Jon Matsumoto

Jon Matsumoto
Date of birth	October 13, 1986
place of birth	Ottawa , Ontario , Canada
size	180 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2006 , 3rd round, 79th position Philadelphia Flyers
Career stations
2002-2004	Cumberland Grads
2004-2007	Bowling Green State University
2007-2009	Philadelphia Phantoms
2009-2010	Adirondack Phantoms
2010–2012	Carolina Hurricanes Charlotte Checkers
2012	San Antonio Rampage
2012-2013	Worcester Sharks
2013-2014	San Antonio Rampage
2014-2015	Schwenninger Wild Wings
2015-2016	Augsburg panther
2016-2018	EHC Munich
2018-2019	Iserlohn Roosters
since 2019	Cologne Sharks

Jonathan "Jon" Matsumoto (born October 13, 1986 in Ottawa , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Kölner Haien in the German Ice Hockey League since May 2019 .

Career

Matsumoto began his career in the 2002/03 season with the Cumberland Grads in the Junior League Central Canada Hockey League , where he spent a total of two seasons. Between 2004 and 2007 he was on the ice for the university team of Bowling Green State University in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association , which is incorporated into the game operations of the NCAA . In March 2007, Matsumoto was approved by the National Hockey League - Organization of the Philadelphia Flyers , who previously as part of the NHL Entry Draft in 2006 had secured the transfer rights to Canadians contracted. However, the attacker spent the next two and a half years exclusively with the Philadelphia Phantoms farm team or the successor organization Adirondack Phantoms in the American Hockey League . Despite good offensive performance, he was denied a use for the Flyers in the NHL, so Matsumoto was transferred within the league to the Carolina Hurricanes in June 2010 , where he made his debut in the top division of North America in November 2010. A few days later he scored two goals against the New York Islanders , but spent most of the remaining 2010/2011 season again with the Charlotte Checkers farm team in the AHL.

In January 2012 Matsumoto was transferred together in exchange for Yevgeny Dadonow and AJ Jenks to the Florida Panthers , where he was used, however, with the exception of one NHL game exclusively for the farm team San Antonio Rampage in the AHL. In July 2012, the left-handed shooter signed a contract with the San Jose Sharks , but played because of the lockout in the 2012/13 season with their farm team Worcester Sharks in the AHL and completed some games on loan with the Chicago Wolves in April 2013 . For the 2013/14 season, Matsumoto returned to the Florida Panthers, but again did not get past missions with the San Antonio Rampage in the AHL.

In the summer of 2014, the Canadian decided to move to Europe and joined the Schwenninger Wild Wings from the German Ice Hockey League before moving to the Augsburg Panthers in the 2015/16 season. He completed 52 DEL games for Augsburg and recorded 20 goals and 29 assists. After the season with the Panthers, Matsumoto moved to the EHC Munich . He signed in May 2016, shortly before Munich had won the championship title. In April 2017, Munich was able to successfully defend their title from 2016 and Matsumoto became German champion for the first time, which he was able to repeat a year later. In addition, he was elected MVP of the playoffs 2018 and set a new DEL record in the final series against the Eisbären Berlin with 12 scorer points (6 goals). Despite these successes, his contract in Munich was not extended and Matsumoto signed a contract with the Iserlohn Roosters . In Iserlohn he headed the DEL scorer list for a long time , finally becoming the second best scorer in the 2018/19 preliminary round with 56 points , but only reached the penultimate place with his team and did not play any playoffs .

For the following season 2019/20 he switched to league rivals Kölner Haie . In the Haien he did not score as hoped (13 goals and 16 assists in 52 games), but with 29 points he was the second best player in his team, which finished the main round in eleventh place.

Achievements and Awards

2004 CJHL Rookie of the Year 2010 AHL All-Star Classic 2017 German champion with the EHC Red Bull Munich

2018 German champion with the EHC Red Bull Munich 2018 MVP of the DEL playoffs

Career statistics

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2002/03	Cumberland Grads	CJHL		8th	2	3	5	2
2003/04	Cumberland Grads	CJHL		51	31	32	63	26th
2004/05	Bowling Green State University	CCHA		36	18th	14th	32	22nd
2005/06	Bowling Green State University	CCHA		36	20th	28	48	43
2006/07	Bowling Green State University	CCHA		38	11	22nd	33	70
2006/07	Philadelphia Phantoms	AHL		16	2	2	4th	10		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Philadelphia Phantoms	AHL		77	20th	24	44	52		12	2	2	4th	10
2008/09	Philadelphia Phantoms	AHL		78	29	34	63	77		4th	1	2	3	4th
2009/10	Adirondack Phantoms	AHL		80	30th	32	62	50		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Charlotte Checkers	AHL		65	20th	28	48	36		15th	3	5	8th	12
2010/11	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL		13	2	0	2	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Charlotte Checkers	AHL		41	13	21st	34	22nd		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		35	10	16	26th	28		10	4th	9	13	8th
2011/12	Florida panthers	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Worcester Sharks	AHL		60	14th	18th	32	30th		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Chicago Wolves	AHL		5	1	0	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		29	6th	5	11	24		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Schwenninger Wild Wings	DEL		52	14th	10	24	36		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Augsburg panther	DEL		52	20th	29	49	54		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	EHC Red Bull Munich	DEL		51	11	25th	36	49		14th	6th	8th	14th	2
2017/18	EHC Red Bull Munich	DEL		46	11	12	23	20th		16	8th	6th	14th	2
2018/19	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL		52	22nd	34	56	18th		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Cologne Sharks	DEL
CJHL overall				59	33	35	68	28		-	-	-	-	-
CCHA total				110	49	64	113	135		-	-	-	-	-
AHL total				486	145	180	325	329		41	10	18th	28	34
NHL overall				14th	2	0	2	4th		-	-	-	-	-
DEL total				253	78	110	188	177		30th	14th	14th	28	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

• Jon Matsumoto at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Jon Matsumoto at hockeydb.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ flyers.nhl.com Flyers Sign Greentree and Matsumoto
2. ↑ hurricanes.nhl.com Canes Acquire Jonathan Matsumoto from Flyers
3. ↑ orleansstar.ca Matsumoto debuts in NHL
4. ↑ thespec.com Jon Matsumoto scores first two NHL goals as Hurricanes rout Islanders 7-2
5. ↑ hurricanes.nhl.com Canes Acquire Dadonov, Jenks from Florida Panthers
6. ↑ sharks.nhl.com Sharks Sign Forward Jonathan Matsumoto
7. ↑ panthers.nhl.com Florida Panthers Sign C Jonathan Matsumoto & D Matt Gilroy
8. ↑ suedkurier.de Wild Wings: Jon Matsumoto has high goals
9. ↑ augsburger-allgemeine.de Panther sign striker Jon Matsumoto from Schwenningen
10. ↑ First personnel decisions at EHC Red Bull Munich. (No longer available online.) In: ehcrb. Archived from the original on May 2, 2016 ; accessed on May 2, 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.  
11. ↑ Christian Bernhard Munich: The best has to go . In: sueddeutsche.de . April 28, 2018, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed May 1, 2018]).
12. ↑ Kölner Haie confirm the addition of Jon Matsumoto. In: Kölnische Rundschau . May 2, 2019, accessed July 31, 2019 .