Brad Lukowich

Bradley Lukowich ( born August 12, 1976 in Cranbrook, British Columbia) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He is now with the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League under contract and playing for the Texas Stars in the American Hockey League on the position of the defender.

Career

Lukowich played during his junior time first in the junior league unterklassigen Canadian Rocky Mountain Junior Hockey League at the Cranbrook Colts from his hometown. At the end of the season 1992/93 he finally joined the Kamloops Blazers of the Western Hockey League, where he remained faithful in the following three seasons. During this time he won with the team each of the years 1994 and 1995, twice the President's Cup, the championship of the WHL, and the Memorial Cup, the championship of the Canadian Hockey League. Already after the first title, the New York Islanders in the NHL Entry Draft in 1994 had him selected in the fourth round to 90th place.

Before Lukowich changed in the summer of 1996 in the professional sector to play for the Islanders, he transferred this for a draft pick of the third round in the NHL Entry Draft in 1997 to the Dallas Stars. There he came between 1996 and 1998 mostly at their farm team, the Michigan K- Wings of the International Hockey League, used, but celebrated in the course of the season 1997/98 also his NHL debut for the Stars. The following season, could win the Stanley Cup in Dallas, he spent also between IHL and NHL, but was not among the players who could qualify for a mention by name on the Stanley Cup. After the game in 1999/2000, the first time the defender had completed entirely in Dallas, he was involved as part of the NHL Entry Draft in 2000 in two transfer transactions. After the Canadians had been issued on June 12, with Manny Fernandez in exchange for some draft picks to the Minnesota Wild newly founded, the Stars took him less than two weeks later and put him regularly in the sequence a. In the package with Lukowich the Stars had some draft picks get back, while they had Aaron Gavey and Pavel Patera sent to Minnesota. After a further two years in the Texas metropolis transferred the Stars Lukowich to the Tampa Bay Lightning. In his two years at the U.S. southeast coast, he improved his point yield with 15 and 19 points twice in a row, has developed into one of the leading players of the team and also won the Lightning at the end of the 2003/ 04 surprising the Stanley Cup. This time was able to complete assignments for your name will appear Lukowich sufficient.

Due to the lockout of the NHL season 2004/ 05 signed Lukowich as a free agent contract with the Fort Worth Brahmas of the Central Hockey League, for whom he played 16 games in this season. After the promised resumption of the NHL game operation for the 2005/06 season Lukowich returned there. He signed a contract with the New York Islanders, who had eleven years earlier drafted him. However, the defenders did not stay long with the team from Long Iceland, as he moved in the course of the season to the New Jersey Devils who needed an experienced defender for the upcoming playoffs. There he remained the rest of the season as well as the following, before he became a free agent and again to himself again to the Tampa Bay Lightning joined. Despite his experience, he could not prevent the Lightning completed the season as the worst team in the league also. The following summer, he moved due to the weak performance of the team and a change of ownership, together with Dan Boyle of the San Jose Sharks, the charges in return for Matt Carle, Ty Wishart and a first-round and fourth- round draft pick to Tampa. In San Jose Lukowich formed a Verteidigerduo with Boyle. Although it turned out between January and February 2009 due to an injury, he was the defensive stop. The Sharks closed the regular season as the best point of all teams from, but failed in the first playoff round. As a result, the Canadian end of August 2009 was issued together with Christian Ehrhoff of the Vancouver Canucks, the charges in return the young players Daniel Rahimi and Patrick White.

Since Lukowich did not make it to start the season in the trunk of the squad Canucks, this late September put him first on the waiver list. Due to the fact that no other team picked him from there, the defender was sent to the Texas Stars in the American Hockey League. In contrast to the other minor league players who play in the Manitoba Moose, the management arranged the cooperation with the stars, so Lukowich could be closer to the Dallas Stars with his family and friends from his time. After an injury of Kevin Bieksa from the squad of Canucks defender early January 2010 was brought back to the NHL first since the previous autumn.

Awards and achievements

Career Stats

( 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 )

Family

Brad Lukowichs father, Bernie Lukowich, was also a professional ice hockey player and was active as a striker for the Pittsburgh Penguins and St. Louis Blues, for which he played 79 games in the National Hockey League. The longest he played in the second-class American Hockey League, where he spent four years with the Hershey Bears and a season with the Providence Reds.