Akim Aliu

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Akim Aliu
Date of birth April 24, 1989
place of birth Okene , Nigeria
size 189 cm
Weight 99 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2007 , 2nd round, 56th position
Chicago Blackhawks
Career stations
2005-2006 Windsor Spitfires
2006-2007 Sudbury Wolves
2007-2009 London Knights
2009 Sudbury Wolves
2009-2010 Rockford IceHogs
2010-2011 Chicago Wolves
2011 Peoria Rivermen
2011-2013 Abbotsford Heat
2013-2014 Hamilton Bulldogs
Hartford Wolf Pack
2014-2015 Rochester Americans
Bakersfield Condors
2015-2016 Amur Khabarovsk
2016-2017 Florida Everblades
2017 Atlanta Gladiators
Cleveland Monsters
2017-2018 HC 05 Banská Bystrica
2018 Karlskrona HK
IK Pantern
since 2019 Orlando Solar Bears

Template: Infobox ice hockey player / country code 2

Akim Aliu (born April 24, 1989 in Okene , Nigeria ) is a Canadian ice hockey player with Ukrainian citizenship who has been playing for the Orlando Solar Bears in the ECHL since February 2019 .

Career

Aliu was born in Nigeria. However, he spent most of his childhood in the Ukrainian capital Kiev , his mother's hometown, where his father studied at the university there. At the age of seven he moved to Toronto, Canada with his parents . He gained his first experience on ice skates at the age of ten.

Beginnings in the OHL and controversy with Steve Downie (2005-2009)

At the age of 16, Aliu was selected in the 2005 OHL Priority Selection Draft by the Windsor Spitfires in the first round. At the end of 2005 there was an argument between his teammate Steve Downie and himself. After Aliu had been checked hard by Downie in training and had lost three teeth, a fist fight broke out between the two of them in the same unit . The incident is said to have been a reaction to the fact that Aliu had refused to take part in an "induction ceremony" in the previous weeks, during which the new players had to strip naked in front of their fellow players in the shower stall of the team bus. The dispute and how it came about caused a sensation in the USA and sparked a media discussion about the traditional induction rituals at universities. Subsequently, Downie was suspended for five games and Aliu for one game, while coach Moe Mantha was suspended for 40 games and the club was fined $ 35,000 by the league. The two players involved finally demanded a change, so that Aliu was transferred to the Sudbury Wolves within the league . He also spent the 2006/07 season with the Wolves.

On June 1, 2007 Sudbury also transferred the winger, which he played from the 2007/08 season for the London Knights . In the 2007 NHL Entry Draft Aliu, the second Nigerian-born player after Rumun Ndur , was selected in the second round in 56th place by the Chicago Blackhawks . In the 2007/08 game year he had his best season in the OHL and was signed by the Chicago Blackhawks for three years in August 2008. He had previously made his professional debut with the Rockford IceHogs in the American Hockey League . The 2008/09 season he still played in the OHL, where he was transferred from the London Knights to his former team, the Sudbury Wolves, over the course of the season. Aliu contributed 26 points scorer in 29 games in Sudbury and reached the first round of the playoffs.

AHL and ECHL (since 2009)

During the 2009/10 season he played parallel for Rockford in the AHL and the Toledo Walleye in the ECHL . In the summer of 2010 he was transferred from the Chicago Blackhawks to the Atlanta Thrashers in an extensive transfer business , so he moved to Atlanta with Dustin Byfuglien , Ben Eager and Brent Sopel , while the Blackhawks Marty Reasoner , Joey Crabb , Jeremy Morin and two options for the Received NHL Entry Draft 2010 . With the AHL farm team of the Thrashers, the Chicago Wolves , he started the 2010/11 season and scored five goals and four assists in 43 games. In addition, he was on the ice in 16 games for Chicago's cooperation partner Gwinnett Gladiators in the ECHL, for which he contributed twelve goals and eight assists during this period.

In March 2011, he moved within the AHL to the Peoria Rivermen , with whom he was eliminated at the end of the season in the first playoff round. On January 30, 2012, the Winnipeg Jets transferred him to the Calgary Flames in exchange for defense attorney John Negrin . There he came in the following year and a half to seven appearances in the National Hockey League , but spent much of the time with the farm team Abbotsford Heat , for which he had played on loan before his commitment by the Flames . From September 2013 he played for two months under a trial contract ( try-out ) for the Hamilton Bulldogs , before he was signed again on a trial basis by the Hartford Wolf Pack in December of the same year . After Aliu could not recommend himself for a longer-term engagement there either, he decided to move to Sweden to AIK Solna , for which he also only played two games in the Svenska Hockeyligan .

