Bates Battaglia

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Bates Battaglia
Date of birth December 13, 1975
place of birth Chicago , Illinois , USA
size 188 cm
Weight 93 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1994 , 6th round, 132nd position
Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
Career stations
1994-1997 Lake Superior State University
1997-2003 Carolina Hurricanes
2003 Colorado Avalanche
2003-2004 Washington Capitals
2004-2005 Mississippi Sea Wolves
2005-2006 Toronto Marlies
2006-2008 Toronto Maple Leafs
2008-2009 Toronto Marlies
2009-2010 Syracuse crunch
2010 Jokerit Helsinki
2010-2011 Rochester Americans
2011 Lusatian Foxes
Tulsa Oilers
2011–2012 Karlskrona HK

Jonathan "Bates" Battaglia (born December 13, 1975 in Chicago , Illinois ) is a former American ice hockey player of Italian descent who played 622 games for the Carolina Hurricanes , Colorado Avalanche , Washington Capitals during his active career between 1994 and 2012 and Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League . He celebrated his greatest success by winning the bronze medal at the 2004 World Cup with the US national team.

Career

Bates Battaglia began his career as a hockey player on the Lake Superior State University team , for which he was active from 1994 to 1997. Previously, he was selected as a junior player in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft in the sixth round as a total of 132 players by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim , for which he never played. After his university days, the attacker received a contract with the Carolina Hurricanes , for which he was on the ice in the National Hockey League until 2003 . With Carolina he reached the finals for the Stanley Cup in the 2001/02 season , in which he and his team were defeated by the Detroit Red Wings . On March 11, 2003, the left shooter was transferred to the Colorado Avalanche in exchange for Radim Vrbata , who gave him to the Washington Capitals after only 24 games at the beginning of the following season .

For the Capitals Battaglia scored a total of ten points scorer in 66 games in the 2003/04 season , including four goals. The American bridged the lockout during the 2004/05 NHL season in the ECHL with the Mississippi Sea Wolves . After resumption of play in the NHL, he received no new contract in Washington, so he moved to the Toronto Marlies from the American Hockey League . After a year in the AHL, he was finally hired by the Toronto Maple Leafs , whose farm team are the Toronto Marlies. For the Maple Leafs, the winger was on the ice in all 82 regular season games in the 2006/07 season and scored 31 points, including twelve goals. After he was called up 13 times in the NHL squad of the Leafs in the following season, the former international played exclusively for the Marlies in the AHL in the 2008/09 season . Since he did not get a contract extension, Battaglia became an unrestricted free agent in the summer of 2009 . It was not until November 2009 that he was signed by the Syracuse Crunch from the AHL before he was signed by Jokerit Helsinki in January 2010 .

In December 2010 Battaglia was signed by the Rochester Americans on the basis of a try-out contract of 25 games. After 20 missions, a month later he was signed by the German second division Lausitzer Füchse , which signed him until the end of the season. On February 8, 2011 - after only two games played for the Füchse - his contract was canceled by the club for health reasons. Battaglia had not passed the medical check and flew back home the next day. In March 2011 he received a contract with the Tulsa Oilers in the Central Hockey League . There he ran on the ice with his brother Anthony Battaglia . The American spent the 2011/12 season at the Swedish third division club Karlskrona HK , with whom he rose to the second-rate HockeyAllsvenskan at the end of the season .

International

For the USA Battaglia took part in the Junior World Championships in 1995 , as well as the World Championships in 1998 and 2004 .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1994/95 Lake Superior State University CCHA 38 6th 15th 21st 32
1995/96 Lake Superior State University CCHA 40 13 22nd 35 48
1996/97 Lake Superior State University CCHA 38 12 27 39 80
1997/98 Beast of New Haven AHL 48 15th 21st 36 48 1 0 0 0 0
1997/98 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 33 2 4th 6th 10 - - - - -
1998/99 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 60 7th 11 18th 22nd 6th 0 3 3 8th
1999/00 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 77 16 18th 34 39 - - - - -
2000/01 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 80 12 15th 27 76 6th 0 2 2 2
2001/02 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 82 21st 25th 46 44 23 5 9 14th 14th
2002/03 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 70 5 14th 19th 90 - - - - -
2002/03 Colorado Avalanche NHL 13 1 5 6th 10 7th 0 2 2 4th
2003/04 Colorado Avalanche NHL 4th 0 1 1 4th - - - - -
2003/04 Washington Capitals NHL 66 4th 6th 10 38 - - - - -
2004/05 Mississippi Sea Wolves ECHL 25th 6th 11 17th 24 4th 0 0 0 10
2005/06 Toronto Marlies AHL 79 20th 47 67 86 5 1 1 2 6th
2006/07 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 82 12 19th 31 45 - - - - -
2007/08 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 13 0 0 0 7th - - - - -
2007/08 Toronto Marlies AHL 56 12 14th 26th 42 19th 6th 2 8th 28
2008/09 Toronto Marlies AHL 59 17th 34 51 55 6th 2 3 5 4th
2009/10 Syracuse crunch AHL 29 6th 16 22nd 15th - - - - -
2009/10 Jokerite SM-liiga 17th 1 0 1 12 2 1 0 1 0
2010/11 Rochester Americans AHL 20th 1 2 3 12 - - - - -
2010/11 Lusatian foxes 2nd Bundesliga 2 1 1 2 2 - - - - -
2010/11 Tulsa Oilers CHL 6th 1 3 4th 4th 10 5 2 7th 4th
2011/12 Karlskrona HK Division 1 25th 10 13 23 20th 10 2 4th 6th 4th
NCAA overall 116 31 63 94 162
AHL total 291 71 134 205 258 31 9 6th 15th 38
NHL overall 580 80 118 198 385 42 5 16 21st 28

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1995 United States June World Cup 5th place 7th 3 2 5 2
1998 United States WM 12th place 6th 1 1 2 6th
2004 United States WM 3rd place, bronze 9 2 2 4th 14th
Juniors overall 7th 3 2 5 2
Men overall 15th 3 3 6th 20th

( 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

Battaglia's brother Anthony is also a professional ice hockey player. Her grandfather Sam was a well-known Mafia boss and briefly head of the Chicago Outfit .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. italiansrus.com, Italian hockey player - Complete List