Jarome Iginla

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CanadaCanada  Jarome Iginla Ice hockey player
Hockey Hall of Fame , 2020
Jarome Iginla
Date of birth July 1, 1977
place of birth Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
Nickname Iggy
size 188 cm
Weight 93 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1995 , 1st round, 11th position
Dallas Stars
Career stations
1991-1993 St. Albert Raiders
1993-1996 Kamloops Blazers
1996-2013 Calgary Flames
2013 Pittsburgh Penguins
2013-2014 Boston Bruins
2014-2017 Colorado Avalanche
2017 Los Angeles Kings

Jarome Arthur-Leigh Adekunle Tig Junior Elvis Iginla (born July 1, 1977 in Edmonton , Alberta ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player . The right winger played over 1,500 games in the National Hockey League between 1996 and 2017 and recorded 1,300 points scorer . He spent most of his career with the Calgary Flames , which he led for almost ten years as captain and where he holds a number of franchise records , including most games, goals and scorer points. With the Flames he reached the Stanley Cup final in 2004 , but lost to the Tampa Bay Lightning there . His jersey number 12 is in Calgary locked . In the fall of his career, he was also active for the Pittsburgh Penguins , Boston Bruins , Colorado Avalanche and Los Angeles Kings in the NHL.

Iginla is considered one of the best players of his generation, so he won the Art Ross Trophy as best scorer in 2002 and was also honored with the Lester B. Pearson Award as most valuable player in the NHL. He also won the Maurice Richard Trophy twice as the best scorer in the league. The Canadian is also known for his social commitment and received the King Clancy Memorial Trophy and the NHL Foundation Player Award in 2004 . In 2020, he was recognized for induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame .

With the Canadian national team , Iginla won gold medals at the Olympic Winter Games in 2002 and 2010 and at the World Cup of Hockey in 2004 . In 1997 he had won the world title with the Canadian selection.

Career

Iginla doing the warm up

Iginla's mother is Canadian and his father is from Nigeria , but the parents separated early after he was born and his mother had to raise him alone. In his younger years Iginla first played baseball and only later switched to ice hockey, where he played goalkeeper in the junior division for the first two years. Today Iginla plays in the position of the right winger . Due to his strength and excellent stick, shooting and running technique, he is considered one of the world's best ice hockey players and an absolute leader.

Calgary Flames (1996-2013)

Iginla in the jersey of the Flames (2008)

Iginla was drawn in the first round of the NHL Entry Draft in 1995 in eleventh place by the Dallas Stars , but on December 19, 1995 in a then surprising trade together with Corey Millen of the Flames, who in return the crowd favorite and star player Joe Nieuwendyk after Dallas gave. He made his debut in the NHL on April 21, 1996 in a play-off game against the Chicago Blackhawks , where he was able to contribute an assist right away. In his second game he scored his first goal in the Flames jersey . In the 1996/97 season , Iginla completed his first full season in the NHL. He scored 50 points scorer and received a nomination for the Calder Memorial Trophy as the best rookie within the NHL, which, however, ultimately went to Bryan Berard . In the 1998/99 season he led the team's internal goal scoring of the Flames with 28 goals , who wanted to negotiate with him about a contract extension. After both sides could not agree at first, Iginla missed the beginning of the 1999/00 season before finally agreeing on a new three-year contract. In the following two seasons he was able to increase his offensive statistics to 63 and 71 scorer points respectively.

His personal best season was 2001/02 , when he won both the Art Ross Trophy and the Maurice Richard with 96 points (52 goals, 44 assists ) . He also received the Lester B. Pearson Award for Most Valuable Player in the League and was nominated for his outstanding performance for the 2002 Olympic Games , where he won the gold medal with Team Canada . In the run-up to the 2002/03 season , Iginla signed a two-year contract extension with the Flames . The final rise to superstar he succeeded in 2003/04 , Iginla had with 73 points (41 goals, 32 assists) in the regular season and 22 points (13 goals, nine assists) in the play-offs significantly to the fact that the Flames for the first time reached the play-offs again after eight years and played in the Stanley Cup final for the first time in 15 years . There he failed with his team in a series at the Tampa Bay Lightning . In the third game in the series, he managed a Gordie Howe hat trick after a fight with Vincent Lecavalier . In October 2003 he made history when he was named captain of the Calgary Flames , making him the first player of African descent to captain an NHL team.

The following season was again very successful for the Canadian, with a total of 41 goals he was together with Ilya Kowaltschuk and Rick Nash top scorer in the NHL and thus received the Maurice Richard Trophy for the second time in his career . After the season, the Flames reached the play-offs for the first time in eight years, in which Iginla scored 13 goals and thus played a key role in his team's entry into the finals. In December 2006, the right-handed shooter succeeded in the game against the Minnesota Wild both the 300th goal and the 600th scorer point of his NHL career. The 2006/07 season ended for Iginla with a new personal record of 55 goals. The following 2007/08 season was to be the strongest offensive in his career with a total of 98 points. As a result, the Canadian took part in the NHL All-Star Game and was the captain of the Western All-Star Team . In November 2007 he played his 807th game in the shirt of the Flames , making him the organization's new record player. In March 2008, he broke with his 365th goal for the Flames and the scoring record of Theoren Fleury . In addition, Iginla received a five-year contract extension with a rumored annual salary of seven million US dollars in Calgary during the current season.

