Jack Combs

Jack Combs
Date of birth	January 26, 1988
place of birth	St. Louis , Missouri , USA
size	183 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	wing
number	# 88
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2004-2005	Kitchener Rangers
2005-2009	Saginaw Spirit
2009	Alaska Aces
2009-2010	Trenton Devils
2010-2011	Tulsa Oilers
2011	Colorado Eagles
2011–2012	Worcester Sharks
2012	Colorado Eagles
2012-2013	Bridgeport Sound Tigers
2013-2014	San Antonio Rampage
2014	Oklahoma City Barons Toros Neftekamsk
2014-2015	All Americans
2015	IF Björklöven Stockton Thunder Cincinnati Cyclones
2015-2016	Hartford Wolf Pack Greenville Swamp Rabbits
2016-2017	Fischtown Pinguins Bremerhaven
2017-2018	Iserlohn Roosters
2018-2019	EHC Kloten
2019	Wichita Thunder
since 2019	EC Bad Nauheim

Jack Combs (born January 26, 1988 in St. Louis , Missouri ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with EC Bad Nauheim in the DEL2 since December 2019 .

Career

Junior time in the OHL

When Combs scored 58 goals in one season for the California Waves in the California Junior Ice Hockey League at the age of 16 , which is a record for this club, he was then one of the top three by the Kitchener Rangers for the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) Hockey Junior Leagues of Canada, selected and signed for the 2004/2005 season.

After one season he moved within the OHL to the Saginaw Spirits , for whom he played the next four seasons. Jack was particularly successful in the 2007/08 season in which he, voted OHL Player of the Month for December 2007, was appointed to the 2008 OHL All-Star Team and was named the most improved player of the season by the OHL coaches . With 100 points, he was also the player with the highest points in his club. In the following season 2008/09 he was with 43 assists the best player of his club in this statistic and with 13 points Saginaws most successful scorer in the play-offs.

Success in the ECHL - first experiences abroad

In 2009 he took part in the Peoria Rivermen training camp . Jack Combs began his rookie season 2009/10 with the then ECHL farm team of the St. Louis Blues , the Alaska Aces . During the season he moved within the ECHL to the Trenton Devils , only to end the season with three appearances for Peoria Rivermen.

The 2010/11 season began Combs in the Central Hockey League (CHL) , a league that was integrated into the ECHL in 2014, with the Tulsa Oilers . With the Oilers, Chad Costello was his strike partner for the first time , with whom he should form a successful attacking duo several times in the course of his career. After being one of the CHL's top 10 scorers that season, Combs was loaned out by the AHL team Chicago Wolves for three games during the season. For the 2011/12 season he moved together with Costello to the ECHL team Colorado Eagles . After Combs established himself as the top scorer of the ECHL (37 points in 23 games) during the season, he moved back to the AHL in December 2011, this time to the Worcester Sharks .

Although he was able to achieve 30 points (16 goals) in 50 games of the season for the Sharks, he began the 2012/13 season again with the Colorado Eagles in the ECHL. Together with Costello he formed the top scorer duo of the league again, and both were then committed in December 2012 by the Bridgeport Sound Tigers from the AHL. After a rather disappointing season for the Sound Tigers, Combs from coach Scott Pellerin was exchanged for league rivals San Antonio Rampage in March 2013 . At the Texas club , Combs was still able to score 12 goals in 18 games.

Since San Antonio was a farm team of the Florida Panthers at the time, Combs was able to complete a trial training with the NHL team before the 2013/14 season, but the season began again with the Rampage in the AHL. During the season he was also used for the Cincinnati Cyclones , the then ECHL panther farm team, and was finally exchanged for Derek Nesbitt to the Oklahoma City Barons within the AHL in January 2014 .

For the 2014/15 season Combs left North America for the first time and began the season at Toros Neftekamsk from the second highest Russian ice hockey league , but moved back to North America at the start of the ECHL season in October and played together with Chad Costello for the newcomers Allen Americans from Texas. The duo was successful again this season and Combs was nominated as ECHL's top scorer for the ECHL All-Star Game in January 2015. But even before the All-Star Games were held, he accepted the offer from IF Björklöven from the second Swedish ice hockey league Allsvenskan and was therefore replaced by Olivier Archambault from the Alaska Aces for the event of the best league players . But Jack Combs did not stay long at his second stop in Europe either and returned to North America in February because of the limited time he did with the Swedish team. A return to the Allen Americans, who were successful this season and even won the championship in the end , was not possible because of the league's waiver transaction provisions - clubs with low scores have preferential rights - so he played with the ECHL teams Stockton Thunder and Cincinnati Cyclones finished. After this turbulent season for Combs, with games for five different teams in three countries, he was still able to take ninth place in the ECHL season scorer ranking after scoring 76 points (31 goals) in only 47 games.

