Justin Morrison

Justin Morrison ( born August 10, 1979 in Los Angeles, California) is an American professional ice hockey player who is in the SM- liiga plays for Lukko Rauma since 2009.

Career

Morrison began his career in 1997 as a team of Colorado College with which he was henceforth active in the American Collegiate Hockey Association Western College League, a league game in the operation of the NCAA. There, the winger has already won right away and was one of the best point players in the team, so he was selected during the NHL Entry Draft in 1998 by the Vancouver Canucks in the third round at a total of 81 positions. 1999 Morrison was first nominated for the U.S. junior national team, with whom he participated in the World Youth Championship in Canada in the same year. With Team USA, he was able to secure the league at the time only in the relegation round. Morrison came in six games for use, scoring five points, further, he had a plus / minus stats by 4. The links Sagittarius finished his studies and joined in the summer of 2001 in the American Hockey League with the Manitoba Moose, the farm team of the Vancouver Canucks.

After he was changed in the AHL, the attacker but never got the chance to prove themselves in the National Hockey League with the Vancouver Canucks, and went solely for the Manitoba Moose on the ice. A short time later, the Americans got even only in the squad of the Columbia Inferno of the ECHL, where he was employed in 40 games. At the end of the 2004/05 season, which he spent entirely in the AHL due to the lockout in the NHL, Morrison's contract was not renewed, and he a free agent the Atlanta Thrashers joined. The Thrashers put the striker but only in the farm team, the Chicago Wolves in the AHL one, so he changed the end to MODO Hockey in the Swedish Elitserien.

The following season, Morrison played for four different European clubs. First, he completed two games in the Finnish SM- liiga for TPS Turku before the attackers then moved to the Elite Series to the Frölunda Indians back to Sweden. After another eleven games for the Indians and a brief stint at Rauman Lukko him the charge of the Swiss club Rapperswil -Jona Lakers were able to see a commitment in the National League A, where Justin Morrison finished the current season.

After the start of the 2008/09 season, the attacker left Switzerland and signed a contract with the sample present in the Kontinental Hockey League newly established HC Dinamo Minsk. Morrison, however, was only used three times and had the club to leave. After another try-out with the HC Davos of Americans finally joined the German Hockey League to the Hamburg Freezers. After his contract was not renewed at the Freezers in summer 2009, Morrison returned to the SM- liiga to Lukko Rauma back.

AHL stats

(End of season 2008/ 09)