Anže Kopitar

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Anže Kopitar
Date of birth August 24, 1987
place of birth Jesenice , SR Slovenia
size 193 cm
Weight 100 kg
position center
number # 11
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2005 , 1st round, 11th position
Los Angeles Kings
Career stations
until 2004 HD mladi Jesenice
2002-2004 HK HIT Casino Kranjska Gora
2004-2006 Södertälje SK
since 2006 Los Angeles Kings

Anže Kopitar (born August 24, 1987 in Jesenice , SR Slovenia ) is a Slovenian ice hockey player . The center has been under contract with the Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League since 2006 , who had selected him in eleventh position in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft . With the team he has been captain since 2016 , he won the Stanley Cup in 2012 and 2014 . In addition, Kopitar was twice honored with the Frank J. Selke Trophy as the best defensive striker in the NHL and with the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy as a fair sportsman. At the international level, he represented Slovenia at the 2014 Winter Olympics, among others . His father Matjaž Kopitar was also a professional ice hockey player and is now a coach. His brother, Gašper Kopitar, is also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Kopitar in the jersey of Mora IK (2012)

Kopitar learned to play ice hockey in Slovenia at HD mladi Jesenice , for whom he played in the Slovenian junior league between 2002 and 2004. At the same time, he was in the men's team of the partner team HK HIT Casino Kranjska Gora in the Slovenian ice hockey league , the Državno Prvenstvo . In 2004, at the age of 17, he decided to move to Sweden, where he initially played for the Södertälje SK juniors . At the end of the 2004/05 season he also made his debut for the men's team of the same club in the Elitserien . Because of the performances shown, the scouts from North America also became aware of him, so that Kopitar was selected as the first European in the NHL Entry Draft 2005 by the Los Angeles Kings . In the summer of 2005 Kopitar took part in a rookie training camp for the Kings, but decided to stay in Sweden. A short time later he was also selected in the import draft of the Canadian Hockey League , but decided again to stay with Södertälje SK.

At the beginning of the 2006/07 season he made his debut in the NHL, becoming the first Slovenian NHL player. In his rookie season with Los Angeles, he reached 61 scorer points in 72 games, including 20 goals and 41 assists. This made him the third best rookie in the entire NHL on points. His 20:32 minutes ice time per game was the best of any striker for the Los Angeles Kings. In the following two seasons he established himself within the league and developed into a leading player in the Kings, so that he was elected assistant captain of his team in the 2009/10 season . On March 26, 2011 Kopitar suffered a broken ankle in a game against the Colorado Avalanche , which excluded him from playing for the remainder of the 2010/11 season .

Anže Kopitar plays inline hockey during the summer break . Between 2005 and 2007 he played a few games for the inline hockey club from Kranjska Gora . He spent the lockout of the 2012/13 season at Mora IK in Sweden.

After winning the Stanley Cup with the Kings in 2012 and 2014 , he was named the 14th team captain in franchise history in June 2016. In the same month he was awarded the Frank J. Selke Trophy as best defensive striker and the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy for exemplary behavior and high sporting standard for the past season . In the 2017/18 season he achieved his best career performance to date with 92 scorer points from 82 games and at the same time reached the mark of over 1.0 points per game for the first time. He was then honored with his second Frank J. Selke Trophy and was also nominated with Taylor Hall and Nathan MacKinnon for the Hart Memorial Trophy as the most valuable player in the league, which Hall won as a result.

In April 2019 Kopitar played the 1000th NHL game of the regular season.

International

For Slovenia , Kopitar took part in the junior division of the U18 Junior B World Championships in 2003 , 2004 and 2005 and the U20 Junior B World Championships in 2004 , 2005 and 2006 . In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad at the 2007 B World Championships and the 2005 , 2006 and 2008 A World Championships . Especially at the U20 B World Cup in 2005, where he was top scorer and top scorer in Group B, and at the B World Cup in 2007, where he helped his team as top scorer, best striker, most valuable player , best assist and player The best plus / minus balance of Group B helped his team to move up to the top division, he was able to convince in the national jersey. In February 2014 Kopitar took part in the Winter Olympics for the first time with the Slovenian national team and reached the quarter-finals.

He also represented the Europe team at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey , where he finished second with the team.

