Jeff Taffe

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Jeff Taffe
Date of birth 19th February 1981
place of birth Hastings , Minnesota , USA
size 191 cm
Weight 94 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2000 , 1st lap, 30th position
St. Louis Blues
Career stations
1996-1999 Hastings High School
1999 Rochester Mustangs
1999-2002 University of Minnesota
2002-2005 Phoenix Coyotes
2005-2006 Hartford Wolf Pack
2005-2007 San Antonio Rampage
2007-2009 Pittsburgh Penguins
2009-2010 Rochester Americans
2010-2011 Rockford IceHogs
2011–2012 Houston Eros
2012-2014 Hershey Bears
2014-2015 Linköpings HC
2015-2016 Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2016-2017 HC Slovan Bratislava
2017-2018 HC Ambrì-Piotta
2018-2019 HC Slovan Bratislava

Jeffrey Taffe (born February 19, 1981 in Hastings , Minnesota ) is an American ice hockey player who was most recently under contract with HC Slovan Bratislava from the KHL .

Career

The 1.91 m tall center initially played ice hockey from 1996 to 1999 with the Hastings Huskies , the high school team of Hastings High School , in the high school league system of the United States. After completing his high school career, Taffe won the annual Minnesota Mr. Hockey award in calendar year 1999, which honors the best high school player in the US state of Minnesota . Then he was during his college days for the team of the University of Minnesota in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association active, a league in the game operation of the National Collegiate Athletic Association before the striker with NHL Entry Draft in 2000 as 30 in the first round of the St. Louis Blues was selected.

Taffe in the Pittsburgh Penguins jersey

However, the left shooter was never on the ice for the Blues in the NHL, but was transferred to the Phoenix Coyotes after completing his studies in a swap deal with Ladislav Nagy , Michal Handzuš and a first-round draft pick for Keith Tkachuk . In Arizona, however, he did not manage to establish himself permanently as a regular player. During the 2005/06 season , Taffe moved to the New York Rangers in exchange for Jamie Lundmark , but there he was also used except for two missions at Hartford Wolf Pack , the Rangers' farm team in the American Hockey League , so that he soon became employed the Phoenix Coyotes returned.

In the summer of 2007, the attacker signed a two-year contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins , who first sent him to the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins in the AHL, but then called him to their NHL squad.

On July 5, 2011, Taffe received a two-way contract for one year with the Minnesota Wild and was mostly used in the Houston Eros in the AHL in the following season . A year later he was signed by the Hershey Bears . In the 2012/13 season he was top scorer of the Bears with 71 points from 73 games and was elected to the Second All-Star Team of the AHL.

After ten years as a professional in North America, Taffe signed his first contract in Europe in May 2013 - with Linköpings HC from Svenska Hockeyligan . Only two weeks later he asked for the contract to be suspended for personal reasons and stayed in the United States. The 2013/14 season he spent again with the Hershey Bears before he started his contract with Linköpings HC the following season. In the 2014/15 season he reached 59 points in 54 games and was the second best scorer (behind Derek Ryan with 60 points) in the entire Swedish league. These achievements led to the engagement of Taffe by Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk from the KHL in April 2015.

In the 2016/17 season he played for HC Slovan Bratislava in the KHL and scored 48 points in 58 games of the season, making him top scorer within the team ahead of Jonathan Cheechoo . He then moved to Switzerland for HC Ambrì-Piotta .

In summer 2018 he returned to Slovan Bratislava and played there until the end of the 2018/19 season.

International

With the US junior national teams , Jeff Taffe took part in the U18 World Cup in 1999 and in the U20 World Cup in 2000 and 2001 . In a total of 20 youth final rounds, the center forward scored ten goals and eight assists .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1996/97 Hastings High School High MN 25th 21st 37 58
1997/98 Hastings High School High MN 28 37 29 66
1998/99 Hastings High School High MN 28 39 51 90
1998/99 Rochester Mustangs USHL 17th 12 9 21st 26th
1999-2000 University of Minnesota NCAA 39 10 10 20th 22nd
2000/01 University of Minnesota NCAA 38 12 23 35 56
2001/02 University of Minnesota NCAA 43 34 24 58 86
2002/03 Springfield Falcons AHL 57 23 26th 49 44 5 0 3 3 8th
2002/03 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 20th 3 1 4th 4th - - - - -
2003/04 Springfield Falcons AHL 15th 10 6th 16 19th - - - - -
2003/04 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 59 8th 10 18th 20th - - - - -
2004/05 Utah grizzlies AHL 27 9 10 19th 35 - - - - -
2005/06 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2005/06 New York Rangers NHL 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2005/06 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 36 6th 16 22nd 34 - - - - -
2005/06 San Antonio Rampage AHL 33 5 6th 11 29 - - - - -
2006/07 San Antonio Rampage AHL 59 20th 20th 40 22nd - - - - -
2006/07 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 17th 4th 2 6th 2 - - - - -
2007/08 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins AHL 27 11 10 21st 22nd - - - - -
2007/08 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 45 5 7th 12 8th - - - - -
2008/09 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins AHL 74 25th 50 75 65 12 6th 5 11 22nd
2008/09 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 8th 0 2 2 2 - - - - -
2009/10 Rochester Americans AHL 61 28 28 56 47 7th 1 6th 7th 9
2009/10 Florida panthers NHL 21st 1 1 2 4th - - - - -
2010/11 Rockford IceHogs AHL 74 30th 37 67 22nd - - - - -
2010/11 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2011/12 Houston Eros AHL 70 18th 35 53 16 4th 0 0 0 0
2011/12 Minnesota Wild NHL 5 0 2 2 0 - - - - -
2012/13 Hershey Bears AHL 73 18th 53 71 27 5 0 4th 4th 2
2013/14 Hershey Bears AHL 75 21st 26th 47 23 - - - - -
2014/15 Linköpings HC SHL 54 18th 41 59 43 11 1 3 4th 2
2015/16 Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk KHL 56 12 14th 26th 18th 4th 1 0 1 0
2016/17 HC Slovan Bratislava KHL 58 18th 24 42 60 - - - - -
NCAA overall 120 56 57 113 164
AHL total 463 167 209 376 339 24 7th 14th 21st 39
NHL overall 175 21st 23 44 40 - - - - -

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ minnesotaminutemen.com, Minnesota Mr. Hockey Award winners
  2. ^ Taffe, Berry, DiSalvatore, Oleksy bolster roster . hersheybears.com. July 2, 2012. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
  3. ^ Taffe hits milestone for Bears . theahl.com. April 20, 2013. Retrieved April 20, 2013.
  4. ↑ Jeff Taffe is ready to play for LHC ( Swedish ) lhc.eu. May 17, 2013. Retrieved May 17, 2013.
  5. ↑ No Jeff Taffe in LHC ( Swedish ) lhc.eu. May 30, 2013. Retrieved May 30, 2013.
  6. ↑ LHC reinforce the squad with Taffe ( Swedish ) lhc.eu. July 22, 2014. Retrieved July 22, 2014.
  7. ↑ «Нефтехимик» достиг соглашения с Джеффом Таффе. (No longer available online.) In: hcneftekhimik.ru. November 12, 2015, archived from the original on September 9, 2015 ; Retrieved December 4, 2015 (Russian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hcneftekhimik.ru
  8. ↑ NL-News: Ambri brings American Taffe as 4th foreigner. In: srf.ch. August 7, 2017. Retrieved August 16, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Taffe, Jeff
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taffe, Jeffrey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 19th February 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Hastings , Minnesota , United States