Jake Dowell

Jacob " Jake" Dowell ( born March 4, 1985 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin ) is an American professional ice hockey player who is since July 2012 for the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League contract.

Career

Jake Dowell began his career as a hockey player in the team of the U.S. National Team Development Program, for which he was active from 2001 to 2003 in the North American Hockey League. Then the attacker played four years for the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

During this period he had been selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2004 in the fifth round as a total 140 players from the Chicago Blackhawks for which at that time the farm team, the Norfolk Admirals of the American Hockey League, he late in the season 2006/ 07 for the first time in professional hockey was on the ice. In the following season the American made ​​his debut in the National Hockey League for the Blackhawks, where he scored a total of three points scorer in 19 games. The majority of the season he spent as well as in the 2008 /09 season, however, at Chicago's new AHL farm team, the Rockford IceHogs.

In the following season he played primarily for the Rockford IceHogs and only came to three NHL games for the Chicago Blackhawks, where Dowell scored two points. In the season 2010/11 he made the final leap into the NHL squad Blackhawks.

July 1, 2011 Dowell signed a contract for one year with the Dallas Stars. Around a year later, he was equipped by the Minnesota Wild to a two-year contract. As part of the preparation for the 2013/14 season Dowell became the farm team of the game, the Iowa game, transferred to the AHL and thus is not in the NHL squad.

Internationally

For the U.S., Dowell participated in the U18 Junior World Championship in 2003, as well as the U20 World Junior Championships in 2004 and 2005 in part.

Awards and achievements

• 2004 Gold medal at the U20 World Junior Championships

Statistics

(End of season 2012/ 13)