Colby Genoway

Colby Genoway
Date of birth	December 12, 1983
place of birth	Morden , Manitoba , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	90 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1999-2001	Winkler Flyers
2002-2005	University of North Dakota
2005-2006	Hartford Wolf Pack
2006-2007	Portland Pirates
2007-2008	Manitoba mosses
2008-2009	Mora IK
2009	HC Pardubice
2009-2010	Ilves Tampere
2010-2011	HC Lugano
2011-2015	Lausanne HC
2015-2016	KHL Medveščak Zagreb
2016	Friborg-Gottéron
2016-2017	KHL Medveščak Zagreb
2017	EHC Kloten
2017-2018	HC Slovan Bratislava
since 2018	Cologne Sharks

Colby Genoway (born December 12, 1983 in Morden , Manitoba ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Kölner Haien in the German Ice Hockey League since May 2018 . His brother Chay Genoway is also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Colby Genoway was initially active from 1999 to 2001 for the Winkler Flyers in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League . He then studied for three years at the University of North Dakota and played for their ice hockey team in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association . After completing his university career , the undrafted right-handed shooter was signed by the Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League towards the end of the 2004/05 season . In the following season 2005/06 Genoway made his breakthrough in the American Hockey League, when he scored 26 goals and 35 assists in 77 regular season games. In July 2006, the Canadian was signed by the Anaheim Ducks , for which he never appeared and instead began the 2006/07 season in the AHL farm team with the Portland Pirates . In January 2007 he was transferred to the Vancouver Canucks , for whose farm team Manitoba Moose he was also active in the following season. The 2008/09 season he spent mainly with the Swedish second division team Mora IK , but also completed some missions as a loan player with Ilves Tampere from the Finnish SM-liiga . The following season Genoway spent both with Ilves and the Czech first division club HC Pardubice .

For the 2010/11 season he was signed by HC Lugano . In the summer of 2011, the right-firing winger signed a three-year contract with Lausanne HC from the National League B. Already in his first season in the Vaudois dress, the Canadian advanced to a leading player within the team. For the 2012/13 season he was appointed assistant captain of the Lausanne, which he led through the finals with strong performances. After Genoway had completed the qualification with 66 points in 39 games, he scored 24 points in the playoffs in eleven games for Lausanne HC, with which he won the 2013 National League B championship. Especially in the final series against EHC Olten , Genoway played a key role in the Lausanne win when he was involved in four goals in the last encounter of the series. With the Vaudois, he was then promoted to the National League A after they had defeated the SCL Tigers in the league qualification .

After the 2014/15 season, in which he had only played 21 games due to various injuries, he left the LHC and was signed by the KHL Medveščak Zagreb from the Continental Hockey League . He played there until February 2016 before returning to Switzerland. He played nine games for Friborg-Gottéron in the 2015/16 season. The following season he joined Medveščak Zagreb again.

In January 2017 Genoway left Zagreb again for NLA and switched to EHC Kloten . He joined the Kölner Haien in the German Ice Hockey League via HC Slovan Bratislava during the 2018 summer break .

Achievements and Awards

• 2013 National League B champion with Lausanne HC
• 2013 Most assists in the NLB playoffs

Web links

• Colby Genoway at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Colby Genoway at hockeydb.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ NLA / KHL: Colby Genoway leaves Lausanne in the direction of Medvescak Zagreb. (No longer available online.) In: hockey-news.info. July 15, 2015, archived from the original on September 21, 2015 ; Retrieved September 9, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Gottéron obliges Genoway. (No longer available online.) In: luzernerzeitung.ch. February 2, 2016, archived from the original on February 15, 2016 ; accessed on February 15, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Returnees: Taylor and Genoway return to Medvescak. In: medvescak.com. Retrieved July 6, 2016 . 
4. ↑ The Canadian striker Colby Genoway for EHC Kloten. (No longer available online.) In: EHC Kloten. Archived from the original on January 18, 2017 ; accessed on January 18, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ https://www.eishockeynews.de/aktuell/artikel/2018/05/23/koelner-haie-verpflichten-genoway-aus-der-khl-und-eckl-von-heilbronn.html