Justin Braun (ice hockey player)

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Date of birth	February 10, 1987
place of birth	Vadnais Heights , Minnesota , USA
size	185 cm
Weight	90 kg
position	defender
number	# 61
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2007 , 7th round, 201st position San Jose Sharks
Career stations
2004-2006	Green Bay Gamblers
2006-2010	University of Massachusetts Amherst
2010-2019	San Jose Sharks
since 2019	Philadelphia Flyers

Justin Timothy Braun (born February 10, 1987 in Vadnais Heights , Minnesota ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League since June 2019 and plays there in the position of defender . Previously, Braun spent a total of nine seasons in the organization of the San Jose Sharks .

Career

After Braun graduated from high school , he began his junior career in the United States Hockey League with the Green Bay Gamblers during the 2004/05 season . In his first season he played ten games without being able to score a point . For the following season, the defender was an integral part of the gamblers' squad and played 59 games in which he scored 13 points. In the summer of 2006, Braun decided to start studying at the University of Massachusetts Amherst . There he played parallel for the university's ice hockey team, the UMass Minutemen , in Hockey East , a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . In total, the defender stayed at college for four years and was able to celebrate his call to the all-rookie team at Hockey East in his rookie year . He was then selected in the summer of 2007 in the seventh round in 201st place by the San Jose Sharks in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft . After his statistical values ​​on the offensive remained almost the same as the previous season in the following season, Braun received a nomination for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award . However, Kevin Porter won this . In the 2008/09 season, Braun increased on the offensive again. Consequently, he was elected to the Second All-Star Team of Hockey East at the end of the season. Braun's fourth and final year of college was ultimately his most personally successful. With eight goals, 23 assists and 31 points, he set personal bests. He was also appointed to the First All-Star Team of the Hockey East and East Second All-American Team of the NCAA and was named the best defensive defender of the Hockey East.

Because of his achievements, the San Jose Sharks submitted him to a professional two-year contract right after the college season ended. The American signed this on March 25, 2010 before he made his debut for the Worcester Sharks , San Jose's farm team from the American Hockey League , on April 7 . By the end of the season he played in two other regular season games and eleven playoff matches . After the summer break, the American took part in the San Jose Sharks' pre-season training camp. There he could not initially recommend himself for a regular place and thus began the 2010/11 season in the AHL. On November 26, 2011 he finally made his debut in the National Hockey League and established himself there in the regular squad in the following years. In total, the American stayed with the Sharks for nine seasons and completed nearly 700 NHL games during this period. In June 2019, Braun had to leave the Sharks after nine years as a result of a transfer when he was transferred to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for a second-round vote in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft and a third-round vote in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft .

International

At the international level, Braun represented his home country at the 2012 World Cup in Finland and Sweden . Braun was used in all eight American tournament games, but did not score a point. The team finished in seventh place at the end of the tournament.

Achievements and Awards

2007 Hockey East All-Rookie Team 2009 Hockey East Second All-Star Team 2010 Hockey East First All-Star Team

2010 Hockey East Best Defensive Defenseman 2010 NCAA East Second All-American Team 2011 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2004/05	Green Bay Gamblers	USHL		10	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Green Bay Gamblers	USHL		59	2	11	13	69		3	0	0	0	2
2006/07	University of Massachusetts Amherst	NCAA		39	4th	10	14th	20th
2007/08	University of Massachusetts Amherst	NCAA		36	4th	16	20th	20th
2008/09	University of Massachusetts Amherst	NCAA		39	7th	16	23	50
2009/10	University of Massachusetts Amherst	NCAA		36	8th	23	31	30th
2009/10	Worcester Sharks	AHL		3	0	3	3	0		11	0	3	3	4th
2010/11	Worcester Sharks	AHL		34	5	18th	23	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	San Jose Sharks	NHL		28	2	9	11	2		1	0	0	0	0
2011/12	Worcester Sharks	AHL		6th	0	4th	4th	0		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	San Jose Sharks	NHL		66	2	9	11	23		5	0	0	0	15th
2012/13	Tappara Tampere	SM-liiga		6th	0	3	3	2		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	San Jose Sharks	NHL		41	0	7th	7th	6th		11	0	1	1	0
2013/14	San Jose Sharks	NHL		82	4th	13	17th	20th		7th	1	1	2	7th
2014/15	San Jose Sharks	NHL		70	1	22nd	23	48		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	San Jose Sharks	NHL		80	4th	19th	23	36		24	2	5	7th	6th
2016/17	San Jose Sharks	NHL		81	4th	9	13	28		6th	0	1	1	0
2017/18	San Jose Sharks	NHL		81	5	28	33	28		10	0	1	1	4th
2018/19	San Jose Sharks	NHL		78	2	14th	16	35		20th	0	1	1	8th
USHL total				69	2	11	13	71		3	0	0	0	2
NCAA overall				150	23	65	88	120
AHL total				43	5	25th	30th	8th		11	0	3	3	4th
NHL overall				607	24	130	154	226		84	3	10	13	40

International

Represented the USA at:

• World Championship 2012

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2012	United States	WM	7th place		8th	0	0	0	2
Men overall					8th	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

Commons : Justin Braun  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the Philadelphia Flyers website
• Justin Braun at eliteprospects.com (English)