Jeremy Roenick

Jeremy Shaffer Roenick ( born January 17, 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts ) is a retired American professional ice hockey player. During his playing career he played 1989-2009 for the Chicago Blackhawks, Phoenix Coyotes, Philadelphia Flyers, Los Angeles Kings and San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League on the position of the center. Roenick is one of the best American player of all time.

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Career

Roenick began his career at Thayer Academy, a high school in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. After he had achieved in two seasons between 1986 and 1988, a total of 48 games 149 points and led in its second year, the team to the championship in their league, were USA Hockey, the American Hockey Association, and the franchises of the National Hockey League attentive to him. Successful participation in the World Youth Championship meant that the Chicago Blackhawks chose him at the NHL Entry Draft in 1988 in the first round in eighth place. In order to better develop his talent, put the Blackhawks the then 18 -year-old first in the Canadian Quebec Major Junior Hockey League with the Hull Olympiques. Again, he dominated, scoring 34 goals in just 28 games and prepared before 36. Of these, impressed came for the Blackhawks Roenick already the end of the 1988/89 season for 20 games in the NHL, where he recorded nine goals and eight assists.

From the 1989/90 season of Americans already belonged to the tribe squad of the Chicago Blackhawks. In his rookie season he filled with 66 points still not quite reach expectations, but was with his compatriot Mike Modano and the 30-year Sergei Makarov, one of the candidates for the Calder Memorial Trophy for best rookie. After 94 points in his second year followed by three seasons with over 100 points and he had become the offensive leader of Chicago. During the lockout, which delayed the start to the game year 1994/95 by several months, he played three games for the Cologne Sharks in the DEL, where he scored three goals and one assist. As a result, various knee injuries and a concussion threw him back again and again. After the 1995/96 season, the Blackhawks Roenick gave from the Phoenix Coyotes and got in return Alexei Schamnow, Craig Mills and a first-round draft pick in the NHL Entry Draft in 1997. In Phoenix, he continued his physical play way up to the end of the season 2000/ 01 continued and was there from the beginning, one of the leading players. In his last two seasons in Phoenix, he scored the most goals and most of the templates for his team. As the new owner of the Coyotes wanted to save salary costs, they gave Roenick and more players in the summer of 2001 from other teams. He signed as a free agent contract with the Philadelphia Flyers ambitious. In his first season for the Flyers, he scored his 1,000 point in the NHL. He succeeded as 63 players in total and fourth Americans. After three years with the Flyers, in which the team was not able to win the Stanley Cup, followed by a renewed lockout that led to a complete cancellation of the NHL season 2004/ 05. During this time, Roenick played no games and was transferred in the summer of 2005 by the Flyers to the Los Angeles Kings, as the teams were forced by the new Collective Bargaining Agreement to the salaries to slash and thus maintain only a few players with high salaries could. In Los Angeles, Roenick spent the weakest year of his entire NHL career move than him in 58 games only 22 points. In the summer of 2006, on July 4, he therefore returned as a free agent with the Phoenix Coyotes back who had offered him a doped with 1.2 million U.S. dollars, one-year contract, but also there was not the center of the offensive benefits of earlier years.

After Roenick had worked after the end of the regular season 2006/ 07 as playoff analyst for the Canadian sports channel TSN and subsequently resignation rumors had arisen in the summer, he finally continued his career and moved to the San Jose Sharks, where he a one-year contract signed. With his fifth goal of the season on November 10, 2007, he reached the 40th NHL history and the third in the United States born player the mark of 500 gates. Overall, he completed his best season since the lockout and was one of the surprises of the season. After leaving the Sharks in the second playoff round Roenick extended the expiring contract on improved terms for a further year. However, his last NHL game time was under an unlucky star. In early December, the striker was injured on the shoulder, and he had to undergo surgery and the end of February returned to the squad. A little later came on again problems that led to a further loss of time. Overall, Roenick played only 42 games in the regular season. After leaving the Sharks in the first playoff round, he let his sporting future for a long time open before he was beginning of August 2009 announced his retirement.

Internationally

On the international stage Roenick first appeared at the Junior World Championships in 1988 for the U.S. national hockey team to, as in 1989. Though the team did not advance to the medal ranks, but Roenick was able to be in 1989 elected to the All-Star Team of the World Cup. It then took until 1991 before he took part in the Senior World Championships, who graduated the team on the fourth place. In the same year, however, succeeded in winning the silver medal at the Canada Cup, where Roenick found himself again in the All-Star team. In the years 1998 and 2002 he took part in the Winter Olympics. After a disappointing sixth place in Nagano in 1998, the Americans won in 2002 in Salt Lake City home the silver medal. His last nomination for an international tournament was Roenick 2004 World Cup of Hockey in which he was not used. For the Olympic ice hockey tournament in Turin in 2006, he received no nomination.

Awards and achievements

• 2000 NHL All-Star Game
• 2002 NHL All-Star Game
• 2003 NHL All-Star Game
• 2004 NHL All-Star Game
• 2010 admission into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame

Internationally

Career Stats

Internationally

Represented the U.S. at:

• U20 World Junior Championships 1988
• U20 World Junior Championships 1989
• World Cup 1991
• Canada Cup 1991

• 1998 Winter Olympics
• 2002 Winter Olympics
• World Cup of Hockey 2004

( 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 )