Chris Kelland is a retired Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 ice hockey

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...

 defender

Defenceman (ice hockey)

Defence in ice hockey is a player position whose primary responsibility is to prevent the opposing team from scoring...

 who played his entire professional career in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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. He also played for the Great Britain national team between 1991 and 1994. He was inducted into the British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 2002. After retiring from ice hockey, he joined the South Yorkshire fire service as crew manager at Mansfield Road Fire Station and appeared on TV series Total Emergency

Awards and honours

• Named to the All-star First Team in 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1986–87 and 1987–88.
• Named World Championships Pool C Group A Best Defenceman in 1992.
• Inducted to the British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 2002.
• Number 21 shirt retired by Edinburgh Capitals
  Edinburgh Capitals
  The Edinburgh Capitals are a Scottish ice hockey club, playing in the UK-wide Elite Ice Hockey League.They are based in the Scottish capital, Edinburgh...
  
   on 15 December 2007.

Club

				Regular season						Playoffs
Season Season (sports) In an organized sports league, a season is the portion of one year in which regulated games of the sport are in session. For example, in Major League Baseball, one season lasts approximately from April 1 through October 1; in Association football, it is generally from August until May In an...	Team	League		GP	G Goal (ice hockey) In ice hockey, a goal is scored when the puck completely crosses the goal line between the two goal posts and below the goal crossbar. A goal awards one point to the team attacking the goal scored upon, regardless of which team the player who actually deflected the puck into the goal belongs to...	A Assist (ice hockey) In ice hockey, an assist is attributed to up to two players of the scoring team who shot, passed or deflected the puck towards the scoring teammate, or touched it in any other way which enabled the goal, meaning that they were "assisting" in the goal. There can be a maximum of two assists per goal...	Pts Point (ice hockey) Point in ice hockey has three official meanings:* A point is awarded to a player for each goal scored or assist earned. The total number of goals plus assists equals total points. In some European leagues, a goal counts as two points, and an assist counts as one...	PIM Penalty (ice hockey) A penalty in ice hockey is a punishment for inappropriate behavior. Most penalties are enforced by detaining the offending player within a penalty box for a set number of minutes, during which, the player can not participate in play. The offending team usually may not replace the player on the ice,...		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1980–81	Murrayfield Racers Murrayfield Racers The Murrayfield Racers were an ice hockey team in Edinburgh, Scotland, founded in 1952 changing their name to the Racers in 1966. The team won the British Championship 4 times in 1969, 1970, 1971 and 1972...	Northern Northern League (ice hockey, 1967) The Northern League was the top-flight ice hockey league in Scotland and initially northern England, from 1966. In 1982 it merged with the Inter-City League and the English League North to form the British Hockey League....  / SNL Scottish National League The Scottish National League is the ice hockey league in Scotland.Seen as the third-tier of ice hockey, below the British Elite Ice Hockey League and the English Premier Ice Hockey League . However, its standard of play has been considered closer to the English National Ice Hockey Division One,...		20	11	15	26	73
1981–82	Murrayfield Racers	Northern / SNL		19	22	15	37	102
1982–83	Murrayfield Racers	BHL 1 British Hockey League The British Hockey League was the top-flight ice hockey league in the United Kingdom from 1982 until 1996, when it was replaced by the Ice Hockey Superleague and the British National League...		24	26	23	49	95		2	1	0	1	9
