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 | |
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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)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hecimovic, John |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hečimović, John |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian-Croatian ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1984 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Waterloo , Ontario , Canada |