Zach Boychuk
Date of birth | 4th October 1989 |
place of birth | Airdrie , Alberta , Canada |
size | 178 cm |
Weight | 79 kg |
position | Left wing |
Shot hand | Left |
Draft | |
NHL Entry Draft |
2008 , 1st round, 14th position Carolina Hurricanes |
Career stations | |
2005-2009 | Lethbridge Hurricanes |
2009-2013 | Carolina Hurricanes |
2013 |
Pittsburgh Penguins Nashville Predators |
2013-2015 | Carolina Hurricanes |
2015-2016 | Charlotte Checkers |
2016 | Bakersfield Condors |
2016-2017 | HK Sibir Novosibirsk |
2017-2018 | HC Slovan Bratislava |
2018 | Severstal Cherepovets |
2018-2019 | SC Bern |
since 2019 | Friborg-Gottéron |
Zachary "Zach" Boychuk (born October 4, 1989 in Airdrie , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Friborg-Gottéron in the Swiss National League since December 2019 and plays there in the position of left winger .
Career
Boychuk began his ice hockey career in the fall of 2004 with the Strathmore UFA Bisons in the Alberta Midget Hockey League , a lower class Canadian junior league. After he knew how to convince there at the age of 15 with 27 points in 36 games, he moved to the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the Western Hockey League for the following season . In his rookie season Boychuk came to 51 points in 64 encounters and was the second best scorer of the team before he increased his point production by 40 to 91 points in the 2006/07 game year and became the third best scorer in the league. Nevertheless, he did not manage to lead the team into the playoffs. This changed in the following season, when he again scored significantly fewer points, but with the team advanced into the final series of the WHL playoffs. There the team was clearly defeated by the Spokane Chiefs in four games and thus missed the championship win and the associated entry into the Memorial Cup finals. Boychuk was awarded for his performances with the election to the WHL East Second All-Star Team.
In addition, the franchises of the National Hockey League inevitably became aware of him. Finally, the elected him Carolina Hurricanes in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in the first round in 14th place out. Similar to his former teammate from Lethbridge, Luca Sbisa , he surprisingly made the jump into the NHL squad of the Carolina Hurricanes at the beginning of the 2008/09 season . After two games in the NHL, in which he remained goalless and pointless, he was returned to the junior team for the rest of the season. In the 2009/10 season Boychuk played for both the Carolina Hurricanes and in the AHL for the Albany River Rats. The following season he began with the Charlotte Checkers in the AHL, for which he scored 32 points in 28 games and was then called back to the NHL squad of the Carolina Hurricanes.
In late January 2013, the boychuk on the waiver list was selected by the Pittsburgh Penguins . In March 2013, the offensive player was again placed on the waiver and then selected by the Nashville Predators . That same month he was placed on the waiver one more time and this time selected by Carolina Hurricanes . He played three more years in the organization of the Hurricanes, spending the end of the 2015/16 season on loan with the Bakersfield Condors . Subsequently, the Hurricanes did not extend his expiring contract, so Boychuk joined the HK Sibir Novosibirsk from the Continental Hockey League in October 2016 and mostly played there in the third or fourth row.
In the 2017/18 season Boychuk was under contract with HC Slovan Bratislava and completed 35 KHL games for Slovan, in which he collected 24 scorer points. He also took part in the KHL All-Star Game 2018 and was named KHL Striker of the Month in November 2017 . In June 2018 Boychuk was signed by Severstal Tscherepowez and played 25 games for the KHL club before moving to the National League for SC Bern in mid-November . He was able to celebrate the Swiss championship title with SC Bern in 2019 . As a result, his contract was not extended, so that he did not find a new employer in Switzerland until Demzeber 2019 in Friborg-Gottéron .
International
On an international level, Boychuk played for his home country for the first time at the U18 Junior World Cup in Finland in 2007 . However, after a semi-final defeat against the US selection and another defeat in the game for third place against Sweden , the Canadians missed the hoped-for medal win. He himself contributed six points in seven games over the course of the tournament. Almost half a year later, the trained center was nominated for the Super Series 2007 and advanced to the sixth-best scorer of the Canadians against the Russian selection with six points, although he only played seven of the eight games in the country comparison.
At the turn of the year 2007/08 Boychuk played at the U20 World Junior Championship in 2008 for the first time with the under 20s. Although he could not score a scorer point in seven tournament games, he won the gold medal with the team. In the following year he was one of only four players from the previous year's team who were nominated again for the 2009 U20 Junior World Championship . With seven scorer points, this time he made a significant contribution to the Canadians' renewed title win.
