Stefan Legein

Canada Stefan Legein

Date of birth	November 24, 1988
place of birth	Oakville , Ontario , Canada
size	175 cm
Weight	77 kg

position	Right wing
number	# 26
Shot hand	Right

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2007 , 2nd round, 37th position Columbus Blue Jackets

Career stations

2004-2007	Mississauga IceDogs
2007-2008	Niagara IceDogs
2008-2009	Syracuse crunch
2009-2011	Adirondack Phantoms
2011-2013	Manchester monarchs
2013-2014	VIK Västerås HK
2014-2015	Heilbronn falcon
2015-2016	Manchester Monarchs Tulsa Oilers
2016-2017	Stoney Creek Generals

Stefan Legein (born November 24, 1988 in Oakville , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who last played for the Stoney Creek Generals in the Allan Cup Hockey (ACH), a Canadian amateur league, on the position of the right winger .

Career

Legein began his career in 2004 at the age of 15 with the Milton Icehawks in the Ontario Provincial Junior Hockey League, a lower class Canadian junior league. In the course of the season, the Mississauga IceDogs from the Ontario Hockey League brought him into their squad after the right winger had scored 19 points in 26 games for the Icehawks. At the IceDogs, too, Legein was immediately part of the permanent staff and in the first two years of his engagement in Mississauga he completed 108 encounters, in which he only scored 24 points. It was not until the 2006/07 season that the Canadian made his breakthrough in the OHL, when he scored 75 points in 64 games. With 43 goals alone, he was the eleventh-best goalscorer of the entire season and, in addition to being invited to the Top Prospects Game of the Canadian Hockey League, was also nominated for the OHL Eastern Conference All-Star Team. Through his achievements, various teams from the National Hockey League had become aware of the short striker. Finally, the elected him Columbus Blue Jackets in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft in the second round at the 37th location.

During the summer break of 2007, Legein represented his home country internationally for the first time in the Super Series , an eight-game country comparison between the Canadian and Russian U20 national junior teams. He was used in all games and contributed three goals. At the beginning of the new season he ran again for the IceDogs, who had moved from Mississauga to St. Catharines in the summer and from then on played as Niagara IceDogs . There he built on the performance of the previous season and in December was appointed to the squad of the Canadian junior national team for the junior world championship . At the world championships in the Czech Republic , Legein also acted as the team's assistant captain and was involved in Canada's fourth title win in a row in this age group with two points from seven tournament games. Following the tournament, Legein returned to the IceDogs. With continued good performance, he received an invitation to the OHL All-Star Game and the nomination for the OHL Second All-Star Team. Meanwhile, during the playoffs he had been summoned by the Columbus Blue Jackets to the Syracuse Crunch , their farm team in the American Hockey League , where he played two games and made his professional debut just under a year after he was drafted.

On August 20, 2008, at the age of 19, Legein surprisingly announced his retirement from active sport. However, he reversed this decision after a good three months in retirement when he announced on December 3rd that he would return to the Columbus Blue Jackets organization at the beginning of the new year. After getting in shape with the St. Catharines Falcons in the Canadian Golden Horseshoe Junior League and the Brampton Battalion of the Ontario Hockey League , he hopes to get a place in the roster of the Syracuse Crunch, Columbus' farm team. This move came on January 6, 2009, when the Blue Jackets transferred him to the Crunch squad. During the rest of the season, the Canadian ran in 26 games for the Crunch and scored one goal. After he had started the 2009/10 season in Syracuse and had booked three points in the first six games, he was transferred to the Philadelphia Flyers franchise , where he plays for the Adirondack Phantoms farm team . In return, defender Michael Ratchuck moved to the Syracuse Crunch.

In December 2014, after a brief stint in Sweden, he moved to the Heilbronner Falken in the DEL2 (second division) in Germany.

Achievements and Awards

2007 CHL Top Prospects Game
2008 gold medal at the U20 Junior World Championship
2008 OHL All-Star Game
2008 OHL Second All-Star Team

Career statistics

			Regular season					Play-offs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2004-05	Milton Icehawks	OPJHL	26th	7th	12	19th	18th	-	-	-	-	-
	Mississauga IceDogs	OHL	49	3	5	8th	37	5	0	1	1	0
2005-06	Mississauga IceDogs	OHL	59	7th	9	16	101	-	-	-	-	-
2006-07	Mississauga IceDogs	OHL	64	43	32	75	115	5	3	2	5	0
2007-08	Niagara IceDogs	OHL	30th	24	13	37	80	10	7th	11	18th	28
	Syracuse crunch	AHL	-	-	-	-	-	2	0	0	0	0
2008-09	Syracuse crunch	AHL	26th	1	0	1	4th	-	-	-	-	-
2009-10	Syracuse crunch	AHL	6th	2	1	3	0	-	-	-	-	-
	Adirondack Phantoms	AHL
OPJHL total			26th	7th	12	19th	18th	-	-	-	-	-
OHL total			202	77	59	136	333	20th	10	14th	24	28
AHL total			32	3	1	4th	4th	2	0	0	0	0

International

Represented Canada to:

year	team	event	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2007	Canada	SS	8th	3	0	3	30th
2008	Canada	U20 World Cup	7th	1	1	2	8th
Juniors overall			15th	4th	1	5	38

( 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 )