Geoff Platt

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Geoff Platt
Date of birth July 10, 1985
place of birth Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size 175 cm
Weight 79 kg
position center
number # 16
Shot hand Left
Career stations
2001-2002 North Bay Centennials
2002-2003 Saginaw Spirit
2003-2005 Erie Otters
2005-2007 Syracuse crunch
2007-2008 Portland Pirates
2008 HK Dinamo Minsk
2008-2009 Ilves Tampere
2009-2013 HK Dinamo Minsk
2013-2015 Yaroslavl locomotive
2015-2016 HK CSKA Moscow
2016 Växjö Lakers Hockey
2016-2018 HK CSKA Moscow
2018-2019 Jokerit Helsinki
since 2019 Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg

Template: Infobox ice hockey player / country code 2

Geoffrey Platt (born July 10, 1985 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player with Belarusian citizenship who has been under contract with Awtomobilist Yekaterinburg in the Continental Hockey League since May 2019 .

Career

Geoff Platt began his career as a hockey player in the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League , in which he was active from 2001 to 2005 for the North Bay Centennials , Saginaw Spirit and Erie Otters . However, the 2004/05 season he completed with the Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies from the ECHL . On September 23, 2005, the attacker signed a contract as a free agent with the Syracuse Crunch from the American Hockey League and two months later with their cooperation partner from the National Hockey League , the Columbus Blue Jackets . In the following two and a half years he played for both of them in parallel before he was given to the reigning Stanley Cup winner Anaheim Ducks on November 15, 2007 in exchange for Aaron Rome and Clay Wilson . For the Californians, the left-handed shooter played only five games in the NHL by the end of the 2007/08 season , while he and their AHL farm team Portland Pirates only failed in the playoff semifinals for the Calder Cup at the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins .

Change to the KHL and naturalization

The 2008/09 season began Platt at HK Dinamo Minsk from the newly founded Continental Hockey League . After only 13 games in which he had scored two goals and given three assists, he left the Belarusians to play for Ilves Tampere in the Finnish SM-liiga . For the 2009/10 season the Canadian signed again with HK Dinamo Minsk in the KHL and was subsequently one of the top performers on his team.

In February 2012, Platt received Belarusian citizenship together with Kevin Lalande and Charles Linglet .

During the 2013/14 season , in the middle of his sixth season for Dinamo Minsk, Platt was given up as the team's top scorer for a compensation payment to Lokomotive Yaroslavl . A few days later, he signed a contract extension until the end of the 2015/16 season. A year before this contract expired, he left Lokomotiv and moved within the KHL to HK CSKA Moscow . Dorst he first played one season and then was in June 2016 Växjö Lakers from the Svenska Hockey Ligan committed. Shortly before the end of the same year, after 25 appearances for the Lakers, Platt returned to ZSKA.

He then played at CSKA until the end of the 2017/18 season before he was signed by Jokerit Helsinki in July 2018 . For Jokerit he collected 24 scorer points in a total of 64 KHL games and left the Finnish club at the end of the season for Awtomobilist Yekaterinburg .

International

For Canada , Platt took part in the U18 World Junior Championship in 2003 , where he became world champion with his team.

After acquiring Belarusian citizenship in 2012 and having had a permanent contract in Belarus for four years, the Belarusian Ice Hockey Federation applied for the international license to play Platt in 2013, which was granted by the IIHF in October 2013. His first major international tournament for Belarus was the 2014 Men's World Cup .

