Tim Bozon

Tim Bozon
Date of birth	March 24, 1994
place of birth	St. Louis , Missouri , USA
size	185 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	Left wing
number	# 15
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2012 , 3rd round, 64th position Canadiens de Montréal
Career stations
2008-2009	Genève-Servette HC
2009-2010	Kloten Flyers
2010-2011	HC Lugano
2011-2013	Kamloops Blazers
2013-2015	Kootenay Ice
2015-2016	St. John's IceCaps
2016-2017	Springfield Thunderbirds Manchester Monarchs
2017-2018	EHC Kloten
since 2018	Genève-Servette HC

Timothé Phillipe "Tim" Bozon (born March 24, 1994 in St. Louis , Missouri , USA ) is a French ice hockey player who also has US citizenship. Since 2018 he has played again in the position of the left winger for Genève-Servette HC from the Swiss National League . His father Philippe was also a professional ice hockey player and is a member of the IIHF Hall of Fame .

Career

Tim Bozon was born in St. Louis , Missouri , where his father was under contract with the St. Louis Blues at the time. At the age of one year Tim Bozon moved but already with his family to Switzerland after his father in the National League A was changed. There he grew up in Lugano, among other places . At the age of 14, Tim Bozon joined the youth department of Genève-Servette HC and played for the club in the U15 and U17 teams. He then moved within the Swiss junior leagues to the Kloten Flyers , for whom he also completed his first assignments with the Elite A Juniors, and then to the HC Lugano junior team .

In the 2011 CHL Import Draft , Bozon was drafted in 27th place by the Edmonton Oil Kings from the Canadian Western Hockey League , who later gave up his rights to the Kamloops Blazers . Before the start of the 2011/12 season, Tim Bozon finally moved from Switzerland to North America, where he immediately made the jump to the Blazers roster. In his rookie season in Kamloops, the Frenchman was the team's best newcomer with 71 points scorer in as many games. His 36 goals also made him the top scorer of all rookies in the WHL. In January 2012 Bozon was invited to the CHL Top Prospects Game . In the 2012 NHL Entry Draft , Tim Bozon was finally selected in the third round in a total of 64th position by the Canadiens de Montréal . He was the first drafted French player since Cristobal Huet 2001.

In the WHL season 2012/13 Bozon was able to improve his performances again and finished the regular season with 91 points from 69 games and was thus among the ten best scorers in the league. He made himself particularly noticeable as a passer, where he was able to increase his points yield by 20 assists compared to the previous season. He also had the team's best plus / minus balance. In the play-offs, however, he was only able to play eight missions due to a hand injury, in which he scored six points. After only 13 games in the 2013/14 season, he moved within the league to the Kootenay Ice , where he was active until 2015.

After the end of the 2014/15 WHL season, Bozon switched to the organization of the Canadiens, which had already provided him with an entry contract in May 2013 . He then worked for the Hamilton Bulldogs , the Canadiens' farm team from the American Hockey League (AHL), and was active in the AHL for the new farm team, the St. John's IceCaps , at the start of the 2015/16 season . He also spent a few games with the Brampton Beast , the cooperation partner of the IceCaps from the ECHL . In October 2016 he was transferred to the Florida Panthers in exchange for Jonathan Racine , who assigned him to their AHL farm team Springfield Thunderbirds .

From 2017 Bozon played for the EHC Kloten from the Swiss National League . Bozon did not burden the foreign contingent in Kloten, as he had played as a junior player for the Genève-Servette HC , Kloten and HC Lugano .

International

Tim Bozon plays internationally for France , although he is also a US citizen. He follows his father Philippe and his grandfather Alain , who were also on the ice for the French national team.

At the U18 Junior World Championship in 2011 , Bozon scored six points and won the bronze medal in the second-class division I with the French selection. This was the first time that the French U18 team won a medal at a world championship. The year before, the striker was on the ice for the country's U18 selection and provided an template in five games.

Just two years later, Tim Bozon made it into the men's national selection when he was appointed to the squad of the French national team for the 2013 Ice Hockey World Championship in Finland and Sweden. Bozon also recorded his first assist on his debut against Slovakia .

Achievements and Awards

• 2012 CHL Top Prospects Game

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2015/16 season

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2009/10	Kloten Flyers U20	Elite-A		3	2	0	2	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Kloten Flyers U20	Elite-A		3	1	0	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
	HC Lugano U20	Elite-A		27	16	13	29	24		3	1	1	2	2
2011/12	Kamloops Blazers	WHL		71	36	35	71	40		11	5	0	5	11
2012/13	Kamloops Blazers	WHL		69	36	55	91	58		8th	4th	2	6th	10
2013/14	Kamloops Blazers	WHL		13	3	4th	7th	13		-	-	-	-	-
	Kootenay Ice	WHL		50	30th	32	62	34		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Kootenay Ice	WHL		57	35	28	63	19th		7th	3	6th	9	6th
2014/15	Hamilton Bulldogs	AHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Brampton Beast	ECHL		15th	3	6th	9	2		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	St. John's IceCaps	AHL		41	5	3	8th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
WHL overall				260	140	154	294	164		26th	12	8th	20th	27
AHL total				42	5	3	8th	14th		-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented France at:

• Division I U18 Junior World Championship 2010
• Division I U18 Junior World Championship 2011
• World Championship 2013
• World Championship 2016

year	team	event		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2010	France	U18 World Cup		5	0	1	1	0
2011	France	U18 World Cup		5	3	3	6th	2
2013	France	WM		5	0	1	1	0
2016	France	WM		6th	0	0	0	2
Juniors overall				10	3	4th	7th	2
Men overall				11	0	1	1	2

( 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

• Tim Bozon at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2011 CHL Import Draft: Round 1 , leaguestat.com
2. ↑ Alessio Bertaggia and Timothy Bozon face the North American challenge ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , HC Lugano, July 8, 2011 
3. ↑ Gregg Drinnan: Cheveldave, Bozon on Blazers' bus heading south , Kamloops Daily News, April 18, 2013
4. ↑ Kloten signs Tim Bozon. (No longer available online.) In: luzernerzeitung.ch. April 26, 2017, archived from the original on August 17, 2017 ; accessed on August 17, 2017 . 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.  
5. ↑ ^{a b} Tim Bozon on the NHL Entry Draft website