Jed Ortmeyer
Jed Ortmeyer ( born September 3, 1978 in Omaha, Nebraska ) is an American professional ice hockey player in the position of right winger who stands in January 2011 with the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League contract. His brother Jake was also a professional hockey player.
Career
Ortmeyer began his career with the Omaha Lancers in the United States Hockey League, for which he was active between 1997 and 1999. DC in his rookie year he collected 48 points scorer in 54 encounters. This earned him both the election to the All- Rookie Team and Second All-Star team in the league. He also won with the team this season, the Clark Cup, the championship trophy of the USHL. In the following season, the right winger increased its yield point at 59 Further successes both personal and remained with the team from however. In summer 1999, Ortmeyer began studying at the University of Michigan, for their hockey team, he at the same time in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association, a division in the play mode of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, ran aground in the next four years. The striker won at this time - 2000 and 2002 - two CCHA Championships with the University and has received numerous personal awards, including the appointment of the best defensive striker in the division as well as the Most Valuable Player of the Championship final tournament in 2003.
Ortmeyer was Ungedraftet taken after the end of his last season at the College on 10 May 2003 by the National Hockey League franchise the New York Rangers under contract. About the preparatory season training camp in the fall of 2003, the winger on first attempt to jump into the squad of Rangers. Ultimately denied the rookie in the season 2003/ 04 58 games for New York and came despite his defensive game focus on six points scorer. He also ran in 13 games for the Hartford Wolf Pack, the American Hockey League farm team of the Rangers on. There, the Americans also spent the entire 2004/ 05, as the NHL season fell victim to the lockout. With operations in 61 encounters the defensive specialist but gained further experience and match practice in the professional sector. From the season 2005/ 06 he was a member for the following two years back to the permanent staff of the team from the " Big Apple". However, Ortmeyer missed from mid-September 2006 a large part of the 2006 /07 due to a pulmonary embolism, and played for the mold assembly some games for Hartford in the AHL. Between the end of the lockout until the discharge of his contract in the summer of 2007, the striker played 119 games for the Rangers in the regular season and 13 in the playoffs. Despite the embolism, which had limited him in the season 2006/ 07 on 41 missions, he gained there by eleven points, the most in three seasons for New York.
As a free agent Ortmeyer has been committed by the Nashville Predators on July 2, 2007. In his first season with the team from the state of Tennessee Ortmeyer belonged to the NHL strain squad, denied because of a knee injury and subsequent surgery but only 51 games. Overall, the decrease between late February and early December 2008 for 48 games including the summer break. Then the coaching staff ordered him to the squad of Nashville's AHL farm team, the Milwaukee Admirals. There Ortmeyer spent with the exception of two games lasting stay in the NHL team in April 2009, the rest of the season and filled while the office of assistant captain from. Because of the expiring contract by the Nashville Predators was not renewed, he took on 16 July 2009 an offer from the San Jose Sharks with the term of one year.
In January 2011, he was taken by the Minnesota Wild under contract, the initially sent him to the farm team for the Houston Aeros in the AHL. In the following years he commuted regularly between the Minnesota Wild and their AHL farm team.
Awards and achievements
- 2002 CCHA Championship with the University of Michigan
- 2003 CCHA Best Defensive Forward
- 2003 CCHA Super Six All- Tournament Team
- 2003 CCHA Super Six Most Valuable Player
- 2003 NCAA Midwest Regional All- Tournament Team
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 )