Jamal Mayers

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Jamal Mayers
Date of birth October 24, 1974
place of birth Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size 188 cm
Weight 97 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1993 , 4th lap, 89th position
St. Louis Blues
Career stations
1990-1991 Weston Dukes
1991-1992 Thornhill Islanders
1992-1996 Western Michigan University
1996-1998 Worcester IceCats
1998-2008 St. Louis Blues
2004-2005 Hammarby IF Stockholm
2005 Missouri River Otters
2008-2010 Toronto Maple Leafs
2010 Calgary Flames
2010-2011 San Jose Sharks
2011-2013 Chicago Blackhawks

Jamal David Mayers (born October 24, 1974 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player on the position of right winger . Mayers played 978 games in the National Hockey League , most of them during his ten-year stint with the St. Louis Blues . He also won the Stanley Cup with the Chicago Blackhawks in his final professional season . With the Canadian national team he took part in three world championships and won the gold medal in 2007.

Career

Mayers played during his junior years from 1990 to 1992 with the Weston Dukes and Thornhill Islanders in the Metro Junior A Hockey League near his hometown. With a total of 143 points in exactly 100 games, the striker showed his great potential early on. In the summer of 1992, the then 17-year-old decided - in contrast to many other Canadian youth players - to continue his career at a US college and not in one of the three leagues of the Canadian Hockey League . Mayer moved to the in Kalamazoo situated Western Michigan University . In addition to his studies, he played for the next four years until 1996 in parallel for their ice hockey team in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association , a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . Although the Canadian could not celebrate any great successes with the team in the CCHA in these four years, he was selected as the 89th player by the St. Louis Blues in the fourth round of the NHL Entry Draft in the summer of 1993 . In addition, Mayers was among the team's seven best scorers in all four years - even as top scorer in the 1994/95 season.

Mayers in the jersey of the St. Louis Blues

After four years at college, the right winger moved in the summer of 1996 to the St. Louis Blues organization, which had drafted three years earlier . Mayers completed a total of six games in the National Hockey League in his first year as a professional , and he managed one assist . Most of the 1996/97 season he spent with the Blues farm team , the Worcester IceCats from the American Hockey League . The same happened to him in the following game year, when he was only used for Worcester. Between 1996 and 1999 Mayers completed a total of 143 games for the IceCats, with 40 goals and 85 points scorer. The additional 255 penalty minutes underpinned his ability as a power forward . Mayers got regular service times in the NHL from the 1999/2000 season , after he had already played the last 34 games in the 1998/99 season , scored his first four goals and impressed with a good defensive game. The striker initially stayed in St. Louis until the summer of 2004. He completed his best seasons in the years 2000/01 when he achieved 21 scorer points and in 2001/02 when he had 17 scorer points and a plus / minus statistic of +9. Mayers was thrown back the following year, as a stubborn knee injury, which he suffered in mid-November 2002, limited him to only 15 season appearances and he was out for the rest of the season.

Due to the strike-related failure of the 2004/05 NHL season , Mayers left the Blues before the season. He was hired as a free agent at Hammarby IF Stockholm from the second-rate Swedish HockeyAllsvenskan . For the club from the capital he played a total of 19 games between mid-November 2004 and mid-March 2005, in which he scored 22 points. In March, the attacker finally returned to the United States and signed a contract with the Missouri River Otters of the United Hockey League . By the end of the season he had seven points scorer in 13 games.

In autumn 2005 Mayers rejoined the St. Louis Blues and played for the team for another three years, during which he always scored well over 20 points scorer. After a total of eleven years in the Gateway City franchise, the Blues and Mayers parted ways in June 2008 - ahead of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft . He was given to the Toronto Maple Leafs on June 19 for a third-round suffrage, with which the Blues later selected James Livingston in 70th place . With that, the striker returned to his hometown. Under the new Maple Leafs coach Ron Wilson , Mayers was a fixture in the young Toronto team from the start due to his experience. But he could no longer build on the achievements with which he had shone in previous years in St. Louis. The increasing dissatisfaction with the Canadian's performance and his expiring two-year contract made him increasingly dispensable and at the end of January 2010 he became part of one of the largest transfers in the NHL since the resumption of play in autumn 2005. Together with Matt Stajan , Niklas Hagman and Ian White , he was transferred to the Calgary Flames for Dion Phaneuf , Fredrik Sjöström and Keith Aulie . After 27 missions for the Flames, the cooperation between the team and Mayers was not continued. As an unrestricted free agent, the Power Forward finally signed a one-year contract on August 4, 2010 with the San Jose Sharks , who needed replacements for the migrated Manny Malhotra and Jed Ortmeyer . On July 1, 2011, he signed a one-year contract with the Chicago Blackhawks as a free agent .

