Jason LaBarbera

Jason LaBarbera ( born January 18, 1980 in Burnaby, British Columbia) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who is since December 2013 for the Chicago Black Hawks in the National Hockey League contract.

Career

Jason LaBarbera started his career in 1996 in the Canadian junior Western Hockey League with the Portland Winter Hawks. In summer 1998 he was selected by the New York Rangers in the NHL Entry Draft in 1998 in the third round at position 66. He played two more years in the WHL before moving to the NHL.

In October 2000, he came for the first time for the Rangers to use, but only for ten minutes. After that he played in the East Coast Hockey League with the Charlotte Checkers and the American Hockey League for the Hartford Wolf Pack, both farm team of the Rangers. But the bulk of it played in Hartford. In 2004 he was named best goalkeeper and Most Valuable Player ( MVP ) of the AHL excellent. The following year he received the trophy for the lowest Gegentordurchschnitt the league.

In November 2003, he completed his second NHL game and had three more to follow during the season yet. In the summer of 2004, his contract ran out in New York, but he got a new in the Hartford Wolf Pack in the AHL.

In autumn 2005 he signed a two -year contract with the Los Angeles Kings. He completed the season as the back-up goalie Mathieu Garon from, came 29 times used and managed in the last game of the season his first NHL shutout. It was at the same time also the final game in the career of Luc Robitaille, one of the variables to the team of Kings.

For the season 2006/ 07 Los Angeles undertook with Dan Cloutier another experienced goalkeeper and LaBarbera had in the AHL with the Manchester Monarchs, the farm team of the Kings, where he was first-choice goalkeeper. In Manchester he developed into a very strong support and received at the end of the season again the Aldege " Baz " Bastien Award as the best goalkeeper of the season, as well as the Harry " Hap " Holmes Memorial Award for the fewest goals.

From 2009 he played for the Phoenix Coyotes. In July 2013 LaBarbera signed a one year contract with the Edmonton Oilers. In November 2013 LaBarbera was then placed on the waiver in order to then transfer it to the Oklahoma City Barons, the AHL farm team the Oilers. In December 2013 he was transferred to the Chicago Blackhawks.

Records

  • Jason LaBarbera made ​​on 13 February 2004 with his tenth shutout of the season 2003/ 04 a new AHL record. In the remainder of the season he was able to extend his record to 13 shutouts.

Awards and achievements

  • 2004 Aldege " Baz " Bastien Award
  • 2004 Les Cunningham Award
  • 2004 AHL First All -Star Team
  • 2005 AHL All- Star Classic
  • 2005 Harry " Hap " Holmes Memorial Award (jointly with Stephen Valiquette )
  • 2007 Aldege " Baz " Bastien Award
  • 2007 Harry " Hap " Holmes Memorial Award
  • 2007 AHL First All -Star Team
431891
de