Shaun Heshka

Shaun Heshka
Date of birth	July 30, 1985
place of birth	Melville , Saskatchewan , Canada
size	186 cm
Weight	95 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
2002-2003	Melville Millionaires
2003-2006	Everett Silvertips
2006-2009	Manitoba mosses
2009-2010	Phoenix Coyotes San Antonio Rampage
2010-2011	EC Red Bull Salzburg
2011	Binghamton Senators
2011–2012	Peoria Rivermen
2012-2013	Ässät Pori
2013-2014	Ak Bars Kazan
2014-2015	Admiral Vladivostok
2015-2017	MODO hockey
since 2017	Kärpät Oulu

Shaun Heshka (born July 30, 1985 in Melville , Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Kärpät Oulu in the Liiga since April 2016 .

Career

Heshka was at the beginning of his career in the 2002/03 season with the Melville Millionaires in the Canadian Junior League Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League on the ice. After a season there he moved to the Western Hockey League to the Everett Silvertips and spent the following three years there before he was signed for the 2006/07 season by the Vancouver Canucks from the National Hockey League (NHL). In the organization of the Canucks , however, the Canadian was used exclusively for the Manitoba Moose farm team in the American Hockey League (AHL), where he spent three full seasons.

In the summer of 2009 he was transferred to the Phoenix Coyotes in exchange for a draft pick at the 2009 NHL Draft . But even there, Heshka was mainly used in the AHL at the San Antonio Rampage in the 2009/2010 season , but was at least able to complete his first and only eight games in the NHL for the Coyotes . For the 2010/11 season , the defender decided to move to Europe and signed a contract with EC Red Bull Salzburg from the Austrian ice hockey league . After Heshka won the Austrian Championship with Salzburg , he returned to North America in the AHL in the summer of 2011 and joined the Binghamton Senators before he was given up to the Peoria Rivermen within the league during the current 2011/12 season .

A year later he moved to Europe again, in the 2012/13 season the right-handed shooter ran for Porin Ässät in the Finnish SM-Liiga and celebrated winning the championship and the individual award of the Pekka-Rautakallio trophy as the best defender of the elapsed playing time. In June 2013, the defensive player was signed by Ak Bars Kazan from the Continental Hockey League , for which the entire 2013/14 season was on the ice. Shortly after the start of the 2014/15 season , he moved to league rival Admiral Vladivostok .

From May 2015 Heshka was under contract with MODO Hockey in the Svenska Hockeyligan .

Achievements and Awards

• 2011 Austrian champion with the EC Red Bull Salzburg
• 2013 Finnish champion with Porin Ässät
• 2013 Pekka Rautakallio Trophy
• 2016 Spengler Cup win with Team Canada

Web links

• Shaun Heshka at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ coyotes.nhl Coyotes acquire Lepisto from Washington, Heshka from Vancouver in exchange for draft picks
2. ↑ eishockey.at RB Salzburg brings defenders ( memento of the original from December 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ binghamtonsenators.com B-Sens sign defensemen Shaun Heshka
4. ↑ rivermen.net Rivermen acquire Shaun Heshka from Binghamton ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2014 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.