Justin Azevedo
Justin Azevedo ( born April 1, 1988 in West Lorne, Ontario ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who is since April 2013 when HC Lev Prague in the Kontinental Hockey League contract.
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Career
Justin Azevedo began his career in 2004 at the Kitchener Rangers from the Canadian junior league Ontario Hockey League. He showed good performances in his debut season and came in 58 games on 18 goals and 21 assists. In the playoffs, he was also able to reach the Conference Finals with the Rangers. In the season 2005/ 06 he was already one of the leading players of the team with 69 points and was the second best scorer on the team, which he recommended himself for the Canadian junior national team and took part in the U18 World Youth Championship. With four goals and assists, he was the top scoring player in Canada, but failed to win a medal with the team, as they lost the third place match.
In the following season Azevedo came only on 56 points scorer, was missing, however, also in 22 league games. In the playoffs, but he became the second- best player in the Rangers with Steve Downie and scored four goals in eleven templates in nine games. However, the Rangers dropped out early in the second round.
His fourth year in the OHL should also be his best. Azevedo showed a significant increase on previous years, and was at the end of the season with 43 goals and 81 Assists in 67 league games best scorer of the OHL. He also led the Rangers with 36 points in 20 playoff games to win the J. Ross Robertson Cup. Also in the following Memorial Cup tournament, he followed up on his good services to, also introduced here in the scorers list, but the Rangers failed in the final to the Spokane Chiefs.
Azevedo won several awards after the end of the season. He received the Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy, the CHL Top Scorer Award and the Ed Chynoweth Trophy as the best scorer of the OHL, all junior leagues in the Canadian Hockey League and Memorial Cup tournament. To this end, the Red Tilson Trophy, the Wayne Gretzky 99 Award as well as the CHL Player of the Year Award came as Most Valuable Player of the regular season of OHL, the OHL playoffs and all junior leagues that are under the CHL.
After he was previously ignored in the two years in the NHL Entry Draft by the teams of the National Hockey League because of its low height of 1.73 meters, it eventually chose the Los Angeles Kings in the NHL Entry Draft in 2008 in the sixth round at position 153 from.
The 2008/09 season Azevedo graduated in the American Hockey League with the Manchester Monarchs, the farm team of the Los Angeles Kings. In the two following seasons Azevedo went solely for the Manchester Monarchs on the ice before he moved to Europe to Lukko Rauma in 2012.
Awards and achievements
- 2005 OHL First All - Rookie Team
- 2008 OHL All-Star Game
- 2008 J. Ross Robertson Cup winner with the Kitchener Rangers
- 2008 Red Tilson Trophy
- 2008 Wayne Gretzky 99 Award
- 2008 CHL Player of the Year
- 2008 Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy
- 2008 Ed Chynoweth Trophy
- 2008 CHL Top Scorer Award
- 2008 OHL First All -Star Team
- 2008 CHL First All -Star Team
- 2008 Memorial Cup All-Star Team
Internationally
- 2006 All- Star team the U18 World Youth Championship
Career Stats
Internationally
( 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 )