Jan Urbas

Jan Urbas
Date of birth	January 26, 1989
place of birth	Ljubljana , SR Slovenia
size	192 cm
Weight	96 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 9
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 2006	HDD Olimpija Ljubljana
2006-2011	Malmo Redhawks
2011-2013	Växjö Lakers Hockey
2013-2014	EHC Red Bull Munich
2014	Klagenfurt AC
2014-2016	VIK Västerås HK
2016-2017	Villacher SV
since 2017	Fish town penguins

Jan Urbas (born January 26, 1989 in Ljubljana , SR Slovenia ) is a Slovenian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Fischtown Pinguins since April 2017 .

Career

Jan Urbas began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of HDD Olimpija Ljubljana , where he was active until 2006. He also made his debut for the club's professional team in the Slovenian ice hockey league in the 2005/06 season , scoring 18 points in 27 games, including eleven goals. Then the winger moved to the youth department of the Swedish club Malmö Redhawks , for whose professional team he was on the ice from 2008 to 2011 in the HockeyAllsvenskan , the second Swedish division. At European level, he also made four appearances in the European Trophy for Malmö in preparation for the 2010/11 season .

For the 2011/12 season Urbas was committed by Växjö Lakers Hockey from the Elitserien . For this he played only two games in his first season, before he was able to earn a regular place in the 2012/13 season . In 2013 he moved to the German Ice Hockey League (DEL) for EHC Red Bull Munich .

In the summer of 2014 he took part in the Washington Capitals training camp , but received no contract in North America. At the end of September 2014 he was signed by the Klagenfurt AC from the Austrian ice hockey league . He stayed there for only two months until he joined VIK Västerås HK from HockeyAllsvenskan in November 2014 .

In the 2016/17 season he played again in the Austrian league for Villacher SV . There he developed into the club's strongest goalscorer and at the end of the main round was sixth in the league with 27 goals. He left the VSV after the season and switched to the Fischtown Pinguins in the DEL.

International

For Slovenia, Urbas took part in the junior division of the U18 World Junior Championships in Division I in 2007 and the U20 World Junior Championships in Division I in 2008 and 2009 .

In the senior division, he was in his country's squad for the first time at the World Cup in Division I in 2010 . He also played in the top division for his colors in 2013 , 2015 and 2017 and in 2014 , when he was elected to the all-star team of the tournament with the best plus / minus balance, in 2016 , when he was the top scorer in both the All-Star-Team was chosen as the most valuable player of the tournament , and in 2018 , when he was voted the best striker of the tournament and together with the two British Ben O'Connor and Brett Perlini third-best scorer behind the Kazakhs Roman Startschenko and the Slovenian Miha Verlič was in Division I. With his achievements in 2014 and 2016, he made a significant contribution to the immediate return of the Slovenes to the top division.

He also took part with Slovenia in qualifying for the 2014 Winter Olympics, in which he prevailed with his country. He then played with the team at the Winter Games in Sochi itself and took a surprising seventh place among twelve teams with her. He also successfully participated in the Olympic qualification for the 2018 Winter Games with Slovenia and then played again at the Winter Games in Pyeongchang himself.

Achievements and Awards

• 2010 Promotion to the top division at the World Cup Division I, Group B
• 2014 Promotion to the top division at the World Championship Division I, Group A.
• 2014 All-Star Team of the World Championship Division I, Group A.
• 2014 Best plus / minus balance of the World Championship in Division I, Group A
• 2016 Promotion to the top division at the World Championship Division I, Group A.
• 2016 most valuable player in the World Cup Division I, Group A.
• 2016 Topscorer of the World Championship Division I, Group A.
• 2016 All-Star Team of the World Championship Division I, Group A.
• 2018 Best Forward of the World Cup Division I, Group A.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2008/09	Malmo Redhawks	Elitserien		19th	2	1	3	4th
2009/10	Malmo Redhawks	Elitserien		42	17th	10	27	12
2010/11	Malmo Redhawks	Elitserien		23	12	4th	16	10
2011/12	Växjö Lakers Hockey	Elitserien		2	0	0	0	0
2012/13	Växjö Lakers Hockey	Elitserien		52	4th	3	7th	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	EHC Red Bull Munich	DEL		38	7th	10	17th	28
2014/15	Klagenfurt AC	EBEL		10	4th	1	5	2		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	VIK Västerås HK	Elitserien		31	10	14th	24	4th
2015/16	VIK Västerås HK	Elitserien		52	15th	17th	32	16
2016/17	Villacher SV	EBEL		44	27	19th	46	28		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Fischtown Pinguins Bremerhaven	DEL		50	21st	20th	41	26th		7th	4th	3	7th	16
2018/19	Fischtown Pinguins Bremerhaven	DEL		47	19th	21st	40	34		-	-	-	-	-
Elitserien total				221	60	49	109	50		-	-	-	-	-
DEL total				135	47	51	98	88		7th	4th	3	7th	16
EBEL total				54	31	20th	51	30th		-	-	-	-	-

( 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

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

Individual evidence

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