Cam Janssen
Date of birth | April 15, 1984 |
place of birth | St. Louis , Missouri , USA |
size | 180 cm |
Weight | 95 kg |
position | Right wing |
Shot hand | Right |
Draft | |
NHL Entry Draft |
2002 , 4th round, 117th position New Jersey Devils |
Career stations | |
2000-2001 | St. Louis Sting |
2001-2004 | Windsor Spitfires |
2004 | Guelph Storm |
2004-2005 | Albany River Rats |
2005-2007 | New Jersey Devils |
2007-2011 | St. Louis Blues |
2011-2015 | New Jersey Devils Albany Devils |
2015-2016 | Nottingham Panthers |
Cam Janssen (born April 15, 1984 in St. Louis , Missouri ) is a retired American ice hockey player . The winger completed 346 games in the National Hockey League for the St. Louis Blues and New Jersey Devils .
Career
Cam Janssen began his career as a hockey player in his hometown, where he was active in the 2000/01 season for the St. Louis Sting from the US junior league North American Hockey League . Then the attacker played for three years in the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League for the Windsor Spitfires and Guelph Storm , where he won the J. Ross Robertson Cup with Guelph in the 2003/04 season . In his time in the OHL, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2002 in the fourth round as a total of 117 players by the New Jersey Devils , for whom he made his debut in the National Hockey League in the 2005/06 season . In the previous year, during the lockout of the NHL season , he was only for their farm team , the Albany River Rats , accrued in the American Hockey League .
In the 2007/08 season Janssen began at New Jersey's AHL farm team Lowell Devils , for which he only played three games before he was given on February 26, 2008 in exchange for Bryce Salvador to the St. Louis Blues . For this he played in the episode regularly in the NHL. On July 14, 2011 Janssen signed as a free agent a contract with the New Jersey Devils, in which he, after 48 NHL games in the first year, was mainly used with the Albany Devils in the AHL.
After the 2014/15 season, Janssen did not get a new contract, so he left North America and joined the Nottingham Panthers from the British Elite Ice Hockey League . His one-year contract there was extended for two more years in March 2016 before he unexpectedly ended his active career in August 2016 because he had accepted a position at a radio station in the St. Louis area.
Achievements and Awards
- 2004 J. Ross Robertson Cup win with the Guelph Storm
NHL statistics
Seasons | Games | Gates | Assists | Points | Penalty minutes | |
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Regular season | 9 | 336 | 6th | 8th | 14th | 774 |
Playoffs | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26th |
Web links
- Cam Janssen at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Cam Janssen at legendsofhockey.net (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Coach looks for new tough guy after Cam shock retirement. (No longer available online.) Panthers.co.uk, archived from the original on August 12, 2016 ; accessed on August 12, 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.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Janssen, Cam |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1984 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Louis , Missouri , USA |