Jaime Sifers

Jaime Sifers
Date of birth	January 18, 1983
place of birth	Stratford , Connecticut , USA
size	180 cm
Weight	95 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
2002-2006	University of Vermont
2006-2008	Toronto Marlies
2008-2009	Toronto Maple Leafs
2009-2010	Houston Eros
2010-2011	Chicago Wolves
2011-2014	Adler Mannheim
2014-2015	Springfield Falcons
2015-2017	Lake Erie / Cleveland Monsters
2017-2018	Utica Comets

Jaime Sifers (* 18th January 1983 in Stratford , Connecticut ) is a former American ice hockey player , who during his playing career 2002-2018 among other 37 games for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Minnesota Wild in the National Hockey League on the Has contested the position of the defender . However, Sifers spent most of his career in the American Hockey League , where he played 693 games for a total of six different teams. There he celebrated his greatest career success in the service of the Lake Erie Monsters by winning the Calder Cup in 2016.

Career

Sifers celebrates winning the Calder Cup

Sifers began his career as a hockey player in the National Collegiate Athletic Association , where he was active from 2002 to 2006 for the University of Vermont ice hockey team . Then he took the Toronto Maple Leafs under contract. Towards the end of the 2005/06 season, the defender made his professional ice hockey debut when he played two games for the Maple Leafs farm team , the Toronto Marlies , in the American Hockey League . In the following two seasons, the American was a regular with the Marlies and played all 160 regular season games. During the 2008-09 season , Sifers made his debut in the National Hockey League for the Maple Leafs. In the following season he went mostly for the Houston Eros in the AHL, but also completed some games for the Minnesota Wild in the National Hockey League. In July 2010, the defensive player signed a contract with the Atlanta Thrashers as a free agent . For the 2010/11 season , Sifers was sent to the Chicago Wolves' farm team .

In May 2011, the right-handed shooter signed a contract for the 2011/12 season with Adler Mannheim in the German Ice Hockey League . After two more seasons in the Adler jersey, his current contract was terminated in March 2014 at the personal request of the American. Sifers returned to North America and joined the Springfield Falcons of the American Hockey League in the run-up to the 2014/15 season . After a year there, the Columbus Blue Jackets , the previous cooperation partner of the Falcons, signed him for two years, initially for the new farm team, the Lake Erie Monsters . With the Monsters he won the Calder Cup at the end of the 2015/16 season .

After three years in the organization of the Blue Jackets, in which he remained without NHL involvement, his contract was not extended, so Sifers joined the Utica Comets from the AHL in July 2017 . There he ended his active career in April 2018 at the age of 35.

Achievements and Awards

2003 ECAC All-Rookie Team 2005 ECAC Best Defensive Defenseman 2005 ECAC Second All-Star Team

2009 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic 2016 Calder Cup win with the Lake Erie Monsters

Career statistics

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2002/03	University of Vermont	NCAA		34	4th	14th	18th	66
2003/04	University of Vermont	NCAA		35	4th	14th	18th	93
2004/05	University of Vermont	NCAA		36	4th	12	16	57
2005/06	University of Vermont	NCAA		38	3	15th	18th	60
2005/06	Toronto Marlies	AHL		2	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Toronto Marlies	AHL		80	7th	18th	25th	75		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Toronto Marlies	AHL		80	3	10	13	57		19th	2	3	5	6th
2008/09	Toronto Marlies	AHL		43	4th	16	20th	47		4th	0	1	1	4th
2008/09	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		23	0	2	2	18th		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Minnesota Wild	NHL		14th	0	0	0	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Houston Eros	AHL		54	3	5	8th	58		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Chicago Wolves	AHL		68	4th	18th	22nd	66		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Adler Mannheim	DEL		52	5	19th	24	59		14th	0	3	3	8th
2012/13	Adler Mannheim	DEL		52	1	14th	15th	64		6th	0	1	1	2
2013/14	Adler Mannheim	DEL		50	3	21st	24	62		5	0	1	1	0
2014/15	Springfield Falcons	AHL		76	3	19th	22nd	82		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		67	5	14th	19th	86		14th	0	5	5	10
2016/17	Cleveland Monsters	AHL		74	6th	14th	20th	74		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Utica Comets	AHL		37	0	5	5	44		5	0	0	0	0
2018/19	Utica Comets	AHL		70	4th	10	14th	51		-	-	-	-	-
NCAA overall				143	15th	55	70	276
AHL total				651	39	129	168	642		42	2	9	11	20th
NHL overall				37	0	2	2	24		-	-	-	-	-
DEL total				154	9	54	63	185		25th	0	5	5	10

( 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

• Jaime Sifers in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Jaime Sifers at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Jaime Sifers at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ zeit.de Termination of contract: Sifers leaves Adler Mannheim
2. ↑ falconsahl.com Falcons sign Sifers, Wetmore & Coderre-Gagnon ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 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.