Luca Sbisa

Luca Sbisa


Date of birth	January 30, 1990
place of birth	Ozieri , Italy
size	188 cm
Weight	92 kg

position	defender
number	# 21
Shot hand	Left

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2008 , 1st round, 19th position Philadelphia Flyers

Career stations

until 2007	EV train
2007-2008	Lethbridge Hurricanes
2008-2009	Philadelphia Flyers
2009	Anaheim Ducks
2009-2010	Lethbridge Hurricanes
2010	Portland Winterhawks
2010-2014	Anaheim Ducks
2012	HC Lugano
2014-2017	Vancouver Canucks
2017-2018	Vegas Golden Knights
2018-2019	New York Islanders
since 2019	Winnipeg Jets

Luca Sbisa (born January 30, 1990 in Ozieri ) is a Swiss ice hockey player of Italian descent who has been under contract with the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League since October 2019 and plays there in the position of defender .

Career

Born in Ozieri , Italy , Sbisa grew up in Oberägeri, Switzerland and began his career in the youth division of EV Zug . From 2006 he played for the elite A-Juniors of the club and made his debut in the National League A for the first team of EV Zug in the 2006/07 season . Overall, he completed eight NLA appearances for the club, but also came in first division EHC Seewen Herti in the first league used. To increase his chances of a good draft placement, he moved to North America in the summer of 2007 to the Lethbridge Hurricanes from the Western Hockey League , where he was one of the top performers in the team. After a U20 World Cup in 2008 that was personally successful for him , he was selected in the first round of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in 19th place by the Philadelphia Flyers .

As part of the Flyers training camp in autumn 2008, Sbisa was able to distinguish himself through good defensive behavior and an excellent game overview for his age, so that he was in the Flyers' NHL squad at the beginning of the 2008/09 season . He also signed a three-year contract with Flyers on October 1, 2008. After a few games in the first half of the season for the Flyers, they sent him back to the WHL during the season. As part of the NHL Entry Draft 2009 Sbisa was transferred to the Anaheim Ducks on July 26, 2009 along with Joffrey Lupul and some draft picks . In return, Chris Pronger and Ryan Dingle moved to Philadelphia.

At the beginning of the 2009/10 season he was initially a member of the Ducks NHL squad, but was sent back to his junior team in October 2009. In January he was sent to the Portland Winterhawks in exchange for Jacob Berglund and Daniel Johnston .

From the 2010/11 season Sbisa was one of the permanent staff in the Ducks defense and he was particularly characterized by his physical game. On December 28, 2010 Luca Sbisa managed his first goal in the NHL in the game against the Phoenix Coyotes . He met to lead 1-0. In the end, the Ducks won 3-1.

In March 2011, Sbisa extended his contract with the Anaheim Ducks until the end of the 2014/15 season and received a total of $ 8.7 million. In his second season as a regular at the Anaheim Ducks, Sbisa scored five goals and 19 assists, but the Ducks missed the playoffs, mainly due to a very poor first half of the season. Due to the lockout in the NHL, he returned to Switzerland in September 2012 and played for HC Lugano until the end of December . During the Spengler Cup 2012 he played as a guest player for Adler Mannheim .

In June 2014, Sbisa and Nick Bonino and the first and third round suffrage for the NHL Entry Draft 2014 was given by the Ducks to the Vancouver Canucks , who in return received Ryan Kesler and a third round suffrage for the 2015 draft.

In June 2017, he was selected by the Vegas Golden Knights in the 2017 NHL Expansion Draft . With the team he surprisingly reached the final of the Stanley Cup in the 2018 playoffs , but lost to the Washington Capitals there . Subsequently, his expiring contract with the Golden Knights was not extended, so he took part as a free agent at the training camp of the New York Islanders , which finally provided him with a new one-year contract in September 2018. This was not renewed in the summer of 2019, so that he returned to the Anaheim Ducks in October of the same year and also signed a one-year contract there. However, when they wanted to send him to the AHL via the waiver , the Winnipeg Jets took over the Swiss contractor.

International

Luca Sbisa took part in the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver with the Swiss national team. He reached the eighth tournament rank with the team. he represented the Europe team at the World Cup of Hockey 2016 , where he finished second with the team.

Achievements and Awards

2008 CHL Top Prospects Game
2016 2nd place at the World Cup of Hockey

Career statistics

Sbisa in the jersey of the Vancouver Canucks (2015)

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

			Regular season					Playoffs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2006/07	EV train	NLA	7th	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
2006/07	EHC Seewen Herti	1st League	6th	1	2	3	4th	-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Lethbridge Hurricanes	WHL	62	6th	27	33	63	19th	3	12	15th	17th
2008/09	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL	39	0	7th	7th	36	1	0	0	0	2
2008/09	Lethbridge Hurricanes	WHL	18th	4th	11	15th	19th	11	2	1	3	12
2008/09	Philadelphia Phantoms	AHL	2	1	1	2	2	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Anaheim Ducks	NHL	8th	0	0	0	6th	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Lethbridge Hurricanes	WHL	17th	1	12	13	18th	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Portland Winterhawks	WHL	12	3	2	5	11	13	2	2	4th	26th
2010/11	Anaheim Ducks	NHL	68	2	9	11	43	6th	0	1	1	8th
2010/11	Syracuse crunch	AHL	8th	2	7th	9	4th	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Anaheim Ducks	NHL	80	5	19th	24	66	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	HC Lugano	NLA	30th	5	7th	12	14th	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Anaheim Ducks	NHL	41	1	7th	8th	23	5	0	0	0	4th
2013/14	Anaheim Ducks	NHL	30th	1	5	6th	43	2	0	1	1	5
2013/14	Norfolk Admirals	AHL	4th	0	2	2	0	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Vancouver Canucks	NHL	76	3	8th	11	46	6th	1	1	2	7th
2015/16	Vancouver Canucks	NHL	41	2	6th	8th	26th	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Vancouver Canucks	NHL	82	2	11	13	40	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Vegas Golden Knights	NHL	30th	2	12	14th	15th	12	0	4th	4th	8th
2018/19	New York Islanders	NHL	9	0	1	1	4th	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Winnipeg Jets	NHL	44	2	8th	10	37	-	-	-	-	-
WHL overall			109	14th	52	66	111	43	7th	15th	22nd	55
AHL total			14th	3	10	13	6th	-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall			548	20th	93	113	385	32	1	7th	8th	34

International

Represented Switzerland at:

Represented Team Europe at:

World Cup of Hockey 2016

year	team	event	result	Sp	V	Pt	SM
2008	Switzerland	U20 World Cup	9th place	6th	0	0	4th
2010	Switzerland	U20 World Cup	4th Place	3	0	0	0
2010	Switzerland	Olympia	8th place	5	0	0	0
2011	Switzerland	WM	9th place	6th	1	1	4th
2012	Switzerland	WM	11th place	7th	1	1	8th
2016	Team Europe	World cup	2nd place	1	0	0	0
Juniors overall				9	0	0	4th
Men overall				19th	2	2	18th

( 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 )