Brooks Macek

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Brooks Macek
Date of birth May 15, 1992
place of birth Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 82 kg
position center
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2010 , 6th round, 171st position
Detroit Red Wings
Career stations
2007-2008 Notre Dame Hounds
2008-2011 Tri-City Americans
2011-2013 Calgary Hitmen
2013-2016 Iserlohn Roosters
2016-2018 EHC Red Bull Munich
2018-2019 Chicago Wolves
since 2019 Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg

Brooks Macek (born May 15, 1992 in Winnipeg , Manitoba ) is a German - Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Awtomobilist Yekaterinburg in the Continental Hockey League (KHL) since June 2019 and plays for the team in the center position.

Career

Junior time in Canada

Brooks Macek played from 2007 to 2008 for the Notre Dame Hounds in the lower class Canadian Junior League Saskatchewan Midget AAA Hockey League and was able to win the championship. Throughout the league, he was third in the scorer ranking. For the 2008/09 season , Macek moved to the Tri-City Americans in the Western Hockey League , who had selected him in the second round of the WHL Bantam Draft in 2007 in 43rd place. In his first year he reached the conference semifinals with his team. In the 2009/10 season , the Tri-City Americans came to the finals of the Ed Chynoweth Cup and were subject to the Calgary Hitmen . Macek also improved and scored 90 points in 93 games. After the season he was drawn in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft by the Detroit Red Wings in the sixth round in 171st place. Halfway through his third season in the WHL, Macek was transferred to the Calgary Hitmen within the league in January 2011. With the reigning champion, however, he only achieved last place. A year later they reached the playoffs and were eliminated in the first round. In the 2012/13 season Macek was assistant captain of his team and set new personal bests with 38 goals and 94 points. With the Hitmen he came in the playoffs to the Conference finals, in which you were only defeated in the seventh decisive game of the Edmonton Oil Kings .

Change to the DEL

After completing his junior years, several clubs from Germany showed interest in Macek, as his German ancestors gave him the opportunity to take on German citizenship. On June 16, 2013 Macek signed a two-year contract with the Iserlohn Roosters from the German Ice Hockey League . At the Sauerland, he became a top performer in his first season and with 13 goals and 21 assists was instrumental in reaching tenth place and participating in the playoffs, in which he scored five goals himself and prepared another. Macek was able to convince with four goals, especially in the successful pre-playoffs against EHC Red Bull Munich . In the following season he increased his yield to a total of 17 goals and 22 assists, reached sixth place with the Roosters and thus the direct qualification for the playoffs. After the 2014/15 season he extended his contract with the Sauerland region for another year. In the following 2015/16 season , the Roosters played one of the most successful DEL main rounds in their history, which they were able to finish in third place in the table, with Macek and Nick Petersen being one of the team's two best goalscorers with 21 goals each.

For the 2016/17 season , Macek moved to the reigning champions EHC Red Bull Munich. In his first season for Munich he was able to defend the title with his team, where he was top scorer of the play-offs with 17 points , but had to leave the MVP title to his teammate Yannic Seidenberg . In the 2017/18 DEL season , alongside the best DEL goal setter Keith Aucoin , he was the most successful goalscorer in the main round with 26 goals and again won the German championship title with the Munich team.

Stations in North America and Russia

On June 12, 2018, the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League announced Macek's commitment. The German-Canadian received a one-year contract valid for both the National Hockey League and the American Hockey League . He did not appear in the NHL, but the striker played 81 games for the Chicago Wolves in the AHL, scoring 31 goals and preparing 35 more.

During the summer break of 2019, he accepted a contract offer from Awtomobilist Yekaterinburg from the Continental Hockey League .

International

When Germany Cup 2015 Macek made his debut for the German national team . He was also part of the German squad at the 2016 World Cup . Macek scored a total of three goals and gave an assist and reached the quarter-finals with his team. There they were eliminated against host Russia .

At the 2018 Winter Olympics , Macek was back in the DEB squad at a major international tournament after participating in the 2017 World Cup . There he won the silver medal with the team after a final defeat against Russia . On the way to the final, Macek scored two goals - including a goal in the semifinals against his country of birth.

