Colby Cohen

Colby Cohen
Date of birth	April 25, 1989
place of birth	Villanova , Pennsylvania , USA
size	189 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2007 , 2nd round, 45th position Colorado Avalanche
Career stations
2007-2010	Boston University
2010	Lake Erie Monsters
2010-2013	Providence Bruins
since 2014	Reading Royals

Colby Cohen (born April 25, 1989 in Villanova , Pennsylvania ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Reading Royals in the ECHL since October 2014 .

Career

Cohen was selected by the Colorado Avalanche in the second round of the 2007 NHL Entry Draft in 45th place . After the draft, he played for Boston University for three years . In 2009 he and his team were named champions of the university and college sports league Hockey East and the most outstanding player of the tournament.

After the defender and his team were eliminated from the Hockey East semi-finals in 2010 against the University of Maine , he signed his first professional contract with the Colorado Avalanche on April 3, 2010 . The brief remainder of the ice hockey season he spent with the Avalanche farm team , the Lake Erie Monsters , where he was able to achieve an assist in three games.

Colby Cohen came in the 2010/11 NHL season to three missions for the Avalanche and completed 14 more missions for the Monsters in the American Hockey League , before he transferred to the Boston Bruins on November 29, 2010 in exchange for defender Matt Hunwick has been. However, Cohen was not used for the Bruins, but played until the end of the 2012/13 season with Boston's farm team, the Providence Bruins , in the AHL.

International

In 2006 he won the silver medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge .

Achievements and Awards

2007 USHL All-Star Game 2007 USHL Second All-Star Team 2008 NCAA Frozen Four All-Tournament Team 2008 NCAA Frozen Four Tournament MVP 2009 Beanpot Tournament win with Boston University

2009 Hockey East Championship with Boston University 2009 Hockey East First All-Star Team 2009 NCAA Division I Championship with Boston University 2009 NCAA East First All-American team

International

• 2006 silver medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2007-08	Boston University	NCAA		39	3	13	16	34
2008-09	Boston University	NCAA		43	8th	24	32	65
2009-10	Boston University	NCAA		36	14th	16	30th	82
2009-10	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		3	0	1	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2010-11	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		14th	1	0	1	12		-	-	-	-	-
2010-11	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		3	0	0	0	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2010-11	Providence Bruins	AHL		46	1	12	13	46		-	-	-	-	-
2011-12	Providence Bruins	AHL		58	4th	11	15th	39		-	-	-	-	-
2012–13	Providence Bruins	AHL		43	0	14th	14th	48		-	-	-	-	-
2012–13	South Carolina Stingrays	ECHL		2	0	3	3	0		-	-	-	-	-
NCAA overall				118	25th	53	78	181
AHL total				164	6th	37	43	154		-	-	-	-	-

International

year	team	event	result		GP	G	A.	Pts	PIM
2006	United States	U17-WHC			6th	1	1	2	6th
Juniors overall					6th	1	1	2	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 )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} avalanche.nhl.com Avalanche Signs Colby Cohen
2. ↑ NHL.com , Avs deal Cohen to Boston for Hunwick

Web links

• Colby Cohen at hockeydb.com (English)
• Colby Cohen at hockeysfuture.com