Nick Drazenovic

Nick Drazenovic
Date of birth	January 14, 1987
place of birth	Prince George , British Columbia , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	87 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2005 , 6th lap, 171st position St. Louis Blues
Career stations
2002-2007	Prince George Cougars
2007-2011	Peoria Rivermen
2011-2013	Springfield Falcons
2013-2015	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins
2015-2016	San Antonio Rampage

Nicholas "Nick" Drazenovic (born January 14, 1987 in Prince George , British Columbia ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current functionary of Croatian origin who played twelve games for the St. Louis Blues between 2002 and 2016 , Columbus Blue Jackets and Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League on the position of the center . However, he spent most of his career in the American Hockey League .

Career

Drazenovic began his junior career in the 2002/03 season with the Prince George Cougars from his hometown in the Western Hockey League . He stayed with the club for a total of five seasons until the summer of 2007 and played 305 games during that period. In addition, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2005 in the sixth round in 171th place by the St. Louis Blues from the National Hockey League .

With the move to the professional field, the striker played for the Peoria Rivermen , the farm team of the St. Louis Blues, from the American Hockey League at the beginning of the 2007/08 season . The Canadian played there for a total of four years and made his debut for St. Louis in the NHL in the 2010/11 season . Nevertheless, the ways of the franchise and Drazenovics parted ways in the summer of 2011 , so that he switched to the Columbus Blue Jackets as a free agent . There he did not get beyond a role in the farm team in the following two playing years and only appeared eight times for Columbus in the NHL.

In the summer of 2013, the attacker therefore changed teams again and hired - again as a free agent - with the Pittsburgh Penguins , where he was again unable to assert himself. At the end of the two-year engagement, which was marked by injuries especially in the second year of the contract, there was only one engagement for Pittsburgh. He completed the remaining missions all for the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins in the AHL. After Drazenovic did not find a new team at the beginning of the 2015/16 season , he was signed up on probation by the San Antonio Rampage from the AHL in December 2015 , who extended the cooperation in January 2016 until the end of the season. The center forward then ended his active career at the age of 29 and was hired by his junior team from Prince George as Director of Player Development .

International

Drazenovic represented his home country in the Canada Pacific team at the 2004 World U-17 Hockey Challenge . The striker contributed five scorer points to the team's silver medal win in six tournament games.

Achievements and Awards

• 2004 silver medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
• 2005 CHL Top Prospects Game

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2002/03	Prince George Cougars	WHL		15th	4th	4th	8th	0		4th	0	0	0	2
2003/04	Prince George Cougars	WHL		65	7th	30th	37	38		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Prince George Cougars	WHL		72	18th	38	56	24		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Prince George Cougars	WHL		71	30th	33	63	51		5	0	0	0	4th
2006/07	Prince George Cougars	WHL		58	18th	32	50	63		15th	9	10	19th	6th
2007/08	Peoria Rivermen	AHL		69	16	26th	42	38		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Peoria Rivermen	AHL		76	12	21st	33	43		5	1	0	1	2
2009/10	Peoria Rivermen	AHL		58	19th	20th	39	40		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Peoria Rivermen	AHL		75	23	23	46	24		4th	0	1	1	2
2010/11	St. Louis Blues	NHL		3	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Springfield Falcons	AHL		41	13	28	41	16		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Springfield Falcons	AHL		62	17th	36	53	30th		8th	2	2	4th	2
2012/13	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		8th	0	0	0	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		63	13	29	42	28		9	1	3	4th	2
2013/14	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		1	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		25th	8th	11	19th	18th		3	0	1	1	0
2015/16	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		35	2	8th	10	12		-	-	-	-	-
WHL overall				281	77	137	214	176		24	9	10	19th	12
AHL total				504	123	202	325	249		29	4th	7th	11	8th
NHL overall				12	0	0	0	6th		-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Canada to:

• World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2004

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2004	Canada Pacific	U17-WHC			6th	1	4th	5	4th
Juniors overall					6th	1	4th	5	4th

( 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

• Nick Drazenovic at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Nick Drazenovic at eliteprospects.com (English)