Milan Jurčina

Milan Jurčina
Date of birth	June 7, 1983
place of birth	Liptovský Mikuláš , Czechoslovakia
size	193 cm
Weight	111 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2001 , 8th lap, 241st position Boston Bruins
Career stations
1997-2000	MHk 32 Liptovský Mikuláš
2000-2003	Halifax Mooseheads
2003-2005	Providence Bruins
2005-2007	Boston Bruins
2007-2009	Washington Capitals
2009-2010	Columbus Blue Jackets
2010	Washington Capitals
2010–2012	New York Islanders
2012-2013	Piráti Chomutov Lukko Rauma
2013-2014	TPS Turku
2014-2015	Dinamo Riga
2015-2016	KHL Medveščak Zagreb
2016	Polar bears Berlin
2016-2019	Nuremberg Ice Tigers

Milan Jurčina (born June 7, 1983 in Liptovský Mikuláš , Czechoslovakia ) is a Slovak ice hockey player who was last under contract with the Nuremberg Ice Tigers in the German ice hockey league .

Career

The 1.93 m tall defender began his career with the Slovak extra division club MHk 32 Liptovský Mikuláš , for whom he played in the junior extra division. At the age of 18 he moved to the Halifax Mooseheads in the Canadian Junior League QMJHL , before he was selected ( drafted ) in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft as 241 in the eighth round of the Boston Bruins .

The right shooter first played with the Providence Bruins , an AHL - farm team of Boston for the Boston Bruins, he came for the first time in the 2005/06 season are used. After his good performance in the lockout - the year before, he was part of their NHL regulars for almost the entire duration of the season.

On February 1, 2007, Milan Jurčina was transferred to the Washington Capitals in exchange for a four-round pick in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft . These gave it to the Columbus Blue Jackets on December 28, 2009 together with Chris Clark . In return, Jason Chimera moved to Washington. At the beginning of March 2010, the Capitals brought him back to the capital. In July 2010 he moved to de New York Islanders and played there until the end of the 2011/12 season.

In autumn 2012 he returned to Europe and was signed by the Piráti Chomutov from the Czech extra league . During the season, however, he changed clubs again when he was signed by Rauman Lukko from the Finnish SM-liiga . He was then under contract in Finland with TPS Turku , before he was signed by Friborg-Gottéron from Switzerland in February 2014 as security for the play-offs, but was only used twice.

In August 2014 Jurčina received a trial contract with Dinamo Riga , which was extended eight days later until the end of the 2014/15 season. For Dinamo Riga he got 10 points scorer in 46 KHL games, but received no new contract after the end of the season. In August 2015 he was signed by the KHL Medveščak Zagreb and played 49 games in the KHL before dissolving his contract with Zagreb in February 2016. Shortly thereafter, he signed a contract with the Eisbären Berlin from the German Ice Hockey League until the end of the 2015/16 season . In September 2016 he was signed by the Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers Nuremberg and completed over 120 DEL games for them by the end of the 2018/19 season.

International

Milan Jurčina was a member of the Slovak national team at the 2006 Olympic Games (5th place) and at the 2006 Ice Hockey World Championship in Latvia (8th place). As a junior player, he participated in the 2001 World Championships U18 , the U20 World Cup in 2002 and U-20 World Cup in 2003 in part.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2000/01	Halifax Mooseheads	QMJHL		68	0	5	5	56		6th	0	2	2	12
2001/02	Halifax Mooseheads	QMJHL		61	4th	16	20th	58		13	5	3	8th	10
2002/03	Halifax Mooseheads	QMJHL		51	15th	13	28	102		25th	6th	6th	12	40
2003/04	Providence Bruins	AHL		73	5	12	17th	52		2	0	1	1	2
2004/05	Providence Bruins	AHL		79	6th	17th	23	92		17th	1	3	4th	30th
2005/06	Boston Bruins	NHL		51	6th	5	11	54		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Providence Bruins	AHL		7th	0	3	3	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Boston Bruins	NHL		40	2	1	3	20th		-	-	-	-	-
	Washington Capitals	NHL		30th	2	7th	9	24		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Washington Capitals	NHL		75	1	8th	9	30th		7th	0	0	0	6th
2008/09	Washington Capitals	NHL		79	3	11	14th	68		14th	2	0	2	12
2009/10	Washington Capitals	NHL		27	0	4th	4th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		17th	1	2	3	10		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	New York Islanders	NHL		46	4th	13	17th	30th		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Piráti Chomutov	Extra league		22nd	0	3	3	20th		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Lukko Rauma	SM-liiga		14th	5	2	7th	26th		12	1	6th	7th	16
2013/14	TPS Turku	Liiga		21st	1	5	6th	18th		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Friborg-Gottéron	National League A		2	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
QMJHL total				180	19th	34	53	216		44	11	11	22nd	62
AHL total				159	11	32	43	152		19th	1	4th	5	32
NHL overall				365	19th	51	70	250		21st	2	0	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 )

Web links

• Milan Jurčina at hockeydb.com (English)
• Milan Jurčina at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Capitals Acquire Defenseman Milan Jurcina from Boston . Washington Capitals. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
2. ↑ Capitals Trade Clark, Jurcina to Blue Jackets for Chimera . tsn.ca. Archived from the original on December 31, 2009. Retrieved February 16, 2015.
3. ↑ Capitals re-acquire Jurcina from Blue Jackets . tsn.ca. Archived from the original on March 5, 2010. Retrieved February 16, 2015.
4. ↑ Hagman and Jurcina to Gottéron. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 9, 2014, accessed on January 24, 2015 . 
5. ↑ DINAMO RĪGA vienojas ar aizsargu Milan Jurčina. Dinamo Rīga, August 31, 2014, accessed January 24, 2015 (Latvian). 
6. ↑ Slovacki olimpijac i NHL OVAC Milan Jurčina pojačao obranu Medveščaka. In: seebiz.eu. August 12, 2015, accessed September 9, 2015 . 
7. ↑ medvescak.com Jurcina leaves Medvescak
8. ↑ Eisbären Berlin: Eisbären Berlin :: Eisbären Berlin sign defender Milan Jurčina. In: www.eisbaeren.de. Retrieved February 19, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Ice Tigers bring Milan Jurčina. (No longer available online.) In: icetigers.de. Archived from the original on September 21, 2016 ; accessed on September 21, 2016 . 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.