David McKee (ice hockey)

American ice hockey player

David McKee (born December 5, 1983) is an American professional hockey goaltender. He most recently played with the Quad City Mallards of the Central Hockey League during the 2011–12 season. McKee was formerly a star college goaltender at Cornell University.

McKee was born in Midland, Texas. He started for three years at Cornell University. During his record breaking college career, he had a career record of 65–24–13 with a .926 SV%, 1.71 GAA and 18 shutouts. During the 2003–04 season, he had a shutout streak of 159:27 from December 5 to December 28. Even though his rookie year was astounding, nothing could compare to the end of the 2004–05 season, where over his final 21 games, he allowed just 20 goals while posting a 0.93 goals against average and a .962 save percentage to go along with an 18–2–1 record to help lead his team to win the ECAC title. He led the Cornell Big Red to a season record 19 game unbeaten streak. During that season, McKee also recorded a record breaking 10 shutouts.

On April 1, 2006, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim announced that they signed him with a two year entry level contract. Mighty Ducks executive vice president and general manager Brian Burke said, "Over the past two seasons, David McKee has proven to be one of the premier players at the collegiate level. He is a great addition to the core of young talented players within our organization.”

McKee began the season playing for the Augusta Lynx, the ECHL affiliate of the Anaheim Ducks. He was briefly assigned to the Portland Pirates of the AHL, but was sent down to get playing experience. He quickly became starting goaltender for the Lynx, picking up his first professional win came on October 21, 2006, against the Gwinnett Gladiators. He is currently on top of the ECHL standings, with the most shootout wins (3), the second most wins (8), the fourth most saves (355), and is fifth in minutes played (651). McKee has been called up to the NHL several times during his first professional season. His first stint began on November 21, 2006, as backup for Jean Sébastien Giguère while Ilya Bryzgalov was unavailable due to a lower body injury. He was dressed for three games, until Giguère sustained an injury and was scratched against the Calgary Flames on November 26. McKee backed up Mike Wall, who was called up from Portland on the same day. After his fourth game, McKee rejoined the Lynx. McKee also played in the 2006 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships.

Season Team League GP W L T MIN GA SO GAA SV% 2003–04 Cornell Big Red ECAC 32 16 10 6 1929 59 5 1.84 .920 2004–05 Cornell Big Red ECAC 35 27 5 3 2125 44 10 1.24 .947 2005–06 Cornell Big Red ECAC 35 22 9 4 2139 74 3 2.08 .910 Cornell totals 102 65 24 13 6193 177 18 1.71 .926