John Hecimovic

John Hecimovic
Date of birth	March 31, 1984
place of birth	Waterloo , Ontario , Canada
size	188 cm
Weight	98 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2003 , 9th round, 264th position Florida Panthers
Career stations
2000-2004	Sarnia Sting
2004-2005	Mississauga IceDogs
2005-2006	South Carolina Stingrays Straubing Tigers
2006-2007	Pensacola Ice Pilots
2007-2009	HYS The Hague
2009-2011	KHL Medveščak Zagreb
2011	Anyang Halla
2011–2012	Nippon Paper Cranes
since 2012	Dornbirn EC

John Hecimovic (born March 31, 1984 in Waterloo , Ontario ) is a Canadian - Croatian ice hockey player who is under contract with the Dornbirner EC in the Austrian ice hockey league in 2012 .

Career

Clubs

John Hecimovic began his career as a hockey player in the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League , in which he was active from 2000 to 2005 for the Sarnia Sting and Mississauga IceDogs . During this period he was also selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2003 in the ninth round as a total of 264th player by the Florida Panthers , for which he never played. Instead, the winger made his professional ice hockey debut for the South Carolina Stingrays from the ECHL in the 2005/06 season , before finishing the season with the Straubing Tigers in the 2nd Bundesliga . With Straubing he was promoted to the German Ice Hockey League , but returned to the ECHL, where he played for the Pensacola Ice Pilots in the following season .

The 2007/08 season started again in Pensacola, but already moved to HYS The Hague in the Dutch Eredivisie after five games . With the team he became Dutch champions in 2009 . Then the Canadian-Croatian dual citizen received a contract with the new in the Austrian Hockey League captured KHL Medveščak Zagreb , for whom he played for two years and in which he in the 2010/11 season was an assistant captain. In 2011 he also won the Croatian championship title with Medveščak . For the 2011/12 season he moved to Anyang Halla from the Asia League Ice Hockey . In December 2011, he moved to Nippon Paper Cranes within the league . But after only one year in Asia, Hecimovic returned to the Austrian ice hockey league and moved to the Dornbirner EC .

International

Hecimovic made his debut for Croatia in September 2012 in the pre-qualification for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi . He also took part in the Division II games of the 2013 World Cup and not only rose to Division I with the Croatians, but was also the tournament's best scorer with six goals and six preparations.

Achievements and Awards

• 2006 Promotion to the DEL with the Straubing Tigers
• 2009 Dutch champion with HYS The Hague
• 2011 Croatian champion with the KHL Medveščak Zagreb
• 2013 Promotion to Division I, Group B, at the World Cup Division II, Group A
• 2013 top scorer of the World Cup in Division II, Group A.

EBEL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	3	119	46	53	99	102
Playoffs	2	16	5	9	14th	6th

(Status: end of the 2012/13 season)

Web links

• John Hecimovic at hockeydb.com (English)
• John Hecimovic at eurohockey.com
• John Hecimovic at eliteprospects.com (English)