Jason Pominville
Jason John Pominville ( born November 30, 1982 in Repentigny, Quebec ) is an American- Canadian professional ice hockey player who plays on the right wing for the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League since April 2013.
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Career
Pominville started his career with Shawinigan Cataractes of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey in the League. There, made the attacker, who played at this time in the second attack formation of the Cataractes, in his third season attention to himself when he scored 46 goals in 71 games and 67 more prepared. During the NHL Entry Draft in 2001, he was selected by the Buffalo Sabres in the second round to 55th place, since his offensive strength and his eye for the next man convinced decision makers from Buffalo. This season was also crowned with an invitation to training camp for the World Junior Championship in 2002, but he did not make it into the squad.
After the draft for another season still stuck to his junior team and confirmed his previous performance before Pominville was appointed a playing time later in the squad of the Rochester Americans. In his first professional season with the Sabres farm team in the American Hockey League, he scored 34 points scorer and reached a score of 16 penalty minutes. The following season, the striker managed a breakthrough in the professional sector by not only debuted in the NHL, but also 64 scorer points in 66 regular season games and another 19 points in 16 playoff games scoring. Because of the lockout was followed by a further year in Rochester, where he improved his performance last year again.
In the season 2005/ 06 he was an integral part of the squad of Sabres and scored 18 goals in 12 assists in 57 games after he was still at the beginning of the season in the squad of the Amerks. In the play-offs for the Stanley Cup Pominville scored his first NHL hat trick in the second game of the first round against the Philadelphia Flyers. Later in the play-offs, he scored in game five of the series against the Ottawa Senators the game and series winning goal shorthanded in the extension. This was the first play-off in the long history of the NHL, which was decided by a goal shorthanded in the extension.
Due to the NHL lockout in 2012, he was active for the Adler Mannheim of the German Ice Hockey League. For the Trade Deadline on April 3, 2013, was transferred to the Minnesota Wild.
Internationally
In 2008 he took part for the first time at a World Cup when he scored for Team USA five points scorer in seven games.
Awards and achievements
- 2001 CHL Top Prospects Game
- 2002 Frank J. Selke Trophy
- 2002 QMJHL First All - Star Team
- 2002 CHL Third All- Star Team
- 2012 NHL All-Star Game
Career Stats
Internationally
( 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 )