Justin Azevedo

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Justin Azevedo
Date of birth April 1, 1988
place of birth West Lorne , Ontario , Canada
size 173 cm
Weight 79 kg
position center
number # 25
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2008 , 6th round, 153rd position
Los Angeles Kings
Career stations
2005-2008 Kitchener Rangers
2008–2012 Manchester monarchs
2012-2013 Lukko Rauma
2013-2014 HC Lev Prague
since 2014 Ak Bars Kazan

Template: Infobox ice hockey player / country code 2

Justin Azevedo (born April 1, 1988 in West Lorne , Ontario ) is a Canadian - Portuguese ice hockey striker who has been under contract with Ak Bars Kazan in the Continental Hockey League since July 2014 .

Career

Justin Azevedo began his career in 2004 with the Kitchener Rangers from the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League . He performed well in his debut season, scoring 18 goals and 21 assists in 58 games . In the playoffs he was also able to reach the conference finals with the Rangers. In the 2005/06 season he was already one of the leading players in the team and was the second best scorer in the team with 69 points, making him recommended for the Canadian junior national team and taking part in the U18 junior world championship. With four goals and assists each, he was the best point player in Canada, but could not win a medal with the team because they lost the game for third place.

In the following season, Azevedo only scored 56 points, but was also missing in 22 league games. In the playoffs he became the second best player in the Rangers next to Steve Downie and scored four goals in eleven assists in nine games. However, the Rangers were eliminated in the second round.

His fourth year in the OHL should also be his best. Azevedo showed a significant increase compared to previous years and at the end of the season was the OHL's best scorer with 43 goals and 81 assists in 67 league games. He also led the Rangers with 36 points in 20 playoff games to win the J. Ross Robertson Cup . In the following Memorial Cup tournament, he built on his good performances, also led here in the scorer list, but the Rangers failed in the final against the Spokane Chiefs .

Justin Azevedo in Lukko Rauma's jersey

Azevedo won several awards after the end of the season. He received the Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy , the CHL Top Scorer Award and the Ed Chynoweth Trophy as the best scorer in the OHL, all junior leagues of the Canadian Hockey League and the Memorial Cup tournament. There was also the Red Tilson Trophy , the Wayne Gretzky 99 Award and the CHL Player of the Year Award as Most Valuable Player of the regular season of the OHL, the OHL playoffs and all junior leagues that are subordinate to the CHL.

After he had been passed over in the previous two years in the NHL Entry Draft by the teams of the National Hockey League due to his small height of 1.73 meters, the Los Angeles Kings finally selected him in the sixth round in the NHL Entry Draft 2008 in position 153 .

The 2008/09 season completed Azevedo in the American Hockey League with the Manchester Monarchs , the farm team of the Los Angeles Kings. In the following two seasons, Azevedo went on the ice exclusively for the Manchester Monarchs before moving to Europe for Lukko Rauma in 2012 . At Lukko, he quickly established himself and was one of the team's best point collectors. In the play-offs of the SM-liiga he was the league-wide top scorer and top scorer with ten goals and 18 points. After this success he was signed by HC Lev Prague from the KHL , with whom he reached the play-off final in 2014 and collected 20 scorer points in 22 games in the play-offs. This achievement earned him an appointment to the KHL All-Star Team. After this success Lev Prague withdrew from gaming operations and Azevedo moved to Ak Bars Kazan against payment of financial compensation within the KHL .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2004/05 Kitchener Rangers OHL 58 18th 21st 39 34 15th 3 1 4th 14th
2005/06 Kitchener Rangers OHL 60 29 40 69 80 5 0 3 3 12
2006/07 Kitchener Rangers OHL 50 17th 39 56 42 9 4th 11 15th 22nd
2007/08 Kitchener Rangers OHL 67 43 81 124 69 20th 10 26th 36 33
2008 Kitchener Rangers Memorial Cup 5 4th 7th 11 2
2008/09 Manchester monarchs AHL 49 12 24 36 31 - - - - -
2009/10 Manchester monarchs AHL 46 14th 13 27 31 16 3 6th 9 12
2010/11 Manchester monarchs AHL 79 18th 35 53 71 7th 3 7th 10 10
2011/12 Manchester monarchs AHL 63 28 22nd 50 37 4th 1 1 2 4th
2012/13 Lukko Rauma SM-liiga 58 20th 38 58 88 14th 10 8th 18th 16
2013/14 HC Lev Prague KHL 48 9 18th 27 34 22nd 13 7th 20th 6th
2014/15 Ak Bars Kazan KHL 58 17th 33 50 48 20th 5 6th 11 18th
2015/16 Ak Bars Kazan KHL 59 17th 36 53 26th 7th 1 1 2 8th
2016/17 Ak Bars Kazan KHL 54 13 21st 34 34 15th 3 7th 10 8th
2017/18 Ak Bars Kazan KHL 31 15th 13 28 22nd 19th 9 15th 24 6th
2018/19 Ak Bars Kazan KHL 62 13 25th 38 42 4th 0 4th 4th 2
2019/20 Ak Bars Kazan KHL
OHL total 235 107 181 288 225 49 17th 41 58 81
AHL total 37 72 94 166 170 27 7th 14th 21st 26th
KHL total 312 84 146 230 206 87 31 40 71 48

International

year team event Sp T V Pt SM
2006 Canada U18 World Cup 7th 4th 4th 8th 20th
Juniors overall 7th 4th 4th 8th 20th

( 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 )

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Squad of Ak Bars Kazan in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME Azevedo, Justin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey striker
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH West Lorne , Ontario