Chad Kolarik

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Chad Kolarik
Date of birth January 26, 1986
place of birth Abington , Pennsylvania , USA
size 181 cm
Weight 83 kg
position Right wing
number # 42
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2004 , 7th lap, 199th position
Phoenix Coyotes
Career stations
2002-2004 USA Hockey National Team Development Program
2004-2008 University of Michigan
2008-2010 San Antonio Rampage
2010 Syracuse Crunch
Springfield Falcons
2010-2013 Connecticut Whale
2013 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins
2013-2014 Linköpings HC
2014-2015 HK Awangard Omsk
2015-2016 Kloten Flyers
2016-2019 Adler Mannheim
2019-2020 EC Red Bull Salzburg

Chad Kolarik (born January 26, 1986 in Abington , Pennsylvania ) is a former American ice hockey player who has played over 250 AHL games in his career and has played in the DEL , KHL , SHL and the National League , among others .

Career

Kolarik began his career in USA Hockey's youth program , the USA Hockey National Team Development Program , and played there primarily for the U18 team in the North American Hockey League . In the 2004 NHL Entry Draft , he was selected in the seventh round at a total of 199th position by the Phoenix Coyotes , but initially moved to the University of Michigan . There he won the Central Collegiate Hockey Association championship in his debut season with the team . Three years later, Kolarik was the second best scorer of his team behind Kevin Porter with 56 points from 39 games and led the team to another title win. He was then elected to the second All-American team of the NCAA West. Following his college career, he moved to the 2008 play-offs for the San Antonio Rampage , the Coyotes farm team, in the American Hockey League . With four goals he was the team's top scorer straight away.

Chad Kolarik in the Connecticut Whale jersey

After two years in San Antonio, Kolarik switched to the Columbus Blue Jackets in March 2010 , which in return transferred Alexandre Picard to Phoenix. A month later, on April 5, 2010, the striker made his NHL debut playing the St. Louis Blues . After two missions in the NHL, in which he remained pointless and punished, he was sent back to the farm team of the Blue Jackets, the Syracuse Crunch . During the following season he was given in exchange for Dane Byers to the New York Rangers , for which he completed another brief assignment of four games in the NHL. He also scored his first scorer point with an assist . However, he spent most of the season at the Connecticut Whale in the AHL, where Kolarik finished the season with 17 goals from 36 games as the team's third-best goalscorer.

Chad Kolarik in the jersey of the Linköpings HC

Kolarik missed the entire 2011/12 season due to a knee injury that he suffered at the NHL training camp before the start of the season. The following year he made his comeback in the AHL and was one of the best scorers in the league during the season. He was then appointed to the squad of the AHL All-Star Classic 2013. With 16 goals, he was also the top scorer of the Whale when he was handed over to the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins in January 2013 in exchange for Benn Ferriero . Kolarik finished the regular season with a total of 68 points from 73 games as the third best scorer in the AHL. In the play-offs he helped the team with his winning goal in the decisive seventh game of the series against the Providence Bruins to turn a 0-3 deficit in the best-of-seven series. Only two other teams in league history had achieved this before.

In June 2013 Kolarik left North America as a free agent and signed a one-year contract with the Swedish club Linköpings HC from the Svenska Hockeyligan . There he finished his debut 2013/14 season with 30 goals as the top scorer in the league and won the Håkan Loob Trophy . In October 2014 he asked the LHC to terminate his contract and was signed a few days later by HK Awangard Omsk from the Continental Hockey League .

At the end of April 2015 Kolarik was signed by the Kloten Flyers from the National League A for a year. There he was used in 38 NLA games, scoring 16 goals and putting in twelve more. He left Kloten after the 2015/16 season and followed coach Sean Simpson to the Adler Mannheim in the German Ice Hockey League (DEL). In his first DEL season in 2016/17 he was among the top 10 goalscorers in the league with 25 goals and in the following season 2017/18 Kolarik was again the most successful scorer of the Adler. Even after the coaching change for the 2018/19 season , he formed a successful attack line with Garrett Festerling and Markus Eisenschmid and was again their player with the best points in his third season for Mannheim , in which the Palatinate team finished the main round in first place. Following this successful main round, Kolarik won the German championship with the eagles and then left the club. In the 2019/20 season he was under contract with EC Red Bull Salzburg before he ended his career in July 2020 for family reasons.

International

Kolarik represented the US national team at the U18 World Junior Championships in 2004 in Minsk . After a defeat in the final against Russia, he won the silver medal with the team. For the men's national team, Kolarik was in the squad for the first time at the Deutschland Cup 2013 and won the gold medal there. He then represented his home country at the 2018 Winter Olympics , where he finished seventh with the team that competed without an NHL player.

Achievements and Awards

  • 2005 CCHA championship with the University of Michigan
  • 2008 CCHA Championship with the University of Michigan
  • 2008 CCHA First All-Star Team
  • 2008 NCAA West Second All-American Team

International

statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season 2 6th 0 1 1 2
NHL playoffs - - - - - -
AHL regular season 4th 277 98 111 209 211
AHL playoffs 3 25th 12 10 22nd 17th
SHL main round 2 64 34 21st 55 68
SHL playoffs 1 14th 6th 4th 10 16
KHL main round 1 29 7th 9 16 10
KHL playoffs 1 12 4th 4th 8th 8th
NLA main round 1 36 15th 12 27 14th
NLA playoffs 1 2 1 0 1 0

(Status: end of the regular season 2015/16)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Penguins Acquire Forward Chad Kolarik from the NY Rangers in exchange for Benn Ferriero , Pittsburgh Penguins, January 24, 2013
  2. ↑ Wilkes-Barre / Scranton completes historic comeback , NHL.com, May 22, 2013
  3. ↑ 27-årig american clear for Linköping. (No longer available online.) Www2.lhc.eu, June 28, 2013, archived from the original on July 1, 2013 ; Retrieved June 29, 2013 (Swedish). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.lhc.eu
  4. ^ Ola Winther: Kolarik blir lagkamrat med Gustafsson och Wandell. hockeysverige.se, October 18, 2014, accessed January 27, 2015 (Swedish).
  5. ↑ Sandra Weber: Two new ones for the Kloten Flyers. In: zuonline.ch. April 30, 2015, accessed September 21, 2015 .
  6. ↑ ADLER Mannheim. (No longer available online.) In: www.adler-mannheim.de. Archived from the original on May 11, 2016 ; accessed on May 11, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.adler-mannheim.de
  7. ↑ Top runner Mannheim has drawn the right conclusions , Gelnhäuser Tageblatt , March 1, 2019, accessed on March 14, 2019
  8. ↑ Mannheim's player Chad Kolarik is the player of the month January in the DEL , Ice Hockey News , February 11, 2019, accessed on March 14, 2019
  9. ↑ Ice Hockey Magazine: Chad Kolarik draws a line. In: eishockey-magazin.de. July 3, 2020, accessed August 20, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kolarik, Chad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Abington , Pennsylvania