Jeff MacMillan

Jeff MacMillan (born March 30, 1979) is a Canadian ice hockey player. He played 4 games in the National Hockey League for the Dallas Stars during the 2003–04 season. The rest of his career, which started in 1999, was mainly spent in the minor leagues and then in senior leagues.

Jeff MacMillan
MacMillan with the Hartford Wolf Pack in 2004
Born (1979-03-30) March 30, 1979
Durham, Ontario, Canada
Height 6 ft 3 in (191 cm)
Weight 210 lb (95 kg; 15 st 0 lb)
Position Defence
Shoots Left
WOAA team
Former teams
Durham Thundercats
Dallas Stars
Vienna Capitals
Manchester Phoenix
NHL Draft 215th overall, 1999
Dallas Stars
Playing career 1999present

Career

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 games in the National Hockey League. 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, along with Capital team-mate Scott Fankhouser, agreed to sign for the Manchester Phoenix, a team playing in the EIHL, the top tier of British club ice hockey, where he was also appointed alternate captain by player/coach Tony Hand.

MacMillan proved to be a solid, physical defender for the Phoenix but struggled to find form, suffering a number of injuries through the season. The Manchester defence was notably unreliable during the 2007/08 season and at the end of the season, head coach Hand made the decision to re-model the entire defence, releasing MacMillan. MacMillan and Fankhouser would again choose to sign for the same club, agreeing to play for the Bloomington Prairie Thunder of the United Hockey League, an announcement made in July 2008.

Since his professional days, MacMillan has split his time between the Durham Thundercats of the WOAA Senior AA Hockey League and the Dundas Real McCoys of Allan Cup Hockey. He won the Allan Cup with Real McCoys in 2014.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GPGAPtsPIM GPGAPtsPIM
1995-96 Hanover Barons WOJCHL 297132026
1996–97 Oshawa Generals OHL 3904415 150004
1996–97 Oshawa Generals M-Cup 10000
1997–98 Oshawa Generals OHL 643121572 703311
1998–99 Oshawa Generals OHL 6531821109 1536928
1999–00 Michigan K-Wings IHL 5303354
1999–00 Fort Wayne Komets UHL 711225 92210
2000–01 Utah Grizzlies IHL 8151520105
2001–02 Utah Grizzlies AHL 776915146 510117
2002–03 Utah Grizzlies AHL 787815132 20006
2003–04 Dallas Stars NHL 40000
2003–04 Utah Grizzlies AHL 734610108
2004–05 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 71257136 60004
2005–06 Syracuse Crunch AHL 781910143 500023
2006–07 Vienna Capitals AUT 313710103
2006–07 Phoenix RoadRunners ECHL 2615653 41012
2007–08 Manchester Phoenix EIHL 493101367 21016
2008–09 Durham Thundercats WOAA 168212926
2009–10 Durham Thundercats WOAA 187172428 248233137
2010–11 Durham Thundercats WOAA 248142212 411214
2011–12 Durham Thundercats WOAA 235293431 815614
2011–12 Dundas Real McCoys ACH 71014
2012–13 Durham Thundercats WOAA 233141745 1025710
2013–14 Durham Thundercats WOAA 14291112 71234
2013–14 Dundas Real McCoys ACH 50000
2014–15 Durham Thundercats WOAA 174131716 634715
2015–16 Durham Thundercats WOAA 180131325 60224
2015–16 Dundas Real McCoys ACH 50112
2016–17 Durham Thundercats WOAA 172192112 50118
2016–17 Dundas Real McCoys ACH 60114
2017–18 Durham Thundercats WOAA 191131418 1101110
2018–19 Durham Thundercats WOAA 50114 904414
2019–20 Durham Thundercats WOAA 61120 40112
2021–22 Durham Thundercats WOAA 50112 51014
2022–23 Durham Thundercats WOAA 102022 20222
AHL totals 377213657665 1810150
WOAA totals 21543165208233 101175168138
NHL totals 40000
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