This contract was extended for another year, so that Mayers won the Stanley Cup with the Blackhawks in the 2012/13 season . Due to the reduced playing time due to the lockout, his 19 games in the regular season were enough to be engraved on the trophy. In December 2013 he announced the end of his active career.

International

Mayers represented his native Canada for the first time in the World Cup 2000 in Russia's St. Petersburg . As a subsequent nomination, he played seven of the nine games of his team and reached fourth place after a semi-final defeat against the eventual world champions Czech Republic and in the game for third place against Finland . Mayers scored one goal during the tournament.

The Toronto-born striker wasn't nominated again until seven years later. This time for the 2007 World Cup in Kazan, Russia . There the team reached the final and emerged as world champions with a 4-2 win over Finland. Mayers was used in all nine games and did his job very well with four goals and a total of five scorer points. His achievements were also taken into account the following year when he was reappointed to the squad for the 2008 home World Cup . When the Canadians won the silver medal, who lost the final to Russia 4-5 in extra time, Mayers again scored five points. There were two gates underneath.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1990/91 Weston Dukes MTJHL 44 12 24 36 78
1991/92 Thornhill Islanders MTJHL 56 38 69 107 36
1992/93 Western Michigan University NCAA 38 8th 17th 25th 26th
1993/94 Western Michigan University NCAA 40 17th 32 49 40
1994/95 Western Michigan University NCAA 39 13 33 46 40
1995/96 Western Michigan University NCAA 38 17th 22nd 39 75
1996/97 Worcester IceCats AHL 62 12 14th 26th 104 5 4th 5 9 4th
1996/97 St. Louis Blues NHL 6th 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
1997/98 Worcester IceCats AHL 61 19th 24 43 117 11 3 4th 7th 10
1998/99 Worcester IceCats AHL 20th 9 7th 16 34 - - - - -
1998/99 St. Louis Blues NHL 34 4th 5 9 40 11 0 1 1 8th
1999/00 St. Louis Blues NHL 79 7th 10 17th 90 7th 0 4th 4th 2
2000/01 St. Louis Blues NHL 77 8th 13 21st 117 15th 2 3 5 8th
2001/02 St. Louis Blues NHL 77 9 8th 17th 99 10 3 0 3 2
2002/03 St. Louis Blues NHL 15th 2 5 7th 8th - - - - -
2003/04 St. Louis Blues NHL 80 6th 5 11 91 5 0 0 0 0
2004/05 Missouri River Otters UHL 13 5 2 7th 68 - - - - -
2004/05 Hammarby IF Stockholm Allsvenskan 19th 9 13 22nd 36 - - - - -
2005/06 St. Louis Blues NHL 67 15th 11 26th 129 - - - - -
2006/07 St. Louis Blues NHL 80 8th 14th 22nd 89 - - - - -
2007/08 St. Louis Blues NHL 80 12 15th 27 91 - - - - -
2008/09 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 71 7th 9 16 82 - - - - -
2009/10 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 44 2 6th 8th 78 - - - - -
2009/10 Calgary Flames NHL 27 1 5 6th 53 - - - - -
2010/11 San Jose Sharks NHL 78 3 11 14th 124 12 0 0 0 12
2011/12 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 81 6th 9 15th 91 3 0 0 0 0
2012/13 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 19th 0 2 2 16 - - - - -
MTJHL total 100 50 93 143 114
NCAA overall 155 55 104 159 181
AHL total 143 40 45 85 255 16 7th 9 16 14th
NHL overall 915 90 129 219 1200 63 5 8th 13 32

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2000 Canada WM 4th Place 7th 1 0 1 2
2007 Canada WM 1st place, gold 9 4th 1 5 8th
2008 Canada WM 2nd place, silver 9 2 3 5 2
Men overall 25th 7th 4th 11 12

( 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 : Jamal Mayers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jamal Mayers retires after 14 NHL seasons. nhlpa.com, December 13, 2013, accessed September 1, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Mayers, Jamal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mayers, Jamal David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario