Jonathan Cheechoo
Date of birth | July 15, 1980 |
place of birth | Moose Factory , Ontario , Canada |
Nickname | Cheech, Cheechoo Train |
size | 185 cm |
Weight | 91 kg |
position | Right wing |
number | # 14 |
Shot hand | Right |
Draft | |
NHL Entry Draft |
1998 , 2nd round, 29th position San Jose Sharks |
Career stations | |
1997-2000 | Belleville Bulls |
2000-2001 | Kentucky Thoroughblades |
2001-2002 | Cleveland Barons |
2004-2005 | HV 71 Jönköping |
2002-2009 | San Jose Sharks |
2009-2010 | Ottawa Senators |
2010-2011 | Worcester Sharks |
2011–2012 | Peoria Rivermen |
2013 | Oklahoma City Barons |
2013-2014 | KHL Medveščak Zagreb |
2014-2016 | HK Dinamo Minsk |
2016-2017 | HC Slovan Bratislava |
Jonathan Earl Cheechoo (* 15. July 1980 in Moose Factory , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player , who during his playing career from 1997 to 2017 among other 560 games for the San Jose Sharks and Ottawa Senators in the National Hockey League on the Has contested the position of the right winger . In the service of the San Jose Sharks, Cheechoo won the Maurice 'Rocket' Richard Trophy for the league's top scorer with 56 goals in the 2005/06 season .
Career
Cheechoo became the 1997-98 season of the Belleville Bulls in Draft of the Ontario Hockey League selected. After a strong rookie season with 76 points in 64 games, he was selected by the San Jose Sharks in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft in the second round at position 29. The Sharks had previously given their right to vote in place 2 for the move rights in places 3 and 29 to the Nashville Predators in order to be able to select Cheechoo. San Jose was then criticized for not wanting to secure the rights to the talented David Legwand , whom Nashville had picked with their pick, and instead selected a player who was considered far weaker. Cheechoo stayed with the Bulls for the next two seasons in the OHL and the Sharks gave him enough time to develop before they signed him in early 2000/01. Meanwhile, the striker had won the J. Ross Robertson Cup , the championship of the OHL, and played in the Memorial Cup tournament with the Bulls at the end of the 1998/99 season .
Cheechoo began his professional career with the Kentucky Thoroughblades , the then farm team of the San Jose Sharks. There he showed a strong performance with 66 points in 75 games. In his second year he reached 46 points in 53 games despite an injury. At the beginning of the 2002/03 season , which Cheechoo began with seven points in the first nine games, the Sharks called him to the NHL team. After he was mainly used in the third and fourth row and had only collected 16 points in 66 games, he worked hard on himself during the summer break. The hard work paid off the following season . With 47 points in 81 games in a defensive game series with Mike Ricci and Scott Thornton , Cheechoo proved its qualities. In addition, thanks to his two partners, he gained important insights into defensive behavior on the ice. In the playoffs, the Canadian scored ten points in 17 games.
During the lockout in the 2004/05 NHL season , Cheechoo hired on December 21, 2004 at HV 71 Jönköping from the Swedish Elitserien . There he ran in a total of 20 games by the end of the season and scored five goals. Mostly he played in the team's second or third row of attacks.
In the 2005/06 season , Cheechoo returned to San Jose and achieved the absolute breakthrough in the best league in the world with 56 goals and secured the coveted Maurice 'Rocket' Richard Trophy for the best goalscorer. In addition, his 56 goals and 93 points meant a new franchise record for the Sharks. With Joe Thornton and Nils Ekman committed on November 30, 2005 , he formed one of the best attack lines in the entire league. His 24 power play goals and a total of five hat tricks were also franchise records. The 2006/07 season started rather sluggishly for Cheechoo and he was only able to build on the form of the previous year in the final months of the regular season. After all, he scored 37 goals this season. In the last two seasons, the Canadian has achieved a total of eight hat tricks, a mark that only Mario Lemieux , Pawel Bure , Brett Hull and Alexander Mogilny have been able to achieve since 1991 . After the operation of two hernias in the summer of 2007, it took the winger a long time to find his shape in the 2007/08 season . He did not reach the same level this season as in the following. Between 2007 and 2009, he had only 66 scorer points to book. The persistent form weakness finally led in September 2009 that Cheechoo was given together with Milan Michálek and a second-round draft pick to the Ottawa Senators . In return, Dany Heatley and a five-round pick moved to San Jose.
Even at a new place of work, the Canadian did not succeed in picking up on the form of previous years. After the Senators signed Matt Cullen in February 2010 , Cheechoo was immediately put on the waiver list. He was then sent to the farm team, the Binghamton Senators , in the American Hockey League . At that time, he had only scored five goals and 14 points in 61 NHL games and had the worst plus / minus statistics of the entire team. Cheechoo finally played the season in Binghamton to the end and only came to one more playoff game for Ottawa in the NHL. At the end of June 2010, the Senators put the former Richard Trophy winner back on the waiver list. Once again, however, there was no buyer and so the Senators paid off the last year of his contract, after which the Canadian became a free agent . One month before the start of the 2010/11 season , the Dallas Stars invited him to their training camp. Although Cheechoo was able to convince in the two completed preparation games, the stars released him after three weeks. Finally, the Worcester Sharks , the San Jose Sharks farm team, signed the striker in October 2010.
In July 2011 Cheechoo signed a contract for one year with the St. Louis Blues , for which he did not appear in the NHL. Instead, he spent the season with their farm team, the Peoria Rivermen , in the American Hockey League and was the team's top scorer with 25 goals. After his contract expired, however, he was initially not signed by any team. It was not until January 2013 that he received a trial contract with the Oklahoma City Barons , where he finally made it into the regular squad. In 35 games in the regular season he scored 32 points and helped his team in the play-offs to the conference final.
Then Cheechoo moved to Europe, where he was signed by the Croatian club KHL Medveščak Zagreb from the Continental Hockey League . There the striker convinced with 19 goals and 19 assists in 54 games of the season. After the 2013/14 season, he moved together with four other teammates - including Ryan Vesce and Matt Ellison - from Medveščak to league rivals HK Dinamo Minsk . The Canadian remained loyal to the Belarusian main state club for two seasons. Cheechoo spent his last season at HC Slovan Bratislava in the KHL and scored 40 points in 60 games this season. After he couldn't find a new employer for the 2017/18 season, Cheechoo announced his retirement from active sports at the age of 37 in early March 2018.
Achievements and Awards
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Career statistics
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
1997/98 | Belleville Bulls | OHL | 64 | 31 | 45 | 76 | 62 | 10 | 4th | 2 | 6th | 10 | ||
1998/99 | Belleville Bulls | OHL | 63 | 35 | 47 | 82 | 74 | 21st | 15th | 15th | 30th | 27 | ||
1999 | Belleville Bulls | Memorial Cup | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||||
1999/00 | Belleville Bulls | OHL | 66 | 45 | 46 | 91 | 102 | 16 | 5 | 12 | 17th | 16 | ||
2000/01 | Kentucky Thoroughblades | AHL | 75 | 32 | 34 | 66 | 63 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
2001/02 | Cleveland Barons | AHL | 53 | 21st | 25th | 46 | 54 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2002/03 | Cleveland Barons | AHL | 9 | 3 | 4th | 7th | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2002/03 | San Jose Sharks | NHL | 66 | 9 | 7th | 16 | 39 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2003/04 | San Jose Sharks | NHL | 81 | 28 | 19th | 47 | 33 | 17th | 4th | 6th | 10 | 10 | ||
2004/05 | HV 71 Jönköping | Elitserien | 20th | 5 | 0 | 5 | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2005/06 | San Jose Sharks | NHL | 82 | 56 | 37 | 93 | 58 | 11 | 4th | 5 | 9 | 8th | ||
2006/07 | San Jose Sharks | NHL | 76 | 37 | 32 | 69 | 69 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 6th | 6th | ||
2007/08 | San Jose Sharks | NHL | 69 | 23 | 14th | 37 | 46 | 13 | 4th | 4th | 8th | 4th | ||
2008/09 | San Jose Sharks | NHL | 66 | 12 | 17th | 29 | 59 | 6th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4th | ||
2009/10 | Ottawa Senators | NHL | 61 | 5 | 9 | 14th | 20th | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
2009/10 | Binghamton Senators | AHL | 25th | 8th | 6th | 14th | 37 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2010/11 | Worcester Sharks | AHL | 55 | 18th | 29 | 47 | 14th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2011/12 | Peoria Rivermen | AHL | 70 | 25th | 31 | 56 | 24 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2012/13 | Oklahoma City Barons | AHL | 35 | 13 | 19th | 32 | 16 | 17th | 3 | 9 | 12 | 8th | ||
2013/14 | KHL Medveščak Zagreb | KHL | 54 | 19th | 19th | 38 | 40 | 4th | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8th | ||
2014/15 | HK Dinamo Minsk | KHL | 49 | 24 | 24 | 48 | 34 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 18th | ||
2015/16 | HK Dinamo Minsk | KHL | 54 | 16 | 22nd | 38 | 28 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2016/17 | HC Slovan Bratislava | KHL | 60 | 14th | 26th | 40 | 40 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
OHL total | 193 | 111 | 138 | 249 | 238 | 47 | 24 | 29 | 53 | 53 | ||||
AHL total | 322 | 120 | 148 | 268 | 224 | 20th | 3 | 9 | 12 | 8th | ||||
NHL overall | 501 | 170 | 135 | 305 | 324 | 59 | 16 | 19th | 35 | 32 | ||||
KHL total | 217 | 73 | 91 | 164 | 142 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 26th |
( 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
- Jonathan Cheechoo at legendsofhockey.net (English)
- Jonathan Cheechoo at eliteprospects.com (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Cheechoo, Jonathan |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cheechoo, Jonathan Earl |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1980 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Moose Factory , Ontario, Canada |