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| Hiroyuki Miura | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
(1973-12-31) December 31, 1973 (age 51) Kushiro City, Hokkaidō, Japan | ||
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (191 cm) | ||
| Weight | 192 lb (87 kg; 13 st 10 lb) | ||
| Position | Defence | ||
| Shot | Right | ||
| Played for |
Seibu Prince Rabbits Wheeling Thunderbirds | ||
| National team |
 Japan | ||
| NHL draft |
260th overall, 1992 Montreal Canadiens | ||
| Playing career | 1993–2009 | ||
Hiroyuki Miura (三浦 浩幸, Miura Hiroyuki, born December 31, 1973) is a Japanese former professional ice hockey defenceman.
Playing career
In 1992, Miura became the first Japanese player ever drafted into the NHL when the Montreal Canadiens chose him in the 11th round (260th overall) of the 1992 NHL Entry Draft. (Technically, Miura was the second Japanese player "selected" by the league; the first was Taro Tsujimoto, a fictional player drafted as a joke by the Buffalo Sabres in 1974; Miura, however was the first actual player to be drafted). Miura never played in the NHL, and his North American professional ice hockey experience was limited to six games played with the Wheeling Thunderbirds of the East Coast Hockey League in 1993–94. It wasn't until 2006 that the NHL saw its first Japanese player to actually play a game, when Yutaka Fukufuji played for the Los Angeles Kings.
Miura represented Japan at the 1993 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships in Sweden and at several World Championships. He also was a member of the Japan men's national ice hockey team at the 1998 Winter Olympics held in Nagano, Japan. Miura is a seven-time Japan Ice Hockey League champion (1994–95, 1997–98, 1998–99, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04), winning each championship as a member of the Kokudo Keikaku Ice Hockey Club. He is unrelated to Takayuki Miura who represented Japan at the 1998 Olympics.
References
External links
- SportsReference.com: Hiroyuki Miura
- Biographical information and career statistics from NHL.com, or Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com, or The Internet Hockey Database
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- 1973 births
- Ice hockey players at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Japanese expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- Japanese ice hockey defencemen
- Kokudo Keikaku players
- Living people
- Montreal Canadiens draft picks
- Olympic ice hockey players for Japan
- Sportspeople from Kushiro
- Seibu Prince Rabbits players
- Wheeling Thunderbirds players
- Japanese ice hockey biography stubs