Joe Pavelski

Joe Pavelski
Date of birth	July 11, 1984
place of birth	Stevens Point , Wisconsin , USA
Nickname	Little Joe, Pavs
size	180 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	center
number	# 16
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2003 , 7th round, 205th position San Jose Sharks
Career stations
2002-2004	Waterloo Black Hawks
2004-2006	University of Wisconsin – Madison
2006-2019	San Jose Sharks
since 2019	Dallas Stars

Joseph James "Joe" Pavelski (born July 11, 1984 in Stevens Point , Wisconsin ) is an American ice hockey player of Polish descent who has been under contract with the Dallas Stars in the National Hockey League since July 2019 . Before that, the center spent almost 13 years with the San Jose Sharks , which he also led for four years as team captain. With the US national team , he won the silver medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics .

Career

After Pavelski in his last year at high school with his team, the Stevens Point Area High School , the championship of the state Wisconsin had won, he moved to the 2002/03 season with the Waterloo Blackhawks in the United States Hockey League , with which he won the Clark Cup in the first year of his team membership . His yield of 69 points in 60 regular season games and twelve points in seven playoff games meant that he was named Rookie of the Year of the USHL and in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft in the seventh round in 205th position by the San Jose Sharks was selected. He was also elected to the league's All-Rookie Team and First All-Star Team. After another season with the Black Hawks Pavelski moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison , where he was able to win the national college championship of the National Collegiate Athletic Association with the Wisconsin Badgers in his sophomore year . With 53 points in 41 games, the American made a significant contribution to the successful season of the Badgers, for which Tom Gilbert , Adam Burish and Jack Skille also played that year, and finally crowned an excellent year for him with assists for the two goals of his team in the final.

Before the start of the 2006/07 season Pavelski signed his first professional contract with the San Jose Sharks, which initially only used him in the lower class American Hockey League with the Worcester Sharks , their farm team . After an injury to Jonathan Cheechoo Pavelski was appointed on November 22, 2006 for the first time in the NHL squad San Joses. In his first game against the Los Angeles Kings he scored his first goal, making him the eleventh player in Sharks history to achieve this feat. In the course of the season, the center forward found his place in the squad of the Northern California franchise and completed a total of 46 games in which he posted 28 points scorer. Although he achieved an average of fewer points per game in the 2007/08 game year, he improved steadily, which meant that he was an important part of the second storm row and in the power play . Especially in the last third of the season Pavelski showed that he had the potential for the NHL despite his small height. The center confirmed this impression in the subsequent playoffs, where he was one of the best players in his team with nine points. Over the summer break, the striker was able to preserve his performance and introduced himself well to the Sharks' system, which was more offensive in the 2008/09 season . His ex-team, the Waterloo Black Hawks, finally recognized Pavelski's breakthrough and accomplishments in the NHL on February 24, 2009 when they locked his number 8 jersey in a ceremony. He was the fifth Black Hawks player to receive this honor. The striker ended his best NHL season with 59 points in 80 games, increasing his record from the previous year by 19 points. In the playoffs, he could not prevent the failure in the first round. With the beginning of the 2015/16 season Pavelski was appointed the new team captain of the Sharks; he is assisted by Logan Couture and Joe Thornton .

After 13 years in San Jose, during which he played over 1000 games for the Sharks, he joined the Dallas Stars as a free agent in July 2019 . There he signed a three-year contract that should bring him an average annual salary of $ 7 million.

International

On the international stage Pavelski played for the first time at the 2009 World Cup in Switzerland for the United States national team , when he was nominated after the elimination of the San Jose Sharks from the playoffs of the National Hockey League at the beginning of the intermediate round of the tournament. In five matches he was able to contribute two scorer points. Ultimately, after narrow defeats in the semi-finals and the game for third place, only fourth place was to be booked. Because of his achievements, the striker was added to the final, 23-man squad for the Vancouver Winter Olympics in early January 2010 .

Achievements and Awards

2002 Wisconsin State Championship with Stevens Point Area High School 2003 USHL All-Rookie Team 2003 USHL Rookie of the Year 2003 USHL First All-Star Team 2003 Clark Cup Champion with the Waterloo Black Hawks 2005 WCHA All-Rookie Team 2006 NCAA West Second All-American Team

2006 WCHA Second All-Star Team 2006 NCAA Division I Championship with the University of Wisconsin – Madison 2006 AHL Rookie of the Month for October 2014 NHL Second All-Star Team 2016 Participation in the NHL All-Star Game 2017 participation in the NHL All-Star Game 2019 participation in the NHL All-Star Game

International

• 2010 silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games

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
2002/03	Waterloo Black Hawks	USHL		60	36	33	69	32		7th	5	7th	12	8th
2003/04	Waterloo Black Hawks	USHL		54	21st	31	52	58		10	5	4th	9	10
2004/05	University of Wisconsin – Madison	NCAA		41	16	29	45	26th
2005/06	University of Wisconsin-Madison	NCAA		41	23	30th	53	32
2006/07	Worcester Sharks	AHL		16	8th	18th	26th	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	San Jose Sharks	NHL		46	14th	14th	28	18th		6th	1	0	1	0
2007/08	San Jose Sharks	NHL		82	19th	21st	40	28		13	5	4th	9	0
2008/09	San Jose Sharks	NHL		80	25th	34	59	46		6th	0	1	1	9
2009/10	San Jose Sharks	NHL		67	25th	26th	51	26th		15th	9	8th	17th	6th
2010/11	San Jose Sharks	NHL		74	20th	46	66	24		18th	5	5	10	10
2011/12	San Jose Sharks	NHL		82	31	30th	61	31		5	0	0	0	5
2012/13	HK Dinamo Minsk	KHL		17th	7th	8th	15th	10		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	San Jose Sharks	NHL		48	16	15th	31	10		11	4th	8th	12	0
2013/14	San Jose Sharks	NHL		82	41	38	79	32		7th	2	4th	6th	2
2014/15	San Jose Sharks	NHL		82	37	33	70	29		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	San Jose Sharks	NHL		82	38	40	78	30th		24	14th	9	23	4th
2016/17	San Jose Sharks	NHL		81	29	39	68	34		6th	2	2	4th	0
2017/18	San Jose Sharks	NHL		82	22nd	44	66	41		10	2	6th	8th	8th
2018/19	San Jose Sharks	NHL		75	38	26th	64	22nd		13	4th	5	9	4th
USHL total				114	57	64	121	90		17th	10	11	21st	18th
NCAA overall				82	39	59	98	58
NHL overall				963	355	406	761	371		134	48	52	100	48

International

Represented the USA at:

• World Championship 2009
• 2010 Winter Olympics
• 2014 Winter Olympics
• World Cup of Hockey 2016

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2009	United States	WM	4th Place		5	1	1	2	0
2010	United States	Olympia			6th	0	3	3	4th
2014	United States	Olympia	4th Place		6th	1	4th	5	0
2016	United States	World cup	7th place		3	1	1	2	0
Men overall					20th	3	9	12	4th

( 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

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• Player biography on the Dallas Stars website
• Joe Pavelski at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Joe Pavelski at eliteprospects.com (English)