TJ Hensick

TJ Hensick
Date of birth	December 10, 1985
place of birth	Howell , Michigan , USA
size	178 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2005 , 3rd round, 88th position Colorado Avalanche
Career stations
2001-2003	US National Team Development Program
2003-2007	University of Michigan
2007-2010	Colorado Avalanche Lake Erie Monsters
2010-2013	Peoria Rivermen
2013-2014	MODO hockey
2014	Hartford Wolf Pack
2014-2015	Hamilton Bulldogs
2015-2016	Charlotte Checkers
2016	Utica Comets
2016-2018	Ontario Reign
2018-2019	Toledo Walleye
since 2019	San Jose Barracuda

Timothy James "TJ" Hensick (* 10. December 1985 in Howell , Michigan ) is an American ice hockey player who since February 2019 at the San Jose Barracuda from the American Hockey League is under contract and for those on the position of the center plays . In the National Hockey League , Hensick completed a total of 114 games for the Colorado Avalanche and St. Louis Blues .

Career

Hensick in the Colorado Avalanche jersey

Hensick began his career in the youth team of the US hockey association USA Hockey , for which he played in the North American Hockey League from 2001 to 2003 . From 2003 to 2007, Hensick played for the University of Michigan ice hockey team in the National Collegiate Athletic Association . During the 2005 NHL Entry Draft , the attacker was selected in the third round as the 88th player of the Colorado Avalanche . After two more years at the University of Michigan, he was added to the roster of the Avalanche and their farm team from the American Hockey League , the Lake Erie Monsters , in the summer of 2007 . In its first season in the National Hockey League , the center scored eleven points in 31 games, including six goals. For the Lake Erie Monsters he reached 45 scorer points in 50 games, including twelve goals.

Between 2010 and 2013 he was under contract with the St. Louis Blues , but played mainly for the Peoria Rivermen in the AHL. In June 2013 he decided on his first European engagement and signed a contract with MODO Hockey from Svenska Hockeyligan , where he returned to the United States in January 2014 after 31 missions. From then on, the striker was a popular player in the AHL. First, he joined the Hartford Wolf Pack . There he ended the 2013/14 season . He then worked for the Hamilton Bulldogs for a year before being signed by the Carolina Hurricanes from the NHL in the summer of 2015 . These only used him in the AHL with the Charlotte Checkers during the season . However, he spent the last third of the season at league competitor Utica Comets .

For the 2016/17 game year , the American moved to the Ontario Reign within the AHL , where he found a sporting home for two years. Despite more than 100 scorer points in two seasons, the attacker's contract was not extended in summer 2018, so he moved to the Toledo Walleye in the ECHL . In February 2019, he returned to the American Hockey League after 47 appearances when he was signed by the San Jose Barracuda until the end of the season.

International

At the international level, Hensick came to the US national team in the junior division. First he played the U18 Junior World Championship in 2003 in Yaroslavl , Russia , where he scored ten points in six tournament games. Among them were six goals that ultimately secured the team fourth place. With ten scorer points, he was the player with the highest points in the US squad and the seventh best of the entire tournament, which earned him an appointment to the All-Star team. The attacker had another use at the U20 World Junior Championship in 2005, when the team also finished the competition in fourth place.

Achievements and Awards

2004 CCHA All-Rookie Team 2004 CCHA Rookie of the Year 2004 CCHA First All-Star Team 2005 CCHA championship with the University of Michigan 2005 CCHA First All-Star Team 2005 NCAA West First All-American Team 2006 CCHA Second All-Star Team 2007 CCHA First All-Star Team

2007 NCAA West First All-American Team 2008 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic 2009 AHL Player of the Month for December 2010 Participation in the AHL All-Star Classic 2011 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic 2012 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic 2012 AHL Second All-Star Team

International

• 2003 All-Star Team of the U18 Junior World Championship

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2001/02	US National Team Development Program	NEAR		46	15th	25th	40	10		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	US National Team Development Program	NEAR		10	6th	7th	13	0		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	University of Michigan	NCAA		43	12	34	46	38
2004/05	University of Michigan	NCAA		39	23	32	55	24
2005/06	University of Michigan	NCAA		41	17th	35	52	44
2006/07	University of Michigan	NCAA		41	23	46	69	38
2007/08	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		50	12	33	45	18th		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		31	6th	5	11	2		2	0	1	1	0
2008/09	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		12	7th	9	16	2		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		61	4th	17th	21st	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		58	20th	50	70	25th		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		7th	1	2	3	0		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Peoria Rivermen	AHL		59	21st	48	69	27		4th	2	1	3	2
2010/11	St. Louis Blues	NHL		13	1	2	3	2		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Peoria Rivermen	AHL		66	21st	49	70	20th		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Peoria Rivermen	AHL		76	19th	48	67	50		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Modo hockey	SHL		31	4th	11	15th	2		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Hartford Wolf Pack	AHL		42	11	23	34	0		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Hamilton Bulldogs	AHL		75	19th	41	60	10		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Charlotte Checkers	AHL		46	7th	18th	25th	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Utica Comets	AHL		19th	2	13	15th	4th		4th	1	1	2	0
2016/17	Ontario Reign	AHL		67	16	36	52	18th		5	2	3	5	0
2017/18	Ontario Reign	AHL		60	11	34	45	12		4th	1	0	1	0
2018/19	Toledo Walleye	ECHL		47	17th	41	58	10		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	San Jose Barracuda	AHL		23	6th	14th	20th	2		4th	1	2	3	0
NAHL total				56	21st	32	53	10		-	-	-	-	-
NCAA overall				164	75	147	222	144
AHL total				653	172	416	588	194		21st	7th	7th	14th	2
NHL overall				112	12	26th	38	18th		2	0	1	1	0

International

Represented the USA at:

• U18 Junior World Championship 2003
• U20 Junior World Championship 2005

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2003	United States	U18 World Cup	4th Place		6th	6th	4th	10	0
2005	United States	U20 World Cup	4th Place		7th	2	1	3	0
Juniors overall					13	8th	5	13	0

( 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

• TJ Hensick at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• TJ Hensick at eliteprospects.com (English)