Mike Zalewski

Mike Zalewski
Date of birth	18th August 1992
place of birth	New Hartford , New York , USA
size	188 cm
Weight	93 kg
position	center
number	# 40
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2009-2010	Syracuse Stars
2010–2012	Vernon Vipers
2012-2014	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2014-2017	Utica Comets
2017-2018	Straubing Tigers
2018-2019	Cologne Sharks
since 2019	Vienna Capitals

Michael "Mike" Zalewski (born August 18, 1992 in New Hartford , New York ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Vienna Capitals since August 2019 .

His older brother Steven Zalewski is also a hockey player.

Career

Zalewski spent his junior years with the Syracuse Stars in the Eastern Junior Hockey League from 2009 to 2010 and the Vernon Vipers in the British Columbia Hockey League between 2010 and 2012. With the Vipers, the striker was able to win the Fred Page in the 2010/11 season Cups , the Doyle Cup and the Royal Bank Cup . At the age of 20, the American finally enrolled at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute . For his ice hockey team, he played parallel to his studies in ECAC Hockey , a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association .

After only two years, Zalewski ended his time at college early when he signed a professional contract with the Vancouver Canucks from the National Hockey League in March 2014 . There he celebrated his NHL debut at the end of the 2013/14 season . In the following three seasons - his original two-year contract had been extended by one year in the summer of 2016 - the American played mainly on the Canucks farm team Utica Comets in the American Hockey League and was only used sporadically in the NHL.

For the 2017/18 season , the striker moved to Europe to the Straubing Tigers from the German Ice Hockey League , where his brother Steven Zalewski had been under contract since the 2015/16 season . After a season together in Straubing, the brothers left the Tigers in the summer. Mike Zalewski switched to the Cologne Sharks within the DEL .

In August 2019, the Vienna Capitals announced the commitment of Zalewski.

Achievements and Awards

• 2011 Fred Page Cup win with the Vernon Vipers
• 2011 Doyle Cup win with the Vernon Vipers
• 2011 Royal Bank Cup win with the Vernon Vipers

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2009/10	Syracuse Stars	EJHL		43	16	32	48	28		2	0	1	1	4th
2010/11	Vernon Vipers	BCHL		46	12	17th	29	34		16	5	3	8th	4th
2011/12	Vernon Vipers	BCHL		60	38	37	75	83		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	ECAC		36	12	9	21st	22nd
2013/14	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	ECAC		35	9	17th	26th	53
2013/14	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		2	0	1	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Utica Comets	AHL		55	3	9	12	18th		23	1	2	3	14th
2015/16	Utica Comets	AHL		58	16	17th	33	46		4th	0	1	1	2
2015/16	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		3	0	1	1	2		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Utica Comets	AHL		54	5	13	18th	36		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Straubing Tigers	DEL		51	14th	17th	31	30th		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Cologne Sharks	DEL		44	5	13	18th	30th		11	1	2	3	10
2019/20	Vienna Capitals	EBEL		46	15th	16	31	16		3	0	2	2	6th
BCHL total				106	50	54	104	117		16	5	3	8th	4th
NCAA overall				71	21st	26th	47	75
AHL total				167	24	39	63	100		27	1	3	4th	16
NHL overall				6th	0	2	2	2		-	-	-	-	-
DEL total				95	19th	30th	49	60		11	1	2	3	10

( 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

• Mike Zalewski at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Mike Zalewski at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kölner Haie bring center forward Mike Zalewski - ice hockey. In: kicker.de . July 5, 2018, accessed July 9, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Mike Zalewski comes from Cologne. In: vienna-capitals.at. August 22, 2019. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .