Shawn Horcoff

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Shawn Horcoff
Date of birth 17th September 1978
place of birth Trail , British Columbia , Canada
size 187 cm
Weight 94 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1998 , 4th lap, 99th position
Edmonton Oilers
Career stations
1996-2000 Michigan State University
2004-2005 Mora IK
2000-2013 Edmonton Oilers
2013-2015 Dallas Stars
2015-2016 Anaheim Ducks

Shawn Paul Horcoff (* 17th September 1978 in Trail , British Columbia ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player , who during his playing career between 2000 and 2016, among others in 1054 games for the Edmonton Oilers , Dallas Stars and Anaheim Ducks in the National Hockey League on contested the position of the center . During his career, Horcoff won two world titles with the Canadian national team . Since the end of his active career, he has been in the management of the Detroit Red Wings .

Career

During his time at Michigan State University he played on the junior team and was one of the outstanding players in the university league. In the 1998 NHL Entry Draft , the Edmonton Oilers selected him as 99th in the fourth round. He stayed at the university for two more years to graduate.

Although he was always successful in university ice hockey, disappointment followed in the Oilers' training camp for the 2000/01 season : he did not succeed in asserting himself, and so he was sent to the AHL farm team with the Hamilton Bulldogs . There he impressed with 28 points in 24 games, so that he moved up to the NHL squad in early December. On December 13, 2000, he scored his first goal in the NHL against the Dallas Stars . Horcroff initially played as a defensive attacker, but year after year he improved his stats.

Shawn Horcoff (2012)

After being in the 2002/03 season at the NHL Young Stars Game took part, he also played at the 2003 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships , where she won the Canadian national title. The following year he was able to defend the title with his team.

He spent the 2004/05 strike season in Sweden at Mora IK . Back in the NHL, he was the Oilers' second best scorer with 73 points behind Aleš Hemský . The team barely made it to the playoffs, but there the team managed to prevail and they reached the final. However, his two goals in the final series were not enough to beat the Carolina Hurricanes .

After the 2006/07 season was not particularly successful for him, he was able to improve again for the following season and had already achieved the 16 goals he had scored in the previous season at the turn of the year.

On October 6, 2010, he was named the 13th team captain in the history of the Edmonton Oilers.

On July 4, 2013, he was transferred to the Dallas Stars in exchange for Philip Larsen and a seven-round suffrage in the 2016 NHL Entry Draft . After two years in Dallas, his contract was not renewed, so he joined the Anaheim Ducks as a free agent in July 2015 . In January 2016 Horcoff was banned for 20 games because he had violated the doping regulations of the NHL ("Performance Enhancing Substances Program"). According to his own statement, he wanted to accelerate the healing process of an injury with the unspecified substance and was not aware of the prohibition in terms of doping.

A few weeks later, in March 2016, he played his 1000th game in the NHL. After the 2015/16 season, he announced the end of his playing career. He then moved to the management of Detroit Red Wings and has been Director of Player Development there ever since .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1995/96 Chilliwack Chiefs BCHL 58 49 96 145 44 9 5 19th 24 12
1996/97 Michigan State University CCHA 40 10 13 23 20th
1997/98 Michigan State University CCHA 34 14th 13 27 50
1998/99 Michigan State University CCHA 39 12 25th 37 70
1999/00 Michigan State University CCHA 42 14th 51 65 50
2000/01 Hamilton Bulldogs AHL 24 10 18th 28 19th - - - - -
2000/01 Edmonton Oilers NHL 49 9 7th 16 10 5 0 0 0 0
2001/02 Hamilton Bulldogs AHL 2 1 2 3 6th - - - - -
2001/02 Edmonton Oilers NHL 61 8th 14th 22nd 18th - - - - -
2002/03 Edmonton Oilers NHL 78 12 21st 33 55 6th 3 1 4th 6th
2003/04 Edmonton Oilers NHL 80 15th 25th 40 73 - - - - -
2004/05 Mora IK Elitserien 50 19th 27 46 117 - - - - -
2005/06 Edmonton Oilers NHL 79 22nd 51 73 85 24 7th 12 19th 12
2006/07 Edmonton Oilers NHL 80 16 35 51 56 - - - - -
2007/08 Edmonton Oilers NHL 53 21st 29 50 30th - - - - -
2008/09 Edmonton Oilers NHL 80 17th 36 53 39 - - - - -
2009/10 Edmonton Oilers NHL 77 13 23 36 51 - - - - -
2010/11 Edmonton Oilers NHL 47 9 18th 27 46 - - - - -
2011/12 Edmonton Oilers NHL 81 13 21st 34 24 - - - - -
2012/13 Edmonton Oilers NHL 31 7th 5 12 24 - - - - -
2013/14 Dallas Stars NHL 77 7th 13 20th 52 6th 1 5 6th 5
2014/15 Dallas Stars NHL 76 11 18th 29 27 - - - - -
2015/16 Anaheim Ducks NHL 59 6th 9 15th 34 5 0 1 1 2
CCHA total 155 50 100 150 190
AHL total 26th 11 20th 31 25th - - - - -
NHL overall 1008 186 325 511 624 46 11 19th 30th 25th

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2003 Canada WM 1st place, gold 9 3 4th 7th 0
2004 Canada WM 1st place, gold 9 3 4th 7th 8th
2009 Canada WM 2nd place, silver 9 1 1 2 6th
Men overall 27 7th 9 16 14th

( 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 : Shawn Horcoff  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ oilers.nhl.com, Horcoff named captain of Edmonton Oilers
  2. ↑ Josh Cooper: Shawn Horcoff suspended 20 games for PED violation; takes 'full responsibility'. sports.yahoo.com, January 26, 2016, accessed February 6, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Horcoff, Shawn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horcoff, Shawn Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Trail , British Columbia