Niko Dimitrakos
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Nicholas " Niko " Dimitrakos ( born May 21, 1979 in Somerville, Massachusetts) is an American- Greek hockey player who played in the 2012/13 season for the Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg in the German Ice Hockey League on the position of the center.
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Career
Dimitrakos first played four seasons at the University of Maine, with whom he won the championship of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and 2000, the Championship of Hockey East in 1999. After him, the San Jose Sharks had already selected the NHL Entry Draft in 1999 in the fifth round at 155th, he signed there in the summer of 2002, his first professional contract. The Americans played initially when the Sharks farm team, the Cleveland Barons before he got towards the end of the 2002 /03 his first chance in the first team of the NHL team, which was at that time in transition. Dimitrakos convinced and was re- appointed in the 2003/04 season, he had again started in Cleveland in the NHL, where he established himself eventually.
During the 2004/05 season, which turned out because of the lockout, he stood three times for the SC Langnau in the Swiss National League A on the ice. For the 2005/06 season he returned to the Nordkaliforniern. On 9 March 2006, the Sharks gave him from a third-round pick in the NHL Entry Draft in 2006 to the Philadelphia Flyers. He also played at the beginning of the year 2006/07. On 18 October 2006, after a 1:9 loss to the Buffalo Sabres, Dimitrakos was together with Petr Nedvěd the Flyers farm team, the Philadelphia Phantoms sent. After a little later then announced, no longer aground for the Flyers, if they would bring him back to the NHL, he was loaned on 1 March 2007 at the Chicago Wolves. In summer 2007, he signed as a free agent a one-year contract with Ottawa Senators. This put him in the course of the season exclusively in the AHL with the Binghamton Senators, where he belonged with 40 points scored at the best attackers of the team.
Since his contract expired at the end of the season, he moved to just one year the team. With Skellefteå AIK in the Swedish Elitserien, he decided after 2004 again for an engagement in Europe. After spending the 2009/10 season at HK CSKA Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League, he was committed for the next season of MODO Hockey Örnsköldsvik from the Elitserien. After only four goals and an assist in 22 games, he decided in January 2011 for a change to the Adler Mannheim of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. There he was immediately one of the leading players and achieved up to the end of the 2010/11 season in 26 games 21 points scorer, of which ten goals. However, he received does not make a new contract with the Adler Mannheim. On October 5, 2011 Dimitrakos was committed by the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League for a Professional Tryout Agreement ( PTO).
Since December 17, 2011 Dimitrakos stands up to the end of the season 2011/12, again at the Adler Mannheim under contract.
In summer 2012 it was announced that Dimitrakos changes to the 2012/13 season to league rivals Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg. His stint in Wolfsburg, however, was short-lived - in early November 2012, Dimitrakos ' contract termination due to unfulfilled expectations known.
Internationally
For the U.S. Dimitrakos took part in the 2003 World Cup, where he finished 13th place with his team.
Awards and achievements
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented the U.S. at:
- 2003 World Cup
( 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 )