1983–84	Murrayfield Racers	BHL Prem British Hockey League The British Hockey League was the top-flight ice hockey league in the United Kingdom from 1982 until 1996, when it was replaced by the Ice Hockey Superleague and the British National League...		20	12	26	38	58		5	2	4	6	58
1984–85	Murrayfield Racers	BHL Prem		32	18	34	52	145		6	3	6	9	23
1985–86	Murrayfield Racers	BHL Prem		35	33	58	91	139		6	3	6	9	8
1986–87	Murrayfield Racers	BHL Prem		35	18	93	111	107		6	5	9	14	14
1987–88	Murrayfield Racers	BHL Prem		31	28	65	93	111		5	7	10	17	15
1988–89	Murrayfield Racers	BHL Prem		35	30	78	108	78		3	1	1	2	4
1989–90	Murrayfield Racers	BHL Prem		23	9	23	32	30		6	2	3	5	10
1990–91	Murrayfield Racers	BHL Prem		36	10	29	39	112
1991–92	Nottingham Panthers Nottingham Panthers The Nottingham Panthers are a British professional ice hockey club based in Nottingham, England. They are members of the Elite Ice Hockey League...	BHL Prem		36	10	38	48	118		8	0	3	3	14
1992–93	Nottingham Panthers	BHL Prem		27	11	42	53	42
1993–94	Sheffield Steelers Sheffield Steelers The Sheffield Steelers are a British ice hockey club, from Sheffield, England. They were formed in 1991 and play their home games at the Sheffield Arena. They are currently members of the Elite Ice Hockey League...	BHL Prem		42	7	41	48	127		8	1	7	8	24
1994–95	Sheffield Steelers	BHL Prem		44	14	54	68	90		8	5	4	9	8
1995–96	Sheffield Steelers	BHL Prem		35	8	23	31	51		8	2	3	5	6
1996–97 1996–97 ISL season The 1996–97 Ice Hockey Superleague season was the inaugrual season of the Ice Hockey Superleague .The league was formed by the owners of the Ayr Scottish Eagles, Basingstoke Bison, Bracknell Bees, Cardiff Devils, Manchester Storm, Newcastle Cobras, Nottingham Panthers and Sheffield Steelers...	Sheffield Steelers	ISL Ice Hockey Superleague The Ice Hockey Superleague was a professional ice hockey league in the United Kingdom between 1996 and 2003. Formed in 1995, it replaced the Premier Division of the British Hockey League, it was the highest level of ice hockey competition in the United Kingdom...		42	2	7	9	20		8	0	0	0	2
1997–98 1997–98 ISL season The 1997–98 Ice Hockey Superleague season was the second season of the Ice Hockey Superleague .There were no changes in the teams taking part during the season – Ayr Scottish Eagles, Basingstoke Bison, Bracknell Bees, Cardiff Devils, Manchester Storm, Newcastle Cobras, Nottingham Panthers and...	Sheffield Steelers	ISL		25	0	4	4	10		8	0	1	1	6
1998–99	Solihull Blaze Coventry Blaze Coventry Blaze are an ice hockey team based in Coventry, England. They currently compete in the British Elite Ice Hockey League .-Club history:...	ENIHL English National Ice Hockey League The English National Ice Hockey League is an amateur ice hockey league below the English Premier Ice Hockey League which is administered by the English Ice Hockey Association. It is split into two conferences, north and south...		21	10	35	45	28
1999–00	Hull Thunder Hull Thunder The Hull Thunder were a British ice hockey club from Kingston upon Hull, England. Formed in 1999, they competed in the now defunct British National League playing their home games at Humberside Ice Arena ....	BNL British National League The British National League is a defunct second-level professional ice hockey league in the United Kingdom. Although no formal promotion and relegation existed during its period of existence, it was considered to have a standard below that of the Ice Hockey Superleague and above that of the...		6	0	4	4	10		6	0	3	3	22
2000–01	Coventry Blaze Coventry Blaze Coventry Blaze are an ice hockey team based in Coventry, England. They currently compete in the British Elite Ice Hockey League .-Club history:...	BNL		5	0	1	1	2

International

				Tournament
Year	Team	Event		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1991	Great Britain	World Championships Pool C		7	3	2	5	22
1992	Great Britain	World Championships Pool C		5	1	4	5	4
1993	Great Britain	World Championships Pool B		5	0	0	0	4
1994	Great Britain	World Championships Pool A Ice Hockey World Championships The Ice Hockey World Championships are an annual ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation . First officially held at the 1920 Summer Olympics, it is the sport's highest profile annual international tournament. The IIHF was created in 1908 while the European...		6	0	0	0	8

External links

• A to Z Encyclopaedia of Ice Hockey entry
• British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame entry