Matthew Beveridge

Matthew Beveridge
Born (1975-03-18) March 18, 1975
Toronto, ON, CAN
Height 5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Weight 174 lb (79 kg; 12 st 6 lb)
Position Forward
Shot Left
Played for Newcastle Vipers
Manchester Phoenix
Playing career 1996–2007

Matthew Beveridge (born March 18, 1975 in Toronto, Ontario) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player, who currently coaches for Lucas Miller's Hi-Performance Hockey in Brampton, Ontario. Although drafted into the OHL by the Peterborough Petes, Beveridge's senior professional career was kick started with his move to the United Kingdom in 1996, where he would play for the Whitley Warriors, a team once coached by Mike Babcock. At the British National League level, Beveridge would excel and in his first season totalled 100 points in just 36 games.

This productivity saw him move to Germany for the 1997/1998 term, which he would spend as an ESC Dorfen player in the German second division. Once again Beveridge would score points easily, with 68 in just 50 games. He would return to the U.K. the following season and would once again grace the BNL, although this time with the Peterborough Pirates. His points ratio of greater than a point per game would help the Pirates into the post season. A further move within the BNL would follow in the summer of 2000, this time to the Paisley Pirates. Beveridge's productivity continued, this time with 48 points in 34 games.

Despite this, the Pirates failed to make the post-season and so Beveridge left for the Invicta Dynamos of the recently founded EPL. Beveridge would spend three prolific seasons in Gillingham, scoring 252 points. This prompted a chance at the higher BNL level again, with Beveridge moving north to the former ISL team the Newcastle Vipers. Through the 2003/04 and 2004/05 seasons, Beveridge would again be a leading scorer for the Vipers.

As one of the leading BNL teams, the Vipers were invited to join the newly formed EIHL in 2005/06. At this higher level, Beveridge would score 25 points in 44 games and was unable to match his previous scoring rate. This led to the Vipers releasing him in the summer of 2006. His signature was quickly snapped up by the Manchester Phoenix, icing in their debut season in the EIHL. Beveridge would play just three games for the Phoenix however, before re-joining Newcastle mid-season.

He failed to settle however, despite scoring 5 points in the 9 games in which he featured and another mid-season move would follow, this time to the Sheffield Scimitars, the EPL team of the Sheffield Steelers organisation. Beveridge would make just one appearance before moving on again however, this time to the Bracknell Bees, where he would total a remarkable 61 points in 24 games, a ratio of almost three points per game.

At the end of the 2006/07 season, Beveridge announced his retirement from the playing side of the sport, and returned home to Ontario. Here he would find work as a coach for an ice hockey school in Brampton.

Career stats

    Regular season   Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1996-97 Whitley Warriors BNL 36 43 57 100 16 - - - - -
1997-98 ESC Dorfen Ger. 2 50 31 37 68 32 - - - - -
1998-99 Peterborough Pirates BNL 30 8 23 31 16 6 2 3 5 2
1999-00 Paisley Pirates BNL 34 14 34 48 12 - - - - -
2000-01 Invicta Dynamos EPL 30 41 47 88 38 - - - - -
2001-02 Invicta Dynamos EPL 26 25 34 59 10 - - - - -
2002-03 Invicta Dynamos EPL 38 46 59 105 34 - - - - -
2003-04 Newcastle Vipers BNL 36 18 32 50 32 - - - - -
2004-05 Newcastle Vipers BNL 34 10 30 40 24 - - - - -
2005-06 Newcastle Vipers EIHL 44 10 15 25 22 - - - - -
2006-07 Manchester Phoenix EIHL 3 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
2006-07 Newcastle Vipers EIHL 9 4 1 5 30 - - - - -
2006-07 Sheffield Scimitars EPL 1 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
2006-07 Bracknell Bees EPL 24 28 33 61 52 - - - - -
Career Totals 395 278 404 682 318 6 2 3 5 2

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