Jujhar Khaira

Jujhar Khaira
Date of birth	August 13, 1994
place of birth	Surrey , British Columbia , Canada
size	192 cm
Weight	97 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2012 , 3rd round, 63rd position Edmonton Oilers
Career stations
2010–2012	Prince George Spruce Kings
2012-2013	Michigan Technological University
2013-2014	Everett Silvertips
2014-2015	Oklahoma City Barons
2015-2017	Bakersfield Condors
since 2015	Edmonton Oilers

Jujhar "JJ" Khaira (* 13. August 1994 in Surrey , British Columbia ) is a Canadian ice hockey player with Punjab -origin, who since August 2013 in the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League has a contract and since November 2015 it on the Position of the left winger plays.

Career

Khaira initially spent his junior years between 2010 and 2012 in the British Columbia Hockey League with the Prince George Spruce Kings. From there he moved to Michigan Technological University for the 2012/13 season , where he played for a year for the university team in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association while studying . After he had already been selected in the third round of the NHL Entry Draft 2012 in the third round by the Edmonton Oilers from the National Hockey League , he left the university in the summer of 2013 and signed a professional contract with the Oilers.

These put the attacker in the 2013/14 season initially in the Western Hockey League with the Everett Silvertips , before he played his first professional season with Edmonton's farm team , the Oklahoma City Barons , in the 2014/15 season . At the beginning of the 2014/15 season , Khaira was active for the new cooperation partner Bakersfield Condors , but celebrated his NHL debut with the Oilers in November 2015. During this season and the following season, the Canadian commuted between the cadres of the farm team and the NHL club, so that by spring 2017 he had played 25 NHL games. After his expiring contract was extended the following summer, he was able to establish himself in Edmonton's squad for the 2017/18 season .

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2010/11	Prince George Spruce Kings	BCHL		58	10	32	42	21st		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Prince George Spruce Kings	BCHL		54	29	50	79	69		4th	0	2	2	2
2012/13	Michigan Technological University	NCAA		37	6th	19th	25th	49
2013/14	Everett Silvertips	WHL		59	16	27	43	59		5	3	1	4th	8th
2013/14	Oklahoma City Barons	AHL		6th	0	0	0	2		3	1	0	1	0
2014/15	Oklahoma City Barons	AHL		51	4th	6th	10	62		8th	3	1	4th	4th
2015/16	Bakersfield Condors	AHL		49	10	17th	27	69		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		15th	0	2	2	13		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Bakersfield Condors	AHL		27	8th	12	20th	31		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		10	1	0	1	2		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		69	11	10	21st	47		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		60	3	15th	18th	43		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		64	6th	4th	10	38		4th	0	0	0	2
BCHL total				112	39	82	121	90		4th	0	2	2	2
AHL total				133	22nd	35	57	162		11	4th	1	5	4th
NHL overall				218	21st	31	52	143		4th	0	0	0	2

( 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

• Player biography on the Edmonton Oilers website
• Jujhar Khaira at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Greg Wyshynski: Jujhar Khaira Becomes 3rd just ever Punjabi player in NHL history. In: sports.yahoo.com. November 29, 2015, accessed November 30, 2017 .