Jim O'Brien (ice hockey player)

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Jim O'Brien
Date of birth January 29, 1989
place of birth Maplewood , Minnesota , USA
size 188 cm
Weight 91 kg
position center
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2007 , 1st round, 29th position
Ottawa Senators
Career stations
2004-2006 US National Team Development Program
2006-2007 University of Minnesota
2007-2009 Seattle Thunderbirds
2009-2014 Ottawa Senators
Binghamton Senators
2014 Metallurg Novokuznetsk
2014-2015 Hershey Bears
2015-2016 Albany Devils
2016-2017 San Antonio Rampage
2017-2019 Ottawa Senators
Belleville Senators
since 2019 Nuremberg Ice Tigers

James Patrick "Jim" O'Brien (born January 29, 1989 in Maplewood , Minnesota ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Nürnberg Ice Tigers in the German Ice Hockey League since June 2019 and is in the position of Centers plays.

Career

O'Brien belonged between 2004 and 2006 to the National Team Development Program of the US hockey association USA Hockey , for which he played the following two seasons nationally in the North American Hockey League , but also represented it internationally. The defense attorney then enrolled at the University of Minnesota and tried to pursue a degree. In parallel, he played for the college's ice hockey team in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association , a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . After the 2006/07 season he was selected in the first round in the NHL Entry Draft 2007 in 29th place by the Ottawa Senators from the National Hockey League . The striker then left the university prematurely and moved to the Canadian junior league Western Hockey League . There he spent the two seasons until the spring of 2009 before signing a contract with the Ottawa Senators. In their farm team Binghamton Senators from the American Hockey League , he spent the rest of the 2008/09 season .

With the beginning of the 2009/10 season O'Brien was an integral part of the roster of the Binghamton Senators and only made it into the Ottawas NHL roster during the 2010/11 season . He also won the Calder Cup with Binghamton that season . Overall, he remained in the franchise until the end of the 2013/14 game year , but did not manage to establish himself as a regular player in the NHL during the five years. There were only 63 NHL games for him.

The striker moved to Europe in summer 2014 in search of a new challenge. He signed a contract with Metallurg Novokuznetsk from the Continental Hockey League . His engagement there ended at the end of December of the same year after only 22 missions. O'Brien then returned to North America and came under for the remainder of the season with the Hershey Bears in the AHL. In the summer of 2015 he signed a contract with the New Jersey Devils from the NHL as a free agent , but where he was excellent with the Albany Devils in the AHL.

After a year with the San Antonio Rampage , he joined the Belleville Senators in October . Their NHL cooperation partners, the Ottawa Senators, gave him a two-year contract in February 2018. He fulfilled this and then moved to the Nürnberg Ice Tigers in June 2019 .

International

For his home country, O'Brien played in the junior division at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2005 , the U18 World Junior Championships in 2006 and 2007 and the U20 World Junior Championship in 2009 . At the World U-17 Hockey Challenge and U20 Junior World Championship, the striker finished fifth and thus outside the medal ranks. The two U18 Junior World Championships were all the more successful. In 2006, the Americans won the gold medal after beating Finland 3-1. To win the world title, O'Brien contributed four scorer points in six matches. There were three gates below. In the following year, the US boys just failed to defend their title when they only lost to Russia 5-6 in the final. As part of the tournament, the attacker contributed just as many points to the silver medal win in seven games.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2004/05 US National Team Development Program NEAR 40 10 12 22nd 41 - - - - -
2005/06 US National Team Development Program NEAR 13 6th 10 16 14th - - - - -
2006/07 University of Minnesota WCHA 43 7th 8th 15th 51
2007/08 Seattle Thunderbirds WHL 70 21st 34 55 66 12 2 6th 8th 14th
2008/09 Seattle Thunderbirds WHL 63 27 35 62 55 5 1 0 1 10
2008/09 Binghamton Senators AHL 6th 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
2009/10 Binghamton Senators AHL 76 8th 9 17th 49 - - - - -
2010/11 Binghamton Senators AHL 74 24 32 56 67 23 3 4th 7th 12
2010/11 Ottawa Senators NHL 6th 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
2011/12 Binghamton Senators AHL 27 7th 7th 14th 10 - - - - -
2011/12 Ottawa Senators NHL 28 3 3 6th 4th 7th 0 1 1 0
2012/13 Ottawa Senators NHL 29 5 1 6th 8th - - - - -
2013/14 Binghamton Senators AHL 51 11 18th 29 46 2 1 1 2 2
2014/15 Metallurg Novokuznetsk KHL 22nd 2 10 12 30th - - - - -
2014/15 Hershey Bears AHL 32 10 19th 29 26th 10 3 1 4th 8th
2015/16 Albany Devils AHL 56 19th 19th 38 48 6th 2 3 5 4th
2015/16 New Jersey Devils NHL 4th 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
2016/17 San Antonio Rampage AHL 53 9 15th 24 42 - - - - -
2017/18 Belleville Senators AHL 60 13 16 29 44 - - - - -
2017/18 Ottawa Senators NHL 10 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
2018/19 Belleville Senators AHL 11 1 2 3 4th - - - - -
NAHL total 53 16 22nd 38 55 - - - - -
NCAA overall 43 7th 8th 15th 51
WHL overall 133 48 69 117 121 17th 3 6th 9 24
AHL total 446 102 138 240 336 41 9 9 18th 26th
NHL overall 77 8th 5 13 16 7th 0 1 1 0

International

Represented USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2005 United States U17-WHC 5th place 5 2 3 5 6th
2006 United States U18 World Cup 1st place, gold 6th 3 1 4th 6th
2007 United States U18 World Cup 2nd place, silver 7th 3 4th 7th 12
2009 United States U20 World Cup 5th place 6th 1 3 4th 2
Juniors overall 24 9 11 20th 26th

( 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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Squad of the Nürnberg Ice Tigers in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME O'Brien, Jim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES O'Brien, James Patrick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Maplewood , Minnesota