Joe Motzko

Joe Motzko
Date of birth	March 14, 1980
place of birth	Bemidji , Minnesota , USA
size	185 cm
Weight	89 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 19
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1998-1999	Omaha Lancers
1999-2003	St. Cloud State University
2003-2007	Syracuse crunch
2007	Portland Pirates
2007-2008	Hershey Bears
2008-2009	Chicago Wolves
2009	HK MWD Balashikha
2009-2013	ERC Ingolstadt
2013-2014	EC Red Bull Salzburg
2014	Ritten sport

Joseph Andrew Motzko (born March 14, 1980 in Bemidji , Minnesota ) is a retired American ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League for the Columbus Blue Jackets , Anaheim Ducks , Washington Capitals and Atlanta Thrashers, among others Has.

Career

Joe Motzko began his career as a hockey player with the Omaha Lancers, for which he was active in the United States Hockey League in the 1998/99 season . He then played four years for the team of St. Cloud State University , before the end of the 2002/03 season aground the first time in professional hockey when he in two games for Syracuse Crunch , the American Hockey League - the farm team of the Columbus Blue Jackets who had signed him on May 15, 2003, ran up. In the following season, the attacker made his debut in the National Hockey League for Columbus, but played most of the season for Syracuse Crunch, for which he was regularly on the ice until 2007, while he was only sporadically used in the NHL team of the Blue Jackets has been.

On January 26, 2007, the Blue Jackets gave the right-shooter to their league rival, the Anaheim Ducks . By the end of the season he played 34 games for their AHL farm team, the Portland Pirates , before the Ducks Motzko called for the playoffs for the Stanley Cup in their NHL squad. When he later won the Stanley Cup, the American played a total of three games. In the summer of 2007 he moved to the Washington Capitals , where he was also unable to prevail in the NHL, so the striker was transferred to the Atlanta Thrashers during the 2007/08 season . Until the end of the season, the winger played exclusively for their AHL farm team, the Chicago Wolves , with whom he won the Calder Cup . Also in the 2008/09 season Motzko was mostly for Chicago in the AHL on the ice, while he scored a goal in six NHL games for the Thrashers.

On July 16, 2009, the American then signed a contract with HK MWD Balaschicha from the Continental Hockey League . However, he left this in mid-September of the same year without completing a single competitive game. Motzko then joined the ERC Ingolstadt from the German Ice Hockey League , where he scored a total of 148 points in 194 DEL games in the following four seasons. In the 2013/14 season the winger was on the ice for EC Red Bull Salzburg in the EBEL before he was signed by Ritten Sport from the Italian Serie A in November 2014 . For the South Tyroleans, however, he only played one game in the top Italian division, after which the American ended his career.

Achievements and Awards

2007 AHL All-Star Classic 2007 Stanley Cup win with the Anaheim Ducks 2008 AHL All-Star Classic

2008 Calder Cup win with the Chicago Wolves 2009 AHL All-Star Classic

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season	5	25th	4th	2	6th	0
NHL playoffs	1	3	0	0	0	2

Web links

• Joe Motzko at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Joe Motzko at hockeydb.com (English)
• Joe Motzko at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Joe Motzko at sonice.it