Jeff MacMillan

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Position Defence
Shoots Left
Nickname(s) Big Mac
Height
Weight		 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
210 lb (95 kg/14 st 0 lb)
EIHL Team
F. teams		 Manchester Phoenix
Dallas Stars
Nationality Flag of Canada Canada
Born March 30, 1979 (1979-03-30) (age 29),
Durham, ON, CAN
NHL Draft 215th overall, 1999
Dallas Stars
Pro career 1999 – present

Jeff MacMillan (born March 30, 1979 in Durham, Ontario) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player, currently playing for the Manchester Phoenix in the EIHL. MacMillan began his career in 1996, icing for the junior team the Oshawa Generals in the OHL. MacMillan stayed with the Generals for three years, making almost 170 appearances in that time. His solid defensive play combined with a reasonable offensive output for a defenceman meant that in the 1999 NHL entry draft, MacMillan was drafted in the seventh round by the Dallas Stars.

MacMillan was sent to play for the Fort Wayne Komets in the UHL, where he played just seven games before being moved to the Michigan K-Wings, a Dallas Stars affiliate team playing in the IHL. In the K-Wings' last season as a Stars affiliate, MacMillan featured in 53 games.

Due to the Stars ending their association with the K-Wings, MacMillan was then farmed to the Utah Grizzlies again in the IHL. He would stay in Salt Lake City for the next four seasons, and remained playing for the Grizzlies when they changed league to play at the higher AHL standard. MacMillan was a cornerstone of the Grizzlies team, and featured in over 300 games during his stay there.

MacMillan's hard work and natural defensive qualities meant that during the 2003/04 season he also featured for the Dallas Stars themselves, and played four regular season NHL games. The following season, MacMillan was again relegated back down to the AHL, this time playing for the Hartford Wolf Pack. In his one season playing for Hartford he was again a key player, playing 71 times and clocking up 136 penalty minutes. MacMillan would play one more season in the AHL in 2005/06, for the Syracuse Crunch.

For the 2006/07 season, MacMillan decided to play in Europe and signed for the Vienna Capitals in the Austrian national league, but did not stay for the whole season, signing for the Phoenix Roadrunners of the ECHL back in North America, where he also featured in the ECHL playoffs.

MacMillan again decided to play in Europe the following year, and in the summer of 2007, agreed to sign for the Manchester Phoenix, a team playing in the EIHL, the top tier of British club ice hockey, where he has also been appointed alternate captain by player/coach Tony Hand.


[edit] Career Stats

    Regular season   Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1996-97 Oshawa Generals OHL 39 0 4 4 15 15 0 0 0 4
1997-98 Oshawa Generals OHL 64 3 12 15 72 7 0 3 3 11
1998-99 Oshawa Generals OHL 65 3 18 21 109 15 3 6 9 28
1999-00 Michigan K-Wings UHL 53 0 3 3 54 - - - - -
1999-00 Fort Wayne Komets UHL 7 1 1 2 25 9 0 2 2 10
2000-01 Utah Grizzlies IHL 81 5 15 20 105 - - - - -
2001-02 Utah Grizzlies AHL 77 6 9 15 146 5 1 0 1 17
2002-03 Utah Grizzlies AHL 78 7 8 15 132 2 0 0 0 6
2003-04 Utah Grizzlies AHL 73 4 6 10 108 - - - - -
2003-04 Dallas Stars NHL 4 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2004-05 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 71 2 5 7 136 6 0 0 0 4
2005-06 Syracuse Crunch AHL 78 1 9 10 143 5 0 0 0 23
2006-07 Vienna Capitals AuHL 31 3 7 10 103 - - - - -
2006-07 Phoenix Roadrunners ECHL 26 1 5 6 53 4 1 0 1 2
2007-08 Manchester Phoenix EIHL 56 5 11 16 75 2
Career Totals 803 41 113 154 1276 70 5 11 16 105
  • League games only, correct to 13/06/08

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