmond Renegades players
Sheffield Steelers players
Solihull Blaze players
Sportspeople from Prince George, British Columbia
San Jose Rhinos players
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in England
NCAA men's ice hockey national champions
Canadian inline hockey players