Brian Holzinger
Brian Alan Holzinger ( born October 10, 1972 in Parma, Ohio ) is a retired American professional ice hockey player who played during his active career, among other things for the Buffalo Sabres, Tampa Bay Lightning, Pittsburgh Penguins and Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League has.
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Career
The offensive player was initially active in the Padua Franciscan High School in the high school league system of the United States, where he took his leave relatively quickly with impressive performance for a possible professional career. For the team Holzinger scored in 35 matches 73 goals and 65 assists, before he until 1991 for the Detroit Compuware Ambassadors in the North American Hockey League from 1989 went on the ice. NHL Entry Draft 1991, he was selected in the sixth round to total 124 position of the Buffalo Sabres. Then, the attacker began studying at Bowling Green State University and was until 1995 for their hockey team, the Bowling Green Falcons in the National Collegiate Athletic Association active. During this time the Americans won many individual awards, including the 1995 calendar year is as an actor of the year the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. The greatest honor Holzinger was given in the same year, when he received the Hobey Baker Memorial Award for the best male college hockey players.
Even during the 1994/95 season debuted the offensive athlete for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League and completed for the team of four meetings in the regular season and the playoffs, where Holzinger posted a total of six points. In the following season the right shooter was active in both the Buffalo Sabres in the National Hockey League as well as for their farm team, the Rochester Americans in the American Hockey League. In 1996, he won with the Rochester Americans of the Calder Cup, the Americans with 24 points in 19 matches - within the team second-best points scorer after playoff MVP Dixon Ward - had contributed to this success. The season 1996/97 spent Holzinger completely in the NHL squad of Sabres and finished with 51 points in 81 games scorer of the regular season, the statistically most successful season of his career. During his involvement in the Buffalo striker winning the Stanley Cup was denied, but he reached in the season 1998/99 with the Sabres the final series for the prestigious trophy. However, the Dallas Stars prevailed 4-2 victories and won the trophy for the first time.
Holzinger remained active until shortly before the trade deadline in March 2000 in Buffalo, before he in a barter together with Cory Sarich, Wayne Primeau and a third-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 2000 in exchange for Chris Gratton and a second-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft was transferred in 2001 to the Tampa Bay Lightning. He ran for three years in the jersey of the Bolts on the ice, where the ice age by the American because of injury problems often limited in time. After he had already retired due to a shoulder injury that the attacker had contracted in October 2001 in a game against the Florida Panthers, almost for the entire rest of the season, one suffered in September 2002 broken leg put him again for several months out of action. After his return to the right shooter was a long time for the Springfield Falcons in the American Hockey League on the ice. In March 2003, the Tampa Bay Lightning gave him from the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for Marc Bergevin.
In the Penguins jersey he was indeed used regularly, however, showed in the 2003/04 season with a plus / minus score of -27 in 61 matches for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the worst value of his career. During this season he exchanged the pen, again just before the Trade Deadline, for the Finnish striker Lasse Pirjetä and transferred the Americans in his home state of Ohio to the Columbus Blue Jackets. For this Holzinger completed until the end of the season 2003/ 04 a total of 13 NHL games with a goal is scored. After the season was 2004/ 05 failed due to a lockout, the attacker did not return as a professional actor back in the National Hockey League.
Internationally
Holzinger represented his country at international level at the Junior World Championship in 1992. In seven games, the striker headed a goal and an assist for the bronze medal winning U.S. American selection at. In addition, the right-handed shooter spent two minutes in the penalty box.
Awards and achievements
Internationally
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented the U.S. at:
- U20 World Junior Championships 1992
( 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 )