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Greg Mauldin
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Mauldin with the Lake Erie Monsters in 2012
Born (1982-06-10) June 10, 1982 (age 41)
Holliston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Height 5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Weight 195 lb (88 kg; 13 st 13 lb)
Position Forward
Shoots Right
NOR team
Former teams
Stavanger Oilers
Columbus Blue Jackets
New York Islanders
Colorado Avalanche
HC Fribourg-Gottéron
ERC Ingolstadt
KHL Medveščak Zagreb
NHL Draft 199th overall, 2002
Columbus Blue Jackets
Playing career 2004–2020, 2021–present

Gregory M. Mauldin (born June 10, 1982) is an American professional ice hockey forward for Stavanger Oilers of the Norwegian Eliteserien. He was briefly retired for the 2020–21 season and served as coach for the USA Hockey National Team Development Program.

Playing career

Mauldin played with the Boston Junior Bruins of the Eastern Junior Hockey League in 1999 where he showed his talent and explosiveness on the ice while earning consecutive First All-Star Team selections and the Eastern Junior Hockey League MVP Award in 2000. In 2001, he moved on to UMass Amherst where he accumulated 94 points in 98 games and led the Minutemen to the 2003 Hockey East Championship game. After three successful seasons with UMass he joined the Columbus Blue Jackets who had selected him with the 199th overall pick in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft.

Mauldin made his NHL debut not long after the Ice Hockey East Championship and appeared in six games for the Blue Jackets. He played the 2004–05 season for the Syracuse Crunch, the Blue Jackets AHL affiliate, and finished 7th on the team in scoring with 27 points. During the 2005–06 season he was traded to the Minnesota Wild for defenceman Dustin Wood. He was then assigned to the Houston Aeros, the Wild's AHL affiliate.

In the 2006–07 season, Mauldin initially played with Bloomington Prairie Thunder of the UHL, before leaving to play in Sweden. Prior to the 2007–08 season, Mauldin attended the St. Louis Blues prospect development Camp. He was then signed to a free agent contract by the Binghamton Senators of the AHL. Mauldin was then signed by parent club, the Ottawa Senators to a one-year contract for the 2008–09 season but was reassigned to Binghamton for the year.

On July 3, 2009, Mauldin signed a one-year contract with the New York Islanders. In the 2009–10 season he led the Bridgeport Sound Tigers, AHL affiliate of the Islanders, in scoring with 54 points in 77 games. He made his brief Islanders debut in a 7-3 defeat to the Pittsburgh Penguins on April 8, 2010, before returning to the Sound Tigers for a quarterfinal appearance in the playoffs.

A free agent following the season, Mauldin signed a one-year contract with the Colorado Avalanche on July 2, 2010. After initially impressing at the Avalanche's training camp, Mauldin was reassigned to AHL affiliate, the Lake Erie Monsters, to start the 2010–11 season. He was later called up by the Avalanche, and in his first game on November 12, 2010, he scored his first NHL goal, which was short handed, in a 5-1 road win against Steve Mason of his former team the Columbus Blue Jackets. He was named the second star of the game. Mauldin continued to make an impact with the Avalanche from the fourth line, most notably scoring two goals and two assists in a 7-4 victory over the Minnesota Wild on November 28, 2010, to be named first star of the game. Mauldin remained with the Avalanche for a career-high 29 games and 10 points before he was later returned to help Lake Erie to their first post-season berth.

In the 2011–12 season, Mauldin failed to make the Avalanche out of training camp and was reassigned to Lake Erie. After a strong start with the Monsters, Mauldin was limited through injury before finishing with 59 games, to place third in Lake Erie scoring 34 points.

A free agent, Mauldin returned for a second stint in Europe signing a one-year contract with HC Fribourg-Gottéron of the Swiss NLA on July 23, 2012. At the beginning of the 2014 season Mauldin was named an assistant captain and on November 21, 2014 Mauldin signed a two-year extension with HC Fribourg-Gottéron.

Following his fifth season with Fribourg-Gottéron after the 2016–17 season, Mauldin left as a free agent and agreed to a one-year deal with German outfit, ERC Ingolstadt of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL), on August 15, 2017.

Mauldin continued his journeyman career, signing in the following summer to a one-year contract with Croatian club, KHL Medveščak Zagreb of the EBEL, on August 1, 2018. In the 2018–19 season, Mauldin produced 15 points in 23 appearances for Zagreb before opting to mutually conclude his contract mid-season to join Norwegian club, the Stavanger Oilers of the GET-ligaen on December 14, 2018.

Coaching career

Mauldin was hired as an assistant coach for Dan Muse with the USNTDP Men's U18 team in October 2020.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1998–99 Holliston High School HSMA
1999–2000 Boston Junior Bruins EJHL 59 45 42 87 14
2000–01 Boston Junior Bruins EJHL 53 48 58 106 73
2001–02 University of Massachusetts Amherst HE 33 12 12 24 10
2002–03 University of Massachusetts Amherst HE 36 21 20 41 26
2003–04 University of Massachusetts Amherst HE 29 15 14 29 15
2003–04 Columbus Blue Jackets NHL 6 0 0 0 4
2003–04 Syracuse Crunch AHL 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
2004–05 Syracuse Crunch AHL 66 7 20 27 49
2005–06 Syracuse Crunch AHL 56 12 17 29 53
2005–06 Houston Aeros AHL 11 1 3 4 0 8 1 1 2 2
2006–07 Bloomington Prairie Thunder UHL 2 0 0 0 2
2006–07 Huddinge IK Allsv 6 1 2 3 0
2006–07 IK Oskarshamn Allsv 26 5 8 13 31
2007–08 Binghamton Senators AHL 71 15 18 33 37
2008–09 Binghamton Senators AHL 80 24 27 51 41
2009–10 Bridgeport Sound Tigers AHL 77 25 29 54 35 5 1 2 3 0
2009–10 New York Islanders NHL 1 0 0 0 0
2010–11 Lake Erie Monsters AHL 43 18 17 35 20 7 0 2 2 2
2010–11 Colorado Avalanche NHL 29 5 5 10 8
2011–12 Lake Erie Monsters AHL 59 16 18 34 17
2012–13 HC Fribourg–Gottéron NLA 39 13 8 21 8 18 2 2 4 4
2013–14 HC Fribourg–Gottéron NLA 43 13 15 28 18 10 5 3 8 0
2014–15 HC Fribourg–Gottéron NLA 40 18 17 35 8
2015–16 HC Fribourg–Gottéron NLA 28 11 13 24 0 5 1 2 3 2
2016–17 HC Fribourg–Gottéron NLA 34 10 9 19 6
2017–18 ERC Ingolstadt DEL 51 9 16 25 18 5 0 0 0 4
2018–19 KHL Medveščak Zagreb AUT 23 5 10 15 6
2018–19 Stavanger Oilers NOR 17 4 7 11 14 12 5 5 10 8
2019–20 Stavanger Oilers NOR 31 15 11 26 10
2021–22 Kalamazoo Wings ECHL 5 2 1 3 2
2021–22 Stavanger Oilers NOR 6 0 1 1 2 15 5 5 10 0
2022–23 Stavanger Oilers NOR 37 7 10 17 2 15 3 3 6 4
AHL totals 465 118 149 267 252 21 2 5 7 4
NHL totals 36 5 5 10 12
NLA totals 184 65 62 127 40 33 8 7 15 6

Awards and honors

Award Year
College
Hockey East All-Tournament Team 2004

See also

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