Yannick Weber
Yannick Weber ( born September 23, 1988 in Morges ) is a Swiss ice hockey player standing since July 2013 at the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League under contract and in parallel for their AHL farm team, which comes Utica Comets used.
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Career
Yannick Weber comes from the youth of the SC Bern, spent his first professional season, however, the second division club SC Langenthal. After only one year, he decided in 2006 to a move to North America and played from then on the Kitchener Rangers in the Ontario Hockey League. In the NHL Entry Draft in 2007 it attracted the Montreal Canadiens at 73rd and took him a year later, also under contract. After a few seasons, mainly with inserts for the farm team of the Canadiens in the AHL, the Hamilton Bulldogs, Weber came in the 2010/2011 season to 41 missions in Fanionteam. At the end of the season Weber signed a one-way contract until 2013.
For the duration of the NHL lockout in the 2012/13 season the defender was obliged by the Swiss Club Genève -Servette HC in September 2012. In July 2013 Weber signed a one-year contract with the Vancouver Canucks. There he was in the NHL squad not prevail and was submitted to the AHL farm team of the Canucks, the Utica Comets in November 2013.
Stood for the Swiss junior national Yannick Weber a few times on the ice. Among other things, at the junior world championships in 2007 and 2008.
Awards and achievements
- 2007 OHL Second All- Rookie Team
- 2008 OHL Second All-Star Team
- 2008 J. Ross Robertson Cup with the Kitchener Rangers win
- 2009 AHL All- Star Classic
- 2009 AHL First All -Star Team
- 2009 AHL All- Rookie Team
Internationally
- 2006 promotion to the top division at the U18 World Youth Championship
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Switzerland at:
- U18 World Junior Championships 2005
- U20 World Junior Championships 2006
- U18 World Junior Championships Division I 2006
- U20 World Junior Championships 2007
- U20 Junior World Championship 2008
- World Cup 2009
- 2010 Winter Olympics
- 2014 Winter Olympics
( 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 )