Marcin Kolusz

Marcin Kolusz
Date of birth	January 18, 1985
place of birth	Limanowa , Poland
size	185 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2003 , 5th round, 157th position Minnesota Wild
Career stations
2000-2003	Podhale Nowy Targ
2003-2004	Vancouver Giants
2004-2005	Podhale Nowy Targ
2005-2008	HC Oceláři Třinec
2008-2009	HK Aquacity ŠKP Poprad
2009-2011	Podhale Nowy Targ
2011-2013	KH Sanok
2013	KTH Krynica
2013-2017	GKS Tychy
since 2017	Podhale Nowy Targ

Marcin Kolusz (born January 18, 1985 in Limanowa ) is a Polish ice hockey player who has been under contract with Podhale Nowy Targ in the Ekstraliga since 2017 .

Career

Marcin Kolusz began his career as a hockey player with Podhale Nowy Targ , for which he was active in the Ekstraliga from 2000 to 2003 . He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2003 in the fifth round as a total of 157 players by the Minnesota Wild , for which he however never played. Instead, the center spent the 2003/04 season with the Vancouver Giants from the Canadian Junior Western Hockey League . The Giants had drawn him in the first round as the 33rd player in the CHL Import Draft . After returning from North America, he signed again with Podhale Nowy Targ, with whom he won the Polish Cup competition in the 2004/05 season . The left-handed shooter then received a contract offer from HC Oceláři Třinec from the Czech Extra League . There he could not prevail at first, so that he collected match practice in the second-class first division at HC Havířov and HK Jestřábi Prostějov . In the following two seasons he was a regular player in the extra league team Třinecs with 50 and 49 appearances.

For the 2008/09 season Kolusz moved to HK Aquacity ŠKP Poprad from the Slovak Extra League . He then returned one more time to his ex-club from Nowy Targ , with which he was Polish champion for the first time in the 2009/10 season . From 2011 to 2013 he played for his league rival KH Sanok in the Ekstraliga. With this he won the championship and cup double in 2012. In the summer of 2013 he switched to the Ekstraliga promoted KTH Krynica , which he left in December of the same year to join GKS Tychy , with whom he was then Polish runner-up. In 2015 he won the championship and cup double with the Silesians and another cup win in 2017. He then joined Podhale Nowy Targ for the fourth time. He has completed over 500 games in the Ekstraliga so far.

International

For Poland , Kolusz took part in the junior division at the U18 World Cup in Division II in 2001 and the U18 World Cup in Division I in 2003 , when he was the top goalscorer and most successful scorer of the tournament, and the U20 World Cup in Division II in 2004 , when he was also the scored most goals and scorer points, and participated in the U20 World Cup Division I in 2005 .

In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad at the World Championships in Division I in 2005 , 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , when he was the best preparer and scorer both for the best striker of the tournament and for the All-Star Team was voted best player on his team in 2013 , 2014 when he was named best player on his team, 2015 when he was not only voted best player on his team again but also on the tournament's all-star team in 2016 , 2017 and 2018 . He will be the captain of the Polish selection from 2012 to 2017.

He also played for Poland in the qualifying tournaments for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , 2014 in Sochi and 2018 in Pyeongchang .

Achievements and Awards

• 2005 Polish Cup winner with Podhale Nowy Targ
• 2010 Polish champion with Podhale Nowy Targ
• 2012 Polish champion and cup winner with the KH Sanok
• 2015 Polish champion and cup winner with the GKS Tychy
• 2017 Polish Cup winner with the GKS Tychy

International

• 2003 Best goalscorer in the U18 World Junior Championship in Division I, Group B
• 2003 Topscorer at the U18 Junior World Championship in Division I, Group B
• 2004 Promotion to Division I at the U20 Junior World Championship of Division II
• 2004 Top scorer at the U20 World Junior Championship in Division II, Group A.
• 2004 Topscorer at the U20 World Junior Championship in Division II, Group A.
• 2012 Best Forward of the World Championship Division I, Group B
• 2012 All-Star Team of the World Championship Division I, Group B
• 2012 Topscorer of the World Championship Division I, Group B
• 2012 Best assists in the World Championship of Division I, Group B
• 2014 Promotion to Division I, Group A, at the World Championship Division I, Group B
• 2015 All-Star Team of the World Championship Division I, Group A.
• 2019 Best Assists in the World Championship Division I, Group B
• 2019 Best plus / minus balance of the World Cup in Division I, Group B (together with Damian Kapica )

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Extraliga (Czech Republic) main round	3	88	7th	2	9	14th
Extraliga (Czech Republic) playoffs	2	13	2	1	3	4th
Extraliga (Slovakia) main round	1	53	1	13	14th	42
Extraliga (Slovakia) playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ekstraliga (Poland) main round	13	406	137	223	360	160
Ekstraliga (Poland) playoffs	8th	99	22nd	49	71	28

(Status: end of the 2016/17 season)

Web links

• Marcin Kolusz at hockeydb.com (English)
• Marcin Kolusz at eurohockey.com
• Marcin Kolusz at eliteprospects.com (English)