Milan Lucic

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Milan Lucic
Date of birth June 7, 1988
place of birth Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada
size 193 cm
Weight 104 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2006 , 2nd round, 50th position
Boston Bruins
Career stations
2004-2005 Coquitlam Express
2005-2007 Vancouver Giants
2007-2015 Boston Bruins
2015-2016 Los Angeles Kings
2016-2019 Edmonton Oilers
since 2019 Calgary Flames

Milan Lucic (born June 7, 1988 in Vancouver , British Columbia ) is a Canadian ice hockey player with Serbian ancestry who has been under contract with the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League since July 2019 and plays there in the position of right winger . Previously, Lucic was already active for the Boston Bruins , Los Angeles Kings and Edmonton Oilers in the NHL. With the Boston Bruins he won the Stanley Cup in 2011 . His uncle Dan Kesa was also a professional ice hockey player in the NHL.

Career

Beginnings in the junior sector (2004-2007)

Milan Lucic began his career in 2004 in the second-rate Canadian junior league British Columbia Hockey League with the Coquitlam Express, where he completed a solid season with 23 points in 50 games and once for the Vancouver Giants in the Western Hockey League , one of the three most important youth leagues Canada, was used. In the 2005/06 season he was an integral part of the Giants, but could not convince with his offensive qualities when he scored only nine goals in 62 games and prepared ten. At the end of the season, Lucic won the President's Cup with the Vancouver Giants . In the 2006 NHL Entry Draft , the Boston Bruins selected him in the second round at position 50.

During the 2006/07 season , Lucic developed into an important pillar of his team and led the Giants with 68 points. After they made it through to the final in the WHL playoffs , they took part as hosts in the final round of the Memorial Cup , which they finally won after beating the Medicine Hat Tigers 3-1 in the final . Lucic, along with teammate Michal Řepík and Tom Sestito of the Plymouth Whalers, topped the scorer list with seven points each in five games and received the Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy as the most valuable player in the Memorial Cup finals.

Boston Bruins (2007-2014)

Lucic with the Stanley Cup (2011)

On August 2, 2007, Lucic signed an entry contract with the Boston Bruins and led the Canadian U20 selection as team captain in the Super Series against Russia that same month . Canada won the eight-game series with 7–0 wins in a draw. He made his debut in the National Hockey League for Boston on October 5, 2007 and a week later scored his first goal in the game against the Los Angeles Kings . In addition, Lucic achieved a Gordie Howe hat trick in the same game , as he was able to book an assist and a five-minute penalty for a fist fight in addition to the hit . Lucic was able to establish himself with his achievements in the NHL squad and completed a total of 77 games in the course of the 2007/08 season , in which he scored eight hits and 19 assists. In the third game of the Eastern Conference quarter-finals against the Montreal Canadiens , he finally managed the first play-off goal of his NHL career. In October 2008, the Canadian succeeded in the game against the Atlanta Thrashers, the first hat trick in the top division of North America. Lucic was able to further increase his offensive performance and ended the 2008/09 season with 42 points from 72 games. In the play-offs, the attacker was able to build on his performance from the main round and marked 9 points scorer in 10 games, with the Bruins eliminated in the second round against the Carolina Hurricanes .

In October 2009, Lucic extended his contract in Boston for three years for a total reported salary of $ 12.3 million. The first half of the 2009/10 season was characterized by frequent injury problems for the left-handed shooter, so he broke a finger in a check against Stéphane Robidas in the game against the Dallas Stars and then fell out for a month before he fell back shortly after his return Game against the Minnesota Wild sprained his ankle and missed another 18 games. As a result, Lucic only played 50 games in the main round, which he completed with nine goals and 20 assists. In the play-offs he got a total of nine scorer points, where he scored five goals in the second round against the Philadelphia Flyers , but could not prevent his team from being eliminated.

