Jim Korn

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United StatesUnited States  Jim Korn Ice hockey player
Date of birth July 28, 1957
place of birth Hopkins , Minnesota , USA
size 193 cm
Weight 100 kg
position Defender / Left Wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1977 , 5th lap, 73rd position
Detroit Red Wings
WHA Amateur Draft 1977 , 6th round, 52nd position
New England Whalers
Career stations
1975-1979 Providence College
1979-1982 Detroit Red Wings
1982-1986 Toronto Maple Leafs
1986-1987 Buffalo Sabers
1987-1990 New Jersey Devils
1990 Calgary Flames

James Allen "Jim" Korn (born July 28, 1957 in Hopkins , Minnesota ) is a former American ice hockey player who played 613 games for the Detroit Red Wings , Toronto Maple Leafs , Buffalo in the course of his playing career between 1975 and 1990 Sabers , New Jersey Devils and Calgary Flames has contested in the National Hockey League (NHL) on the position of fullback and left winger .

Career

Korn attended Hopkins High School in Minnetonka , his home state of Minnesota , while at school . In the summer of 1975, the defense attorney moved to Providence College because of his studies . He had previously turned down a University of Minnesota scholarship . In the following four years he played parallel to his studies for the university ice hockey team, the Providence Friars , in the ECAC Hockey , a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). During this time Korn was in both the 1977 NHL Amateur Draft in the fifth round in 73rd place by the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL) and in the 1977 WHA Amateur Draft in the sixth round in 52nd position selected by the New England Whalers from the World Hockey Association (WHA). In his third college season Korn reached with the Friars in the spring of 1978 the final for the championship of the ECAC, where the team, however, was subject to Boston College . He completed the following season as the team's captain .

For the 1979/80 season, the defender switched to the professional field at the age of 22 and made it to the Detroit Red Wings , after he had been a member of the Adirondack Red Wings farm team in the American Hockey League (AHL) in the first two months of the game NHL regulars. Ultimately, Korn remained in Detroit until March 1982, before he was given to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for a four-round vote in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft . There, Korn was retrained from defender to left winger at the beginning of the 1982/83 season , so that he increased his goal yield in two consecutive years. With the beginning of the 1984/85 season , injuries made the American repeatedly to create. He played only 41 games this season due to a stubborn shoulder injury that made surgery in the summer of 1985 inevitable. The following game year he was due to a knee injury that he had sustained in the pre-season, completely out and did not play a single game.

Before he could go back on the ice for Toronto in the 1986/87 season , however, Korn was part of a swap between three teams. Within one day, at the beginning of October 1986, it was initially given in exchange for Terry Johnson to the Calgary Flames , who sent it to the Buffalo Sabers immediately after acquisition . Brian Engblom gave these as compensation to the Flames. In Buffalo, the retrained striker was not at home and after 52 missions in May 1987 for Jan Ludvig to the New Jersey Devils . He stayed there for almost three years before being transferred to Calgary again in March 1990. This time he was worth the Flames a five-round vote in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft . For Calgary he played 13 games by the end of the season - including the playoffs. After they released him prematurely from his contract in August 1990, the now 33-year-old decided to end his active career after 613 NHL games.

International

At the international level took grain in the years 1979 and 1981 respectively with the national team of the United States at the World Ice Hockey Championships in part. At the tournament in the Soviet capital Moscow in 1979, which he still completed as a college player, he finished seventh with the team, two years later in two world championships in Gothenburg , Sweden , the team placed fifth overall. He collected two assists in 13 World Cup appearances and received 14 penalty minutes.

Achievements and Awards

  • 1979 ECAC Second All-Star Team

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1975/76 Providence College NCAA 20th 2 0 2 10
1976/77 Providence College NCAA 29 6th 9 15th 73
1977/78 Providence College NCAA 33 7th 14th 21st 47
1978/79 Providence College NCAA 27 5 19th 24 72
1979/80 Adirondack Red Wings AHL 14th 2 7th 9 40 - - - - -
1979/80 Detroit Red Wings NHL 63 5 13 18th 108 - - - - -
1980/81 Detroit Red Wings NHL 63 5 15th 20th 246 - - - - -
1980/81 Adirondack Red Wings AHL 9 3 7th 10 53 - - - - -
1981/82 Detroit Red Wings NHL 59 1 7th 8th 104 - - - - -
1981/82 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 11 1 3 4th 44 - - - - -
1982/83 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 80 8th 21st 29 236 3 0 0 0 26th
1983/84 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 65 12 14th 26th 257 - - - - -
1984/85 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 41 5 5 10 171 - - - - -
1985/86 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL not played due to knee injury
1986/87 Buffalo Sabers NHL 52 4th 10 14th 158 - - - - -
1987/88 New Jersey Devils NHL 52 8th 13 21st 140 9 0 2 2 71
1988/89 New Jersey Devils NHL 65 15th 16 31 212 - - - - -
1989/90 New Jersey Devils NHL 37 2 3 5 99 - - - - -
1989/90 Calgary Flames NHL 9 0 2 2 26th 4th 1 0 1 12
NCAA overall 109 20th 42 62 202
AHL total 23 5 14th 19th 93 - - - - -
NHL overall 597 66 122 188 1801 16 1 2 3 109

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1979 United States WM 7th place 8th 0 1 1 8th
1981 United States WM 5th place 5 0 1 1 6th
Men overall 13 0 2 2 14th

( 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Korn, Jim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Korn, James Allen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Hopkins , Minnesota , USA