In the 2008/09 season he scored his 800th scorer point in the NHL in December 2008 in the game against the Chicago Blackhawks . A little later he scored five points in a game against the Edmonton Oilers for the first time in his career. He was then nominated again for the NHL All-Star Game and scored his first goal on his fifth participation. The 2009/10 season was disappointing for the Flames , for the first time since 2003 they missed the play-offs. Iginla then took responsibility as captain and service provider for the poor performance of the teams and said that his 70 scorer points were "not enough". Nevertheless, he got the 900th scorer point and the 1000th NHL game of his career in the past season.

On March 6, 2011, he scored his 30th goal of the 2010/11 season and became the tenth player in NHL history to have scored at least 30 goals in ten consecutive seasons. On April 1, 2011, he scored in his 1103rd NHL regular season game for the Flames three points against the St. Louis Blues and reached the mark of 1000 points as the 77th player in the history of the NHL .

Stages in Pittsburgh, Boston, Colorado and LA (2013-2017)

On March 28, 2013, Iginla was transferred to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for Ben Hanowski , Kenny Agostino and a first-round suffrage in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft . In July 2013, he signed a one-year deal worth $ 6 million with the Boston Bruins . A year later, Iginla signed a $ 16 million three-year contract with the Colorado Avalanche . The attacker did not meet this requirement, however, as he was handed over to the Los Angeles Kings in March 2017 after a weak first half of the 2016/17 season . In return, Colorado received a performance-based four-round voting right for the 2018 NHL Entry Draft and will also pay half of Iginla's salary until the end of his contract. After the 2016/17 season, the attacker did not receive a further contract in Los Angeles and finally announced the end of his active career a year later in July 2018.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Iginla in the Pittsburgh Penguins jersey
Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1991/92 St. Albert Raiders AMHL 36 26th 30th 56 22nd - - - - -
1992/93 St. Albert Raiders AHML 36 34 53 87 20th - - - - -
1993/94 Kamloops Blazers WHL 48 6th 23 29 33 19th 3 6th 9 10
1994 Kamloops Blazers Memorial Cup 4th 0 2 2 4th
1994/95 Kamloops Blazers WHL 72 33 38 71 111 21st 7th 11 18th 34
1995 Kamloops Blazers Memorial Cup 4th 4th 2 6th 7th
1995/96 Kamloops Blazers WHL 63 63 73 136 120 16 16 13 29 44
1995/96 Calgary Flames NHL - - - - - 2 1 1 2 0
1996/97 Calgary Flames NHL 82 21st 29 50 37 - - - - -
1997/98 Calgary Flames NHL 70 13 19th 32 29 - - - - -
1998/99 Calgary Flames NHL 82 28 23 51 58 - - - - -
1999/00 Calgary Flames NHL 77 29 34 63 26th - - - - -
2000/01 Calgary Flames NHL 77 31 40 71 62 - - - - -
2001/02 Calgary Flames NHL 82 52 44 96 77 - - - - -
2002/03 Calgary Flames NHL 75 35 32 67 49 - - - - -
2003/04 Calgary Flames NHL 81 41 32 73 84 26th 13 9 22nd 45
2004/05 without a contract not played because of lockout
2005/06 Calgary Flames NHL 82 35 32 67 86 7th 5 3 8th 11
2006/07 Calgary Flames NHL 70 39 55 94 40 6th 2 2 4th 12
2007/08 Calgary Flames NHL 82 50 48 98 83 7th 4th 5 9 2
2008/09 Calgary Flames NHL 82 35 54 89 37 6th 3 1 4th 0
2009/10 Calgary Flames NHL 82 32 37 69 58 - - - - -
2010/11 Calgary Flames NHL 82 43 43 86 40 - - - - -
2011/12 Calgary Flames NHL 82 32 35 67 43 - - - - -
2012/13 Calgary Flames NHL 82 32 35 67 43 - - - - -
2012/13 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 31 9 13 22nd 22nd - - - - -
2013/14 Boston Bruins NHL 78 30th 31 61 34 12 5 2 7th 12
2014/15 Colorado Avalanche NHL 82 29 30th 59 42 - - - - -
2015/16 Colorado Avalanche NHL 82 22nd 25th 47 41 - - - - -
2016/17 Colorado Avalanche NHL 61 8th 10 18th 54 - - - - -
2016/17 Los Angeles Kings NHL 19th 6th 3 9 16 - - - - -
AHML total 72 60 83 143 42 - - - - -
WHL overall 183 102 134 236 264 56 26th 30th 56 88
NHL overall 1554 625 675 1300 1040 81 37 31 68 98

International

Jarome Iginla at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1996 Canada June World Cup 1st place, gold 6th 5 7th 12 4th
1997 Canada WM 1st place, gold 11 2 3 5 2
2002 Canada Olympia 1st place, gold 6th 3 1 4th 0
2004 Canada World cup 1st place, gold 6th 2 1 3 2
2006 Canada Olympia 7th place 6th 2 1 3 4th
2010 Canada Olympia 1st place, gold 7th 5 2 7th 0
Juniors overall 6th 5 7th 12 4th
Men overall 36 14th 8th 22nd 8th

( 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 )

Personal

Iginla has been married since 2003 and has a son and a daughter.

Web links

Commons : Jarome Iginla  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ torontosun.com, Iginla joins exclusive club
  2. ↑ usatoday.com, Iginla reaches 1,000 points, keeps Flames in hunt
  3. ↑ Jarome Iginla signs with Avalanche. ESPN , July 1, 2014, accessed July 9, 2014 .
  4. ^ Iginla to announce retirement from NHL. Retrieved July 26, 2018 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Iginla, Jarome
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Iginla, Jarome Arthur-Leigh Adekunle Tig Elvis junior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Edmonton , Alberta