Brooks Orpik
Brooks Orpik ( born September 26 1980 in San Francisco, California) is an American professional ice hockey player who is currently with the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League contract.
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Career
The 1.88 m tall defender played during his studies in the team of Boston College in the Hockey East, a league in the play mode of the College Organization National Collegiate Athletic Association before the NHL Entry Draft in 2000 as 18th in the first round by the Pittsburgh Penguins has been selected. With the Boston College he won in 1999 and 2001, the Championship of Hockey East, after the last success the team also won the championship of the entire NCAA.
The Pittsburgh Penguins Brooks Orpik sat, the claims to be after the coach of the U.S. hockey Olympic gold medalist in 1980, Herb Brooks, named a first at their farm team, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in the American Hockey League. In the season 2002/ 03 he also completed his first NHL inserts for the franchise from Pittsburgh. In the following season the links Sagittarius finally made it into the trunk squad of the Pittsburgh Penguins, with whom he 2008 the final of the Stanley Cup, the North American Hockey Championship reached, but there was defeated in 2:4 games the Detroit Red Wings. The following year, the Penguins got their revenge, however, and won the final of the Stanley Cup against Detroit in seven games.
Brooks Orpiks brother Andrew plays in the organization of the Pittsburgh Penguins, but can so far not recorded a single NHL - use.
Internationally
With the U.S. national Orpik participated at youth level at the U20 World Junior Championship in 2000. For the seniors selection of the defenders was the first time at the 2006 World Cup on the ice, where he remained in seven games without a point scorer. At the 2010 Winter Olympics he won the silver medal with the U.S..
Awards and achievements
- 2004 NHL Young Stars Game
- 2009 Stanley Cup win with the Pittsburgh Penguins
Internationally
- 2010 Silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented the U.S. at:
- U20 World Junior Championships 2007
- World Cup 2006
- 2010 Winter Olympics
( 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 )