Jordan Knackstedt

Jordan Knackstedt
Date of birth	September 28, 1988
place of birth	Saskatoon , Saskatchewan , Canada
size	191 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2007 , 7th lap, 189th position Boston Bruins
Career stations
2004-2006	Red Deer Rebels
2006-2008	Moose Jaw Warriors
2008-2010	Providence Bruins
2010-2011	Rochester Americans
2011–2012	HC Bolzano
2012-2013	Tingsryds AIF Milano Rossoblu
2013-2014	Bakersfield Condors
2014-2015	Rubin Tyumen ESV Kaufbeuren
2015-2016	Greenville Swamp Rabbits Quad City Mallards
2016-2017	Herlev Eagles Esbjerg Energy
2017-2018	Ice pirates Crimmitschau
since 2018	Dresden Ice Lions

Jordan Knackstedt (born September 28, 1988 in Saskatoon , Saskatchewan ) is a German - Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Dresdner Eislöwen in the DEL2 since May 2018 .

Career

WHL Junior and AHL

Knackstedt began his career in the 2004/05 season with the Red Deer Rebels in the Western Hockey League . Three years later he was given to the Moose Jaw Warriors . In the 2007 NHL Entry Draft , he was selected in the seventh round in 189th place by the Boston Bruins . In the same year he also took part in the Bruins Development Camp, where he made a positive impression. In his last junior season with the Warriors, Knackstedt scored 85 points, making him a team-internal top scorer and seventh in the WHL scorer list. At the end of the WHL season he was sent from the Bruins to the Providence Bruins in the American Hockey League (AHL) to end the 2007/08 season there. Thereupon he received an entry level contract with the Bruins , whereby in addition to his playful skills, his physical strength was also mentioned.

Jordan Knackstedt in the Providence Bruins jersey , 2008

In the following three seasons, he was part of the squad of the Providence Bruins, the AHL - farm team of the Boston Bruins, before December 9, 2010 along with Jeff Lovecchio in exchange for Sean Zimmerman and a draft pick to the Florida Panthers was issued.

Success in Italy, Denmark and the ECHL

After 3 years in the AHL Knackstedt moved to Europe for the first time and was under contract with HC Bozen in the Italian ice hockey league Serie A in the 2011/12 season . With the top Italian club, he was able to win the Italian championship directly , to which he contributed a total of 74 points, so that he was the best scorer of his team and with 12 goals was the most successful goalscorer in the entire league in the play-offs . He then played briefly at Tingsryds AIF in the 2nd Swedish ice hockey league HockeyAllsvenskan , but returned to Italy in autumn 2012 and was signed by Milano Rossoblu .

On September 25, 2013 Knackstedt signed a contract with the Bakersfield Condors from the ECHL for the 2013/14 season . With the club from California he reached the play-off semi- finals, which was Bakersfield's best ECHL season performance so far , and Knackstedt managed to become the best- scoring player in his team in both the main round and the play-offs. After the successful season with the Condors Knackstedt decided in August 2014 to return to Europe and signed a one-year contract with Rubin Tyumen from the Wysschaja Hockey League . During the season he first moved to HK Saryarka Karaganda before ending the season in Germany at ESV Kaufbeuren in the DEL2 . With the Jokers he was able to contribute 12 points (6 goals) to stay in the relegation .

At the beginning of the 2015/16 season he was initially without a club before he was signed on November 4, 2015 by the Greenville Swamp Rabbits from the ECHL. For the Rabbits he completed 45 games and moved to the Quad City Mallards during the season .

In the following season 2016/17 he was under contract in the Danish Metal Ligaen - first with the Herlev Eagles and from February 2017 with Esbjerg Energy . He was the best point player at Herlev and behind Brock Nixon the best point player in the play-offs, in which he won the Danish championship with Esbjerg .

Change to DEL2

After this success, he was signed by the ice pirates Crimmitschau for the 2017/18 season in July 2017 , received German citizenship before the start of the season and, with Robbie Czarnik and Ivan Ciernik, formed one of the most successful attack lines in the league, where he was the most successful with a total of 78 scorer points Pirate advanced. Therefore, he became interesting for other clubs of the DEL2 and decided in May 2018 for the offer of the Dresdner Eislöwen . He also played a successful main round for his new club and took fourth place in the league scorer ranking (just like in the previous season). In the subsequent play-offs he reached the semi-finals with the Eislöwen and contributed 6 goals and 21 assists to this success. Because of the performances he showed he was named DEL2 player of the month March .

