Marcel Kars
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Marcel Kars is a Dutch
/Canadian
professional ice hockey
player, currently playing for the Tilburg Trappers in the Eredivisie.
of the Ontario Hockey League
before going on to play four years of collegiate hockey for the University of Guelph
.
and then the Amsterdam Bulldogs There he won 6 trophies, 3 beker cups and 3 lands championships. Kars scored both goals in the championship game as the Bulldogs beat the Tilburg Trappers 2-1 in the final game of the playoffs.
Kars spent the summer joining the North Stars in Australia in 2006 for their summer campaign. On August 6, 2006, while playing for the Newcastle North Stars
, Kars lit up the Canberra Knights
for 12 points (8 goals, 4 assists) in a 21-2 victory in Newcastle
. There they won the championship. Kars was the leagues leading scorer.
Kars then went on to play one year in Italy for Bolzano in the A2 league. He then returned to play in his home country for Amsterdam again before leaving to finish the year in Deegendorf in the Oberliga in Germany.
Netherland
Netherland is a critically acclaimed novel by Joseph O'Neill. It concerns the life of a Dutchman living in New York in the wake of the September 11 attacks who takes up cricket and starts playing at the Staten Island Cricket Club.-Plot summary:...
/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...
professional 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...
player, currently playing for the Tilburg Trappers in the Eredivisie.
Early career
He spent one year with the Barrie ColtsBarrie Colts
The Barrie Colts are a junior ice hockey team in Ontario Hockey League, based in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. There were two previous Barrie Colts team which played Junior A & B hockey in the Ontario Hockey Association, one from 1907 until 1910 and another from the 1920s to 1940s.-Original Colts:The...
of the Ontario Hockey League
Ontario Hockey League
The Ontario Hockey League is one of the three Major Junior ice hockey leagues which constitute the Canadian Hockey League. The league is for players aged 15-20.The OHL also operates under the Ontario Hockey Federation of Hockey Canada....
before going on to play four years of collegiate hockey for the University of Guelph
University of Guelph
The University of Guelph, also known as U of G, is a comprehensive public research university in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. It was established in 1964 after the amalgamation of Ontario Agricultural College, the Macdonald Institute, and the Ontario Veterinary College...
.
Professional career
Kars spent four seasons (2002-03 through to 2005-06) in the Netherlands, the country of his ancestry, playing first for the Amstel TijgersAmstel Tijgers
IJshockeyvereniging Amstel Tijgers is an amateur ice hockey team in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, playing in the Dutch Eerste Divisie . It once consisted of an amateur and a pro-section, which were separate legal entities. The amateur team currently plays at the Jaap Eden baan...
and then the Amsterdam Bulldogs There he won 6 trophies, 3 beker cups and 3 lands championships. Kars scored both goals in the championship game as the Bulldogs beat the Tilburg Trappers 2-1 in the final game of the playoffs.
Kars spent the summer joining the North Stars in Australia in 2006 for their summer campaign. On August 6, 2006, while playing for the Newcastle North Stars
Newcastle North Stars
The Newcastle North Stars are a semi-professional ice hockey team in the Australian Ice Hockey League. The team plays its home games at the Hunter Ice Skating Stadium in Warners Bay, a suburb of Lake Macquarie located about 15 kilometres south-west of Newcastle, New South Wales.The North Stars...
, Kars lit up the Canberra Knights
Canberra Knights
The Canberra Knights are a semi-professional ice hockey team in the Australian Ice Hockey League. The team plays its home games at the Phillip Swimming & Ice Skating Centre in Phillip, a suburb of Australia's capital city, Canberra....
for 12 points (8 goals, 4 assists) in a 21-2 victory in Newcastle
Newcastle, New South Wales
The Newcastle metropolitan area is the second most populated area in the Australian state of New South Wales and includes most of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie Local Government Areas...
. There they won the championship. Kars was the leagues leading scorer.
Kars then went on to play one year in Italy for Bolzano in the A2 league. He then returned to play in his home country for Amsterdam again before leaving to finish the year in Deegendorf in the Oberliga in Germany.