Andrew Kozek
Andrew Jacob Kozek ( born May 26, 1986 in Revelstoke, British Columbia) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is under contract for the 2013/14 season when EHC Linz in the Erste Bank Hockey League.
Career
Andrew Kozek began his career as a hockey player with the Surrey Eagles, for which he was active from 2003 to 2005 in the British Columbia Hockey League. In the 2004/05 season he was the league with 48 hits in this top scorer. Then the winger in the NHL Entry Draft in 2005 was selected in the second round than a total of 53 players from the Atlanta Thrashers. First, however, he attended for four years, the University of North Dakota and played in parallel for their hockey team in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. With his University team he won the 2006 Championship of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.
Towards the end of the 2008/ 09 Kozek finally made his debut in professional hockey for Atlanta's farm team, the Chicago Wolves of the American Hockey League, for whom he played regularly in the following years. In March 2011, he was given on loan to the Hershey Bears, what the Chicago Wolves got the defender Josh Godfrey in exchange. For the season 2011/12 the Canadians signed a contract with the Nikko Ice Bucks of the Asia League Ice Hockey. In August 2012, Kozek was obliged by the EC Dornbirn of the Erste Bank Hockey League.
Awards and achievements
- 2005 Top scorer in the British Columbia Hockey League
- 2006 Broadmoor Trophy win with the University of North Dakota
AHL stats
(End of season 2010/11)