John Hecimovic

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John Hecimovic ( born March 31, 1984 in Waterloo, Ontario ) is a Canadian- Croatian ice hockey player who stands at 2012 Dornbirn EC in the Austrian Hockey League contract.

Career

Clubs

John Hecimovic began his career as a hockey player in the Canadian Junior Football League Ontario Hockey League, where he was active for the Sarnia Sting and Mississauga IceDogs 2000-2005. During this period he was also was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in the ninth round in 2003 when a total of 264 players from the Florida Panthers, for whom he never played, however. Instead, the winger was in the 2005/06 season his debut in professional hockey for the South Carolina Stingrays of the ECHL before he finished the season with the Straubing Tigers in the 2nd Bundesliga. With Straubing he rose to the German Hockey League, but returned to the ECHL, where he ran aground in the following season for the Pensacola Ice Pilots.

The 2007/08 season began Hecimovic again in Pensacola, but moved after only five games to HYS The Hague in the Dutch Eredivisie. With the team he became Dutch champion in 2009. Subsequently, the Canadian- Croatian dual citizen received a contract with the newly included in the Austrian Hockey League KHL Medveščak Zagreb, for whom he played for two years and where he was an assistant captain in the 2010/11 season. In 2011 he won with Medveščak also the Croatian championship titles. For the season 2011/12 he moved to Anyang Halla of the Asia League Ice Hockey. In December 2011 he transferred within the league to the Nippon Paper Cranes. But after only a year in Asia Hecimovic returned to the Austrian Hockey League and joined the EC Dornbirn.

Internationally

His debut for Croatia was Hecimovic in September 2012 at the pre-qualification for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi. Also in the Games Division II of the 2013 World Championships he participated and went not only with the Croats in the Division I but was also associated with six goals and six preparations the best scorer of the tournament

Awards and achievements

  • 2006 promotion to the DEL with the Straubing Tigers
  • 2009 Dutch champion HYS The Hague with
  • 2011 Croatian champion with the KHL Medveščak Zagreb
  • 2013 Promotion to Division I, Group B, at the World Championships Division II, Group A
  • 2013 Top scorer of the world championship of Division II, Group A

EBEL statistics

(End of season 2012/ 13)

Waterloo (Ontario) 2003 NHL Entry Draft Croatian Ice Hockey League 2011–12 Asia League Ice Hockey season Croatia men's national ice hockey team 2013 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships
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