Joe Motzko

Joseph Andrew Motzko ( born March 14, 1980 in Bemidji, Minnesota ) is an American professional ice hockey player who plays for the EC Red Bull Salzburg in the Erste Bank Hockey League since 2013.

Career

Joe Motzko began his career as a hockey player with the Omaha Lancers, where he was active in the United States Hockey League in the 1998/99 season. He then played four years for the crew of the St. Cloud State University before he first ran aground near the end of the 2002/03 season in professional hockey, in two games for Syracuse Crunch, the American Hockey League farm team of the Columbus Blue Jackets as he who had signed him on 15 May 2003, ran aground. In the following season, the attacker made ​​his debut in the National Hockey League for Columbus, but the majority of the season played for the Syracuse Crunch, where he regularly stood until 2007 on the ice as he used the NHL team the Blue Jackets only sporadically been.

On 26 January 2007, the Blue Jackets gave the right to protect their league rivals, the Anaheim Ducks, from. By the end of the season he completed 34 games for their AHL farm team, the Portland Pirates, before the Ducks Motzko for the playoffs for the Stanley Cup invoked in their NHL squad. Later, when the Stanley Cup win of Americans completed a total of three games. In summer 2007, he moved to the Washington Capitals, where he, however, also could not prevail in the NHL, so that the striker has been transferred to the Atlanta Thrashers during the 2007/ 08 season. By the end of the season the winger played exclusively for their AHL farm team, the Chicago Wolves, with whom he won the Calder Cup. Also in the season 2008 /09 was mainly Motzko for Chicago in the AHL on the ice, while for the Thrashers, he scored a goal in six NHL games.

On July 16, 2009, the Americans then signed a contract with HK MVD Balaschicha from the Kontinental Hockey League. This, however, he left in mid- September of that year to complete without a single competitive match. He joined in the wake of the ERC Ingolstadt of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga game.

Since the 2013/14 season, he is the EC Red Bull Salzburg under contract.

Awards and achievements

  • 2007 AHL All- Star Classic
  • 2007 Stanley Cup win with the Anaheim Ducks
  • 2008 AHL All- Star Classic
  • 2008 Calder Cup win with the Chicago Wolves
  • 2009 AHL All- Star Classic

NHL stats

(End of season 2009/10)

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