Jamal Mayers
Jamal Mayers David ( born October 24, 1974 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player in the position of right winger who stands since July 2011 for the Chicago Black Hawks in the National Hockey League contract.
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Career
Mayers played during his junior first time from 1990 to 1992 at the Weston Dukes and Thornhill Islanders in the Metro Junior A Hockey League near his birthplace. With a total of 143 points scorer in exactly 100 games, the striker showed his great potential at an early stage. In the summer of 1992, the then 17 -year-old decided - in contrast to many other Canadian youth players - for the continuation of his career at a U.S. college and not in one of three leagues of the Canadian Hockey League. Mayers moved to the location in Kalamazoo Western Michigan University. In addition to his studies, he played the next four years to 1996 in parallel for their hockey team in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association, one of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division. Although the Canadians could not celebrate great successes with the team in the CCHA in these four years, but he was already in the summer of 1993, selected in the NHL Entry Draft in the fourth round as 89 players from the St. Louis Blues. In addition, Mayers was found in all four years among the top seven scorers of the team - in the season 1994/95 even as top scorer.
After four years of college, the right winger joined in the summer of 1996 in the organization of the St. Louis Blues, who had drafted in three years earlier. Mayers graduated in his first professional year, a total of six games in the National Hockey League, while he managed one assist. The majority of the season 1996/97 he spent but the farm team of the Blues, the Worcester IceCats of the American Hockey League. The same happened to him in the next game year when he was used exclusively for Worcester. Between 1996 and 1999 graduated Mayers total of 143 encounters for the IceCats, where he scored 40 goals and 85 points scorer. The additional 255 penalty minutes underpinned his skills as a power forward. Regular periods of use in the NHL got Mayers from the 1999/2000 season, having already denied in the last 34 games of the season 1998/99, had scored its first four goals and convinces with good defensive play. The striker remained initially until the summer of 2004 in St. Louis. His best seasons, he graduated subsequently reach 21 points scorer than him and in 2001/ 02 when he could also have a plus / minus stats of 9 next 17 points scorer in 2000 /01. Mayers was thrown back in the following year, as, limited him a persistent knee injury that he suffered in mid-November 2002 to only 15 seasonally, and it turned out for the rest of the season.
Due to the strike-related failure of the NHL season 2004/ 05 Mayers left the Blues before the season. He signed on as a free agent with Hammarby IF Stockholm from the second-rate Swedish HockeyAllsvenskan. For the club from the capital, he played between mid-November 2004 and mid-March 2005 a total of 19 games in which he scored 22 points scorer. In March, the attacker eventually returned to the United States and signed a contract with the Missouri River Otters of the United Hockey League. By the end of the season he came in 13 matches on seven points scorer.
In autumn 2005, Mayer rejoined the St. Louis Blues and played another three years for the team in which he always scored well above 20 points scorer. After eleven years in the franchise from the Gateway City parted in June 2008 - the eve of the NHL Entry Draft 2008 - the ways of the blues and Mayers. He was discharged on June 19 for a choice of the third draft- round, with the Blues later James Livingston chose to 70th place at the Toronto Maple Leafs. Thus, the striker returned to his native city. Under the new Maple Leafs coach Ron Wilson Mayers was in Toronto's young team because of his experience from the outset a fixed size. On the services with which he had shone in the previous years in St. Louis, but he was not able. The growing dissatisfaction with the performance of the Canadian and his expiring two- year contract made him increasingly dispensable and so he was late January 2010, part of one of the biggest transfers of the NHL since the resumption of gaming operations in the fall of 2005. Together with Matt Stajan, Niklas Hagman and Ian White, he was transferred for Dion Phaneuf, Fredrik Sjostrom and Keith Aulie to the Calgary Flames. After 27 appearances for the Flames cooperation between the team and Mayers was not continued. As an Unrestricted Free Agent the power forward finally signed on 4 August 2010 a one-year contract with the San Jose Sharks, the needed replacement of the migrated Manny Malhotra, Jed Ortmeyer and. On 1 July 2011, he signed as a free agent a contract for one year with the Chicago Blackhawks.
Internationally
Mayers represented his native Canada for the first time at the World Championship 2000 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. As a subsequent nomination, he played seven of the nine games of his team and reached a semi-final defeat against eventual champions the Czech Republic and in the match for third place against Finland in fourth place. Mayers scored a goal in the tournament.
Until seven years later, the Toronto-born striker was again nominated. This time for the World Cup 2007 in Kazan, Russia. There, the team reached the finals and emerged with a 4-2 victory over Finland from this as a world champion. Mayers came in all nine games for use and carries out its task with four goals and five points scorer exceedingly well. His achievements were also considered in the following year, when he was called back into the squad for the home World Cup in 2008. In silver medal win of Canadians who lost the final against Russia 4:5 in extra time, Mayer again recorded five points scorer. Among them were two goals.
Awards and achievements
- 2007 Gold medal at the World Championships
- 2008 Silver medal at the World Championships
- 2013 Stanley Cup winner with the Chicago Blackhawks
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Canada at:
- World Cup 2000
- World Cup 2007
- World Cup 2008
( 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 )