Jason Widmer
Jason Widmer ( born August 1, 1973 in Calgary, Alberta ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. During his career he played for the New York Islanders and San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League.
Career
Widmer first played from 1989 to 1993 in the Western Hockey League with the Moose Jaw Warriors and Lethbridge Hurricanes. In the 1992/93 season the defender played his first games in the American Hockey League with the Capital District Islanders, a farm team of the New York Islanders, who had selected him in the NHL Entry Draft in 1992 in the eighth round at 176th position. For the 1993/94 season he returned to the WHL returns to Lethbridge and played there, although he had already crossed the age limit.
The season 1994 /95, which was significantly shorter for the NHL by the lockout, the Canadians spent at the Worcester IceCats, the new farm team of Islanders, the Canadian national team and the NHL team the Islanders, for whom he ran aground in a game. The 1995/96 season he spent mostly in the AHL team and came only four times in the NHL used. Due to the low possibility to establish themselves in the squad of the New York, Widmer signed in the summer of 1996 as a free agent contract with the San Jose Sharks. But there the Canadians could neither enforce and played again in the AHL with the Kentucky Thoroughblades. For the Sharks, he played only twice, but was able to prepare a goal. After two years he moved, again as a free agent in the franchise of the St. Louis Blues, where he had to play in the Worcester IceCats that had since been taken over by St. Louis exclusively in the AHL.
Widmer ended his career on 30 December 1999, after he had almost no play disputed exactly one year because of a serious knee injury.