After 18 club changes in seven years as a professional ice hockey player, he hoped to find stability in the organization of the New York Rangers for the 2015/16 season , especially in their AHL farm team, the Hartford Wolf Pack , which gave him due to his successful ECHL season committed. But here, too, it was like in almost every season, in Combs' missions for the Rangers ECHL team, the Greenville Swamp Rabbits from South Carolina , he was one of the top scorers, while he was on 4 points in the 18 games of the season for Hartford ( 2 goals) came.

Change to Europe

After refusing to move to Europe in the preseason, Combs wanted to try again in the 2016/17 season by offering the Fischtown Pinguins a trial engagement in the pre-season. The people in charge of the DEL newcomer from Bremerhaven then used him for the season preparation games in the first series of storms, in which Combs was able to recommend himself for another commitment. During the season, Jack Combs became the top scorer of the Pinguins and was involved in the successful season for the North Germans. At the end of the season Combs was even the top scorer in the entire league with 27 goals and was able to qualify with his club for the pre-playoffs.

At the beginning of May 2017, the Westphalian league rival Iserlohn Roosters announced the commitment of Combs for the 2017/18 season . He was also able to reach the pre-playoffs with the club from the Sauerland in his first season, with Combs with 34 points and 22 goals in the main round being the most successful player of his team in both ratings and again among the top 10 scorers in the DEL belonged to. Despite the performance shown, he did not receive a follow-up contract with the Roosters.

In October 2018 he was signed for the current season by the Swiss second division club EHC Kloten . At the beginning of the 2019/20 season he played with the Wichita Thunder in the ECHL before he received a fixed-term contract with EC Bad Nauheim in December 2019 .

Achievements and Awards

• 2008 OHL All-Star Game
• 2015 ECHL All-Star Game
• 2017 DEL top scorer

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2004/05	Kitchener Rangers	OHL		59	1	5	6th	12		3	0	0	0	2
2005/06	Saginaw Spirit	OHL		59	11	10	21st	80		3	0	1	1	0
2006/07	Saginaw Spirit	OHL		51	10	23	33	56		6th	3	3	6th	8th
2007/08	Saginaw Spirit	OHL		67	42	58	100	93		4th	0	1	1	4th
2008/09	Saginaw Spirit	OHL		62	32	43	75	102		8th	9	4th	13	8th
2009/10	Alaska Aces	ECHL		11	1	3	4th	2		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Trenton Devils	ECHL		49	23	16	39	63		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Peoria Rivermen	AHL		3	0	1	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Tulsa Oilers	CHL		64	40	42	82	42		10	3	7th	10	12
2010/11	Chicago Wolves	AHL		3	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Colorado Eagles	ECHL		23	17th	20th	37	22nd		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Worcester Sharks	AHL		50	16	14th	30th	24		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Colorado Eagles	ECHL		27	19th	23	42	22nd		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Bridgeport Sound Tigers	AHL		22nd	5	9	14th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		18th	12	7th	19th	2		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		19th	0	2	2	18th		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Cincinnati Cyclones	ECHL		8th	9	4th	13	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Oklahoma City Barons	AHL		29	5	4th	9	16		3	0	0	0	2
2014/15	Toros Neftekamsk	WysHL		11	0	7th	7th	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	All Americans	ECHL		32	22nd	34	56	32		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	IF Björklöven	Allsvenskan		3	1	0	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Stockton Thunder	ECHL		10	5	8th	13	11		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Cincinnati Cyclones	ECHL		5	4th	3	7th	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Greenville Swamp Rabbits	ECHL		40	27	25th	52	16		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Hartford Wolf Pack	AHL		18th	2	2	4th	2		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Fischtown Pinguins Bremerhaven	DEL		51	27	18th	45	12		6th	3	3	6th	4th
OHL total				298	96	139	235	343		24	12	9	21st	22nd
ECHL total				205	127	136	263	176		-	-	-	-	-
AHL total				162	40	39	79	76		3	0	0	0	2