Achievements and Awards

International

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
2002/03 HD mladi Jesenice Državno Prvenstvo Jr. 16 12 10 22nd 4th 4th 3 2 5 4th
2002/03 HK HIT Casino Kranjska Gora Državno Prvenstvo 11 4th 4th 8th 4th - - - - -
2002/03 HD mladi Jesenice Državno Prvenstvo Jr. 20th 30th 24 54 16 5 2 4th 6th 0
2003/04 HK HIT Casino Kranjska Gora Državno Prvenstvo 21st 14th 11 25th 25th 4th 1 1 2 0
2004/05 Södertälje SK J18 Allsvenskan 1 1 2 3 0 1 0 0 0 2
2004/05 Södertälje SK J20 SuperElit 30th 28 21st 49 26th 2 1 1 2 0
2004/05 Södertälje SK Elitserien 5 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0
2005/06 Södertälje SK Elitserien 47 8th 12 20th 28 10 1 7th 4th 11 6th
2006/07 Los Angeles Kings NHL 72 20th 41 61 24 - - - - -
2007/08 Los Angeles Kings NHL 82 32 45 77 22nd - - - - -
2008/09 Los Angeles Kings NHL 82 27 39 66 32 - - - - -
2009/10 Los Angeles Kings NHL 82 34 47 81 16 6th 2 3 5 2
2010/11 Los Angeles Kings NHL 75 25th 48 73 20th - - - - -
2011/12 Los Angeles Kings NHL 82 25th 51 76 20th 20th 8th 12 20th 9
2012/13 Mora IK Allsvenskan 31 10 24 34 14th - - - - -
2012/13 Los Angeles Kings NHL 47 10 32 42 16 18th 3 6th 9 12
2013/14 Los Angeles Kings NHL 82 29 41 70 24 26th 5 21st 26th 14th
2014/15 Los Angeles Kings NHL 79 16 48 64 10 - - - - -
2015/16 Los Angeles Kings NHL 81 25th 49 74 16 5 2 2 4th 2
2016/17 Los Angeles Kings NHL 76 12 40 52 28 - - - - -
2017/18 Los Angeles Kings NHL 82 35 57 92 20th 4th 1 1 2 0
2018/19 Los Angeles Kings NHL 81 22nd 38 60 30th - - - - -
2019/20 Los Angeles Kings NHL 70 21st 41 62 16 - - - - -
Elitserien total 52 8th 12 20th 28 10 0 0 0 0
NHL overall 1073 333 617 950 294 79 21st 45 66 39

International

Represented Slovenia at:

 

Represented Team Europe at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2003 Slovenia U18 World Championship Div. IA 3rd place 5 2 1 3 0
2004 Slovenia U20 World Cup Div. IA 3rd place 5 1 1 2 0
2004 Slovenia U18 World Championship Div. IB 2nd place 5 6th 2 8th 0
2005 Slovenia U20 World Cup Div. IB 2nd place 5 10 3 13 6th
2005 Slovenia U18 World Championship Div. IB 2nd place 5 6th 5 11 14th
2005 Slovenia WM 13th place 6th 1 0 1 2
2006 Slovenia U20 World Cup Div. IA 3rd place 5 5 1 6th 4th
2006 Slovenia WM 16th place 6th 3 6th 9 2
2007 Slovenia WM Div. IB 1st place 5 1 13 14th 2
2008 Slovenia WM 15th place 5 3 1 4th 2
2014 Slovenia Olympia 7th place 5 2 1 3 4th
2015 Slovenia WM 16th place 7th 1 3 4th 0
2016 Slovenia Olympic qualification 1st place 3 3 2 5 2
2016 Team Europe World cup 2nd place 6th 0 4th 4th 2
2019 Slovenia WM Div. IA 4th Place 5 2 5 7th 2
Juniors overall 30th 30th 13 43 24
Men overall 48 16 35 51 18th

( 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 : Anže Kopitar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nhl.com, Report: Kopitar won't return until next season
  2. ↑ http://www.spox.com/de/sport/olympia/winterspiele-2014/eishockey/1402/News/slowenien-loest-viertelfinal-ticket-oesterreich-weltmeister-schweden-anze-kopitar-jan-urbas.html
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Squad of the Los Angeles Kings in the season 2019/20

Goalkeeper: Cal Petersen  | Jonathan Quick  
Defender: Drew Doughty  ( A ) | Ben Hutton  | Kurtis MacDermid  | Matt Roy  | Joakim Ryan  | Sean Walker  
attacker: Michael Amadio  | Dustin Brown  | Jeff Carter  ( A ) | Alex Iafallo  | Adrian Kempe  | Anže Kopitar  ( C ) | Trevor Lewis  | Blake Lizotte  | Matt Luff  | Trevor Moore  | Tim Schaller  | Austin Wagner  
Head Coach:  Todd McLellan    Assistant  Coach : Marco Sturm  | Trent Yawney    General Manager:  Rob Blake

personal data
SURNAME Kopitar, Anže
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kopitar, Anze
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Jesenice , SR Slovenia