André Burakovsky
Date of birth | February 9, 1995 |
place of birth | Klagenfurt , Austria |
size | 190 cm |
Weight | 90 kg |
position | Left wing |
number | # 95 |
Shot hand | Left |
Draft | |
KHL Junior Draft |
2012 , 3rd round, 102nd position SKA Saint Petersburg |
NHL Entry Draft |
2013 , 1st round, 23rd position Washington Capitals |
Career stations | |
until 2013 | Malmo Redhawks |
2013-2014 | Erie Otters |
2014-2019 | Washington Capitals |
since 2019 | Colorado Avalanche |
André Burakovsky (also André Burakowsky ; born February 9, 1995 in Klagenfurt , Austria ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Colorado Avalanche in the National Hockey League since June 2019 . The winger previously spent five years with the Washington Capitals , with whom he won the Stanley Cup in the 2018 playoffs .
Career
Youth in Sweden
André Burakovsky was born in 1995 in Klagenfurt, the son of Robert Burakovsky , who was under contract with the Klagenfurt AC at the time, but subsequently grew up in Sweden. Robert's father, Benny Burakovsky, was already an active ice hockey coach and Robert's brother Mikael Burakovsky was also a professional ice hockey player.
André Burakovsky went through the youth departments of the Malmö Redhawks until he made his debut in the J20 SuperElit , the highest Swedish junior league, in the 2011/12 season . There he got 42 scorer points from 42 games, after which he accompanied the Swedish U18 national team to the U18 World Cup and won the silver medal there. He had previously participated in the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2011 , where the team also won the silver medal, and in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2012 . In August 2012 he again took part in the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament and this time achieved a third place. In addition, he was selected in the KHL Junior Draft 2012 by SKA Saint Petersburg in 102nd position.
Already in the following season 2012/13 the attacker made his professional debut in the Swedish Elitserien and spent most of the season with 43 appearances at a professional level, while only a few appearances were in the junior leagues. After he had participated with the Swedish U18 again in the U18 World Championship , he was selected in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft in 23rd position by the Washington Capitals .
NHL
In August 2013 Burakovsky moved to the Canadian Ontario Hockey League to the Erie Otters , who had selected him in the CHL Import Draft of the same year in fifth position. He also signed an entry-level contract with Washington Capitals for a month . However, the Swede spent the entire 2013/14 season with the Otters and scored 87 points scorer in 57 games. After the season he represented the Swedish U20 national team at the U20 World Cup in 2014 and again won the silver medal.
With the start of the 2014/15 season, Burakovsky is, apart from two appearances with the Hershey Bears farm team , firmly in the squad of the Capitals and scored his first goal in the National Hockey League with his first shot on the first day of the game . Head coach Barry Despite plans to retrain him from left winger to center . In the two following NHL seasons 2015/16 and 2016/17 he scored more than 30 points for the capital club. Burakovsky also made his debut for the senior national team of Sweden at the 2016 World Cup and finished sixth with the team.
At the end of the 2017/18 season, Burakovsky won the first Stanley Cup in franchise history with the Capitals . He was especially in the crucial 7th game of the Eastern Conference Final in the playoffs of the decisive player when he scored two goals for the 4-0 victory against the Tampa Bay Lightning .
After five years with the Capitals, Burakovsky was transferred to the Colorado Avalanche in June 2019 , while Scott Kosmachuk and a second and a third-round vote in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft moved to Washington. A month later, the striker was awarded a one-year deal worth $ 3.25 million.
Achievements and Awards
- 2018 Stanley Cup win with the Washington Capitals
International
- 2011 silver medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament
- 2012 silver medal at the U18 World Championship
- 2012 bronze medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament
- 2014 silver medal at the U20 World Cup
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 | ||
2011/12 | Malmo Redhawks J20 | J20 SuperElit | 42 | 17th | 25th | 42 | -3 | 43 | 5 | 1 | 4th | 5 | -1 | 2 | ||
2011/12 | Malmo Redhawks | Elitserien | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ± 0 | 0 | ||
2012/13 | Malmo Redhawks J20 | J20 SuperElit | 13 | 3 | 4th | 7th | -4 | 8th | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | +3 | 8th | ||
2012/13 | Malmo Redhawks | Elitserien | 43 | 4th | 7th | 11 | -2 | 8th | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2013/14 | Erie Otters | OHL | 57 | 41 | 46 | 87 | +46 | 35 | 14th | 10 | 3 | 13 | +7 | 2 | ||
2014/15 | Hershey Bears | AHL | 13 | 3 | 4th | 7th | ± 0 | 6th | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 0 | ||
2014/15 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 53 | 9 | 13 | 22nd | +12 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 0 | ||
2015/16 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 79 | 17th | 21st | 38 | +4 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 6th | ||
2016/17 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 64 | 12 | 23 | 35 | +13 | 14th | 13 | 3 | 3 | 6th | +5 | 2 | ||
2017/18 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 56 | 12 | 13 | 25th | +3 | 27 | 13 | 2 | 4th | 6th | +2 | 4th | ||
2018/19 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 76 | 12 | 13 | 25th | +2 | 14th | 7th | 1 | 1 | 2 | −3 | 0 | ||
J20 SuperElit overall | 55 | 20th | 29 | 49 | –7 | 51 | 8th | 2 | 6th | 8th | +1 | 10 | ||||
Elitserien total | 53 | 4th | 8th | 12 | -1 | 8th | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ± 0 | 0 | ||||
NHL overall | 328 | 62 | 83 | 145 | +34 | 77 | 56 | 9 | 9 | 18th | +5 | 12 |
International
Represented Sweden at:
year | team | event | result | Sp | T | V | Pt | +/- | SM | |
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2011 | Sweden | Hlinka Memorial | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ± 0 | 0 | ||
2012 | Sweden | WHC | 4th Place | 6th | 4th | 4th | 8th | 4th | ||
2012 | Sweden | U18 World Cup | 6th | 0 | 3 | 3 | ± 0 | 0 | ||
2012 | Sweden | Hlinka Memorial | 5 | 3 | 3 | 6th | +2 | 16 | ||
2013 | Sweden | U18 World Cup | 5th place | 5 | 4th | 1 | 5 | +1 | 4th | |
2014 | Sweden | U20 World Cup | 7th | 3 | 4th | 7th | +3 | 0 | ||
2016 | Sweden | WM | 6th place | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ± 0 | 12 | |
Juniors overall | 34 | 16 | 16 | 32 | 24 | |||||
Men overall | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ± 0 | 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 )
family
His father Robert and uncle Mikael were also professional ice hockey players.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ washingtonpost.com: "NHL draft 2013: Capitals choose forward Andre Burakovsky with 23rd pick" (English, June 30, 2013, accessed February 4, 2015)
- ↑ ottershockey.com: "Burakovsky Commits To Otters" (English, August 22, 2013, accessed February 4, 2015)
- ↑ capitals.nhl.com: "Capitals Sign Andre Burakovsky" (English, September 4, 2013, accessed February 4, 2015)
- ↑ csnwashington.com: "Burakovsky scores, but Caps loose opener to Habs in 2-1 shootout" ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (English, October 9, 2014, accessed February 4, 2015)
- ↑ washingtonpost.com: "Despite: Capitals will 'hold off' on returning Andre Burakovsky to center" (English, January 6, 2015, accessed February 4, 2015)
- ^ Sean Merz: Andre Burakovsky re-signs with the Washington Capitals. lostwordonhockey.com, July 4, 2017, accessed June 19, 2018 .
- ↑ Christian Rupp: 4-0 in game 7! Washington in the Stanley Cup final. Kicker-Sportmagazin , May 24, 2018, accessed on June 19, 2018 .
- ↑ Avalanche Acquires Burakovsky. nhl.com, June 28, 2019, accessed June 28, 2019 .
Goalkeeper:
Pavel Francouz |
Philipp Grubauer
Defender:
Mark Barberio |
Ian Cole |
Samuel Girard |
Ryan Graves |
Erik Johnson ( A ) |
Cale Makar |
Nikita Sadorow
Attacker:
Pierre-Édouard Bellemare |
André Burakovsky |
Matt Calvert |
JT Compher |
Joonas Donskoi |
Tyson Jost |
Nazem Kadri |
Vladislav Kamenev |
Gabriel Landeskog ( C ) |
Nathan MacKinnon ( A ) |
Vladislav Namestnikov |
Matt Nieto |
Valery Nichushkin |
Mikko Rantanen |
Colin Wilson
Head Coach: Jared Bednar Assistant Coach : Ray Bennett | Nolan Pratt General Manager: Joe Sakic
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Burakovsky, André |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Burakovsky, André; Burakowsky, André; Burakowsky, Andre |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1995 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Klagenfurt , Austria |