Achievements and Awards

• 2005 gold medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
• 2012 Italian champion with HC Bozen
• 2017 Danish champion with Esbjerg Energy

Career statistics

( 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 )

Club competitions

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2004/05	Red Deer Rebels	WHL		52	1	2	3	34		7th	0	0	0	2
2005/06	Red Deer Rebels	WHL		72	12	28	40	36		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Red Deer Rebels	WHL		33	10	7th	17th	54		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Moose Jaw Warriors	WHL		39	13	26th	39	44		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Moose Jaw Warriors	WHL		72	31	54	85	116		6th	1	1	2	8th
2007/08	Providence Bruins	AHL		5	2	0	2	2		4th	1	0	1	0
2008/09	Providence Bruins	AHL		71	10	16	26th	55		16	3	1	4th	11
2009/10	Providence Bruins	AHL		67	14th	24	38	30th		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Providence Bruins	AHL		22nd	7th	5	12	12		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Rochester Americans	AHL		44	5	9	14th	26th		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	HC Bolzano	Series A		42	18th	35	53	64		12	10	11	21st	6th
2012/13	Tingsryd's AIF	Allsvenskan		11	0	1	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Milano Rossoblu	Series A		27	9	14th	23	18th		6th	1	4th	5	2
2013/14	Bakersfield Condors	ECHL		69	19th	32	51	101		16	5	9	14th	4th
2013/14	Abbotsford Heat	AHL		1	0	0	0	5		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Ruby Tyumen	WysHL		17th	2	3	5	11		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	HK Saryarka Karaganda	WysHL		6th	1	0	1	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	ESV Kaufbeuren	DEL2		10	4th	5	9	24		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Greenville Swamp Rabbits	ECHL		45	12	19th	31	45		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Quad City Mallards	ECHL		18th	3	10	13	14th		4th	1	1	2	4th
2016/17	Herlev Eagles	Metal leagues		32	12	19th	31	143		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Esbjerg Energy	Metal leagues		4th	3	2	5	4th		17th	8th	10	18th	42
2017/18	Ice pirates Crimmitschau	DEL2		51	22nd	46	68	122		9	3	7th	10	8th
AHL total				210	38	54	92	130		20th	4th	1	5	11

International

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-
2005	Canada Western	U17 WHC			6th	1	0	1	2	± 0

Web links

Commons : Jordan Knackstedt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jordan Knackstedt at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jordan Knackstedt: A true prospect In: nhl.com, July 29, 2007, accessed on March 4, 2019
2. ↑ Bruins sign Jordan Knackstedt In: nhl.com, October 17, 2008, accessed on March 4, 2019
3. ↑ Prospects Jordan Knackstedt In: Hockeysfuture.com, accessed March 4, 2019
4. ↑ Panthers Acquire Forwards Lovecchio and Knackstedt From Boston. In: nhl.com. December 9, 2010, accessed January 24, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Jordan Knackstedt - new striker of HC Bozen In: Athesia , August 22, 2011, accessed on March 4, 2019
6. ↑ Big AHL RW Jordan Knackstedt signed. In: bakersfieldcondors.com. September 25, 2013, accessed January 24, 2019 . 
7. ↑ ECHL 2013/14 Bakersfield Condors Player Statistics In: Eliteprospects.com , accessed on March 4, 2019
8. ↑ «Рубин» подписал контракт с канадским нападающим ( Memento from August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), August 3, 2014
9. ↑ Christian Diepold: DEL2 - Jordan Knackstedt strengthens the ESV Kaufbeuren. In: eishockey-online.com. January 13, 2015, accessed January 24, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Swamp Rabbits Add More Than 200 Games of AHL Experience. In: oursportscentral.com. November 4, 2015, accessed January 24, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Jordan Knackstedt In: circlingthewagon.com, accessed March 4, 2019
12. ↑ Ice pirates sign Jordan Knackstedt. In: del-2.org. July 21, 2017, accessed January 24, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Eispiraten Crimmitschau: "It's only possible with tough discipline and clever work". In: Freiepresse.de. August 10, 2017, accessed January 24, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Five professionals receive special awards In: Freie Presse , April 6, 2018, accessed on March 4, 2019
15. ↑ Knackstedt and Haywood come to Dresden In: eishockey-Magazin.com, May 22, 2018, accessed on March 4, 2019
16. ↑ DEL2 season 2018/19 player statistics In: Eliteprospects.com, accessed on March 4, 2019
17. ↑ Jordan Knackstedt from the Dresdner Eislöwen is Player of the Month for March in the DEL2. In: eishockeynews.de. April 12, 2019, accessed April 15, 2019 .