Mike Weaver (ice hockey)
Canadian ice hockey player
Arthur Michael Robert Weaver (born May 2, 1978) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman.
Playing career
As a youth, Weaver played in the 1992 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the Chinguacousy Blues minor ice hockey team from Bramalea, Ontario. He later joined the Richmond Hill-Vaughan Kings of OMHA. After being a 7th round draft choice of the OHL's Guelph Storm in 1995, Weaver decided to continue playing OHA Junior A hockey to maintain his NCAA scholarship eligibility.
Weaver played Tier II Jr.A. with both the Thornhill Islanders and the Bramalea Blues. In his final season with the Blues he led the club to a Dudley Hewitt Cup as OHA Junior A Champions and a berth in the 1999 Royal Bank Cup in Yorkton, Saskatchewan; Weaver's team was eliminated in the semi-finals.
The diminutive defenceman acquired a scholarship with the Michigan State Spartans and spent four years in the CCHA that included two First All-Star team nods and two Best Defensive Defenceman awards.
Undrafted by the NHL, Weaver was signed as a free agent by the Atlanta Thrashers on June 15, 2000. He spent the subsequent season with Atlanta's IHL affiliate, Orlando, with whom he won the Turner Cup as IHL champions. In 2001–02, Weaver played his first 16 games in the NHL, in addition to helping the Thrashers' AHL affiliate, the Chicago Wolves, to a Calder Cup championship. Most of his four seasons as a Thrasher would be spent in the AHL.
In the summer of 2004, Weaver would sign with the Los Angeles Kings as a free agent.
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