Justin Fontaine
Date of birth | November 6, 1987 |
place of birth | Bonnyville , Alberta , Canada |
size | 178 cm |
Weight | 80 kg |
position | Right wing |
number | # 14 |
Shot hand | Right |
Career stations | |
2004-2007 | Bonnyville Pontiacs |
2007-2011 | University of Minnesota Duluth |
2011-2013 | Houston Eros |
2013-2016 | Minnesota Wild |
2016-2017 | Hartford Wolf Pack |
2017 | Bakersfield Condors |
2017-2018 | HK Dinamo Minsk |
2018-2019 | Kunlun Red Star |
since 2020 | Cologne Sharks |
Justin Carl Fontaine (born November 6, 1987 in Bonnyville , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Kölner Haien from the German Ice Hockey League (DEL) since January 2020 and plays there in the position of right winger .
Career
youth
Justin Fontaine began playing ice hockey in his hometown with the Bonnyville Pontiacs . The team plays in the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL) and thus at the second highest level, below the Canadian Hockey League . In the 2005/06 season Fontaine scored 81 points from 50 games and was named Rookie of the Year. He also took part in the World Junior A Challenge , where he won the gold medal with Team Canada West . Although he achieved a similar statistic in the following season, the second-rate AJHL was not enough to make Fontaine appear interesting for an NHL entry draft . However, he was elected in 2014 in the best 50 players in the history of the AJHL and in the best 10 AJHL players of the period 2004-2013.
As a result, the Canadian enrolled at the University of Minnesota Duluth in the summer of 2007 and from then on played for the Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA). After a below average year as a freshman , Fontaine had his breakthrough at UMD in the 2008/09 season. With the most assists in the team (33), he played a key role in ensuring that the Bulldogs won the WCHA playoffs and thus the Broadmoor Trophy . It was also the first of three consecutive years in which the attacker was elected to both the All-Academic Team and the Second All-Star Team of the WCHA. The greatest sporting success he achieved with the team in the 2010/11 season, when they won the championship ( Frozen Four ) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and thus became the best university team in the United States.
NHL
As one of the top performers of the Bulldogs, Fontaine drew the attention of franchises of the National Hockey League (NHL) after this success , so that he signed an entry contract with the Minnesota Wild in April 2011 . As expected, the Wild gave it to the Houston Eros , their farm team from the American Hockey League (AHL). In his first professional season, Fontaine came out there again as the team's best assists (39). After he was even the best scorer of the Eros in the following season 2012/13, the Minnesota Wild extended his expiring contract by one year in July 2013.
In addition, the Wild called him at the beginning of the 2013/14 season in their NHL line-up, where Fontaine subsequently earned a regular place and came to a total of 66 missions. In addition, Fontaine managed a hat trick against the Phoenix Coyotes in January of his debut season . As an established regular player, his contract was extended for two more years in the summer of 2014. Subsequently, he received no new contract in Minnesota and joined the New York Rangers as a free agent in October 2016 . There the attacker spent almost half a season exclusively with the Hartford Wolf Pack in the AHL before the Rangers handed him over to the Edmonton Oilers for the trade deadline on March 1, 2017 in exchange for Taylor Beck . In the Oilers' franchise, he only ran for their Bakersfield Condors farm team before his contract expired at the end of the season.
KHL and DEL
Fontaine moved in July 2017 as a free agent to the Belarusian club HK Dinamo Minsk in the Continental Hockey League . A year later, in July 2018, he signed a one-year contract with league competitor Kunlun Red Star . After this ended, the Canadian remained without a contract until January 2020, before he found a new employer in the Kölner Haien from the German Ice Hockey League (DEL).
