Jan Drozg

Jan Drozg
Date of birth	April 1, 1999
place of birth	Maribor , Slovenia
size	182 cm
Weight	79 kg
position	striker
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2017 , 5th round, 152nd position Pittsburgh Penguins
Career stations
2013-2015	HDK Maribor
2014-2015	HK Celje
2015-2017	Leksands IF
since 2017	Cataractes de Shawinigan
2017-2018	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins

Jan Drozg (born April 1, 1999 in Maribor ) is a Slovenian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Cataractes de Shawinigan in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec since 2017 .

Career

Jan Drozg began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of HDK Maribor , for which he made his debut for the club's professional team in the Slovenian ice hockey league in the 2014/15 season . On loan, he also played for HK Celje in the Erste Bank Juniors League, where he was top scorer, top scorer in 2015 and also set up the most goals. The winger then moved to the youth division of the Swedish club Leksands IF , where he played for two years mainly in the U18 teams in the U18 Elit and the U18 Allsvenskan, but also occasionally in the U20 team in the J20 SuperElit . In 2016 he was drawn in the first round by the Huskies de Rouyn-Noranda in the CHL Import Draft as the 54th player, but initially stayed in Sweden. Then he was drafted the following year by the Cataractes de Shawinigan also in the first round as a total of 41st player and now decided to jump to Canada, where he has since played in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec . In the same year he was selected by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 5th round of the 2017 NHL Entry Draft as the 152nd player. From their farm team, the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins , he has been used once in the American Hockey League .

International

For Slovenia, Drozg took part in the U18 World Championships in Division I in 2015 , 2016 , when he was voted the best striker of the tournament and the best player on his team, and in 2017 , when he was again the best striker of the Tournament and best player of his team was chosen. He played with the Slovenian U20 team at the Junior World Championships in 2017 and 2018 , when he and the Poland Bartłomiej Jeziorski were the second top scorer after his compatriot Alan Łyszczarczyk and were voted the best player in his team, also in Division I.

In the senior division , he was in his country's squad for the first time at the Division I World Cup in 2018 .

Achievements and Awards

• 2015 top scorer, top scorer and most assists in the Erste Bank Juniors League
• 2016 Best striker at the U18 World Cup in Division I, Group B
• 2017 Promotion to Division I, Group A, at the U18 World Championship of Division I, Group B.
• 2017 Best striker, top scorer and best preparer at the U18 World Championship in Division I, Group B.
• 2019 top scorer of the World Championship Division I, Group A.

statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
AHL: Regular season	2	3	0	1	1	2
AHL: playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
LHJMQ: Regular season	2	121	37	75	112	92
LHJMQ: Playoffs	1	6th	4th	2	6th	8th

Web links

• Jan Drozg at hockeydb.com (English)
• Jan Drozg at eliteprospects.com (English)