Travis Zajac

Travis Zajac
Date of birth	May 13, 1985
place of birth	Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada
size	191 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	center
number	# 19
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2004 , 1st round, 20th position New Jersey Devils
Career stations
2002-2004	Salmon Arm Silverbacks
2004-2006	University of North Dakota
since 2006	New Jersey Devils

Travis Zajac (born May 13, 1985 in Winnipeg , Manitoba ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the New Jersey Devils in the National Hockey League since 2006 and plays for them on the position of the center .

Career

Travis Zajac began his career as a hockey player with the Salmon Arm Silverbacks, for which he was active in the British Columbia Hockey League from 2002 to 2004 . He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2004 in the first round as a total of 20th player by the New Jersey Devils . The Canadian first played for the University of North Dakota team for two years before playing for New Jersey's farm team , the Albany River Rats from the American Hockey League , for the first time in the 2005/06 season . After his debut in the National Hockey League , Zajac came in the following three seasons - except in two games - in all games of the regular season for the Devils.

In the 2009/10 season he set a new personal record with 67 points scorer after he had developed into a regular player with the Devils by then. In mid-March 2011, Zajac set a new franchise record with 389 games in a row, previously held by Ken Daneyko . By the end of the 2010/11 season , he built his record series, which the striker had started on October 26, 2006, to 401 NHL games in a row. In the 2011/12 season he only played 15 regular season games due to an injury. In the playoffs, in which the Devils reached the Stanley Cup finals, he was used in 24 games.

International

Zajac represented his home country for the first time at the 2009 World Cup in Switzerland . The Canadians advanced to the final at the World Cup, but failed there to defending champions Russia with a 2-1 defeat, so they won the silver medal. Zajac himself was used in five games, but remained pointless and received two penalty minutes. Two years later he was back in the squad at the 2011 World Cup in Slovakia . Despite the sovereign preliminary and intermediate rounds, the Canadians failed in the quarter-finals to Russia and finished the world title fights in fifth place outside the medal ranks. The striker held the position of during the tournament assistant captain . In seven missions he scored one goal and prepared two more. He also spent two minutes in the penalty box and was the fifth most successful player at the face-off point of the entire competition.

Achievements and Awards

2004 BCHL Interior Conference First All-Star Team 2004 BCHL Interior Conference Most Valuable Player 2005 WCHA All-Rookie Team

2005 NCAA Championship All-Tournament Team 2006 Broadmoor Trophy win with the University of North Dakota

International

• 2009 silver medal at the world championship

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2002/03	Salmon Arm Silverbacks	BCHL		59	16	36	52	27		11	2	4th	6th	6th
2003/04	Salmon Arm Silverbacks	BCHL		59	43	69	112	110		14th	10	13	23	10
2004/05	University of North Dakota	WCHA		45	20th	19th	39	16
2005/06	University of North Dakota	WCHA		46	18th	29	47	20th
2005/06	Albany River Rats	AHL		2	0	1	1	2		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	New Jersey Devils	NHL		80	17th	25th	42	16		11	1	4th	5	4th
2007/08	New Jersey Devils	NHL		82	14th	20th	34	31		5	0	1	1	4th
2008/09	New Jersey Devils	NHL		82	20th	42	62	29		7th	1	3	4th	6th
2009/10	New Jersey Devils	NHL		82	25th	42	67	24		5	1	1	2	2
2010/11	New Jersey Devils	NHL		82	13	31	44	24		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	New Jersey Devils	NHL		15th	2	4th	6th	4th		24	7th	7th	14th	4th
2012/13	New Jersey Devils	NHL		48	7th	13	20th	22nd		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	New Jersey Devils	NHL		80	18th	30th	48	28		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	New Jersey Devils	NHL		74	11	14th	25th	29		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	New Jersey Devils	NHL		74	14th	28	42	25th		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	New Jersey Devils	NHL		80	14th	31	45	33		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	New Jersey Devils	NHL		63	12	14th	26th	25th		5	1	1	2	0
2018/19	New Jersey Devils	NHL		80	19th	27	46	20th		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	New Jersey Devils	NHL		69	9	16	25th	28		-	-	-	-	-
BCHL total				118	59	105	164	137		25th	12	17th	29	16
WCHA overall				91	38	48	86	38
NHL overall				991	195	337	532	338		57	11	17th	28	20th

International

Represented Canada to:

• World Championship 2009
• World Championship 2011

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2009	Canada	WM			5	0	0	0	2
2011	Canada	WM	5th place		7th	1	2	3	2
Men overall					12	1	2	3	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 )

family

His brothers Darcy , Kelly and Nolan were also active as ice hockey players.

Web links

Commons : Travis Zajac  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the New Jersey Devils website
• Travis Zajac at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Travis Zajac at legendsofhockey.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ devils.nhl.com, My Draft Day: Travis Zajac