At the end of December 2017, he won the traditional Spengler Cup in Davos with the Canadian selection and scored a goal in the final.
Achievements and Awards
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International
- 2006 gold medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament
- 2008 gold medal at the U20 Junior World Championship
- 2009 gold medal at the U20 Junior World Championship
Career statistics
Status: end of the 2018/19 season
Regular season | Play-offs | |||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
2005/06 | Lethbridge Hurricanes | WHL | 64 | 18th | 33 | 51 | 30th | 6th | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2 | ||
2006/07 | Lethbridge Hurricanes | WHL | 69 | 31 | 60 | 91 | 52 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2007/08 | Lethbridge Hurricanes | WHL | 61 | 33 | 39 | 72 | 80 | 18th | 13 | 8th | 21st | 6th | ||
2008/09 | Carolina Hurricanes | NHL | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2008/09 | Albany River Rats | AHL | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2008/09 | Lethbridge Hurricanes | WHL | 43 | 28 | 29 | 57 | 22nd | 11 | 7th | 6th | 13 | 12 | ||
2009/10 | Carolina Hurricanes | NHL | 31 | 3 | 6th | 9 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2009/10 | Albany River Rats | AHL | 52 | 15th | 21st | 36 | 24 | 8th | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4th | ||
2010/11 | Carolina Hurricanes | NHL | 23 | 4th | 3 | 7th | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2010/11 | Charlotte Checkers | AHL | 60 | 22nd | 43 | 65 | 48 | 16 | 3 | 6th | 9 | 14th | ||
2011/12 | Carolina Hurricanes | NHL | 16 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2011/12 | Charlotte Checkers | AHL | 64 | 21st | 23 | 44 | 46 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2012/13 | Carolina Hurricanes | NHL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2012/13 | Pittsburgh Penguins | NHL | 7th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2012/13 | Nashville Predators | NHL | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2012/13 | Charlotte Checkers | AHL | 49 | 23 | 20th | 43 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 6th | 4th | ||
2013/14 | Carolina Hurricanes | NHL | 11 | 1 | 3 | 4th | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2013/14 | Charlotte Checkers | AHL | 69 | 36 | 38 | 74 | 55 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2014/15 | Carolina Hurricanes | NHL | 31 | 3 | 3 | 6th | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2014/15 | Charlotte Checkers | AHL | 39 | 12 | 12 | 24 | 14th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2015/16 | Charlotte Checkers | AHL | 56 | 9 | 16 | 25th | 24 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2015/16 | Bakersfield Condors | AHL | 16 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2016/17 | HK Sibir Novosibirsk | KHL | 35 | 7th | 9 | 16 | 20th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2017/18 | HC Slovan Bratislava | KHL | 35 | 11 | 13 | 24 | 38 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2018/19 | Severstal Cherepovets | KHL | 25th | 2 | 2 | 4th | 8th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2018/19 | SC Bern | NL | 22nd | 5 | 6th | 11 | 12 | 8th | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4th | ||
WHL overall | 237 | 110 | 161 | 271 | 184 | 35 | 20th | 19th | 39 | 20th | ||||
AHL total | 407 | 141 | 176 | 317 | 245 | 29 | 8th | 12 | 20th | 22nd | ||||
NHL overall | 127 | 12 | 18th | 30th | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
KHL total | 95 | 20th | 24 | 44 | 66 | - | - | - | - | - |
International
Represented Canada to:
year | team | event | result | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | |
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2006 | Canada Pacific | U17-WHC | 4th Place | 6th | 1 | 3 | 4th | 4th | |
2006 | Canada | HIMT | 4th | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4th | ||
2007 | Canada | U18 World Cup | 4th Place | 6th | 4th | 3 | 7th | 4th | |
2007 | Canada | Super Series | 1st place | 7th | 4th | 2 | 6th | 12 | |
2008 | Canada | U20 World Cup | 7th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
2009 | Canada | U20 World Cup | 6th | 4th | 3 | 7th | 0 | ||
Juniors overall | 36 | 13 | 13 | 26th | 26th |
( 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
- Zach Boychuk at legendsofhockey.net (English)
- Zach Boychuk at eliteprospects.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bern needs goals and signs Boychuk. November 19, 2018. Retrieved November 20, 2018 .
- ↑ https://www.spenglercup.ch/de/news/erneuter-triumph-fuer-das-team-canada
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Boychuk, Zach |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boychuk, Zachary (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | 4th October 1989 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Airdrie , Alberta |