Jame Pollock
Jame Pollock ( born June 16, 1979 in Quebec City, Canada ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defender, who is since June 2011 the Nuremberg Ice Tigers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga under contract.
Career
As a junior, Pollock played for the Seattle Thunderbirds in the Canadian junior Western Hockey League. He was selected during the NHL Entry Draft in 1997 by the St. Louis Blues in the fourth round at a total of 106 positions. After several years at the former farm team of the St. Louis Blues of the American Hockey League, the Worcester IceCats, the defensive player moved in summer 2004 to Europe.
There, the leaders of the Kloten Flyers took him from the Swiss National League A contract, for which he completed 26 league games in the subsequent period and thereby was able to achieve 12 points scorer. At the end of the season to Pollock joined the league rivals HC Lugano, where he played two play-off games. With the HC of Canadians difference in the quarter-finals in a best - of-seven series with a 1:4 defeat against SC Bern.
For the 2005/06 season the defender moved to the German Hockey League to the Nuremberg Ice Tigers. Pollock was able to adjust the defender scoring record by Chris Snell, who was by then at 22 gates in the main round in 2006/ 07. He scored on 2 March 2007, at play the Ice Tigers against the Polar Bears Berlin, his 22nd goal of the season. With the Ice Tigers of Canadians reached the play-off final, but which was lost against the Adler Mannheim in the same season.
In the summer of 2007 Jame returned an offer by the Washington Capitals to North America - despite valid contract with the Ice Tigers. He ran in the American Hockey League on for the Hershey Bears. He remained there only a few months and signed by only 16 completed games of the season in late 2007 a contract with HK CSKA Moscow. In Moscow, the then 29 -year-old was one of the best point defenders and scored in 28 games 15 points scorer. For the season 2008 /09, Jame Pollock joined the HK MVD Balaschicha, with whom he played in the highest Russian professional league of the Continental Hockey League. For the 2009/10 season the Canadians returned to the German Hockey League and played there for the Adler Mannheim. In June 2011, Pollock went back to Nuremberg at the Ice Tigers.
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 )