Casey Cizikas

Casey Cizikas
Date of birth	February 27, 1991
place of birth	Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size	180 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	center
number	# 53
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2009 , 4th round, 92nd position New York Islanders
Career stations
2007-2011	Mississauga St. Michael's Majors
2011-2013	Bridgeport Sound Tigers
since 2012	New York Islanders

Casey Cizikas (born February 27, 1991 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the New York Islanders in the National Hockey League since May 2011 .

Career

youth

Casey Cizikas was born in Toronto and grew up in nearby Mississauga . He began playing ice hockey at the age of three and served on the youth teams of the Mississauga Reps and Mississauga IceHogs . In the Priority Selection of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) he was selected in 2007 by the Mississauga St. Michael's Majors in third position and thus continued to play in his hometown from the 2007/08 season. In his first season with the majors, Cizikas scored 41 points in 62 games and was called to Team Canada Ontario after the season to take part in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2008 and win the gold medal there.

In the 2009 NHL Entry Draft , the New York Islanders selected him after a sporting rather average season in 92nd place, with Cizikas continuing to play in Mississauga, as expected. In the following two seasons, the attacker increased his statistics significantly and thus contributed to the fact that the team reached the conference finals. In addition, he led the team in the 2010/11 season as captain and represented the U20 national team of Canada over the turn of the year at the World Cup , where he won the silver medal. He then signed an entry-level contract with the New York Islanders in May 2011 .

New York Islanders

The New York Islanders gave Cizikas to the Bridgeport Sound Tigers , their farm team from the American Hockey League (AHL), where he convinced with 45 points from 52 games. As a result, the Islanders called him back in February 2012 to the NHL squad, so that he made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL). By the end of the 2011/12 season he had 15 missions and made four assists.

Already the 2012/13 season spent Cizikas, although he was assistant captain with the Tigers , largely in the NHL, before he finally prevailed in the NHL squad with the following season 2013/14 and completed 80 missions.

Achievements and Awards

2008 OHL All-Rookie Team 2009 participation in the OHL All-Star Classic 2011 OHL Third All-Star Team

2012 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic 2012 AHL Player of the Month January

International

• 2008 gold medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
• 2011 silver medal at the U20 World Cup

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2007/08	Mississauga St. Michael's Majors	OHL		62	18th	23	41	+12	41		4th	1	2	3	-1	6th
2008/09	Mississauga St. Michael's Majors	OHL		55	16	20th	36	15th	39		11	5	4th	9	+1	11
2009/10	Mississauga St. Michael's Majors	OHL		68	25th	37	62	+32	77		16	7th	7th	14th	-2	16
2010/11	Mississauga St. Michael's Majors	OHL		52	29	35	64	+43	40		16	5	14th	19th	+11	14th
2011/12	Bridgeport Sound Tigers	AHL		52	15th	30th	45	+26	30th		3	0	0	0	-2	20th
2011/12	New York Islanders	NHL		15th	0	4th	4th	+1	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Bridgeport Sound Tigers	AHL		31	10	11	21st	-15	35		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	New York Islanders	NHL		45	6th	9	15th	± 0	14th		6th	2	2	4th	+1	12
2013/14	New York Islanders	NHL		80	6th	10	16	-12	30th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	New York Islanders	NHL		70	9	9	18th	-2	24		7th	1	0	1	+1	0
2015/16	New York Islanders	NHL		80	8th	21st	29	+4	31		11	0	3	3	-1	16
2016/17	New York Islanders	NHL		59	8th	17th	25th	+9	30th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	New York Islanders	NHL		64	7th	10	17th	-12	23		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	New York Islanders	NHL		73	20th	13	33	+22	36		8th	0	0	0	–6	6th
OHL total				237	89	115	203	+72	197		47	18th	27	45	+9	47
AHL total				83	25th	41	66	+1	65		3	0	0	0	-2	20th
NHL overall				486	64	93	157	+10	194		32	3	5	8th	-5	34

International

Represented Canada to:

• World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2008
• U20 World Junior Championship 2011

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2008	Canada Ontario	WHC			6th	4th	5	9		0
2011	Canada	U20 World Cup			7th	2	1	3	+1	6th
Juniors overall					13	6th	6th	12		6th

( 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 )

Personal

In 2007 Cizikas injured an opponent at a Rugby -Partie by a tackle so hard on the head that he died a few days later. Doctors then determined that the deceased had suffered a traumatic brain injury two weeks earlier, as a result of which he was not allowed to participate in any sport for at least a year. Although the family of the deceased did not blame him and described the death as an accident, Cizikas was found guilty of negligent homicide in 2009 and given a one-year suspended sentence and 100 hours of community service.

Web links

Commons : Casey Cizikas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the New York Islanders website
• Casey Cizikas at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Andy Graziano: The Evolution of Casey Cizikas. eyesonisles.com, September 23, 2013, accessed February 26, 2015 . 
2. ^ Cizika's Agrees to Terms On Entry-Level Contract. nhl.com, May 31, 2011, accessed February 28, 2015 . 
3. ↑ CIZIKAS: 1 YEAR PROBATION FOR MANSLAUGHTER2009 draft pick Casey Cizikas talks to Point Blank. (No longer available online.) Islanderspointblank.com, July 6, 2009, archived from the original on March 10, 2015 ; accessed on February 26, 2015 . 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.