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Canadian professional ice hockey player (born 1976)
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Ice hockey player
Craig Mills
Born (1976-08-27) August 27, 1976 (age 48)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Height 6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Weight 198 lb (90 kg; 14 st 2 lb)
Position Right wing
Shot Right
Played for Winnipeg Jets
Chicago Blackhawks
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Brûleurs de Loups
NHL draft 108th overall, 1994
Winnipeg Jets
Playing career 1996–2006

Craig Mills (born August 27, 1976) is a Canadian former ice hockey winger who played for the Winnipeg Jets and Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League between 1996 and 1999. He is the son of Ontario politician Dennis Mills, and was born in Toronto, Ontario.

Playing career

As a youth, Mills played in the 1990 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from North York.

Mills was the recipient of the OHL Humanitarian of the Year and the CHL Humanitarian of the Year Award in 1996. He was also part of Canada's gold medal-winning hockey team in the 1996 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. He captained the Belleville Bulls of the OHL from 1994 to 1996.

Mills was drafted 108th overall by the Jets in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft. He played 31 career NHL games, with zero goals and five assists. On August 16, 1996, Mills was traded by the Phoenix Coyotes with Alexei Zhamnov and a first-round draft choice (Ty Jones) to the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for Jeremy Roenick. On June 12, 2001, Mills was traded by the Phoenix Coyotes again with Robert Reichel and Travis Green to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for Daniil Markov.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1992–93 St. Michael's Buzzers MetJAHL 44 9 21 30 42 15 1 6 7 8
1993–94 Belleville Bulls OHL 63 15 18 33 88 12 2 1 3 11
1994–95 Belleville Bulls OHL 62 39 41 80 104 13 7 9 16 8
1995–96 Belleville Bulls OHL 48 10 19 29 113 14 4 5 9 32
1995–96 Springfield Falcons AHL — — — — — 2 0 0 0 0
1995–96 Winnipeg Jets NHL 4 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0
1996–97 Indianapolis Ice IHL 80 12 7 19 199 4 0 0 0 4
1997–98 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 20 0 3 3 34 — — — — —
1997–98 Indianapolis Ice IHL 42 8 11 19 119 5 0 0 0 27
1998–99 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 7 0 0 0 2 — — — — —
1998–99 Portland Pirates AHL 48 7 11 18 59 — — — — —
1998–99 Indianapolis Ice IHL 12 2 3 5 14 6 1 0 1 5
1999–00 Springfield Falcons AHL 78 10 13 23 151 5 2 1 3 6
2000–01 Springfield Falcons AHL 64 8 5 13 131 — — — — —
2001–02 St. John's Maple Leafs AHL 74 10 21 31 137 11 3 3 6 22
2002–03 St. John's Maple Leafs AHL 65 10 16 26 121 — — — — —
2004–05 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl RSL 1 0 0 0 12 — — — — —
2004–05 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl-2 RUS-3 2 0 1 1 4 — — — — —
2002–03 Nybro Vikings SWE-2 22 6 4 10 45 — — — — —
2005–06 Brûleurs de Loups FRA 25 9 8 17 67 7 3 0 3 10
AHL totals 329 45 66 111 599 18 5 4 9 28
NHL totals 31 0 5 5 36 1 0 0 0 0

International

Year Team Event GP G A Pts PIM
1996 Canada WJC 6 0 0 0 4
Junior totals 6 0 0 0 4

References

  1. "Pee-Wee players who have reached NHL or WHA" (PDF). Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament. 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 6, 2019. Retrieved January 31, 2019.

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