Chris Abbott is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 professional ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 player, who is a member of Luleå HF

Luleå HF

Luleå Hockeyförening is an ice hockey club from Luleå, Sweden. Luleå is the most northern club in the league and has played in Elitserien constantly since the 1984-85 season. They have won the Swedish championships once, in 1996...

 of the Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 Elitserien

Elitserien

Elitserien, is a professional ice hockey league composed of twelve teams in Sweden...

. His twin brother Cameron Abbott

Cameron Abbott

Cameron Abbott is a Canadian professional ice hockey player, currently playing in Luleå HF of the Swedish Elitserien.-Playing career:...

 is also a professional hockey player, and the pair have played together on several teams.

Playing career

Born in Sarnia, Ontario

Sarnia, Ontario

Sarnia is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada . It is the largest city on Lake Huron and is located where the upper Great Lakes empty into the St. Clair River....

 in 1983, Abbott played college competitive ice hockey for Cornell University

Cornell University

Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

 of the U.S.

United States

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 NCAA from 2002 until 2006. He turned professional in 2006

2006–07 CHL season

The 2006–07 CHL season was the 15th season of the Central Hockey League ....

 with the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs

Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs

The Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs were a professional ice hockey team which played in the Bossier City-Shreveport metropolitan area of Louisiana. From 1997 to 2001 the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs were members of the Western Professional Hockey League, until the a 2001 merger between the WPHL with the...

 of the Central Hockey League

Central Hockey League

The Central Hockey League is a mid-level professional hockey league, owned by Global Entertainment Corporation. Its current champions are the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs, which defeated the Colorado Eagles four games to three in the 2011 playoffs....

. In the 2007–08 season he moved to Europe to play for the IF Frisk Asker Tigers of the Norwegian GET-ligaen

GET-ligaen

GET-ligaen is the premier Norwegian ice hockey league, organised by the Norwegian Ice Hockey Federation. The league was known as 1. divisjon until 1990, when it was reorganized and named Eliteserien . That name was held until 2004 when cable TV company UPC became main sponsor...

. In 2008, he signed with the Rogle BK of the Swedish Elitserien. After a great season in RBK, Chris, together with his brother Cameron, signed a two-year contract with Luleå HF

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