Achievements and Awards
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International
- 2006 gold medal at the World Junior A Challenge
Career statistics
Status: end of the 2018/19 season
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | +/- | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | +/- | SM | ||
2004/05 | Bonnyville Pontiacs | AJHL | 12 | 1 | 4th | 5 | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
2005/06 | Bonnyville Pontiacs | AJHL | 50 | 26th | 55 | 81 | 36 | 9 | 1 | 6th | 7th | 4th | ||||
2006/07 | Bonnyville Pontiacs | AJHL | 52 | 30th | 41 | 71 | 60 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 8th | 10 | ||||
2007/08 | University of Minnesota Duluth | NCAA | 35 | 4th | 8th | 12 | -12 | 8th | ||||||||
2008/09 | University of Minnesota Duluth | NCAA | 43 | 15th | 33 | 48 | +2 | 18th | ||||||||
2009/10 | University of Minnesota Duluth | NCAA | 38 | 21st | 25th | 46 | +5 | 20th | ||||||||
2010/11 | University of Minnesota Duluth | NCAA | 42 | 22nd | 26th | 58 | +23 | 42 | ||||||||
2011/12 | Houston Eros | AHL | 73 | 16 | 39 | 55 | -3 | 32 | 4th | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | ||
2012/13 | Houston Eros | AHL | 64 | 23 | 33 | 56 | +10 | 18th | 5 | 3 | 5 | 8th | -1 | 4th | ||
2013/14 | Minnesota Wild | NHL | 66 | 13 | 8th | 21st | +6 | 26th | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ± 0 | 2 | ||
2014/15 | Minnesota Wild | NHL | 71 | 9 | 22nd | 31 | +13 | 12 | 6th | 1 | 1 | 2 | ± 0 | 2 | ||
2015/16 | Minnesota Wild | NHL | 60 | 5 | 11 | 16 | +3 | 20th | 4th | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | ||
2016/17 | Hartford Wolf Pack | AHL | 50 | 9 | 21st | 30th | -3 | 20th | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2016/17 | Bakersfield Condors | AHL | 15th | 2 | 9 | 11 | +6 | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2017/18 | HK Dinamo Minsk | KHL | 52 | 13 | 17th | 30th | -8th | 33 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2018/19 | Kunlun Red Star | KHL | 54 | 8th | 14th | 22nd | -14 | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
AJHL total | 114 | 57 | 100 | 157 | 108 | 14th | 4th | 11 | 15th | 14th | ||||||
NCAA overall | 159 | 62 | 102 | 164 | +18 | 90 | ||||||||||
AHL total | 202 | 50 | 102 | 152 | +8 | 76 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 8th | -4 | 4th | ||||
NHL overall | 197 | 27 | 41 | 68 | +22 | 58 | 19th | 2 | 2 | 4th | -1 | 4th | ||||
KHL total | 106 | 21st | 31 | 52 | -22 | 49 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
International
Represented Canada to:
year | team | event | result | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | |
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2006 | Canada West | U19-WJAC | 4th | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6th | ||
Juniors overall | 4th | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6th |
( 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
- Justin Fontaine in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
- Justin Fontaine at eliteprospects.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Andrew Mendler: Fontaine finding his way in the NHL. (No longer available online.) Bonnyvillenouvelle.ca, March 4, 2014, archived from the original on March 7, 2016 ; accessed on March 7, 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.
- ↑ AJHL Announces Top 50 Players of All-Time. ajhl.ca, January 18, 2014, accessed March 7, 2015 (English).
- ↑ a b Justin Fontaine at hockeysfuture.com (accessed on March 7, 2015)
- ↑ Glen Andresen: Wild Signs UMD Winger Justin Fontaine. wild.nhl.com, April 19, 2011, accessed March 7, 2015 .
- ↑ mdoylewild: Wild Re-signs Two RFAs. wildlighthouse.wordpress.com, July 18, 2013, accessed March 7, 2015 .
- ↑ Wild Re-Signs Fontaine. wild.nhl.com, July 29, 2014, accessed March 7, 2015 .
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Kölner Haie sign former NHL striker Fontaine. Retrieved January 25, 2020 .
Goalkeeper:
Bastian Kucis |
Justin Pogge |
Hannibal Weitzmann
Defender:
Taylor Aronson |
Maury Edwards |
Kevin Gagné |
Maximilian Glötzl |
Simon Gnyp |
Jakub Kindl |
Moritz Müller ( C ) |
Dominik Tiffels |
Colin Ugbekile |
Pascal Zerressen
attacker:
Jason Akeson |
Jason Bast |
Erik Betzold |
Dani Bindels |
Nicolas Cornett |
Lucas Dumont |
Justin Fontaine |
Colby Genoway ( A ) |
Ben Hanowski |
Mick Koehler |
Jon Matsumoto |
Marcel Müller |
Alexander Oblinger |
Robin Palka |
James Sheppard |
Zach Sill |
Colin Smith |
Frederik Tiffels |
Sebastian Uvira
Head coach: Uwe Krupp Assistant coach: Greg Thomson | Ron Pasco | Thomas Brandl General Manager: vacant
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Fontaine, Justin |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fontaine, Justin Carl (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1987 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonnyville , Alberta , Canada |