Style of play

Macek is a talented striker who can be used as a center and winger. He has good game building skills and often appears as a scorer. He can read the game well and is effective in power play. Macek is considered a good skater who uses his speed on counterattacks and has a good work ethic. His defensive skills are average.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2007/08 Notre Dame Hounds SMHL 44 32 30th 62 37 10 10 6th 16 10
2008/09 Tri-City Americans WHL 60 8th 16 24 +4 24 11 3 0 3 −3 0
2009/10 Tri-City Americans WHL 72 21st 52 73 +6 26th 21st 6th 11 17th +10 17th
2010/11 Tri-City Americans WHL 38 8th 16 24 −8 26th - - - - - -
2010/11 Calgary Hitmen WHL 25th 5 12 17th −5 10 - - - - - -
2011/12 Calgary Hitmen WHL 54 14th 24 38 +8 19th 5 1 2 3 ± 0 0
2012/13 Calgary Hitmen WHL 70 32 48 80 +32 30th 17th 6th 8th 14th +8 8th
2013/14 Iserlohn Roosters DEL 50 13 21st 34 +2 6th 9 5 1 6th +3 2
2014/15 Iserlohn Roosters DEL 52 17th 22nd 39 +1 4th 7th 1 3 4th ± 0 0
2015/16 Iserlohn Roosters DEL 52 21st 18th 39 +11 28 6th 3 3 6th -3 4th
2016/17 EHC Red Bull Munich DEL 51 17th 10 27 +4 14th 14th 6th 11 17th +9 2
2017/18 EHC Red Bull Munich DEL 50 26th 18th 44 +20 10 17th 8th 7th 15th +5 4th
2018/19 Chicago Wolves AHL 64 26th 34 60 +22 12 17th 5 1 6th −8 8th
WHL overall 319 88 168 256 +37 135 54 16 21st 37 +15 25th
DEL total 255 94 89 183 +38 62 53 23 25th 48 +14 12

International

Represented Canada to:

Represented Germany at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2009 Canada Western U17-WHC 4th Place 6th 3 2 5 2
2016 Germany WM 7th place 8th 3 1 4th -4 2
2016 Germany Olympic qualification 1st place 3 1 2 3 +2 0
2017 Germany WM 8th place 8th 2 0 2 ± 0 0
2018 Germany Olympia 2nd place, silver 7th 2 2 4th -4 2
Juniors overall 6th 3 2 5 2
Men overall 26th 8th 5 13 –6 4th

( 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 )

Personal

Macek's father comes from Geldern . He was a basketball player, his mother a figure skater.

Web links

Commons : Brooks Macek  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hitmenhockey.com: MACEK GERMANY BOUND
  2. ↑ del.org: Brooks Macek changes to the Seilersee
  3. ↑ Player statistics DEL Play-offs 2013/14 , Eliteprospects.com , accessed on March 10, 2018
  4. ↑ DEL 2013/14 Pre-Playoffs , Eishockeypedia.de, accessed on March 10, 2018
  5. ↑ Macek again bulls-fright - Roosters surprise , Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger and Zeitung , September 26, 2014, accessed on March 10, 2018
  6. ↑ Canadian Note im Sauerland , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 30, 2015, accessed on March 10, 2018
  7. ↑ Team statistics DEL 2015/16 Iserlohn Roosters , accessed on March 10, 2018
  8. ↑ Macek, Matsumoto and Joslin join the EHC Red Bull Munich , Hockeyweb.de, May 2, 2016, accessed on March 10, 2018
  9. ↑ Player statistics DEL play-offs 2016/17 , Eliteprospects.com, accessed on March 10, 2018
  10. ↑ MVP Seidenberg: This is what he says about the honor , Münchner Merkur , April 20, 2017, accessed on March 10, 2018
  11. ↑ 2017 was absolutely crazy , Abendzeitung , January 5, 2018, accessed on March 10, 2018
  12. ↑ Goal scorers DEL main round 2017/18 , Eliteprospects.com, accessed on March 10, 2018
  13. ^ Vegas Golden Knights Sign Forward Brooks Macek. June 12, 2018, accessed June 12, 2018 .
  14. ↑ https://www.nhl.com/de/player/brooks-macek-8475804
  15. ↑ The national player who still has to learn German. In: ovb-online.de. November 9, 2015, accessed March 8, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Liveticker Finland - Germany 5: 2 (Olympic Games 2018 Pyeongchang, Group C). Retrieved on February 23, 2018 (German).
  17. ↑ kicker online, Nuremberg, Germany: perfect ice hockey miracle! Germany in the final . In: kicker online . ( kicker.de [accessed on February 23, 2018]).
  18. ↑ hockeysfuture.com: Brooks Macek Talent Analysis
  19. ↑ Roosters striker Macek has play-offs and the World Cup in his sights . " Derwesten.de ". November 10, 2015. Accessed February 1, 2016.
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personal data
SURNAME Macek, Brooks
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnipeg , Manitoba