Julian Melchiori

Julian Melchiori
Date of birth	December 6, 1991
place of birth	Richmond Hill , Ontario , Canada
size	195 cm
Weight	97 kg
position	defender
number	# 71
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2010 , 3rd round, 87th position Atlanta Thrashers
Career stations
2007-2008	Toronto Marlboros
2008-2010	Newmarket Hurricanes
2010–2012	Kitchener Rangers
2012	Oshawa Generals
2012-2015	St. John's IceCaps
2013-2018	Winnipeg Jets
2015-2018	Manitoba mosses
2018-2019	Springfield Thunderbirds
2019-2020	Binghamton Devils
since 2020	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk

Julian Melchiori (born December 6, 1991 in Richmond Hill , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk from the Continental Hockey League (KHL) since July 2020 and plays there in the position of defender . His uncle Mike Murphy was also a professional ice hockey player and later a coach in the NHL.

Career

Melchiori played between 2007 and 2010 in various lower-class junior leagues on Ontario. After he was selected in the third round of the NHL Entry Draft 2010 in 87th place by the Atlanta Thrashers from the National Hockey League (NHL), he first joined the Kitchener Rangers from the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). He played there for a year and a half before he was transferred to league rivals Oshawa Generals in January 2012 for the final months of his junior career .

After the 2011/12 season ended, the defender signed a contract with the Winnipeg Jets , the successor to the Thrashers franchise , and joined their farm team , the St. John's IceCaps between 2012 and 2015 and the Manitoba Moose in American Hockey in 2015 and 2018 League (AHL) used. During the 2013-14 season , he made his NHL debut for the Jets when he was used in a game. Two seasons later, eleven more games followed in the top North American division.

After more than six years in the organization of the Jets, Melchiori did not receive a further contract after the 2017/18 season, so he joined the Florida Panthers as a free agent in July 2018 . There he spent the entire season with the Springfield Thunderbirds before signing an AHL-limited contract with the Binghamton Devils in July 2019 . After the Canadian had spent a year there, he moved in July of the following year to the Russian club Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk from the Continental Hockey League (KHL).

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
2008/09	Newmarket Hurricanes	OJHL		48	2	20th	22nd	34		9	1	2	3	14th
2009/10	Newmarket Hurricanes	OJHL		39	7th	16	23	16		20th	2	9	11	10
2010/11	Kitchener Rangers	OHL		63	1	18th	19th	55		3	0	0	0	0
2011/12	Kitchener Rangers	OHL		35	2	17th	19th	42		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Oshawa Generals	OHL		26th	0	17th	17th	22nd		6th	2	1	3	2
2011/12	St. John's IceCaps	AHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	St. John's IceCaps	AHL		52	1	7th	8th	39		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	St. John's IceCaps	AHL		50	1	10	11	32		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	St. John's IceCaps	AHL		70	1	5	6th	54		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Manitoba mosses	AHL		62	3	4th	7th	46		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		11	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Manitoba mosses	AHL		40	2	6th	8th	18th		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		18th	0	2	2	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Manitoba mosses	AHL		49	4th	10	14th	15th		7th	2	4th	6th	0
2018/19	Springfield Thunderbirds	AHL		54	6th	6th	12	49		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Binghamton Devils	AHL		61	6th	11	17th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
OJHL overall				87	9	36	45	50		28	3	11	14th	24
OHL total				124	3	52	55	119		9	2	1	3	2
AHL total				439	24	59	83	267		7th	2	4th	6th	0
NHL overall				30th	0	2	2	8th		-	-	-	-	-

( 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

• Julian Melchiori in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Julian Melchiori at eliteprospects.com (English)