At the World Championship of Division IA 2019 , Platt reached second place with the Belarus team and thus a promotion place in the top division. Platt himself was the top scorer of the tournament with seven scorer points and was then both elected to the All-Star team and awarded as the best striker. He also received the Belarusian Player of the Year award for his achievements .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2001/02 North Bay Centennials OHL 63 4th 6th 10 34 5 0 0 0 6th
2002/03 Saginaw Spirit OHL 62 32 22nd 54 79 - - - - -
2003/04 Saginaw Spirit OHL 27 7th 13 20th 49 - - - - -
2003/04 Erie Otters OHL 28 18th 11 29 22nd 9 9 1 10 22nd
2004/05 Erie Otters OHL 68 45 34 79 84 6th 2 3 5 16
2004/05 Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies ECHL 2 0 2 2 0 3 0 0 0 0
2005/06 Syracuse crunch AHL 66 30th 35 65 58 6th 3 0 3 6th
2005/06 Columbus Blue Jackets NHL 15th 0 5 5 16 - - - - -
2006/07 Syracuse crunch AHL 52 27 21st 48 59 - - - - -
2006/07 Columbus Blue Jackets NHL 26th 4th 5 9 10 - - - - -
2007/08 Syracuse crunch AHL 15th 4th 3 7th 6th - - - - -
2007/08 Portland Pirates AHL 60 28 30th 58 49 18th 8th 9 17th 24
2007/08 Anaheim Ducks NHL 5 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
2008/09 HK Dinamo Minsk KHL 13 2 3 5 8th - - - - -
2008/09 Ilves Tampere SM-liiga 45 19th 18th 37 54 3 1 0 1 4th
2009/10 HK Dinamo Minsk KHL 56 26th 18th 44 77 - - - - -
2010/11 HK Dinamo Minsk KHL 54 18th 15th 33 46 7th 4th 3 7th 4th
2011/12 HK Dinamo Minsk KHL 47 13 17th 30th 42 4th 1 0 1 4th
2012/13 HK Dinamo Minsk KHL 50 13 15th 28 76 - - - - -
2013/14 HK Dinamo Minsk KHL 40 15th 14th 29 8th - - - - -
2013/14 Yaroslavl locomotive KHL 16 6th 5 11 2 18th 5 4th 9 20th
2014/15 Yaroslavl locomotive KHL 60 17th 13 30th 24 6th 1 0 1 2
2015/16 HK CSKA Moscow KHL 55 21st 14th 35 46 12 6th 4th 10 12
2016/17 Vaxjo Lakers SHL 25th 10 5 15th 12 - - - - -
2016/17 HK CSKA Moscow KHL 18th 6th 1 7th 16 10 3 1 4th 6th
2017/18 HK CSKA Moscow KHL 28 8th 3 11 2 10 0 2 2 6th
2018/19 Jokerit Helsinki KHL 60 11 13 24 2 4th 0 0 0 4th
OHL total 248 106 86 192 268 20th 11 4th 15th 44
AHL total 194 90 89 180 172 24 11 9 20th 30th
NHL overall 46 4th 10 14th 28 - - - - -
KHL total 488 156 131 287 349 71 20th 14th 34 58

International

Represented Canada to:

Represented Belarus at:

 

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2003 Canada U18 World Cup 1st place, gold 7th 3 0 3 0
2014 Belarus WM 7th place 8th 3 2 5 0
2016 Belarus WM 12th place 7th 3 2 5 2
2016 Belarus Olympic qualification 2nd place 3 0 2 2 0
2018 Belarus WM 15th place 7th 1 3 4th 4th
2019 Belarus WM Div. IA 2nd place 5 3 4th 7th 0
Juniors overall 7th 3 0 3 0
Men overall 30th 10 13 23 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 )

Web links

Commons : Geoff Platt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b hockeyfans.ch, Belarusians become Canadians , February 18, 2012, accessed on May 15, 2014
  2. ↑ Плэтт отправился в Ярославль. KHL , December 30, 2013, accessed May 15, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Трансферные новости. KHL, January 3, 2014, accessed May 15, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Jokerit julkaisi kaksi kovan luokan diiliä: Geoff Platt Helsinkiin, Nicklas Jensen jatkaa. In: iltalehti.fi. July 16, 2018, accessed August 16, 2018 (Finnish).
  5. ↑ iihfworlds2014.com, Lalande, Platt eligible - Canada-born players can represent Belarus , October 4, 2013, accessed on May 15, 2014
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personal data
SURNAME Platt, Geoff
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Platt, Geoffrey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belarusian-Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario , Canada