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Biography
Ken Magowan (born June 22, 1981) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player, who was active in Germany's highest level hockey league DEL for 6 years. He was selected by the New Jersey Devils in the 7th round (198th overall) of the 2000 NHL Entry Draft. He is currently an unregistred free agent.
Playing career
From 1998-2000 he played as an junior with Vernon Vipers in the British Columbia Hockey League. He scored 46 goals and 62 assists in 118 games and won the 1999 Royal Bank Cup with his team. From 2000 he appeared in four seasons with Boston University Terriers and scored in 118 games 31 goals and 35 assists for the US-College team.
In 2004 he played his first professional season, but there was not much opportunities for him with the Devil's AHL affiliation Albany River Rats. So he spent the next three seasons mostly in the ECHL with Augusta Lynx and Toledo Storm. In this time he represented his teams two times (2005, 2007) in the ECHL All-Star Game.and got AHL try outs with Philadelphia Phantoms, Rochester Americans and Bridgeport Sound Tigers.
For season 2007-08 he changed to Europe and played for SC Riessersee in Germans second level hockey league. In 50 games he scored 26 goals and 24 assists and so he could find a team in Germans highest level hockey league DEL for the next season. In the next 6 years Magowan played in the DEL for Grizzlys Wolfsburg and Adler Mannheim. In his first DEL-season he was best goal scorer of the league (29 goals) and the following three seasons always one of the best goal scorer from his team. In his last two DEL years he was often injured.
In season 2014-15 he started with Löwen Frankfurt in Germans second-level hockey league DEL2 and finished the season with Vienna Capitals in Austrias highest level hockey league.
In season 2015-16 he played with Lausitzer Füchse in DEL2 again. For this Saxony team he scored 10 goals and 9 assists in 28 games.