For home games during the 2017-18 season, the Carleton Place Canadians will be profiling one player from the team. This time, the profile is on Jack Clark.
Quick Bio
Birthdate: Dec. 29, 1998
Hometown: Waterford, Mich.
Height: 6’4″
Weight: 190 lbs
Shoots: R
Position: F
Clark joins the Carleton Place Canadians this season for his first year in the CCHL.
Prior to coming to Canada, he played in Michigan High School hockey for St. Mary’s Prep and spent one season playing against Sam Knoblauch in that league.
“I felt like it was a good starting point,” Clark said of his time at St. Mary’s. “We had a good facility and a good coach.”
In 2015-16, he had four goals and four assists in 28 games as a junior on the varsity team. The next year, Clark saw his role increase in the team and, with that, his production exploded. In his senior season, Clark scored 14 goals and had 10 assists, 24 points, in 26 games. That year he also played in the Michigan Development Hockey League, where he was a two-point-per-game player – he had eight goals and eight assists in the eight games he played.
Early in his time in Carleton Place, Clark said he has enjoyed his time with the Canadians so far – pointing out the hard work expected from coach Jason Clarke on a day-to-day basis.
Prior to the season starting, Clark wasn’t too sure what to expect from himself heading into his first CCHL season.
“I’m just trying to get into the line-up and get some games in there,” he said after training camp. “I hope to get some points and talk to a couple of schools maybe, we’ll see.”
Clark has earned himself a regular spot in the line-up, playing alongside Ben and Zach Tupker. In 23 games this season, he has two goals and two assists.
The line of Tupker-Tupker-Clark has been relied upon defensively early in the season and part of the success is that all three players play a similar, hard-working style.
“I’m hard on the fore-check, hard on the back-check, just go and do the dirty stuff,” Clark said. “I’m not a real fancy player.”
