Zach Boychuk

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Zach Boychuk
Date of birth 4th October 1989
place of birth Airdrie , Alberta , Canada
size 178 cm
Weight 79 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2008 , 1st round, 14th position
Carolina Hurricanes
Career stations
2005-2009 Lethbridge Hurricanes
2009-2013 Carolina Hurricanes
2013 Pittsburgh Penguins
Nashville Predators
2013-2015 Carolina Hurricanes
2015-2016 Charlotte Checkers
2016 Bakersfield Condors
2016-2017 HK Sibir Novosibirsk
2017-2018 HC Slovan Bratislava
2018 Severstal Cherepovets
2018-2019 SC Bern
since 2019 Friborg-Gottéron

Zachary "Zach" Boychuk (born October 4, 1989 in Airdrie , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Friborg-Gottéron in the Swiss National League since December 2019 and plays there in the position of left winger .

Career

Boychuk in the 2011 Carolina Hurricanes jersey.

Boychuk began his ice hockey career in the fall of 2004 with the Strathmore UFA Bisons in the Alberta Midget Hockey League , a lower class Canadian junior league. After he knew how to convince there at the age of 15 with 27 points in 36 games, he moved to the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the Western Hockey League for the following season . In his rookie season Boychuk came to 51 points in 64 encounters and was the second best scorer of the team before he increased his point production by 40 to 91 points in the 2006/07 game year and became the third best scorer in the league. Nevertheless, he did not manage to lead the team into the playoffs. This changed in the following season, when he again scored significantly fewer points, but with the team advanced into the final series of the WHL playoffs. There the team was clearly defeated by the Spokane Chiefs in four games and thus missed the championship win and the associated entry into the Memorial Cup finals. Boychuk was awarded for his performances with the election to the WHL East Second All-Star Team.

In addition, the franchises of the National Hockey League inevitably became aware of him. Finally, the elected him Carolina Hurricanes in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in the first round in 14th place out. Similar to his former teammate from Lethbridge, Luca Sbisa , he surprisingly made the jump into the NHL squad of the Carolina Hurricanes at the beginning of the 2008/09 season . After two games in the NHL, in which he remained goalless and pointless, he was returned to the junior team for the rest of the season. In the 2009/10 season Boychuk played for both the Carolina Hurricanes and in the AHL for the Albany River Rats. The following season he began with the Charlotte Checkers in the AHL, for which he scored 32 points in 28 games and was then called back to the NHL squad of the Carolina Hurricanes.

In late January 2013, the boychuk on the waiver list was selected by the Pittsburgh Penguins . In March 2013, the offensive player was again placed on the waiver and then selected by the Nashville Predators . That same month he was placed on the waiver one more time and this time selected by Carolina Hurricanes . He played three more years in the organization of the Hurricanes, spending the end of the 2015/16 season on loan with the Bakersfield Condors . Subsequently, the Hurricanes did not extend his expiring contract, so Boychuk joined the HK Sibir Novosibirsk from the Continental Hockey League in October 2016 and mostly played there in the third or fourth row.

In the 2017/18 season Boychuk was under contract with HC Slovan Bratislava and completed 35 KHL games for Slovan, in which he collected 24 scorer points. He also took part in the KHL All-Star Game 2018 and was named KHL Striker of the Month in November 2017 . In June 2018 Boychuk was signed by Severstal Tscherepowez and played 25 games for the KHL club before moving to the National League for SC Bern in mid-November . He was able to celebrate the Swiss championship title with SC Bern in 2019 . As a result, his contract was not extended, so that he did not find a new employer in Switzerland until Demzeber 2019 in Friborg-Gottéron .

International

On an international level, Boychuk played for his home country for the first time at the U18 Junior World Cup in Finland in 2007 . However, after a semi-final defeat against the US selection and another defeat in the game for third place against Sweden , the Canadians missed the hoped-for medal win. He himself contributed six points in seven games over the course of the tournament. Almost half a year later, the trained center was nominated for the Super Series 2007 and advanced to the sixth-best scorer of the Canadians against the Russian selection with six points, although he only played seven of the eight games in the country comparison.

