Brad Lukowich

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Brad Lukowich
Date of birth August 12, 1976
place of birth Cranbrook , British Columbia , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 93 kg
position defender
number # 37
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1994 , 4th round, 90th position
New York Islanders
Career stations
1992-1996 Kamloops Blazers
1996-2002 Dallas Stars
2002-2004 Tampa Bay Lightning
2004-2005 Fort Worth Brahmas
2005-2006 New York Islanders
2006-2007 New Jersey Devils
2007-2008 Tampa Bay Lightning
2008-2009 San Jose Sharks
2009–2012 Texas Stars

Bradley J. "Brad" Lukowich (born August 12, 1976 in Cranbrook , British Columbia ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and coach who played 729 games for the Dallas Stars , Tampa Bay Lightning , New York Islanders , New Jersey Devils , San Jose Sharks and Vancouver Canucks played in the National Hockey League on the position of defender . In addition to numerous titles in the junior division, Lukowich won the Stanley Cup with both the Dallas Stars in 1999 and the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2004 .

Career

Lukowich first played during his junior years in the lower-class Canadian junior league Rocky Mountain Junior Hockey League with the Cranbrook Colts from his hometown. At the end of the 1992/93 season he finally joined the Kamloops Blazers from the Western Hockey League , which he remained loyal to over the next three seasons. During this time he won the President's Cup , the championship of the WHL, and the Memorial Cup , the championship title of the Canadian Hockey League, twice with the team in 1994 and 1995 . Already after the first title win that had him New York Islanders in the NHL Entry Draft in 1994 selected in the fourth round at the 90th spot.

Before Lukowich switched to the professional field in the summer of 1996 to play for the Islanders, they transferred him to the Dallas Stars for a third-round draft pick in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft . There he was mostly used by their farm team , the Michigan K-Wings from the International Hockey League , between 1996 and 1998 , but also made his NHL debut for the stars during the 1997/98 season . The following season, in which Dallas could win the Stanley Cup , he also spent between IHL and NHL, but was not one of the players who could qualify for a named mention at the Stanley Cup. After the 1999/2000 game year , which the defender had completed completely in Dallas for the first time, he was involved in two transfer deals as part of the 2000 NHL Entry Draft . After the Canadian was handed in with Manny Fernandez on June 12th in exchange for a few draft picks to the newly founded Minnesota Wild , the stars brought him back almost two weeks later and subsequently used him more regularly. In the package with Lukowich, the stars also got some draft picks back while sending Aaron Gavey and Pavel Patera to Minnesota. After another two years in the Texan metropolis, the stars transferred Lukowich to the Tampa Bay Lightning . In his two years on the US Southeast Coast, he improved his point yield with 15 and 19 points twice in a row, developed into one of the leading players of the team and also surprisingly won the Stanley Cup with the Lightning at the end of the 2003/04 season . This time Lukowich was able to complete enough missions to be mentioned by name.

Due to the lockout of the 2004/05 NHL season , Lukowich signed as a free agent a contract with the Fort Worth Brahmas from the Central Hockey League , for which he completed 16 games this season. After the promised resumption of the NHL game operations for the 2005/06 season , Lukowich returned there. He signed a contract with the New York Islanders, who had drafted him eleven years earlier. However, the defender did not stay with the Long Island team for long as he moved to the New Jersey Devils during the season , who needed an experienced defender for the upcoming playoffs. There he stayed for the rest of the season and the following before becoming a free agent again and again joining the Tampa Bay Lightning. Despite his experience, he could not prevent the Lightning from finishing the season as the worst team in the entire league. The following summer, due to the poor performance of the team and a change of ownership, he moved together with Dan Boyle to the San Jose Sharks , who in return gave Matt Carle , Ty Wishart and a first-round and fourth-round draft pick to Tampa. In San Jose, Lukowich formed a defender duo with Boyle. Although he was out with an injury between January and February 2009, he gave the defensive hold. The Sharks finished the regular season as the best points of all teams, but failed in the first playoff round. As a result, the Canadian was handed over to the Vancouver Canucks together with Christian Ehrhoff at the end of August 2009 , which in return gave up the young players Daniel Rahimi and Patrick White .

