Dan Kesa

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CanadaCanada  Dan Kesa Ice hockey player
Date of birth November 23, 1971
place of birth Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada
size 183 cm
Weight 94 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1991 , 5th lap, 95th position
Vancouver Canucks
Career stations
1988-1990 Richmond Sockeyes
1990-1992 Prince Albert Raiders
1992-1994 Hamilton Canucks
1994-1995 Syracuse crunch
1995 Michigan K-Wings
1995-1998 Detroit Vipers
1998-1999 Pittsburgh Penguins
1999-2000 Tampa Bay Lightning
2000-2001 Manitoba mosses
2001-2002 HK Awangard Omsk
2002-2003 Vienna Capitals

Dragan "Dan" Kesa ( Serbian - Cyrillic Драган Кеса ; born November 23, 1971 in Vancouver , British Columbia ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and coach with Serbian ancestors. During his active career between 1988 and 2003, he played 152 games for played the Vancouver Canucks , Dallas Stars , Pittsburgh Penguins and Tampa Bay Lightning as the right winger in the National Hockey League (NHL) . However, Kesa spent most of his career in the American Hockey League (AHL) and International Hockey League (IHL), where he played almost 550 games and celebrated his greatest career success in 1997 with the Detroit Vipers by winning the IHL Turner Cup . His nephew Milan Lucic is also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Kesa spent his junior time from 1988 to 1990, first at the Richmond Sockeye in the British Columbia Junior Hockey League (BCJHL) before it it to the 1990/91 season for two seasons in the higher class Western Hockey League (WHL) to the Prince Albert Raiders moved . There the attacker developed into a hopeful power forward who was selected in the fifth round of the 1991 NHL Entry Draft in 95th place by the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL).

After finishing his junior career, Kesa moved to the professional field at the beginning of the 1992/93 season after receiving a contract from Vancouver. The right winger was mainly on the Hamilton Canucks farm team in the American Hockey League (AHL) for the first two years . During the game year 1993/94 Kesa made his debut in the NHL and came to 19 missions by the end of the season. The 1994/95 season he spent then in the new AHL farm team of Vancouver, the Syracuse Crunch . At first he could not add further NHL missions to his vita. In April 1995, Kesa moved through a transfer deal together with Greg Adams and a five-round suffrage in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft in the organization of the Dallas Stars , while the Canucks secured the services of Russ Courtnall . For Dallas and their farm team, the Michigan K-Wings , the striker came to only 18 games by November of the same year, including three for the stars in the NHL, before he was part of another transfer. In exchange for the Slovak Róbert Petrovický he was given to the Hartford Whalers .

There, too, Kesa did not make a breakthrough in the NHL until the summer of 1998. He played exclusively in the farm team Detroit Vipers in the International Hockey League (IHL), with which he celebrated his greatest career success at the end of the 1996/97 season when he won the championship trophy in the form of the Turner Cup . For Hartford, Kesa has not played a single game in the two and a half years. However, this changed for the 1998/99 season after he was signed as a free agent by the Pittsburgh Penguins for one year during the summer break . The now 27-year-old was used 67 times for the pens , but could not recommend a contract renewal. So he found a new employer in the Tampa Bay Lightning in September 1999 , who also used him regularly in the NHL, but also did not offer a follow-up contract. Kesa then came under the Manitoba Moose in the IHL, where he spent the 2000/01 season. Finally, the offensive player ended his career in Europe between 2001 and 2003. He spent a short period in the Russian Super League at HK Awangard Omsk , followed by his last professional season at the Austrian capital club Vienna Capitals in the Austrian Ice Hockey League (ÖEL).

After the end of his career, Kesa largely withdrew from ice hockey, but was in charge of the Serbian U20 national team at the U20 Junior World Championship of Division IIB in 2014 . With the team he finished third in the World Cup group.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1988/89 Richmond Sockeyes BCJHL 44 21st 21st 42 71 - - - - -
1989/90 Richmond Sockeyes BCJHL 54 39 38 77 103 - - - - -
1990/91 Prince Albert Raiders WHL 69 30th 23 53 116 3 1 1 2 0
1991/92 Prince Albert Raiders WHL 62 46 51 97 201 10 9 10 19th 27
1992/93 Hamilton Canucks AHL 62 16 24 40 76 - - - - -
1993/94 Hamilton Canucks AHL 53 37 33 70 33 4th 1 4th 5 4th
1993/94 Vancouver Canucks NHL 19th 2 4th 6th 18th - - - - -
1994/95 Syracuse crunch AHL 70 34 44 78 81 - - - - -
1995/96 Michigan K-Wings IHL 15th 4th 11 15th 33 - - - - -
1995/96 Dallas Stars NHL 3 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1995/96 Springfield Falcons AHL 22nd 10 5 15th 13 - - - - -
1995/96 Detroit Vipers IHL 27 9 6th 15th 22nd 12 6th 4th 10 4th
1996/97 Detroit Vipers IHL 60 22nd 21st 43 19th 20th 7th 5 12 20th
1997/98 Detroit Vipers IHL 76 40 37 77 40 20th 13 5 18th 14th
1998/99 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 67 2 8th 10 27 13 1 0 1 0
1998/99 Detroit Vipers IHL 8th 3 5 8th 12 - - - - -
1999/00 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 50 4th 10 14th 21st - - - - -
1999/00 Detroit Vipers IHL 5 3 0 3 2 - - - - -
1999/00 Manitoba mosses IHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2000/01 Manitoba mosses IHL 79 16 31 47 48 13 2 3 5 12
2001/02 HK Awangard Omsk Super league 9 0 1 1 4th - - - - -
2002/03 Vienna Capitals OIL 27 4th 16 20th 12 - - - - -
BCJHL total 98 60 59 119 174 - - - - -
WHL overall 131 76 74 150 317 13 10 11 21st 27
AHL total 207 97 106 203 203 4th 1 4th 5 4th
IHL total 271 97 111 208 176 65 28 17th 45 50
NHL overall 139 8th 22nd 30th 66 13 1 0 1 0

( 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Kesa, Dan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kesa, Dragan (real name); Кеса, Драган (Serbian-Cyrillic spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada