Jeff Szwez

Jeff Szwez
Jeff Szwez in the jersey of the ERC Ingolstadt 2014
Date of birth	June 16, 1981
place of birth	Etobicoke , Ontario , Canada
size	191 cm
Weight	96 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 12
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2000-2001	Streetsville Derbies
2001-2002	Kitchener Rangers
2002-2003	Augusta Lynx Binghamton Senators
2003	Dayton Bombers
2003-2005	Florence / Pee Dee Pride
2005-2006	Dayton Bombers
2006-2008	Syracuse crunch
2008	Espoo Blues
2008-2009	Philadelphia Phantoms
2009-2010	Belfast Giants
2010-2011	Augsburg panther
2012	Ravensburg tower stars
2012-2013	EHC Freiburg
2013-2014	Belfast Giants
2014-2015	ERC Ingolstadt
2015	Krefeld penguins
2015-2016	Dresden Ice Lions
2016-2017	ESV Kaufbeuren
2017-2019	EHC Koenigsbrunn
since 2020	EA Schongau

Jeffrey Szwez (born June 16, 1981 in Etobicoke , Ontario ) is a Canadian - German ice hockey player who is currently under contract with EA Schongau in the Bavarian Ice Hockey League .

Career

Jeffrey Szwez began his career as a hockey player at the Streetsville Derbys, for which he was active in the 2000/01 season in the Ontario Junior Hockey League . He then spent a year with the Kitchener Rangers in the Ontario Hockey League and was able to convince with 58 points in 69 games. For the 2002/03 season, the winger moved to the Augusta Lynx from the East Coast Hockey League , but also made nine appearances for the Binghamton Senators in the American Hockey League . The following season he began with the Dayton Bombers , but was in the following year and a half with their league rival Florence Pride , who changed his name to Pee Dee Pride in 2004, under contract. He finished the 2004/05 season at his ex-club Dayton Bombers in the ECHL, but was also on the ice in three games for the Bridgeport Sound Tigers in the AHL.

From 2005 Szwez played parallel for the Dayton Bombers in the ECHL and their cooperation partner Syracuse Crunch in the AHL. Towards the end of the 2007/08 season , however, he switched to the Espoo Blues from the Finnish SM-liiga and only failed with his new club in the playoff final at Kärpät Oulu . For the following season , the left shooter returned to North America and played for the Philadelphia Phantoms in the AHL. In the 2009/10 season he scored 61 scorer points in a total of 45 games, including 39 goals, in the British Elite Ice Hockey League for the Belfast Giants , with whom he was champion of the EIHL playoffs. In addition, he was elected to the First All-Star Team of the EIHL because of his season that was also successful for him personally.

ESV Kaufbeuren (2017)

For the 2010/11 season , the German-Canadian was signed by the Augsburg Panthers from the German Ice Hockey League . In December 2011 he asked to terminate his contract and played from January 13, 2012 with the Ravensburg Towerstars in the 2nd Bundesliga. For the 2012/13 season Szwez moved to EHC Freiburg in the Oberliga Süd. This season he was the Wolves' best player with 23 goals and 26 assists. In the choice of Player of the Year, Jeff Szwez took third place. After a year with the Belfast Giants, he returned to the German Ice Hockey League and played for ERC Ingolstadt in the 2014/15 season . In September 2015 he moved within the league to the Krefeld Pinguinen , but where he could not meet the expectations placed on him and the contract was terminated by mutual agreement in December 2015. Two weeks later, Szwez signed a contract with the Dresdner Eislöwen from the DEL2 until the end of the season .

Achievements and Awards

• 2008 Finnish runner-up with the Espoo Blues
• 2010 EIHL First All-Star Team
• 2010 EIHL Playoff Champion with the Belfast Giants

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1999/00	Streetsville Derbies	OPJHL		36	9	11	20th	8th
2000/01	Streetsville Derbies	OPJHL		48	47	46	93	52
2001/02	Kitchener Rangers	OHL		65	22nd	35	57	59		4th	1	0	1	8th
2002/03	Binghamton Senators	AHL		9	1	0	1	5		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Augusta Lynx	ECHL		48	10	15th	25th	30th		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Dayton Bombers	ECHL		3	0	0	0	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Florence Pride	ECHL		50	23	16	39	71		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Pee Dee Pride	ECHL		41	16	12	28	53		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Dayton Bombers	ECHL		23	12	8th	20th	20th		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Bridgeport Sound Tigers	AHL		3	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Dayton Bombers	ECHL		51	25th	22nd	47	90		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Syracuse crunch	AHL		21st	5	6th	11	52		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Syracuse crunch	AHL		47	12	11	23	106		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Dayton Bombers	ECHL		9	3	1	4th	26th		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Syracuse crunch	AHL		33	4th	6th	10	59		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	blues	SM-liiga		10	2	3	5	25th
2008/09	Philadelphia Phantoms	AHL		69	12	6th	18th	84		4th	0	1	1	2
2009/10	Belfast Giants	EIHL		41	36	22nd	58	145
2010/11	Augsburg panther	DEL		43	3	5	8th	93		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Augsburg panther	DEL		24	1	5	6th	24		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	EV Ravensburg	2nd BL		17th	5	7th	12	22nd
2012/13	EHC Freiburg	OIL		36	19th	24	43	131
2013/14	Belfast Giants	EIHL		51	32	27	59	89
2014/15	ERC Ingolstadt	DEL		38	9	9	18th	72		16	1	3	4th	36
OPJHL total				84	56	57	113	60		-	-	-	-	-
AHL total				182	34	29	63	306		4th	0	1	1	2
ECHL total				225	89	74	163	294		-	-	-	-	-
EIHL as a whole				92	68	49	117	234		-	-	-	-	-
DEL total				105	13	19th	32	189		16	1	3	4th	36

( 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

• Jeff Szwez at hockeydb.com (English)
• Jeff Szwez at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ portal.krefeld-pinguine.de contract with Jeff Szwez resolved by mutual agreement. ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ hockeyweb.de Eislöwen sign Jeffrey Szwez