Mike Weber

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Mike Weber
Date of birth December 16, 1987
place of birth Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , USA
size 188 cm
Weight 90 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2006 , 2nd round, 57th position
Buffalo Sabers
Career stations
2003-2007 Windsor Spitfires
2007 Barrie Colts
2007-2016 Buffalo Sabers
2016 Washington Capitals
2016-2017 Iowa Wild
2017 Frölunda HC

Michael "Mike" Weber (born December 16, 1987 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ) is a former American ice hockey player who played 360 games for the Buffalo Sabers and Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League between 2003 and 2017 has denied on the position of defender .

Career

Before starting his professional career, Mike Weber first played for the school team at Seneca Valley High School in Harmony , Pennsylvania . He was then committed by the Windsor Spitfires from the Ontario Hockey League , for which he was active for a total of four years. During the 2006/07 season the defender was given up to league rivals Barrie Colts . Mike Weber had previously been selected by the Buffalo Sabers as the 57th player in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft in the second round .

Weber then spent his first season in professional ice hockey with the Sabers farm team , the Rochester Americans , in the American Hockey League (AHL). During the same season he also made his debut in the National Hockey League , in which he played a total of 16 games in his freshman year and contributed three assists for Buffalo.

During the 2008/09 season Weber was both in the squad of the Sabers, as well as in the squad of the new Buffalos farm team, the Portland Pirates from the American Hockey League. The American spent the following season 2009/10 completely with the Pirates and collected five goals and 16 assists in 81 games, in the playoffs he played all four games of his team and contributed one goal during this time. The Pirates were defeated in the first round by the Manchester Monarchs in the playoffs.

In 2010 Weber fought for a safe place in the ranks of the Buffalo Sabers in the NHL, this fact was expressed in the career high of 58 games in one season. With four goals and 13 assists, he also supported his team offensively. On July 4, 2011, the expiring attorney's contract was extended for several years by the Buffalo Sabers.

In February 2016, Weber was transferred to the Washington Capitals , with the Sabers receiving a third-round vote for the 2017 NHL Entry Draft . However, they did not extend the defender's expiring contract. Weber then joined the Iowa Wild from the AHL on a trial basis in October 2016 , which provided him with a firm contract in December of the same year. In February 2017, the defender finally received a contract with Iowa's NHL cooperation partner, the Minnesota Wild , without being used there. After he had been looking for a new employer since the end of summer 2017, he was hired by Frölunda HC from Svenska Hockeyligan in mid-November 2017 . Shortly before the end of 2017, he announced the end of his active career.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM +/- Sp T V Pt SM +/-
2003/04 Windsor Spitfires OHL 65 0 2 2 49 –9 - - - - - -
2004/05 Windsor Spitfires OHL 68 2 6th 8th 132 -17 11 0 1 1 18th -3
2005/06 Windsor Spitfires OHL 68 5 21st 26th 181 +17 7th 0 0 0 12 -3
2006/07 Windsor Spitfires OHL 30th 3 16 19th 86 –11 - - - - - -
2006/07 Barrie Colts OHL 30th 3 12 15th 86 +22 7th 0 6th 6th 10 +2
2007/08 Rochester Americans AHL 59 1 13 14th 178 -8th - - - - - -
2007/08 Buffalo Sabers NHL 16 0 3 3 14th +12 - - - - - -
2008/09 Portland Pirates AHL 42 1 7th 8th 94 +5 - - - - - -
2008/09 Buffalo Sabers NHL 7th 0 0 0 19th -3 - - - - - -
2009/10 Portland Pirates AHL 80 5 16 21st 153 +18 4th 1 0 1 14th +18
2010/11 Buffalo Sabers NHL 58 4th 13 17th 69 +13 7th 0 1 1 6th -3
2011/12 Buffalo Sabers NHL 51 1 4th 5 64 -19 - - - - - -
2012/13 Lørenskog IK GET leagues 5 1 5 6th 10 −3 - - - - - -
2012/13 Buffalo Sabers NHL 42 1 6th 7th 70 +3 - - - - - -
2013/14 Buffalo Sabers NHL 68 1 8th 9 73 -29 - - - - - -
2014/15 Buffalo Sabers NHL 64 1 6th 7th 68 -22 - - - - - -
2015/16 Buffalo Sabers NHL 35 1 4th 5 32 +3 - - - - - -
2015/16 Washington Capitals NHL 10 0 0 0 28 -1 2 0 0 0 0 -1
2016/17 Iowa Wild AHL 56 1 7th 8th 92 +6 - - - - - -
2017/18 Frölunda HC SHL 10 0 3 3 12 +8 - - - - - -
OHL total 261 13 47 60 534 +11 25th 0 7th 7th 40 -4
AHL total 237 8th 43 51 517 +21 4th 1 0 1 14th -3
NHL overall 351 9 44 53 3437 -43 9 0 1 1 6th -4

( 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 : Mike Weber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sabers re-sign defenseman Mike Weber. sabres.nhl.com, accessed July 5, 2011 .
  2. ^ Buffalo Sabers re-sign defender Mike Weber to multi-year contract. (No longer available online.) Thehockeynews .com, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved July 5, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thehockeynews.com
  3. ^ Capitals Acquire Mike Weber from Buffalo. capitals.nhl.com, February 23, 2016, accessed February 24, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Mike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weber, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania