Jeff Woywitka

Jeff Woywitka
Date of birth	September 1, 1983
place of birth	Vermilion , Alberta , Canada
size	191 cm
Weight	98 kg
position	defender
number	# 6
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2001 , 1st round, 27th position Philadelphia Flyers
Career stations
1999-2003	Red Deer Rebels
2003	Philadelphia Phantoms
2003-2004	Toronto Roadrunners
2004-2005	Edmonton Road Runners
2005-2009	St. Louis Blues
2009-2011	Dallas Stars
2011	Montréal Canadiens
2011–2012	New York Rangers
2012-2013	Peoria Rivermen
2013-2015	Augsburg panther

Jeffrey Woywitka (born September 1, 1983 in Vermilion , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who last played for the Augsburg Panthers in the DEL .

Career

Jeff Woywitka began his career as an ice hockey player with the Red Deer Rebels , for which he was active from 1999 to 2003 in the Canadian Junior League Western Hockey League and in 2001 first won the Ed Chynoweth Cup as WHL champion. Then won the final tournament for the championship of the Canadian Hockey League , the Memorial Cup . During this period, the defender was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2001 in the first round as a total of 27 players by the Philadelphia Flyers , who did not use him in the National Hockey League . After he began the 2003/04 season with their farm team from the American Hockey League , the Philadelphia Phantoms , he was on December 16, 2003 along with a first-round suffrage for 2004 and third-round suffrage for 2005 in exchange for Mike Comrie to the Edmonton Oilers surrendered. For Edmonton's AHL farm teams Toronto Roadrunners and Edmonton Road Runners , the left-shooter played exclusively in the following year and a half.

On August 2, 2005, Woywitka was transferred to the St. Louis Blues along with Eric Brewer and Doug Lynch in exchange for Chris Pronger . For St. Louis, the Canadian made his debut in the National Hockey League in the 2005/06 season . In his rookie year , he made two assists in 26 games. In the following three seasons he ran regularly for St. Louis in the NHL, where he played in parallel in the American Hockey League for their farm team, the Peoria Rivermen . On July 7, 2009, the former youth international signed a two-year contract with the Dallas Stars as a free agent . After the contract expired, he moved to the Montréal Canadiens . In 2011 he joined the New York Rangers and then played for Peoria Rivermen. In November 2013 he was signed by the Augsburg Panthers .

International

For Canada Woywitka took part in the U20 Junior World Championship in 2003 , where he finished second with his team.

Achievements and Awards

2001 CHL Top Prospects Game 2001 President's Cup win with the Red Deer Rebels 2001 Memorial Cup win with the Red Deer Rebels 2002 WHL East Second All Star Team

2003 WHL East First All-Star Team 2003 CHL Third All-Star Team 2003 Bill Hunter Memorial Trophy

International

• 2000 bronze medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
• 2003 silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championship

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	7th	278	9	46	55	149
Playoffs	1	4th	0	0	0	0

(Status: end of the 2011/12 season)

Web links

• Jeff Woywitka at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Jeff Woywitka at legendsofhockey.net (English)