Brandon Kozun

Brandon Kozun
Date of birth	March 8, 1990
place of birth	Los Angeles , California , USA
size	173 cm
Weight	75 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2009 , 6th round, 179th position Los Angeles Kings
Career stations
2006-2010	Calgary Hitmen
2010-2014	Manchester monarchs
2014-2015	Toronto Maple Leafs Toronto Marlies
2015-2016	Jokerit Helsinki
2016-2019	Yaroslavl locomotive
2019-2020	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
since 2020	HK Dinamo Minsk

Brandon Scott Kozun (born March 8, 1990 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American - Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with HK Dinamo Minsk from the Continental Hockey League (KHL) since August 2020, where he holds the position of right winger plays.

Career

youth

Brandon Kozun was born and started playing ice hockey in Los Angeles, but moved with his family to Calgary, Canada, when he was ten . There he played for regional junior teams before spending a year at the prestigious Shattuck-Saint Mary’s private school in Faribault in 2005/06 . He then returned to Calgary and was there in the 2006/07 season mainly for the Calgary Royals in the Alberta Junior Hockey League , while at the same time he gained his first experience with the Calgary Hitmen in the higher-ranking Western Hockey League (WHL). With the beginning of the following season, the winger established himself in the squad of the Hitmen, where he made his breakthrough in the WHL in 2008/09 by scoring 108 points in 72 games and as a result was elected to the WHL East First All-Star Team . Then he considered the Los Angeles Kings from his hometown in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft in 179th position. For the time being, however, he returned to Calgary for another year and won the playoffs for the Ed Chynoweth Cup with the Hitmen , leading the WHL and the entire Canadian Hockey League in points and therefore with the Bob Clarke Trophy and the CHL Top Scorer Award was awarded; he was also called back to the WHL East First All-Star Team .

Professional area

2010 Kozun retired due to age from the WHL, so that the Los Angeles Kings equipped him with an entry contract in April . As a result, they used him in their farm team , the Manchester Monarchs , in the American Hockey League (AHL), where the attacker also established himself as a regular scorer and scored over 20 goals and almost 50 points in the following three years. Despite these values, Kozun never made it into the National Hockey League (NHL) in Los Angeles , so in January 2014 he was given to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for Andrew Crescenzi . In Toronto, too, he initially appeared in the AHL for the Marlies , but made his debut for the Maple Leafs in the NHL at the beginning of the 2014/15 season. As a result, he spent the season in roughly equal parts in the NHL and AHL, with 20 appearances and four points in the top division of North America in the end.

His expiring contract was not extended in summer 2015, so Kozun decided to move to Europe and joined the Finnish Jokerit from the Continental Hockey League (KHL). There the striker quickly became the team's best scorer and took part in the KHL All-Star Game . After a year he moved within the league to Lokomotive Yaroslavl , which he also led in points and represented again in the All-Star Game in 2017 and 2018.

In the 2018/19 season, he and Andrei Loktionow were once again top scorer at Lokomotiv. After his contract with Lokomotive expired, he and Loktionow moved to HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk . In the summer of 2020 he left the club and joined league rivals HK Dinamo Minsk from Belarus.

International

Kozun has dual citizenship and decided in his youth to represent Canada internationally. He took part with the U20 national team in the U20 World Cup in 2010 and won the silver medal there, losing to the USA in the final . The attacker made his debut for the senior national team of Canada as part of the Deutschland Cup 2016 , in which Team Canada also won the silver medal. In January 2018 it was announced that Kozun would be part of the Canadian squad at the 2018 Winter Olympics . He benefited from the decision of the NHL not to interrupt the season for this Olympiad and thus ban their players from participating. In Pyeongchang, Kozun finally won the bronze medal with the team.

Achievements and Awards

2009 WHL East First All-Star Team 2010 Ed Chynoweth Cup win with the Calgary Hitmen 2010 Bob Clarke Trophy 2010 CHL Top Scorer Award

2010 WHL East First All-Star Team 2016 participation in the KHL All-Star Game 2017 participation in the KHL All-Star Game 2018 participation in the KHL All-Star Game

International

• 2010 silver medal at the U20 World Cup
• 2018 bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2006/07	Calgary Hitmen	WHL		11	1	1	2	+3	4th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Calgary Hitmen	WHL		69	19th	34	53	+30	46		16	4th	14th	18th	+1	6th
2008/09	Calgary Hitmen	WHL		72	40	68	108	+50	58		18th	7th	12	19th	+12	8th
2009/10	Calgary Hitmen	WHL		65	32	75	107	+20	50		23	8th	22nd	30th	+11	12
2010	Calgary Hitmen	Memorial Cup									2	0	2	2	+1	0
2010/11	Manchester monarchs	AHL		72	23	25th	48	+4	48		7th	1	3	4th	+2	2
2011/12	Manchester monarchs	AHL		74	20th	26th	46	-3	58		3	1	1	2	+2	2
2012/13	Manchester monarchs	AHL		74	26th	30th	56	+12	52		4th	0	2	2	± 0	0
2013/14	Manchester monarchs	AHL		43	10	19th	29	+1	38		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Toronto Marlies	AHL		32	7th	10	17th	+8	32		14th	4th	2	6th	± 0	8th
2014/15	Toronto Marlies	AHL		23	5	6th	11	+3	16		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		20th	2	2	4th	-3	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Jokerit Helsinki	KHL		58	15th	34	49	+7	67		6th	3	3	6th	+2	4th
2016/17	Yaroslavl locomotive	KHL		59	23	33	56	+16	55		14th	2	12	14th	-2	4th
2017/18	Yaroslavl locomotive	KHL		53	13	20th	33	+9	42		6th	1	1	2	-2	2
2018/19	Yaroslavl locomotive	KHL		52	19th	22nd	41	+2	32		9	1	5	6th	+4	37
2019/20	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk	KHL		47	9	13	22nd	+3	36		4th	0	1	1	+2	4th
WHL overall				217	92	178	270	+103	158		57	19th	48	67	+24	26th
AHL total				318	91	116	207	+25	244		28	6th	8th	14th	+4	12
NHL overall				20th	2	2	4th	-3	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
KHL total				269	79	122	201	+37	232		39	7th	22nd	29	+4	51

International

Represented Canada to:

• U20 Junior World Championship 2010
• Olympic Winter Games 2018

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2010	Canada	U20 World Cup			6th	3	4th	7th	+6	0
2018	Canada	Olympia			5	0	2	2	+1	2
Juniors overall					6th	3	4th	7th	+6	0
Men overall					5	0	2	2	+1	2

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Commons : Brandon Kozun  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Brandon Kozun at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Brandon Kozun at eurohockey.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Helene Elliott: Kings sign LA native Brandon Kozun to entry-level deal. latimes.com, April 3, 2010, accessed January 12, 2018 . 
2. ^ Kings Sign Kozun. nhl.com, April 4, 2010, accessed January 12, 2018 . 
3. ^ Leafs Acquire Kozun From Kings. nhl.com, January 23, 2014, accessed January 12, 2018 . 
4. ↑ 2019 transfers: Lokomotiv and Metallurg as the main sensations. In: khl.ru. May 8, 2019, Retrieved June 18, 2019 (Russian). 
5. ↑ Doug Harrison: Former NHLers, AHL standouts dot Canadian Olympic men's hockey roster. cbc.ca, January 11, 2018, accessed on January 12, 2018 .