In November 2008, the winger scored a natural hat-trick in the game against the Florida Panthers . H. he got three goals within a third. During the game against Atlanta in December 2009, Lucic intervened in a fistfight between teammate Andrew Ference and opponent Freddy Meyer , who had previously checked Lucic hard, and was then given a game penalty. Lucic was then fined $ 3,500 by the NHL, with both intervening in the fistfight and his obscene gestures towards the opposing players' bench being punished immediately afterwards. In the further course of the 2010/11 season , Lucic was able to bring his offensive strength to better advantage as part of his role as power forward and scored 30 goals this season, which made him the most successful goalscorer within the team. When his team won the Stanley Cup , the Canadian only scored 12 points in 25 play-off games, with a broken toe and a sinus infection during the post-season . The following year, Lucic was able to build on his strong performances from the previous season and scored 61 points, but could hardly set accents in the play-offs with only three assists in seven games and was eliminated with his team in the first round against the Washington Capitals . In the 2012/13 season shortened by the lockout , the Bruins reached the Stanley Cup final again , with Lucic showing a total of 19 scorer points in 22 playoff games, but not being able to prevent the final defeat against the Chicago Blackhawks .

Los Angeles Kings, Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames (since 2015)

On June 26, 2015, Milan Lucic was transferred to the Los Angeles Kings in the run-up to the 2015 NHL Entry Draft , who in return gave up Martin Jones , Colin Miller and their first-round voting rights of the draft to the Boston Bruins. Lucic spent the 2015/16 season in Los Angeles, but received no new contract beyond that. Therefore, in July 2016, he signed a seven-year contract with the Edmonton Oilers as a free agent , which should bring him an annual salary of six million US dollars. With the Oilers, the performance of the robust attacker declined rapidly from the second year of the contract, and he remained far behind the expectations placed in him with 34 and 20 points in the following two game years.

In July 2019, the Oilers finally decided to end the collaboration with Lucic. In exchange for James Neal, they transferred him to the Calgary Flames within the province of Alberta , who also received conditional third-round voting rights in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft . In return, the Oilers continued to take 12.5 percent of Lucic's salary.

Lucic is considered a power forward who, due to his height of 1.93 meters, has his strength in a duel on the boards, but still has to develop his defensive game.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

Lucic in the jersey of the Bruins (2012)
Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2004/05 Coquitlam Express BCHL 50 9 14th 23 100 - - - - -
2004/05 Vancouver Giants WHL 1 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0
2005/06 Vancouver Giants WHL 62 9 10 19th 149 18th 3 4th 7th 23
2006/07 Vancouver Giants WHL 70 30th 38 68 147 22nd 7th 12 19th 26th
2007 Vancouver Giants Memorial Cup 5 2 5 7th 12
2007/08 Boston Bruins NHL 77 8th 19th 27 89 7th 2 0 2 4th
2008/09 Boston Bruins NHL 72 17th 25th 42 136 10 3 6th 9 43
2009/10 Boston Bruins NHL 50 9 11 20th 44 13 5 4th 9 19th
2010/11 Boston Bruins NHL 79 30th 32 62 121 25th 5 7th 12 63
2011/12 Boston Bruins NHL 81 26th 35 61 135 7th 0 3 3 8th
2012/13 Boston Bruins NHL 46 7th 20th 27 75 22nd 7th 12 19th 14th
2013/14 Boston Bruins NHL 80 24 35 59 91 12 4th 3 7th 4th
2014/15 Boston Bruins NHL 81 18th 26th 44 81 - - - - -
2015/16 Los Angeles Kings NHL 81 20th 35 55 79 5 0 3 3 4th
2016/17 Edmonton Oilers NHL 82 23 27 50 50 13 2 4th 6th 20th
2017/18 Edmonton Oilers NHL 82 10 24 34 80 - - - - -
2018/19 Edmonton Oilers NHL 79 6th 14th 20th 91 - - - - -
2019/20 Calgary Flames NHL 68 8th 12 20th 54 10 1 5 6th 17th
WHL overall 133 39 48 87 298 42 10 16 26th 49
NHL overall 958 206 315 521 1126 124 29 47 76 196

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2007 Canada Super Series 1st place 8th 0 3 3 16
Juniors overall 8th 0 3 3 16

( 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 : Milan Lucic  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ boston.com Lucic gets 3-year pact for $ 12.3m
  2. ↑ thehockeynews.com Bruins forward Milan Lucic undergoes successful surgery on broken finger ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) 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. ↑ sports.espn.go.com Just back from injury, Lucic out again
  4. ↑ sportingnews.com Lucic has got trick as Rask, Bruins blank Panthers
  5. ↑ espn.go.com No suspension for Milan Lucic
  6. ↑ nhl.com Surgeries won't slow Lucic, Rask this season
  7. ↑ tsn.ca, player biography
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Squad of the Calgary Flames for the 2019-20 season
personal data
SURNAME Lucic, Milan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada