Andrew Kozek

Andrew Kozek
Date of birth	May 26, 1986
place of birth	Revelstoke , British Columbia , Canada
size	180 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2005 , 2nd round, 53rd position Atlanta Thrashers
Career stations
2003-2005	Surrey Eagles
2005-2009	University of North Dakota
2009-2011	Chicago Wolves
2011	Hershey Bears
2011–2012	Nikko Ice Bucks
2012-2013	EC Dornbirn
2013-2016	EHC Linz
2016-2017	Nuremberg Ice Tigers
2018-2020	EC KAC
since 2020	EHC Linz

Andrew Jacob Kozek (born May 26, 1986 in Revelstoke , British Columbia ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with EHC Linz in the Austrian ice hockey league since August 2020 .

Career

Andrew Kozek began his career as a hockey player with the Surrey Eagles, for which he was active from 2003 to 2005 in the British Columbia Hockey League . In the 2004/05 season he was the league's top scorer with 48 goals. The winger was then selected in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft in the second round as a total of 53 players by the Atlanta Thrashers . First, however, he attended the University of North Dakota for four years and played in parallel for their ice hockey team in the National Collegiate Athletic Association . With his university team he won the 2006 championship of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association .

Towards the end of the 2008/09 season Kozek finally made his professional hockey debut for Atlanta's farm team , the Chicago Wolves from the American Hockey League , for which he played regularly in the following years. In March 2011 he was loaned to the Hershey Bears , for which the Chicago Wolves received defender Josh Godfrey in exchange . For the 2011/12 season, the Canadian signed a contract with the Nikkō Ice Bucks from the Asia League Ice Hockey . In August 2012 Kozek was signed by EC Dornbirn from the Erste Bank Ice Hockey League and became the league's top scorer before moving to EHC Linz the next season . In 2013/14 he scored 26 goals and 12 assists for Upper Austria, in 2014/15 he scored 32 goals and 23 assists. In 2015/16 he was also the top scorer in the league.

For the 2016/17 season he moved to the neighboring country, he signed in April 2016 with the Nürnberg Ice Tigers from the German Ice Hockey League (DEL).

Achievements and Awards

• 2005 British Columbia Hockey League top scorer (67 hits)
• 2006 Broadmoor Trophy win with the University of North Dakota
• 2013 Top scorer (38 hits) in the Austrian Ice Hockey League
• 2016 Top scorer (45 hits) in the Austrian Ice Hockey League

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2003/04	Surrey Eagles	BCHL		58	19th	22nd	41	67		13	7th	4th	11	10
2004/05	Surrey Eagles	BCHL		60	48	49	97	81		26th	19th	10	29	49
2005/06	University of North Dakota	NCAA		46	7th	6th	13	22nd		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	University of North Dakota	NCAA		41	5	6th	11	12		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	University of North Dakota	NCAA		42	18th	3	21st	18th		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	University of North Dakota	NCAA		38	8th	12	20th	42		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Chicago Wolves	AHL		5	2	0	2	2		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Chicago Wolves	AHL		69	12	11	23	36		7th	0	1	1	0
2010/11	Chicago Wolves	AHL		57	7th	5	12	43		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Hershey Bears	AHL		14th	4th	4th	8th	2		6th	1	1	2	7th
2011/12	Nikko Icebucks	Asia League		36	27	13	40	76		9	3	2	5	24
2012/13	Dornbirn EC	EBEL		54	38	20th	58	52		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	EHC Linz	EBEL		54	26th	12	38	34		7th	4th	0	4th	27
2014/15	EHC Linz	EBEL		54	32	23	55	52		12	8th	1	9	2
2015/16	EHC Linz	EBEL		52	40	26th	66	31		12	5	4th	9	37
2016/17	Nuremberg Ice Tigers	DEL		50	16	12	28	45		4th	0	0	0	2
2017/18	Vaasan Sport	Liiga		7th	2	0	2	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Mora IK	SHL		4th	1	0	1	2		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	EC-KAC	EBEL		10	8th	1	9	20th		6th	2	1	3	2
2018/19	EC-KAC	EBEL		43	20th	10	30th	24
AHL total				145	25th	20th	45	83		13	1	2	3	7th
BCHL total				118	67	71	138	148		39	26th	14th	40	59
EBEL total				267	164	92	256	213		37	19th	6th	25th	68
NCAA overall				167	38	27	65	94		-	-	-	-	-

( 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

• Andrew Kozek at hockeydb.com (English)
• Andrew Kozek at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ice Tigers bring striker Andrew Kozek. (No longer available online.) In: icetigers.de. Archived from the original on April 21, 2016 ; accessed on April 21, 2016 . 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.