Since Lukowich did not make it into the regular Canucks squad at the start of the season, they put him on the waiver list at the end of September . Due to the fact that no other team selected him from there, the defender was sent to the Texas Stars in the American Hockey League . Unlike the other minor league players who played for the Manitoba Moose , management arranged the cooperation with the stars so that Lukowich could be closer to his family and friends from his time with the Dallas Stars. After an injury to Kevin Bieksa from the Canucks roster, the defender was brought back to the NHL in early January 2010 for the first time since the previous fall. In the summer of 2010 he finally moved to Dallas as a free agent and spent his last two years in professional sports with the Texas Stars. He ended his career after the 2011/12 season.

After the end of his career, he was assistant coach for the Lethbridge Hurricanes from the Western Hockey League in the 2013/14 season .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1992/93 Kamloops Blazers WHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1993/94 Kamloops Blazers WHL 42 5 11 16 168 16 0 1 1 35
1994 Kamloops Blazers Memorial Cup 3 0 2 2 0
1994/95 Kamloops Blazers WHL 63 10 35 45 125 18th 0 7th 7th 21st
1995 Kamloops Blazers Memorial Cup 4th 1 3 4th 0
1995/96 Kamloops Blazers WHL 65 14th 55 69 114 13 2 10 12 29
1996/97 Michigan K-Wings IHL 69 2 6th 8th 77 4th 0 1 1 2
1997/98 Michigan K-Wings IHL 60 6th 27 33 104 4th 0 4th 4th 14th
1997/98 Dallas Stars NHL 4th 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
1998/99 Michigan K-Wings IHL 67 8th 21st 29 95 - - - - -
1998/99 Dallas Stars NHL 14th 1 2 3 19th 8th 0 1 1 4th
1999/00 Dallas Stars NHL 60 3 1 4th 50 - - - - -
2000/01 Dallas Stars NHL 80 4th 10 14th 76 10 1 0 1 4th
2001/02 Dallas Stars NHL 66 1 6th 7th 40 - - - - -
2002/03 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 70 1 14th 15th 46 9 0 1 1 2
2003/04 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 79 5 14th 19th 24 18th 0 2 2 6th
2004/05 Fort Worth Brahmas CHL 16 3 5 8th 33 - - - - -
2005/06 New York Islanders NHL 57 1 12 13 32 - - - - -
2005/06 New Jersey Devils NHL 18th 1 7th 8th 8th 9 0 0 0 4th
2006/07 New Jersey Devils NHL 75 4th 8th 12 36 11 0 1 1 2
2007/08 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 59 1 6th 7th 20th - - - - -
2008/09 San Jose Sharks NHL 58 0 8th 8th 12 6th 0 0 0 0
2009/10 Texas Stars AHL 29 3 15th 18th 10 - - - - -
2009/10 Vancouver Canucks NHL 13 1 1 2 4th - - - - -
2010/11 Texas Stars AHL 67 4th 23 27 59 6th 1 0 1 2
2010/11 Dallas Stars NHL 5 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2011/12 Texas Stars AHL 67 4th 22nd 26th 40 - - - - -
WHL overall 171 29 101 130 407 47 2 18th 20th 85
IHL total 196 16 54 70 276 8th 0 5 5 16
AHL total 163 11 60 71 109 6th 1 0 1 2
NHL overall 658 23 90 113 369 71 1 5 6th 22nd

( 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

Brad Lukowich's father, Bernie Lukowich , was also a professional ice hockey player and was a striker with the Pittsburgh Penguins and St. Louis Blues , for which he played 79 games in the National Hockey League . He played the longest in the second-rate American Hockey League , where he spent four years with the Hershey Bears and one season with the Providence Reds . Lukowich's cousin Morris Lukowich played nearly 850 games in the World Hockey Association and National Hockey League between 1976 and 1987 .

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personal data
SURNAME Lukowich, Brad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lukowich, Bradley J. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Cranbrook , British Columbia