Jake Dowell

Jake Dowell
Jake Dowell (right) in February 2011
Date of birth	March 4th 1985
place of birth	Eau Claire , Wisconsin , USA
size	183 cm
Weight	92 kg
position	center
number	# 49
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2004 , 5th round, 140th position Chicago Blackhawks
Career stations
2001-2003	USA Hockey National Team Development Program
2003-2007	University of Wisconsin – Madison
2007-2010	Rockford IceHogs
2010-2011	Chicago Blackhawks
2011–2012	Dallas Stars
2012-2014	Minnesota Wild Houston Eros Iowa Wild
2014-2015	Hamilton Bulldogs
2015-2017	Rockford IceHogs
2017-2018	EHC Linz

Jacob "Jake" Dowell (born March 4, 1985 in Eau Claire , Wisconsin ) is an American ice hockey player who was most recently under contract with EHC Linz from the Erste Bank Ice Hockey League .

Career

Jake Dowell began his career as a hockey player in the USA Hockey National Team Development Program , for which he was active in the North American Hockey League from 2001 to 2003 . The attacker then played for the University of Wisconsin – Madison for four years .

During this period he was in the NHL Entry Draft in 2004 in the fifth round as a total of 140 players from the Chicago Blackhawks been selected for their onetime farm team , the Norfolk Admirals of the American Hockey League , he at the end of the 2006-07 season for the first time in professional ice hockey stand on the ice. In the following season the American made his debut in the National Hockey League for the Blackhawks, scoring three points in 19 games. Most of the season he spent just like in the 2008/09 season, however, with Chicago's new AHL farm team, the Rockford IceHogs .

In the following season he played mostly for the Rockford IceHogs and only came to three NHL games for the Chicago Blackhawks, in which Dowell scored two points. In the 2010/11 season he made the final jump into the NHL roster of the Blackhawks.

On July 1, 2011, Dowell signed a one-year contract with the Dallas Stars . About a year later he was awarded a two-year contract by the Minnesota Wild . As part of the preparation for the 2013/14 season , Dowell was transferred to the farm team of the wild, the Iowa Wild , in the AHL and is therefore not in the NHL roster. In total, he came only 3 NHL missions in two years and spent the rest of the time in the AHL. In the AHL he received the Fred T. Hunt Memorial Award ( Sportsmanship Award ) in 2014. After the 2013/14 season, he joined the Hamilton Bulldogs , for whom he played a year in the AHL.

As a free agent , he signed a professional tryout contract with the Rockford IceHogs in August 2015, which was valid until the start of the season , for which he was already active from 2007 to 2010. This subsequently took him under contract.

By 2017, Jake Dowell had completed a total of 552 games in the AHL, most of them for the Rockford IceHogs, which he led as captain for three years. He also holds the IceHogs record for most franchise games. After the 2016/17 season he decided to move to Europe and was signed by EHC Linz from the Erste Bank Ice Hockey League .

International

For the United States , Dowell took part in the 2003 U18 World Junior Championships and the 2004 and 2005 U20 World Junior Championships .

Achievements and Awards

• 2004 gold medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
• 2014 Fred T. Hunt Memorial Award
• 2016 AHL All-Star Classic

statistics

Status: end of the 2014/15 season

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL: Regular season	7th	157	11	22nd	33	133
NHL: playoffs	1	2	0	0	0	0
AHL: Regular season	7th	381	38	70	108	461
AHL: playoffs	5	30th	1	5	6th	14th

Web links

Commons : Jake Dowell  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jake Dowell at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Jake Dowell at legendsofhockey.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ nhl.com: "Wild Reduces Training Camp Roster To 23" (English, September 29, 2013, accessed on November 26, 2013)
2. ↑ New striker with the Black Wings. In: nachrichten.at. May 12, 2017. Retrieved July 6, 2017 .