Mark Bell (ice hockey)
| Mark Bell | |||
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| Born |
August 5, 1980 St. Pauls Station, ON, CAN |
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| Height | 6 ft 3 in (191 cm) | ||
| Weight | 220 lb (100 kg; 15 st 10 lb) | ||
| Position | Left Wing | ||
| Shot | Left | ||
| Played for |
Chicago Blackhawks Trondheim Black Panthers San Jose Sharks Toronto Maple Leafs Kloten Flyers Anaheim Ducks Iserlohn Roosters Eisbären Berlin |
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| NHL Draft | 8th overall, 1998 Chicago Blackhawks |
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| Playing career | 2000–2016 | ||
Mark Bell (born August 5, 1980) is a Canadian ice hockey coach and a former professional ice hockey forward. Bell was selected by the Chicago Blackhawks in the first round (8th overall) of the 1998 NHL Entry Draft. In the NHL, Bell played for the Blackhawks, San Jose Sharks, Toronto Maple Leafs, and Anaheim Ducks. Later in his career, he played in Switzerland and Germany.
Bell started playing hockey at the age of four years, and grew up admiring Wayne Gretzky and Doug Gilmour. He played four seasons in the minor Ontario Hockey League with the Ottawa 67's, and was part of the Memorial Cup championship in 1998–99.
He was drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft as the eighth overall pick, and scored his first goal against Patrick Roy. Bell's time with Chicago was moderately successful, forming a partnership with Tyler Arnason and Kyle Calder.
Bell was a bronze medalist with Team Canada at the World Junior Hockey Championships in 2000.
In the summer of 2006, he was traded to the San Jose Sharks in a three-way deal involving Chicago and the Ottawa Senators Bell signed a US$6.5 million contract July 2006, which paid US$2 million for the first two years of the contract and US$2.5 million for the final year. He was initially placed on a line with Joe Thornton and Jonathan Cheechoo, however Bell never lived up to expectations and could not duplicate the numbers that he put up in Chicago, and so was demoted to the fourth line, often being a healthy scratch.
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