Brian Gionta

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Brian Gionta
Date of birth January 18, 1979
place of birth Rochester , New York , USA
size 170 cm
Weight 79 kg
position Right wing
number # 12
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1998 , 3rd round, 82nd position
New Jersey Devils
Career stations
1997-2001 Boston College
2001-2009 New Jersey Devils
2009-2014 Canadiens de Montréal
2014-2017 Buffalo Sabers
2018 Boston Bruins

Brian Joseph Gionta (born January 18, 1979 in Rochester , New York ) is a retired American ice hockey player . The right winger played a total of over 1,100 games in the National Hockey League between 2001 and 2018 , most of that time with the New Jersey Devils , with whom he won the Stanley Cup in the 2003 playoffs . He then ran for the Montréal Canadiens and Buffalo Sabers , each of which he led as captain , before ending his career with the Boston Bruins . He represented the USA national team at the 2006 and 2018 Winter Olympics . He has been a member of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame since 2019 .

Career

Gionta in the jersey of the Canadiens de Montréal

Gionta studied at Boston College and also played ice hockey there. In the 1998 NHL Entry Draft , he was drawn in the third round as 82nd by the New Jersey Devils from the National Hockey League . He stayed in college until 2001 and played with Team USA at the World Cup in 2000 and 2001 .

For the 2001/02 season , the New Jersey Devils brought Gionta into their team. They first used him on their farm team , the Albany River Rats , in the American Hockey League . Gionta completed 33 games in the NHL. In the following two years he had established himself in the roster of the Devils, but did not excel as a great scorer. During the lockout in the 2004/05 NHL season , he again completed 15 games for the Albany River Rats in the AHL and then moved to the German Ice Hockey League to end the season with the Iserlohn Roosters . Due to his wife's pregnancy, the family returned to North America before he was licensed.

When the NHL resumed gaming in autumn 2005, Gionta came back stronger than ever before. He finished the 2005/06 season as the top scorer of the Devils and scored 48 goals more than any player in the Devils dress had scored in one season; in February 2006 he played with Team USA at the Olympic Winter Games in Turin . After his contract with the New Jersey Devils had not previously been renewed, Gionta signed on July 1, 2009 as a free agent with the Canadiens de Montréal . In September 2010 he was named team captain of the Canadiens. Following the 2013/14 season , his contract in Montréal was not renewed.

In July 2014 he again signed a three-year contract with the Buffalo Sabers as a free agent . There he leads the team - just as he did in Montréal - as captain. At the end of the 2016/17 season , Gionta completed his 1,000th game in the NHL. Beyond this season, however, he did not receive a further contract in Buffalo, so that he was looking for a new employer from July 2017. He took the opportunity to take part in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , South Korea , before signing a contract with the Boston Bruins that was valid until the end of the season in February 2018 . This was not subsequently renewed, so he declared his active career ended in September 2018 and at the same time returned to the Buffalo Sabers, where he took on a management role.

In 2019, Gionta was honored with the induction into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame .

Achievements and Awards

  • 1998 Hockey East Championship with Boston College
  • 1998 Hockey East All-Rookie Team
  • 1998 Hockey East Second All-Star Team
  • 1998 Hockey East Rookie of the Year
  • 1998 NCAA East Second All-American Team
  • 1999 Hockey East Championship with Boston College
  • 1999 Hockey East First All-Star Team
  • 1999 NCAA East First All-American Team
  • 2000 Hockey East First All-Star Team
  • 2000 NCAA East First All-American Team
  • 2001 Hockey East Championship with Boston College
  • 2001 Hockey East Player of the Year
  • 2001 Hockey East First All-Star Team
  • 2001 Hockey East All-Academic Team
  • 2001 NCAA Division I Championship with Boston College
  • 2001 NCAA East First All-American Team
  • 2001 Walter Brown Award
  • 2003 Stanley Cup win with the New Jersey Devils

International

Records

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1997/98 Boston College Hockey East 40 30th 32 62 44
1998/99 Boston College Hockey East 39 27 33 60 46
1999/00 Boston College Hockey East 42 33 23 56 66
2000/01 Boston College Hockey East 43 33 21st 54 47
2001/02 Albany River Rats AHL 37 9 16 25th 18th - - - - -
2001/02 New Jersey Devils NHL 33 4th 7th 11 8th 6th 2 2 4th 0
2002/03 New Jersey Devils NHL 58 12 13 25th 23 24 1 8th 9 6th
2003/04 New Jersey Devils NHL 75 21st 8th 29 36 5 2 3 5 0
2004/05 Albany River Rats AHL 15th 5 7th 12 10 - - - - -
2005/06 New Jersey Devils NHL 82 48 41 89 46 9 3 4th 7th 2
2006/07 New Jersey Devils NHL 62 25th 20th 45 36 11 8th 1 9 4th
2007/08 New Jersey Devils NHL 82 22nd 31 53 46 5 1 0 1 2
2008/09 New Jersey Devils NHL 81 20th 40 60 32 7th 2 3 5 4th
2009/10 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 61 28 18th 46 26th 19th 9 6th 15th 14th
2010/11 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 82 29 17th 46 24 7th 3 2 5 0
2011/12 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 31 8th 7th 15th 16 - - - - -
2012/13 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 48 14th 12 26th 8th 2 0 1 1 0
2013/14 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 81 18th 22nd 40 22nd 17th 1 6th 7th 2
2014/15 Buffalo Sabers NHL 69 13 22nd 35 18th - - - - -
2015/16 Buffalo Sabers NHL 79 12 21st 33 12 - - - - -
2016/17 Buffalo Sabers NHL 82 15th 20th 35 22nd - - - - -
2017/18 Rochester Americans AHL 1 1 0 1 0 - - - - -
2017/18 Boston Bruins NHL 20th 2 5 7th 2 1 0 0 0 0
NCAA overall 164 123 109 232 203
AHL total 53 15th 23 38 28 - - - - -
NHL overall 1026 291 304 595 377 113 32 36 68 34

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1998 United States U20 World Cup 5th place 7th 5 3 8th 0
1999 United States U20 World Cup 8th place 6th 6th 5 11 6th
2000 United States WM 5th place 7th 2 1 3 2
2001 United States WM 4th Place 9 2 0 2 6th
2005 United States WM 6th place 7th 2 1 3 6th
2006 United States Olympia 8th place 6th 4th 0 4th 2
2018 United States Olympia 7th place 5 0 0 0 4th
Juniors overall 13 11 8th 19th 6th
Men overall 34 10 2 12 20th

( 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 )

family

His brother Stephen Gionta was also a professional ice hockey player.

Web links

Commons : Brian Gionta  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jacques has his man
  2. ↑ nhl.com: "Gionta glad to be with hometown Sabers" (English, July 2, 2014, accessed on September 7, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Gionta, Brian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gionta, Brian Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochester , New York , United States