Chad Erickson
Encyclopedia
Chad Carlyle Erickson is a retired ice hockey
goaltender
who played two games in the National Hockey League
, both for the New Jersey Devils
in 1991–92. He won one game, lost the other and had a 4.50 goals against average
. He never returned to the NHL, but played for numerous minor league teams between 1991 and 2000. He was a Western Collegiate Hockey Association
Second-Team All-Star and National Collegiate Athletic Association
West First All-American team selection in 1990 while playing for the University of Minnesota-Duluth.
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
goaltender
Goaltender
In ice hockey, the goaltender is the player who defends his team's goal net by stopping shots of the puck from entering his team's net, thus preventing the opposing team from scoring...
who played two games in the National Hockey League
National Hockey League
The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...
, both for the New Jersey Devils
New Jersey Devils
The New Jersey Devils are a professional ice hockey team based in Newark, New Jersey, United States. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
in 1991–92. He won one game, lost the other and had a 4.50 goals against average
Goals against average
Goals Against Average is a statistic used in ice hockey, water polo, lacrosse, and soccer that is the mean of goals allowed per game by a goaltender....
. He never returned to the NHL, but played for numerous minor league teams between 1991 and 2000. He was a Western Collegiate Hockey Association
Western Collegiate Hockey Association
The Western Collegiate Hockey Association is a college athletic conference which operates over a wide area of the Midwestern and Western United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as an ice hockey-only conference....
Second-Team All-Star and National Collegiate Athletic Association
National Collegiate Athletic Association
The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...
West First All-American team selection in 1990 while playing for the University of Minnesota-Duluth.