Jayson Megna

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Jayson Megna
Date of birth February 1, 1990
place of birth Fort Lauderdale , Florida , USA
Nickname Megnatron
size 183 cm
Weight 88 kg
position center
number # 15
Shot hand Right
Career stations
2009-2011 Cedar Rapids RoughRiders
2011–2012 Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks
2012-2015 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins
2013-2015 Pittsburgh Penguins
2015-2016 New York Rangers
Hartford Wolf Pack
2016-2018 Vancouver Canucks
Utica Comets
2018-2019 Hershey Bears
since 2019 Colorado Avalanche
Colorado Eagles

Jayson Megna (born February 1, 1990 in Fort Lauderdale , Florida ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Colorado Avalanche in the National Hockey League since July 2019 . He also plays for the Colorado Eagles in the American Hockey League and is primarily used in the center position.

Career

youth

Jayson Megna was born in Fort Lauderdale in 1990. At the time, his father, Jay Megna, was a professional American football player with the Miami Dolphins ; his mother Jacqueline was an All-American - water polo player . At the age of three, Jayson's family moved to Northbrook , Illinois ; at the age of seven he started playing ice hockey.

Since the 2009/10 season Megna played in the highest junior league in the United States, the United States Hockey League , with the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders from Iowa . There the striker scored 84 points in 116 missions in two seasons and led the team into the final of the Eastern Conference as captain in the second season . At the end of the season Megna was elected to the All-USHL First Team . In the summer of 2011, at the age of 21, he moved to the University of Nebraska Omaha and from then on played, together with his brother, for the Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks , the university's ice hockey team. In the Western Collegiate Hockey Association , a Division I Conference of the NCAA , Megna was on the ice in all 38 games of his team, scored 31 points and was elected to the WCHA All-Rookie Team after the season . For Megna, it remained a season of college sport , as he signed a two-year entry level contract with NHL representative Pittsburgh Penguins in August 2012 . He did not go through a draft .

Pittsburgh Penguins

Megna spent his first professional season in the AHL with the Pittsburgh Penguins farm team , the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins . There he regularly received ice age and advanced with the team in the play-offs up to the conference final , where the Syracuse Crunch failed. At the beginning of the 2013/14 season he was first called into the NHL squad and made his NHL debut on October 25 in the game against the New York Islanders . A few days later he succeeded against the Carolina Hurricanes his first goal in the highest ice hockey league, at this time his nickname "Megnatron" (based on Megatron , one of the main characters of the Transformers ). The rest of the regular season he spent in approximately equal shares in the NHL (36 games) and AHL (25 games), with the Pittsburgh Penguins making the leap into the play-offs.

New York, Vancouver, Washington and Colorado

After his contract was not renewed after the 2014/15 season, Megna joined the New York Rangers in July 2015 . They sent him to the AHL for the Hartford Wolf Pack as part of the preparation for the 2015/16 season . After a year, Megna's expiring contract was not renewed, so he signed a one-year contract with the Vancouver Canucks . In July 2018 he signed a one-year contract with Washington Capitals and switched to the Colorado Avalanche in the same way the following year .

Achievements and Awards

  • 2011 USHL First All-Star Team
  • 2012 WCHA All-Rookie Team

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
2009/10 Cedar Rapids RoughRiders USHL 56 11 15th 26th +3 62 5 0 0 0 -1 6th
2010/11 Cedar Rapids RoughRiders USHL 60 30th 28 58 +11 45 8th 4th 3 7th +2 4th
2011/12 Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks NCHC 38 13 18th 31 +13 27 - - - - - -
2012/13 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins AHL 56 5 7th 12 -12 28 12 2 3 5 -3 0
2013/14 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins AHL 25th 9 6th 15th +13 4th 13 1 2 3 -2 4th
2013/14 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 36 5 4th 9 +1 6th 2 0 0 0 -1 0
2014/15 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins AHL 63 26th 13 39 +18 40 8th 1 4th 5 -3 2
2014/15 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 12 0 1 1 -2 14th - - - - - -
2015/16 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 68 15th 29 44 +7 22nd - - - - - -
2015/16 New York Rangers NHL 6th 1 1 2 -1 2 - - - - - -
2016/17 Utica Comets AHL 4th 1 2 3 -1 0 - - - - - -
2016/17 Vancouver Canucks NHL 58 4th 4th 8th -4 6th - - - - - -
2017/18 Utica Comets AHL 25th 4th 9 13 -8th 6th - - - - - -
2017/18 Vancouver Canucks NHL 1 0 0 0 ± 0 0 - - - - - -
2018/19 Hershey Bears AHL 71 20th 23 43 −1 34 9 4th 4th 8th −1 6th
USHL total 116 41 43 84 +14 107 13 4th 3 7th +1 10
AHL total 312 80 89 169 +16 134 42 8th 13 21st –9 12
NHL overall 113 10 10 20th –6 28 2 0 0 0 -1 0

( 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

Jayson Megna has a sister and brother, Jaycob Megna , who is also an ice hockey player and was selected by the Anaheim Ducks in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b pittsburgh.cbslocal.com: "Jayson Megna On 1st NHL Goal: 'It's Tough To Put Into Words'" (English, October 29, 2013, accessed April 18, 2014)
  2. ↑ a b omaha.com: "Brothers choose skates over cleats" (English, July 31, 2011, accessed April 18, 2014)
  3. ↑ post-gazette.com: "Young Penguins forward Jayson Megna adjusting to super sidekicks" (English, November 7, 2013, accessed April 18, 2014)
  4. ↑ a b Jayson Megna at hockeysfuture.com (English, accessed April 18, 2014)
  5. ↑ ridertownusa.com: "Hjelle and Megna named to All-USHL First Team" (English, May 3, 2011, accessed on April 18, 2014)
  6. ↑ omavs.com: "Jayson Megna Named To WCHA All-Rookie Team" (English, March 8, 2012, accessed April 18, 2014)
  7. ↑ penguins.nhl.com: "Penguins Recall Forward Jayson Megna" (English, October 24, 2013, accessed April 18, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Megna, Jayson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Lauderdale , Florida , United States