Aaron Palushaj

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Aaron Palushaj
Date of birth September 7, 1989
place of birth Livonia , Michigan , USA
size 180 cm
Weight 85 kg
position Right wing
number # 17
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2007 , 2nd round, 44th position
St. Louis Blues
Career stations
2005-2007 Des Moines Buccaneers
2007-2009 University of Michigan
2009-2010 Peoria Rivermen
2010-2013 Montréal Canadiens
Hamilton Bulldogs
2013 Colorado Avalanche
2013-2014 Carolina Hurricanes
Charlotte Checkers
2014 Medveščak Zagreb
2014-2015 Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg
2015-2016 Lehigh Valley Phantoms
2016 Cleveland Monsters
2016-2017 HK Dinamo Minsk
2017-2018 Brynäs IF
2018-2019 Örebro HK
since 2019 HC Davos

Aaron Palushaj (born September 7, 1989 in Livonia , Michigan ) is an American ice hockey player in the position of winger who has been under contract with HC Davos from the National League since May 2019 .

Career

Palushaj in the Hamilton Bulldogs jersey (2012).

Palushaj began his career with the Des Moines Buccaneers in the United States Hockey League , with whom he won the 2006 Clark Cup . In the 2007 NHL Entry Draft , he was selected in the second round at a total of 44th position by the St. Louis Blues . From 2007 to 2009 he attended the University of Michigan and was meanwhile active for their ice hockey team, the Michigan Wolverines, in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA). During this time he won the Mason Cup , the championship of the CCHA, with the Wolverines in 2008 . In the following year, the offensive player scored 50 points in 39 CCHA games , which meant he was appointed to the CCHA First All-Star Team and the West All-American Team of the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the end of the season .

He then completed 52 games for the Peoria Rivermen , the farm team of the St. Louis Blues, in the American Hockey League (AHL), before he was given up on March 3, 2010 by the Blues to the Montréal Canadiens . St. Louis received the defender Matt D'Agostini in return . In the following three years Palushaj played 41 games for the Canadiens in the National Hockey League (NHL); most of the time he was active for Montreal's AHL farm team Hamilton Bulldogs .

On February 5, 2013, Aaron Palushaj was signed by the Colorado Avalanche as a waiver . In July 2013, he signed a one-year contract with the Carolina Hurricanes . This year he spent, apart from two NHL missions, exclusively with the Hurricanes farm team, the Charlotte Checkers from the AHL.

As a result, the Hurricanes gave Palushaj in September 2014 to the KHL Medveščak Zagreb , from which he moved within the Continental Hockey League to Awtomobilist Yekaterinburg just two months later . There he ended the 2014/15 season and then moved back to North America, to the Philadelphia Flyers . However, they only used him with their AHL farm team, the Lehigh Valley Phantoms , and did not extend his expiring contract, so that in September 2016 he signed a new one-year contract with the Cleveland Monsters , which was exclusively limited to the AHL . Shortly before the start of the Spengler Cup , he left the monsters and was signed by the Belarusian club HK Dinamo Minsk from the Continental Hockey League (KHL) . There he came to 20 KHL games by the end of the season before he moved to Sweden to Brynäs IF . He only stayed there for one season before moving to Örebro HK for the 2018/19 season, where he served as assistant captain. For the 2019/20 season he finally signed a one-year contract with HC Davos from the National League .

International

Aaron Palushaj represented his home country with the US national team for the first time at the U20 World Junior Championship in 2009 , in which Team USA finished fifth. He made his second appearance four years later at the 2013 Men's World Cup . In this tournament, the Americans won the bronze medal after beating the Finnish selection in the game for third place . Palushaj scored in nine starts a goal and an assist of .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2015/16 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league GP G A. Pts +/- PIM GP G A. Pts +/- PIM
2005/2006 Des Moines Buccaneers USHL 58 10 23 33 +11 53 11 2 4th 6th +1 15th
2006/2007 Des Moines Buccaneers USHL 56 22nd 45 67 +5 62 8th 6th 5 11 +1 6th
2007/2008 University of Michigan CCHA 43 10 34 44 +11 22nd
2008/2009 University of Michigan CCHA 39 13 37 50 +25 26th
2008/09 Peoria Rivermen AHL 4th 2 0 2 +1 4th 4th 0 1 1 +1 2
2009/10 Peoria Rivermen AHL 44 5 17th 22nd ± 0 22nd - - - - - -
Hamilton Bulldogs AHL 18th 3 7th 10 +3 8th 19th 2 10 12 +5 28
2010/11 Hamilton Bulldogs AHL 68 22nd 35 57 +2 42 19th 7th 12 19th +2 14th
2010/11 Montréal Canadiens NHL 3 0 0 0 +1 2 - - - - - -
2011/12 Hamilton Bulldogs AHL 35 15th 20th 35 -1 35 - - - - - -
2011/12 Montréal Canadiens NHL 38 1 4th 5 +1 8th - - - - - -
2012/13 Hamilton Bulldogs AHL 21st 7th 3 10 –9 18th - - - - - -
2012/13 Colorado Avalanche NHL 25th 2 7th 9 -2 8th - - - - - -
2013/14 Charlotte Checkers AHL 68 22nd 36 58 -3 80 - - - - - -
2013/14 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 2 0 0 0 -1 0 - - - - - -
2014/15 KHL Medveščak Zagreb KHL 25th 3 9 12 -1 26th - - - - - -
Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg KHL 28 4th 5 9 +2 22nd 5 0 0 0 -2 0
2015/16 Lehigh Valley Phantoms AHL 57 11 17th 28 -18 44 - - - - - -
USHL total 114 32 68 100 +16 115 19th 8th 9 17th +2 21st
CCHA total 82 23 71 94 +36 48
KHL total 53 7th 14th 21st +1 48 5 0 0 0 -2 0
AHL total 315 87 135 222 -5 253 42 9 23 32 +8 44
NHL overall 68 3 11 14th −1 18th - - - - - -

International

year team event result GP G A. Pts PIM
2009 United States U20 World Cup 5th place 6th 2 3 5 10
2013 United States WM bronze 9 1 1 2 12
Juniors overall 6th 2 3 5 10
Men overall 9 1 1 2 12

( 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 : Aaron Palushaj  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Canadiens acquire Aaron Palushaj from St. Louis in return for Matt D'Agostini. Montréal Canadiens , March 3, 2010, accessed May 23, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Avalanche claim F Palushaj off waivers from Canadiens. The Sports Network , February 5, 2013, accessed May 23, 2013 .
  3. ^ Hurricanes agree to terms with forward Palushaj. National Hockey League , July 11, 2013, accessed July 14, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Monsters' Aaron Palushaj Headed To Dinamo Minsk Through Transfer Deal. In: neosportsinsiders.com. December 27, 2016, accessed January 11, 2017 .
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Squad HC Davos in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME Palushaj, Aaron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Livonia , Michigan