Jim O'Brien (ice hockey player)
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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
- 2006 gold medal at the U18 World Junior Championship
- 2007 WCHA Championship with the University of Minnesota
- 2007 silver medal at the U18 Junior World Championship
- 2011 Calder Cup win with the Binghamton Senators
Career statistics
Status: end of the 2018/19 season
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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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:
- World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2005
- U18 Junior World Championship 2006
- U18 Junior World Championship 2007
- U20 Junior World Championship 2009
( 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
- Jim O'Brien in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
- Jim O'Brien at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Jim O'Brien at legendsofhockey.net (English)
Goalkeeper:
Niklas Treutle
Defender:
Tim Bender |
Brett Festerling |
Tom Gilbert |
Pascal Grosse |
Oliver Mebus |
Kevin Schulze |
Chris Summers |
Marcus Weber |
Moritz Wirth
attacker:
Will Acton |
Eugene Alanov |
Chad Bassen |
Tim Bernhardt |
Chris Brown |
Brandon Buck |
Austin Cangelosi |
Philippe Dupuis |
Daniel Fischbuch |
Maximilian Kislinger |
Jim O'Brien |
Joachim Ramoser |
Patrick Reimer ( C ) |
Rylan Schwartz |
Jack Skille |
Timo Walther
Head coach: vacant Assistant coach: Manuel Kofler | Thomas Schinko General Manager: André Dietzsch
personal data | |
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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 |