Jamie Oleksiak

Jamie Oleksiak
Date of birth	December 21, 1992
place of birth	Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size	201 cm
Weight	115 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2011 , 1st round, 14th position Dallas Stars
Career stations
2008-2009	Chicago Steel
2009-2010	Sioux Falls Stampede
2010-2011	Northeastern University
2011–2012	Saginaw Spirit
2012	Niagara IceDogs
2012-2017	Dallas Stars
2017-2019	Pittsburgh Penguins
since 2019	Dallas Stars

Jamieson "Jamie" Oleksiak (born December 21, 1992 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian - American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Dallas Stars in the National Hockey League since January 2019 .

Career

Jamie Oleksiak in the jersey of the stars (2014)

Jamie Oleksiak began his career as a hockey player in the junior league United States Hockey League , in which he was active from 2008 to 2010 for the Chicago Steel and Sioux Falls Stampede. He then attended Northeastern University for a year , for whose ice hockey team he played parallel in Hockey East . He was then selected in the first round of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft as the 14th player by the Dallas Stars . The 2011/12 season began the defender with the Saginaw Spirit from the Canadian top junior league Ontario Hockey League and finished it with their league rivals Niagara IceDogs . With the Niagara IceDogs he reached the playoff final for the J. Ross Robertson Cup , but lost in this with his team to the London Knights with 1: 4 wins.

The season 2012/13 , which was shortened due to a lockout , began Oleksiak with the Texas Stars , the cooperation partner of his draft team Dallas Stars, in the American Hockey League , where he was able to convince right away. After the start of the NHL season, he was appointed by the Dallas Stars in their NHL squad, for which he made his debut in the league. After about six years in Dallas, during which the defender was never really able to establish himself in the NHL line-up, the Stars handed him over to the Pittsburgh Penguins in December 2017 and in return received a four-round vote for the 2019 NHL Entry Draft . There Oleksiak was regularly on the ice in the NHL, but was transferred back to Dallas in January 2019, while the identical four-round suffrage moved back to Pittsburgh.

International

For the USA Oleksiak took part in the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament in 2009 . However, he later decided to play for Canada from now on . For the Canadians, he ran at the U20 World Junior Championship in 2012 , where he won the bronze medal with his team.

Achievements and Awards

• 2012 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
• 2013 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic
• 2014 Calder Cup win with the Texas Stars

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2008/09	Chicago Steel	USHL		29	0	4th	4th	–6	47		-	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Chicago Steel	USHL		29	0	10	10	+1	43		-	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Sioux Falls Stampede	USHL		24	2	2	4th	+2	32		3	0	1	1	-4	2
2010/11	Northeastern University	NCAA		38	4th	9	13	+15	57
2011/12	Saginaw Spirit	OHL		31	6th	5	11	+4	24		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Niagara IceDogs	OHL		28	6th	15th	21st	+27	23		20th	0	4th	4th	+2	6th
2012/13	Texas Stars	AHL		59	6th	27	33	+19	29		9	0	1	1	-3	6th
2012/13	Dallas Stars	NHL		16	0	2	2	-5	14th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Texas Stars	AHL		69	5	18th	23	+8	31		21st	0	5	5	+13	8th
2013/14	Dallas Stars	NHL		7th	0	0	0	-3	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Texas Stars	AHL		35	4th	12	16	+26	12		3	0	0	0	-5	0
2014/15	Dallas Stars	NHL		36	1	7th	8th	± 0	8th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Texas Stars	AHL		8th	0	2	2	+4	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Dallas Stars	NHL		19th	0	2	2	-5	21st		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Dallas Stars	NHL		41	5	2	7th	-4	37		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Dallas Stars	NHL		21st	1	2	3	–6	18th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		47	4th	10	14th	+13	69		12	1	0	1	-2	7th
2018/19	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		36	4th	7th	11	+5	37		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Dallas Stars	NHL		21st	0	1	1	± 0	8th		4th	0	0	0	-1	0
USHL total				82	2	16	18th	-3	122		3	0	1	1	-4	2
OHL total				59	12	20th	32	+31	47		20th	0	4th	4th	+2	6th
AHL total				171	15th	59	74	+57	74		33	0	6th	6th	+5	14th
NHL overall				244	15th	33	48	-5	214		16	1	0	1	-3	7th

International

Represented the USA at: Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2009

Represented Canada to: U20 World Cup 2012

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2009	United States	Hlinka Memorial	4th Place		4th	0	1	1		2
2012	Canada	U20 World Cup			6th	0	0	0	+4	2
Juniors overall					10	0	1	1		4th

( 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 )

family

His younger sister Penny Oleksiak is a professional swimmer and won medals at the 2016 Summer Olympics .

Web links

Commons : Jamie Oleksiak  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the Dallas Stars website
• Jamie Oleksiak at eliteprospects.com (English)