Jay Bouwmeester
Jason " Jay" Bouwmeester ( born September 27, 1983 in Edmonton, Alberta ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is since April 2013 in the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League contract.
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Career
Beginnings and Western Hockey League (until 2002)
The 1.93 m tall defender played for a local junior hockey team named Millwoods in Edmonton. He was subsequently appointed for Edmonton SSAC - also known as SSAC Lions - active, with whom he won the championship of the Alberta Major Bantam Hockey League in the season 1997/98. During the 1998/99 season Bouwmeester debut at the Medicine Hat Tigers of the Western Hockey League, but continued to operate primarily in Edmonton for the SSAC Lions on the ice. In the 2001/02 season - during which the defensive player had participated in the CHL Top Prospects Game and decided at the so-called Skills Competition competition of the fastest skater for himself - he was 61 scorer points of the third-best scorer among the defenders in the WHL. To this end, the Canadians was rewarded with the appointment to the East First All-Star team in the league. In addition, Bouwmeester was within the team elected Player of the Year and honored as the best defender. During his time in the Medicine Hat Tigers Dress the Canadians never qualified with the team for the final round of the President's Cup.
Florida Panthers (2002-2009)
NHL Entry Draft 2002, he was selected in the first round, third overall by the Florida Panthers after Bouwmeester had previously led the ranking of the most promising talents of the NHL Central Scouting Service. Direct in his first NHL game Bouwmeester scored a point, as the defender on 10 October 2002 gave an assist in the game against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
In his first season of links Sagittarius belonged to the permanent staff in Florida, 82 games scored four goals Bouwmeester at twelve assists. Subsequently, he was elected to the NHL All- Rookie Team. During the following season ended his series of 128 NHL games in a row because it excluded an injury for 18 games from the game.
During the 2004/ 05 lockout season, he was one of the many NHL players, which the American Hockey League bestowed a spectator boom, as they aufliefen during the break, and for AHL teams. Here he played for both the Florida farm team, the San Antonio Rampage, as well as for the Chicago Wolves. The commitment in Chicago as of March 2005 had to be NHL 's Florida Panthers allows, which parked the defender fee on loan in the Windy City. After narrowly missing the playoffs with the Rampage, the defender reached the finals series for the Calder Cup in the jersey of the Wolves. However, the team was defeated with a sweep against the Philadelphia Phantoms.
During the 2006/07 season Bouwmeester first participated in his career at the NHL All-Star Game. The 2007/ 08 season he finished with a Karrierebestwert of 15 goals in the regular season. With an average of 27:28 minutes of ice per game led the defense this season to the NHL.
Calgary Flames and St. Louis Blues ( since 2009)
On 27 June 2009, the Florida Panthers transferred its bargaining rights in exchange for Jordan Leopold and a third-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 2009 to the Calgary Flames. Bouwmeester, who would have been in a few days to unrestricted free agent, agreed to a short time later on a contract with five -year term at the Calgary Flames, which guaranteed him a salary of 6.6 million per year. On 15 March 2011 he broke the record for most defenders NHL games in a row, the previously Karlis Skrastiņš held with 495 games. By the end of the season 2010/11 Bouwmeester extended his record to 506 NHL games in a row.
Denied in the following season 2011/12, denied the Canadians again all 82 NHL games of the regular season and screwed by the NHL record for defenders to 588 consecutive matches. He is now with 717 completed matches in the regular season, one of the actors with the most matches played in the NHL history without use in the playoffs. Olli Jokinen Only, who played his first playoff use after 799 games and Guy Charron, which never reached the final despite 734 games, were unsuccessful in this regard. In addition, in the summer of 2012 signaled the Detroit Red Wings interest in a possible involvement Bouwmeesters after previously Star Nicklas Lidstrom defenseman finished his career and Brad Stuart had left the team in a barter.
Beginning of April 2013 Bouwmeester was transferred to the St. Louis Blues.
Internationally
Bouwmeester represented his home country of Canada in both the junior and senior level several times on the international stage.
For the first time played the defending champion at the U20 Junior World Championship 2000, where he won the bronze medal with the team. With an age of 16 years and three months, he became the youngest player to his home country of all time, which had accrued to date in a U20 World Junior Championship. Only Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux and Jason Spezza had also participated in the Junior World Championships for Canada as a 16 -year-old. Won the bronze medal Bouwmeester repeated a year later at the U20 World Youth Championship in 2001. Earnings improved one year later, when the Canadians won silver. The defender came in all tournaments in all seven games for use. In the U20 World Junior Championships in 2001 and 2002, he recorded two assists. In the latter tournament of the defenders also had the best plus / minus balance of the competition with a value of 11.
For the seniors choice of maple leaves Bouwmeester was the first time in the World Cup 2003 squad. Here, Canada won the gold medal by a 3-2 final victory in extra time over Sweden. Furthermore, the defender was appointed thanks to his seven points scorer in nine games at the best defenders in the world title fights and appointed to the All- Star team. The following year, defended the Canadians - with Bouwmeester in the squad - the title when Sweden was defeated again in the final. In addition, the defensive specialist was at the World Cup of Hockey 2004 for Canada on the ice. It was the third tournament in a row, the Bouwmeester finished by winning the gold medal. On 8 February 2006 Jay Bouwmeester was re-nominated for the injured Scott Niedermayer in the Canadian Olympic team for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, where the team only finished a disappointing seventh place. He had at the World Cup 2008. According to the final defeat by Russia Canada received the silver medal His next international appearances.
For the 2012 World Championships Bouwmeester was also in the squad, missed the Canadian selection, however, a medal rank. 2014 he was with the Canadian National Team Olympic champion.
Playing style and private
Bouwmeester is considered as an actor with excellent ice runs abilities that acts preferentially in the role of defense counsel. The Canadian has great stamina and is the league one of the players with the most ice age per game. In contrast, he did not particularly dominated the game physically embossed and expresses weaknesses in offensive actions, which is reflected in Bouwmeesters insufficient income qualities.
He is also ambassador athletes of development aid organization Right to Play. Among other things, he also supports a program in Ghana, which helps children in need to improve their quality of life through sports activities.
Awards and achievements
- 2002 CHL Top Prospects Game
- 2002 WHL East First All-Star Team
- 2002 CHL Top Draft Prospect Award
- 2003 NHL Young Stars Game
- 2003 NHL All- Rookie Team
- 2005 AHL All- Star Classic
- 2007 NHL All-Star Game
- 2009 NHL All-Star Game
Internationally
- 2000 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championships
- 2001 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championships
- 2002 Silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championships
- 2003 Gold Medal at the World Championships
- 2003 Best defender of the world championship
- 2003 All- Star Team of the World Cup
- 2004 Gold Medal at the World Championships
- 2004 Gold Medal at the World Cup of Hockey
- 2008 Silver medal at the World Championships
- 2014 Gold Medal at the Olympic Winter Games
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Canada at:
- U20 Junior World Championship 2000
- U20 Junior World Championship 2001
- U20 Junior World Cup 2002
- 2003 World Cup
- World Cup 2004
- World Cup of Hockey 2004
- 2006 Winter Olympics
- World Championship 2008
- World Cup 2012
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )