Jeff Heerema

Jeff Heerema
Date of birth	17th January 1980
place of birth	Thunder Bay , Ontario , Canada
size	184 cm
Weight	96 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 10
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1998 , 1st round, 11th position Carolina Hurricanes
Career stations
1997-2000	Sarnia Sting
2000-2001	Cincinnati Cyclones
2001-2003	Lowell Lock Monsters
2003-2004	Hartford Wolf Pack
2004-2005	Manitoba mosses
2005-2007	Binghamton Senators
2007-2009	Frankfurt Lions
2009-2010	KHL Medveščak Zagreb
since 2010	Nottingham Panthers

Jeff Heerema (born January 17, 1980 in Thunder Bay , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has played for the Nottingham Panthers in the Elite Ice Hockey League since 2010 . He is the cousin of NHL players Eric , Marc , Jordan and Jared Staal .

Career

Heerema began a career in 1997 in the Canadian Junior League OHL with the Sarnia Sting . Due to good performance, the winger was selected eleventh place by the Carolina Hurricanes during the 1998 NHL Entry Draft in the first round . Three years later, the Canadian moved to Carolina, where he was initially mainly used in the farm team , the Lowell Lock Monsters . In the 2002/03 season , the right-shooter finally came on ten missions in the National Hockey League , in which he was able to score three goals.

A year later, Heerema joined the Columbus Blue Jackets , for which he completed 22 games and scored three points. In the following years, the attacker changed clubs several times, stations included the Binghamton Senators , the farm team of the Ottawa Senators . However, since he was still rarely used in the NHL, Heerema decided in 2007 to move to Europe and signed a contract with the Frankfurt Lions from the German Ice Hockey League . In his first season for Hessen, the striker scored 41 points in 50 games, making him one of the players with the highest points in the team.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1997/98	Sarnia Sting	OHL		63	32	40	72	88		5	4th	1	5	10
1998/99	Sarnia Sting	OHL		62	31	39	70	113		6th	5	1	6th	0
1999/00	Sarnia Sting	OHL		67	36	41	77	62		7th	4th	2	6th	10
2000/01	Cincinnati Cyclones	IHL		73	17th	16	33	42		4th	0	0	0	0
2001/02	Lowell Lock Monsters	AHL		76	33	37	70	90		5	2	3	5	2
2002/03	Lowell Lock Monsters	AHL		36	15th	17th	32	25th		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL		10	3	0	3	2		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	St. Louis Blues	NHL		22nd	1	2	3	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Worcester IceCats	AHL		1	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Hartford Wolf Pack	AHL		41	12	15th	27	25th		4th	0	0	0	9
2004/05	Manitoba mosses	AHL		80	14th	30th	44	67		14th	4th	6th	10	12
2005/06	Binghamton Senators	AHL		77	27	47	74	69		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Binghamton Senators	AHL		78	36	31	67	75		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Frankfurt Lions	DEL		50	20th	21st	41	48		12	1	6th	7th	8th
2008/09	Frankfurt Lions	DEL		48	18th	13	31	53		5	3	0	3	0
2009/10	KHL Medveščak Zagreb	EBEL		28	7th	17th	24	26th		11	2	0	2	26th
2010/11	Nottingham Panthers	EIHL		28	18th	14th	32	34		4th	3	4th	7th	2
OHL total				192	99	120	219	263		18th	13	4th	17th	20th
AHL total				389	137	177	314	353		23	6th	9	15th	23
DEL total				98	38	34	72	101		17th	4th	6th	10	8th
NHL overall				32	4th	2	6th	6th		0	0	0	0	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 )

Web links

Commons : Jeff Heerema  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Jeff Heerema at hockeydb.com (English)
• Jeff Heerema at eurohockey.com
• Jeff Heerema at eliteprospects.com (English)