Joel Kwiatkowski

Joel Kwiatkowski
Date of birth	March 22, 1977
place of birth	Saskatoon , Saskatchewan , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	92 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1996 , 8th round, 194th position Dallas Stars
Career stations
1994-1995	Tacoma Rockets
1995-1996	Kelowna Rockets
1996-1998	Prince George Cougars
1998-2000	Cincinnati Mighty Ducks
2000-2003	Ottawa Senators
2003-2004	Washington Capitals
2004-2005	San Antonio Rampage
2005	St. John's Maple Leafs
2005-2007	Florida panthers
2007	Pittsburgh Penguins
2007-2008	Atlanta Thrashers
2008-2009	Severstal Cherepovets
2009-2010	SKA Saint Petersburg
2010–2012	SC Bern
2012-2015	Friborg-Gottéron
2015-2016	MODO hockey

Joel Kwiatkowski (* 22. March 1977 in Saskatoon , Saskatchewan ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player and current - trainer , who during his playing career from 1998 to 2016 among other 288 games for the Ottawa Senators , Washington Capitals , Florida Panthers , Pittsburgh Penguins and Atlanta Thrashers has played in the National Hockey League on the position of defender . Since September 2016 he has been employed as an assistant trainer at Kalamazoo Wings from the ECHL .

Career

Joel Kwiatkowski began his career as a hockey player in the Western Hockey League , in which he was active from 1994 to 1998 for the Tacoma Rockets , Kelowna Rockets and Prince George Cougars . During this time he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 1996 in the eighth round as a total of 194th player by the Dallas Stars , for which he however never played. Instead, the defender received a contract with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim on June 18, 1998 as a free agent . The following two seasons he spent with their farm team from the American Hockey League , the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks . On June 12, 2000 the Ducks gave the Canadians in exchange for Patrick Traverse to the Ottawa Senators , for whom he made his debut in the National Hockey League in the 2000/01 season , scoring a goal in four games.

After two and a half years, Kwiatkowski left the Senators again in January 2003 and received a contract with their league rivals the Washington Capitals , for which he was on the ice until the lockout during the 2004/05 NHL season . He bridged the lockout himself with the AHL teams San Antonio Rampage and St. John's Maple Leafs . After resumption of play in the NHL, the left shooter joined the Florida Panthers . In February 2007 he was finally transferred to the Pittsburgh Penguins , for which he was on the ice in only one game until the end of the season, in which he remained pointless and goalless. In the summer of 2007, Kwiatkowski went to the Atlanta Thrashers , but mostly played for their AHL farm team, the Chicago Wolves , with whom he won the Calder Cup . After only one year he left Atlanta again and signed with Severstal Tscherepowez from the newly founded Continental Hockey League , for which he scored a total of 25 scorer points, including 13 goals, in 52 games.

Due to his good performance in Russia , the Atlanta Thrashers offered him a new contract before the 2009/10 season , which he initially agreed to. When it became known that he already had a valid contract with SKA Saint Petersburg , the Thrashers withdrew their offer. In addition, the President of the KHL and owner of SKA, Alexander Medvedev , had intervened with the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF against the transfer.

On July 1, 2010 Kwiatkowski was signed by the Swiss club SC Bern from the National League A , for which he went on the ice in the following two seasons. In April 2012, the Canadian agreed on a contractual relationship with Friborg-Gottéron and played there until the end of the 2014/15 season. He was then without a club before he was signed by MODO Hockey in October 2015 . He ended his career after the 2015/16 season and moved to the coaching bench in September 2016. His first post was that of assistant trainer at the Kalamazoo Wings from the ECHL .

International

For Canada Kwiatkowski took part in the 2009 World Cup, where he finished second with his team. The defender was the only player in the squad who was not under contract to the NHL at the time.

Achievements and Awards

1997 WHL West Second All-Star Team 1998 WHL West First All-Star Team 1998 CHL Third All-Star Team

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

International

• 2009 silver medal at the world championship

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1994/95	Tacoma Rockets	WHL		70	4th	13	17th	66		4th	0	0	0	2
1995/96	Kelowna Rockets	WHL		40	6th	17th	23	85		-	-	-	-	-
1995/96	Prince George Cougars	WHL		32	6th	11	17th	48		-	-	-	-	-
1996/97	Prince George Cougars	WHL		72	16	36	52	94		15th	4th	2	6th	24
1997/98	Prince George Cougars	WHL		62	21st	43	64	65		11	3	6th	9	6th
1998/99	Cincinnati Mighty Ducks	AHL		80	12	21st	33	48		3	2	0	2	0
1999/00	Cincinnati Mighty Ducks	AHL		70	4th	22nd	26th	28		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	Ottawa Senators	NHL		4th	1	0	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	Grand Rapids Griffins	IHL		77	4th	17th	21st	58		10	1	0	1	4th
2001/02	Ottawa Senators	NHL		11	0	0	0	12		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		65	8th	21st	29	94		5	1	2	3	12
2002/03	Binghamton Senators	AHL		1	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Ottawa Senators	NHL		20th	0	2	2	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Washington Capitals	NHL		34	0	3	3	12		6th	0	0	0	2
2003/04	Washington Capitals	NHL		80	6th	6th	12	89		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		64	13	19th	32	76		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	St. John's Maple Leafs	AHL		17th	7th	6th	13	16		5	0	4th	4th	23
2005/06	Florida panthers	NHL		73	4th	8th	12	86		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Florida panthers	NHL		41	5	5	10	20th		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Chicago Wolves	AHL		59	21st	29	50	119		24	10	13	23	30th
2007/08	Atlanta Thrashers	NHL		18th	0	5	5	20th		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Severstal Cherepovets	KHL		52	13	12	25th	64		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	SKA Saint Petersburg	KHL		50	7th	12	19th	147		4th	0	0	0	10
2010/11	SC Bern	NLA		35	9	9	18th	20th		10	0	4th	4th	34
2011/12	SC Bern	NLA		42	8th	12	20th	52		14th	2	2	4th	16
2012/13	Friborg-Gottéron	NLA		46	14th	9	23	81		18th	1	5	6th	18th
2013/14	Friborg-Gottéron	NLA		49	5	17th	22nd	54		10	2	3	5	8th
2014/15	Friborg-Gottéron	NLA		42	3	10	13	67		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	MODO hockey	SHL		42	2	3	5	30th		7 1	0	1	1	6th
WHL overall				276	53	120	173	358		30th	7th	8th	15th	32
IHL total				77	4th	17th	21st	58		10	1	0	1	4th
AHL total				356	65	118	183	383		37	13	19th	32	65
NHL overall				282	16	29	45	245		6th	0	0	0	2
KHL total				102	20th	25th	45	211		4th	0	0	0	10
NLA total				214	39	57	96	274		58	5	16	21st	80
SHL total				42	2	3	5	30th		7th	0	1	1	6th

International

Represented Canada to:

• World Championship 2009

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2009	Canada	WM			5	0	0	0	2
Men overall					5	0	0	0	2

( 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

• Joel Kwiatkowski at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Joel Kwiatkowski at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Joel Kwiatkowski at hockeydb.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ blogs.nytimes.com, Kwiatkowski returning to Russia after his Atlanta deal is found invalid
2. ^ New employer found - MODO Hockey signs HCFG's Joel Kwiatkowski. In: swisshockeynews.ch. October 3, 2015, accessed December 7, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Nick Bootland signs three-year extension with K-Wings, Joel Kwiatkowski named assistant coach. (No longer available online.) In: kwings.com. September 12, 2016, archived from the original on September 16, 2016 ; accessed on September 13, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.