Facts: - weight lb: 194 - position: defence - height in: 1 - league: del - shoots: left - team: hamburg freezers - height ft: 6 - birth date: 01 january 1989 - career start: 2010 - name: sam klassen - image size: 230px - former teams: connecticut whale hartford wolf pack portland pirates - image: image 600 cwidth = 240 cheight = 360 otop = 40 = oleft = 195 location = center sam klassen and tim kennedy.jpg bsize = - birth place: watrous , sk , can - draft: undrafted Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of sam klassen .
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sam klassen -lrb- born january 1 , 1989 -rrb- is a canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who is currently playing with the hamburg freezers of the deutsche eishockey liga -lrb- del -rrb- .prior to turning professional , klassen played major junior hockey in the western hockey league with the saskatoon blades .on july 27 , 2009 , the new york rangers signed klassen as a free agent to a three-year entry-level contract .throughout the duration of his contract with the rangers , klassen was assigned to american hockey league affiliate , the connecticut whale .on july 17 , 2014 , klassen agreed to his first contract abroad , signing a two-year contract with german club , the hamburg freezers of the del. .