( 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

• Jack Combs at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Jack Combs at hockeydb.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ California Waves Statistics - All-Time Goals , eliteprospects.com , January 2017, accessed January 22, 2017
2. ↑ Rangers sign top two draft picks , kitchenrangers.com, May 14, 2004, accessed January 22, 2017
3. ↑ Saginaw acquires Combs from Rangers , Michigan Junior Hockey, August 3, 2005, accessed January 22, 2017
4. ^ OHL announces performers of the month of December , Hockey's Future, January 10, 2008, accessed January 22, 2017
5. ↑ OHL announces rosters for 2008 OHL all star classic in Sault Ste Marie , oursportscentral, January 15, 2008, accessed January 22, 2017
6. ^ OHL coaches poll recognizes McDonough and Combs , oursportscentral, March 19, 2008, accessed January 22, 2017
7. ↑ 2009 Traverse City Rookie Tournament Recap - Day 2 , Hockey's Future, September 8, 2009, accessed January 25, 2017
8. ↑ Devils acquire Jack Combs , oursportscentral, December 9, 2009, accessed January 25, 2017
9. ↑ Eagles strike it rich, sign Tulsa Oilers' Top two scorers ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , coloradoeagles.com, August 18, 2011, accessed January 25, 2017 
10. ↑ Combs advances to AHL's Worcester Sharks ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , coloradoeagles.com, December 14, 2011, accessed January 25, 2017 
11. ↑ Jack Combs , circlingthewagon, September 19, 2012, accessed January 25, 2017
12. ^ Tigers ink Comb & Costello to AHL deals , soundtigers.com, January 9, 2013, accessed January 25, 2017
13. ^ Questionable moves out of Bridgeport - Jack Combs traded , newyorkislanderfancentral.com, March 15, 2013, accessed January 25, 2017
14. ↑ San Antonio Rampage start season with 6 ohl grads , ohlalumnicentral, October 28, 2013, accessed January 25, 2017
15. ↑ AHL, NHL trades for Rampage, Barons , theahl.com, January 17, 2014, accessed January 25, 2017
16. ↑ Americans reunite the dynamic duo , allamericans.com, October 21, 2014, accessed January 25, 2017
17. ↑ Americans' Combs voted ECHL All-Star starter , allamericans.com, January 7, 2015, accessed January 25, 2017
18. ↑ The All-Star's back ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , alaskaaces.com, January 20, 2015, accessed January 25, 2017  
19. ^ The curious case of Jack Combs , fohsfarmreport, March 24, 2015, accessed January 25, 2017
20. ↑ Traveling Man: Wolf Pack Jack Combs' 18th team since 2009 , Hartford Courant , February 4, 2016, accessed January 26, 2017
21. ↑ Combs finds a home with Wolf Pack , thahl.com, January 8, 2016, accessed January 26, 2017
22. ↑ Team statistics Greenville Swamp Rabbits - season 2015/16 , eliteprospects.com, May 2016, accessed on January 26, 2017
23. ↑ Jack Combs wants to prove himself at the Fischtown Pinguins , Hockeyweb, July 11, 2016, accessed on January 26, 2017
24. ^ Jack Combs: Ice hockey as an outlet for everyday life , Nordsee-Zeitung , August 26, 2016, accessed on January 26, 2017
25. ↑ Fischtown Pinguins: A new miracle from the Weser , Westdeutsche Zeitung , January 5, 2017, accessed on January 26, 2017
26. ↑ Bremerhaven residents reach pre-playoffs in the DEL ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Radio Bremen , February 26, 2017, accessed on February 28, 2017  
27. ↑ From the North Sea to the Seilersee , Iserlohn-roosters.de, May 2, 2017, accessed on May 3, 2017
28. ↑ Player statistics goal scorers DEL 2017/18 main round , eliteprospects.com, accessed on March 10, 2018
29. ↑ Not only top scorer Jack Combs has to go , Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger and Zeitung , March 16, 2018, accessed on September 24, 2018
30. ↑ EHC Kloten signs American Forward Jack Combs , Swisshockeynews.ch, October 25, 2018, accessed on November 19, 2018
31. ↑ Striker is back in the ECHL. In: eishockey-magazin.de. October 25, 2019, accessed December 4, 2019 . 
32. ↑ Michael Nickolaus: EC Bad Nauheim reacts to injury misery: Ex-DEL top scorer approaching. In: wetterauer-zeitung.de. December 2, 2019, accessed December 4, 2019 .