Brian Willsie

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Brian Willsie
Date of birth March 16, 1978
place of birth London , Ontario , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 91 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1996 , 6th lap, 146th position
Colorado Avalanche
Career stations
1995-1998 Guelph Storm
1998-2003 Colorado Avalanche
2003-2006 Washington Capitals
2006-2008 Los Angeles Kings
2008-2010 Colorado Avalanche
2010-2011 Hershey Bears
2011–2012 Hamilton Bulldogs
2012-2014 TPS Turku
2014-2015 Örebro HK

Brian Willsie (born March 16, 1978 in London , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current official who played 391 games for the Colorado Avalanche , Washington Capitals and Los Angeles Kings in the course of his active career between 1995 and 2015 National Hockey League on the position of the right winger . Willsie also spent large parts of his career in the American Hockey League and the European top leagues.

Career

Brian Willsie was selected as the 146th overall player by the Colorado Avalanche during the 1996 NHL Entry Draft . He began his career as a hockey player with the Guelph Storm from the Ontario Hockey League , for which he played for a total of three years from 1995 to 1998.

Willsie in the Los Angeles Kings training jersey

Before the 1998/99 season, the Canadian was first included in the squad of the then farm team of the Avalanche, the Hershey Bears from the American Hockey League , for which he first played in professional ice hockey. During the following season Willsie made his debut in the National Hockey League , but he only played once until the end of the season for Colorado. Because of exceeding the salary cap , the winger was transferred to the Washington Capitals in 2003 , where he was under contract for a total of three years, playing for the Portland Pirates from the AHL during the lockout in the 2004/05 NHL season .

After another year with the Capitals, Willisie signed a contract as a free agent with the Los Angeles Kings on July 4, 2006 , for which he was active for the following two seasons, until he was also a free agent on July 15, 2008 to his ex- Club Colorado Avalanche returned. For the Denver franchise , the right- shooter made 42 appearances in the 2008/09 season and also gained game practice with their farm team, the Lake Erie Monsters , in the American Hockey League. In the following season, Willsie went mostly for the Monsters in the AHL on the ice. In July 2010, the Canadian again signed a contract with the Washington Capitals as a free agent. He failed to get stuck in the Caps NHL squad and spent almost the entire 2010/11 season on the farm team at the Hershey Bears , where the winger was the team's second-best scorer with 68 points in 76 games during the regular season.

On July 7, 2011, Willsie agreed on a two-way contract with a term of one year with the Montréal Canadiens , but was only used with the Hamilton Bulldogs in the AHL. After spending four years almost exclusively in the AHL, he decided to return to Europe in the summer of 2012, where he signed a trial contract with TPS Turku . During the following season his contract was extended until the end of the season and Willsie was appointed captain. By the start of the play-offs he scored 24 goals, so his contract was extended by one season in February 2013. Then Willsie was loaned to the Kloten Flyers until the end of the season to support them in the National League A relegation battle .

At the beginning of the 2013/13 season Willsie was loaned from TPS to the KHL Medveščak Zagreb from the KHL , but returned to the TPS squad in October 2013. In February 2014 he moved to Örebro HK in the Svenska Hockeyligan and ended his active professional career following the 2014/15 season . Since then he has acted as a consultant to his ex-team Colorado Avalanche.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1993/94 Elgin-Middlesex Chiefs OMHA 39 29 40 69 32 - - - - -
1994/95 St. Thomas Stars Jr. B. PROBABLY 45 35 47 82 47 - - - - -
1995/96 Guelph Storm OHL 65 13 21st 34 18th 16 4th 2 6th 6th
1996 Guelph Storm Memorial Cup 3 0 0 0 2
1996/97 Guelph Storm OHL 64 37 31 68 37 18th 15th 4th 19th 10
1997/98 Guelph Storm OHL 57 45 31 76 41 12 9 5 14th 18th
1998 Guelph Storm Memorial Cup 5 2 1 3 4th
1998/99 Hershey Bears AHL 72 19th 10 29 28 3 1 0 1 0
1999/00 Hershey Bears AHL 78 20th 39 59 44 12 2 6th 8th 8th
1999/00 Colorado Avalanche NHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2000/01 Hershey Bears AHL 48 18th 23 41 20th 12 7th 2 9 14th
2001/02 Colorado Avalanche NHL 56 7th 7th 14th 14th 4th 0 1 1 2
2002/03 Hershey Bears AHL 59 29 28 57 49 - - - - -
2002/03 Colorado Avalanche NHL 12 0 1 1 15th 6th 1 0 1 2
2003/04 Washington Capitals NHL 49 10 5 15th 18th - - - - -
2004/05 HDD Olimpija Ljubljana Interliga 14th 7th 9 16 38 - - - - -
2004/05 Portland Pirates AHL 53 24 17th 41 47 - - - - -
2005/06 Washington Capitals NHL 82 19th 22nd 41 77 - - - - -
2006/07 Los Angeles Kings NHL 81 11 10 21st 49 - - - - -
2007/08 Los Angeles Kings NHL 53 4th 8th 12 30th - - - - -
2008/09 Lake Erie Monsters AHL 12 8th 6th 14th 8th - - - - -
2008/09 Colorado Avalanche NHL 42 1 3 4th 14th - - - - -
2009/10 Lake Erie Monsters AHL 75 26th 31 57 44 - - - - -
2009/10 Colorado Avalanche NHL 4th 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2010/11 Hershey Bears AHL 76 30th 38 68 68 6th 2 3 5 6th
2010/11 Washington Capitals NHL 1 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
2011/12 Hamilton Bulldogs AHL 68 18th 26th 44 88 - - - - -
2012/13 TPS Turku SM-liiga 48 24 11 35 105 - - - - -
2012/13 Kloten Flyers NLA 6th 1 5 6th 0 5 1 2 2 4th 2
2013/14 KHL Medveščak Zagreb KHL 13 2 3 5 10 - - - - -
2013/14 TPS Turku Liiga 33 11 14th 25th 88 - - - - -
2013/14 Örebro HK SHL 6th 1 0 1 6th 9 1 3 0 3 8th
2014/15 Örebro HK SHL 55 9 12 21st 16 6th 1 0 1 4th
OHL total 186 95 83 178 96 47 29 12 41 34
AHL total 541 192 218 410 396 33 12 11 23 28
NHL overall 381 52 57 109 217 10 1 1 2 4th
SM-liiga / Liiga total 81 35 25th 60 193 - - - - -
Svenska hockey player overall 61 10 12 22nd 22nd 15th 4th 0 4th 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 )

Web links

Commons : Brian Willsie  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sports.espn.go.com, Avalanche sign McCormick, Willsie
  2. ↑ NHL konkari Brian Willsie Tepsiin. In: yle.fi. August 21, 2012, accessed March 22, 2017 (Finnish).
  3. ^ AHL Journeyman Brian Willsie Signs Deal with TPS. In: thehockeyhouse.net. September 23, 2012, accessed March 22, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Last foreign license - Kloten obliges Willsie. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 15, 2013, accessed on May 22, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Willsie, Brian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and official
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH London , Ontario , Canada