At the turn of the year 2007/08 Boychuk played at the U20 World Junior Championship in 2008 for the first time with the under 20s. Although he could not score a scorer point in seven tournament games, he won the gold medal with the team. In the following year he was one of only four players from the previous year's team who were nominated again for the 2009 U20 Junior World Championship . With seven scorer points, this time he made a significant contribution to the Canadians' renewed title win.

At the end of December 2017, he won the traditional Spengler Cup  in Davos with the Canadian selection  and scored a goal in the final.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2005/06 Lethbridge Hurricanes WHL 64 18th 33 51 30th 6th 0 5 5 2
2006/07 Lethbridge Hurricanes WHL 69 31 60 91 52 - - - - -
2007/08 Lethbridge Hurricanes WHL 61 33 39 72 80 18th 13 8th 21st 6th
2008/09 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2008/09 Albany River Rats AHL 2 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
2008/09 Lethbridge Hurricanes WHL 43 28 29 57 22nd 11 7th 6th 13 12
2009/10 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 31 3 6th 9 2 - - - - -
2009/10 Albany River Rats AHL 52 15th 21st 36 24 8th 2 3 5 4th
2010/11 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 23 4th 3 7th 4th - - - - -
2010/11 Charlotte Checkers AHL 60 22nd 43 65 48 16 3 6th 9 14th
2011/12 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 16 0 2 2 0 - - - - -
2011/12 Charlotte Checkers AHL 64 21st 23 44 46 - - - - -
2012/13 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2012/13 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 7th 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
2012/13 Nashville Predators NHL 5 1 1 2 4th - - - - -
2012/13 Charlotte Checkers AHL 49 23 20th 43 16 5 3 3 6th 4th
2013/14 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 11 1 3 4th 0 - - - - -
2013/14 Charlotte Checkers AHL 69 36 38 74 55 - - - - -
2014/15 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 31 3 3 6th 4th - - - - -
2014/15 Charlotte Checkers AHL 39 12 12 24 14th - - - - -
2015/16 Charlotte Checkers AHL 56 9 16 25th 24 - - - - -
2015/16 Bakersfield Condors AHL 16 3 2 5 16 - - - - -
2016/17 HK Sibir Novosibirsk KHL 35 7th 9 16 20th - - - - -
2017/18 HC Slovan Bratislava KHL 35 11 13 24 38 - - - - -
2018/19 Severstal Cherepovets KHL 25th 2 2 4th 8th - - - - -
2018/19 SC Bern NL 22nd 5 6th 11 12 8th 0 3 3 4th
WHL overall 237 110 161 271 184 35 20th 19th 39 20th
AHL total 407 141 176 317 245 29 8th 12 20th 22nd
NHL overall 127 12 18th 30th 16 - - - - -
KHL total 95 20th 24 44 66 - - - - -

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2006 Canada Pacific U17-WHC 4th Place 6th 1 3 4th 4th
2006 Canada HIMT 1st place, gold 4th 0 2 2 4th
2007 Canada U18 World Cup 4th Place 6th 4th 3 7th 4th
2007 Canada Super Series 1st place 7th 4th 2 6th 12
2008 Canada U20 World Cup 1st place, gold 7th 0 0 0 2
2009 Canada U20 World Cup 1st place, gold 6th 4th 3 7th 0
Juniors overall 36 13 13 26th 26th

( 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

Commons : Zach Boychuk  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bern needs goals and signs Boychuk. November 19, 2018. Retrieved November 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ https://www.spenglercup.ch/de/news/erneuter-triumph-fuer-das-team-canada
personal data
SURNAME Boychuk, Zach
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boychuk, Zachary (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Airdrie , Alberta