Brian Bonin

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United StatesUnited States  Brian Bonin Ice hockey player
Date of birth November 28, 1973
place of birth Saint Paul , Minnesota , USA
size 179 cm
Weight 85 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1992 , 9th lap, 211th position
Pittsburgh Penguins
Career stations
1989-1992 White Bear Lake High School
1992-1996 University of Minnesota
1996-1997 Cleveland Lumberjacks
1997-1998 Syracuse crunch
1998 Kansas City Blades
1998-1999 Adirondack Red Wings
1999-2000 Syracuse crunch
2000-2001 Cleveland Lumberjacks
2001-2003 SCL Tigers
2004-2005 Worcester IceCats

Brian Raymond Bonin (* 28. November 1973 in Saint Paul , Minnesota ) is a retired American ice hockey player , who during his playing career from 1992 to 2005, among other 15 games for the Pittsburgh Penguins and Minnesota Wild in the National Hockey League on contested the position of the center . Bonin, who won the Hobey Baker Memorial Award and a bronze medal at the 1996 World Cup , but played mainly in the American Hockey League and International Hockey League .

Career

Bonin played at White Bear Lake High School between 1989 and 1992 and was selected straight out of high school in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft in the ninth round in 211th place by the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League after serving in the preseason received the Minnesota Mr. Hockey award for the best high school player in the state of Minnesota . Subsequently, the striker began his studies at the University of Minnesota instead of switching directly to the professional field. Between 1992 and 1996 he had an extremely successful junior career at the university. In his first year of college, from which he parallel to his studies for the hockey University team in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association , a division in the game operation of the National Collegiate Athletic Association , went on the ice, managed the attacker with the team the Broadmoor Trophy to win. In the following year the team repeated the title win. From the 1994/95 season, Bonin was an integral part of the Golden Gophers . Although the team missed winning the title again, Bonin was honored, among other things, as the best player in the WCHA. For this he had scored 63 scorer points in 44 games . In addition, the attacker was one of ten players shortlisted for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award , which recognized the best college player in the country. He won this - as well as the Broadmoor Trophy - at the end of his last year at university in the spring of 1996, in which he received numerous other awards; he had increased again to 81 points in 42 games. The striker finished his college career with 216 points in 166 missions.

In the summer of 1996, after successfully completing his degree, the American switched to the professional field. Although his outstanding performance in college, he failed in the following years to establish himself in the NHL. During his three years in the Penguins franchise , with the exception of eight games in the 1998/99 season, he played exclusively in the American Hockey League and International Hockey League . There he was used for the Cleveland Lumberjacks , Syracuse Crunch , Kansas City Blades and Adirondack Red Wings . For the 1999/2000 season Bonin moved as a free agent to the Vancouver Canucks , where he also failed to make the breakthrough and he played again for the Syracuse Crunch. After the one-year contract expired, he found a new employer in the NHL in the newly admitted Minnesota Wild . There he was also mainly active for the Cleveland Lumberjacks farm team in the IHL and only played seven games for Minnesota itself.

In the summer of 2001, Bonin decided to move abroad to give his career a boost. He joined the SCL Tigers from the Swiss National League A for the next two years until the summer of 2003 . He then received a two-year contract with the Kölner Haien from the German ice hockey league , which was dissolved by mutual agreement shortly before the start of the 2003/04 season , as the center forward was suffering from a wrist injury. After a break of more than a year, he was signed by the Worcester Ice Cats from the AHL in December 2004 . After four missions until the end of the season, he ended his active career early in the summer of 2005 at the age of 31.

International

For his home country, Bonin was on the ice at the 1996 World Cup in the Austrian capital Vienna . The striker was used in all eight tournament games of the US boys and scored one goal. At the end of the world title fights, the bronze medal was won.

Achievements and Awards

  • 1996 WCHA First All-Star Team
  • 1996 WCHA Player of the Year
  • 1996 WCHA Tournament Most Valuable Player
  • 1996 NCAA West First All-American Team
  • 1996 Hobey Baker Memorial Award
  • 2000 IHL Player of the Month for December
  • 2001 IHL Second All-Star Team

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1992/93 University of Minnesota WCHA 38 10 18th 28 10
1993/94 University of Minnesota WCHA 42 24 20th 44 14th
1994/95 University of Minnesota WCHA 44 32 31 63 28
1995/96 University of Minnesota WCHA 42 34 47 81 30th
1996/97 Cleveland Lumberjacks IHL 60 13 26th 39 18th 1 1 0 1 0
1997/98 Syracuse crunch AHL 67 31 38 69 46 5 1 3 4th 6th
1998/99 Adirondack Red Wings AHL 54 19th 16 35 31 2 0 0 0 0
1998/99 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 5 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0
1998/99 Kansas City Blades IHL 19th 2 5 7th 10 - - - - -
1999/00 Syracuse crunch AHL 67 19th 28 47 20th 4th 0 1 1 0
2000/01 Cleveland Lumberjacks IHL 72 35 42 77 45 4th 2 0 2 0
2000/01 Minnesota Wild NHL 7th 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2001/02 SCL Tigers NLA 39 20th 17th 37 28 8 1 4th 11 15th 0
2002/03 SCL Tigers NLA 44 15th 24 39 24 - - - - -
2003/04 without a contract not played due to hand injury
2004/05 Worcester IceCats AHL 4th 1 0 1 0 - - - - -
NCAA overall 166 100 116 216 82
AHL total 192 70 82 152 97 11 1 4th 5 6th
IHL total 151 50 73 123 73 5 3 0 3 0
NHL overall 12 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0
National League A overall 83 35 41 76 52 8th 4th 11 15th 0

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1996 United States WM 3rd place, bronze 8th 1 0 1 2
Men overall 8th 1 0 1 2

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kölner Haie waive the licensing of Brian Bonin - Adduono is being tested. Kölner Haie , August 26, 2003, accessed on September 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Bonin, Brian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bonin, Brian Raymond (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Paul , Minnesota