In the run-up to the 2014/15 season, he took part in the preparation for the Rochester Americans season and then received a trial contract. After ten games in the AHL, he was released from his contract and signed in January 2015 with the Bakersfield Condors from the East Coast Hockey League . In the summer of 2015, the attacker completed the pre-season at the Lake Erie Monsters , but received no contract offer there. In November 2015 he moved to Europe again, where Aliu joined the Russian club Amur Khabarovsk from the Continental Hockey League . There, too, the striker only played sporadically, just like in his subsequent stations until summer 2018 at the Florida Everblades , Atlanta Gladiators , Cleveland Monsters in the United States, HC 05 Banská Bystrica in Slovakia and Karlskrona HK and IK Pantern in Sweden. In February 2019 he found a new employer in the Orlando Solar Bears .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T A. Pt SM Sp T A. Pt SM
2005/06 Windsor Spitfires OHL 18th 3 4th 7th 25th - - - - -
2005/06 Sudbury Wolves OHL 29 7th 6th 13 54 6th 0 1 1 7th
2006/07 Sudbury Wolves OHL 53 20th 22nd 42 104 21st 1 5 6th 50
2007/08 London Knights OHL 60 28 33 61 133 5 2 1 3 15th
2007/08 Rockford IceHogs AHL 2 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
2008/09 London Knights OHL 16 8th 10 18th 30th - - - - -
2008/09 Sudbury Wolves OHL 29 10 16 26th 61 6th 2 1 3 14th
2008/09 Rockford IceHogs AHL 5 2 0 2 14th 1 1 0 1 0
2009/10 Rockford IceHogs AHL 48 11 6th 17th 69 - - - - -
2009/10 Toledo Walleye ECHL 13 5 9 14th 18th 2 1 1 2 16
2010/11 Chicago Wolves AHL 43 5 4th 9 53 - - - - -
2010/11 Gwinnett Gladiators ECHL 16 12 8th 20th 22nd - - - - -
2010/11 Peoria Rivermen AHL 16 6th 4th 10 20th 2 1 0 1 8th
2011/12 Calgary Flames NHL 2 2 1 3 12 - - - - -
2011/12 Abbotsford Heat AHL 42 10 4th 14th 59 5 0 1 1 28
2011/12 Colorado Eagles ECHL 10 2 4th 6th 28 - - - - -
2012/13 Calgary Flames NHL 5 0 0 0 14th - - - - -
2012/13 Abbotsford Heat AHL 42 4th 7th 11 111 - - - - -
2013/14 Hamilton Bulldogs AHL 14th 3 1 4th 18th - - - - -
2013/14 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 9 1 0 1 7th - - - - -
2013/14 AIK Solna SHL 2 1 0 1 6th 1 1 0 0 0 0
2014/15 Rochester Americans AHL 10 3 1 4th 51 - - - - -
2014/15 Bakersfield Condors ECHL 15th 2 7th 9 24 - - - - -
2014/15 Oklahoma City Barons AHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2015/16 Amur Khabarovsk KHL 19th 2 5 7th 52 - - - - -
2016/17 Florida Everblades ECHL 11 5 6th 11 28 - - - - -
2016/17 Atlanta Gladiators ECHL 2 0 1 1 33 - - - - -
2016/17 Cleveland Monsters AHL 13 3 2 5 19th - - - - -
2017/18 HC 05 Banská Bystrica Extra league 9 2 4th 6th 14th - - - - -
2017/18 Karlskrona HK SHL 6th 0 0 0 62 - - - - -
2017/18 IK Pantern Allsvenskan 6th 0 1 1 16 3 1 1 1 2 8th
OHL total 205 76 91 167 407 38 5 8th 13 86
ECHL total 67 26th 35 61 153 2 1 1 2 16
AHL total 245 47 29 76 423 8th 2 1 3 34
NHL overall 7th 2 1 3 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tsn.ca Dreger Report: Akim Aliu still in search of a shot at the NHL
  2. ↑ calgaryherald.com Akim Aliu set to make his NHL debut
  3. ↑ cbc.ca OHL suspends coach over hazing episode
personal data
SURNAME Aliu, Akim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-Ukrainian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Okene , Nigeria