Jeff Zatkoff

Jeff Zatkoff
Date of birth	June 9, 1987
place of birth	Detroit , Michigan , USA
size	188 cm
Weight	81 kg
position	goalkeeper
number	# 37
Catch hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2006 , 3rd round, 74th position Los Angeles Kings
Career stations
2003-2004	Victory Honda
2004-2005	Sioux City Musketeers
2005-2008	Miami University
2008-2009	Ontario Reign
2009–2012	Manchester monarchs
2012-2016	Pittsburgh Penguins Wilkes-Barre Scranton Penguins
2016-2018	Los Angeles Kings Ontario Reign
2018	Cleveland Monsters
since 2018	Straubing Tigers

Jeff Zatkoff (born June 9, 1987 in Detroit , Michigan ) is an American ice hockey goalkeeper who has been under contract with the Straubing Tigers from the German Ice Hockey League (DEL) since July 2018 . In 2016 he won the Stanley Cup with the Pittsburgh Penguins .

Career

Zatkoff began his career in the 2003/04 season with Victory Honda in the American Junior League Tier 1 Elite Hockey League and played the following season for the Sioux City Musketeers in the United States Hockey League . Between 2005 and 2008, the Americans stood for the University team Miami RedHawks of Miami University in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference that into playing the NCAA is incorporated, on the ice. There he was able to recommend himself in the 2007/08 season with a goalscoring average of 1.72 and a catch rate of 93.3% per game, so that in April 2008 he was from the NHL organization Los Angeles Kings , which was previously part of the NHL Entry Draft 2006 had secured transfer rights to the goalkeeper, was signed. But first Zatkoff played a season with the Ontario Reign in the East Coast Hockey League , before starting the 2009/10 season regularly with the Manchester Monarchs , the farm team of the Kings , in the American Hockey League was used.

In the summer of 2012, Zatkoff moved to the Pittsburgh Penguins , where he received a two-year contract. There he was used again in the following season only in the farm team Wilkes-Barre Scranton Penguins in the AHL. The following year, the left catcher was an integral part of the NHL squad in Pittsburgh and came as a substitute goalkeeper in replacement for the injured Tomas Vokoun behind regular goalkeeper Marc-Andre Fleury to 20 appearances in the top division of North America. In the 2014/15 season , with the exception of one NHL game, the American was mainly used in the AHL, but is again in the Penguins' NHL squad as the second goalkeeper behind Fleury for the 2015/16 season . During the 2016 playoffs , in which the Penguins won the Stanley Cup , he made two appearances and was subsequently immortalized on the trophy.

After the 2015/16 season, Zatkoff's contract in Pittsburgh was not renewed, so he returned to the Los Angeles Kings organization as a free agent in July 2016 . After almost one and a half years, however, these were no longer used for the goalkeeper, so that he was given to the Columbus Blue Jackets in January 2018 without further consideration .

On July 6, 2018, the Straubing Tigers from the German Ice Hockey League announced the commitment of the American. Straubing is the first stop for the Stanley Cup winner in Europe.

Jeff Zatkoff during the public training of the Straubing Tigers.

Achievements and awards

• 2012 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic
• 2013 Harry "Hap" Holmes Memorial Award (together with Brad Thiessen )
• 2015 Harry "Hap" Holmes Memorial Award (together with Matt Murray )
• 2016 Stanley Cup win with the Pittsburgh Penguins

NHL statistics

Status: end of the 2017/18 season

	Seasons	Games	Victories	Defeats	OTN	Minutes	GT	Shutouts	Sv%	GTS
Regular season	4th	48	18th	21st	4th	2490	113	1	.908	2.72
Playoffs	1	2	1	1	-	117	6th	0	.908	3.08

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; ¹  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

Web links

• Player biography on the Columbus Blue Jackets website
• Jeff Zatkoff at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ penguins.nhl.com Penguins Sign Goaltender Jeff Zatkoff and Forward Riley Holzapfel
2. ↑ Stanley Cup Champion from 2016: Straubing Tigers bring goalkeeper Jeff Zatkoff into the DEL. In: Ice Hockey News . July 6, 2018, accessed July 7, 2018 .