Zenon Konopka

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Zenon Konopka
Date of birth 2nd January 1981
place of birth Niagara Falls , Ontario , Canada
size 183 cm
Weight 97 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1998-2002 Ottawa 67's
2002-2003 Wheeling Nailers
2003-2004 Idaho Steelheads
Utah Grizzlies
2004-2005 Cincinnati Mighty Ducks
2005-2006 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
Portland Pirates
2006 HK Lada Tolyatti
2006-2007 Portland Pirates
2007-2008 Syracuse crunch
2008-2009 Norfolk Admirals
2009-2010 Tampa Bay Lightning
2010-2011 New York Islanders
2011–2012 Ottawa Senators
2012-2013 Minnesota Wild
2014 Buffalo Sabers
2015 KH Sanok

Zenon Konopka (born January 2, 1981 in Niagara Falls , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player who played 354 games for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim , Columbus Blue Jackets , Tampa Bay Lightning , New York Islanders , Ottawa Senators , Minnesota Wild and Buffalo Sabers in the National Hockey League on the position of the center has denied. Konopka, who embodied the player type of the Enforcer , celebrated his greatest career success , but in the service of the Idaho Steelheads when he won the Kelly Cup of the ECHL in 2004.

Career

Konopka in the jersey of the Ottawa Senators

Zenon Konopka began his career as an ice hockey player with the Ottawa 67’s , for which he was active in the Canadian junior league Ontario Hockey League from 1998 to 2002 and won the J. Ross Robertson Cup as an OHL champion in the 2000/01 season . From 2002 to 2004 the attacker played for the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins and Utah Grizzlies in the American Hockey League and the Wheeling Nailers and Idaho Steelheads in the ECHL . He then received on September 1, 2004 as a free agent a contract with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim , for which he scored four goals and three assists in 23 games in the National Hockey League in the 2005/06 season . He spent the rest of the time in the Mighty Ducks franchise with their AHL farm teams, the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks and Portland Pirates .

At the beginning of the 2006/07 season Konopka signed as a free agent with HK Lada Tolyatti in the Russian Super League , but returned to North America after just four games . There he played again for the Portland Pirates in the AHL, before he was given on January 26, 2007 to the Columbus Blue Jackets . In Columbus, too, the Canadian was unable to assert himself in the following year and a half. For the NHL team of the Blue Jackets he remained pointless in a total of nine games, while he mostly competed with the Syracuse Crunch in the AHL. On July 10, 2008, the center was committed by the Tampa Bay Lightning , for which he has been used exclusively in the NHL since the 2009/10 season . In the previous year he was still mostly on the ice for their AHL farm team, the Norfolk Admirals . In the 2009/10 season he received the most penalty minutes in the league and was in the penalty box for a total of 265 minutes in 74 Lightning games. At the same time, he set a new franchise record. In July 2010 he moved to New York Islanders .

On July 5, 2011, Konopka signed a one-year contract with the Ottawa Senators . On July 1, 2012, he signed a two-year contract with the Minnesota Wild as a free agent . Konopka was released on January 3, 2014 and taken over by the Buffalo Sabers a day later . His contract, which ran until the end of the season, was not extended, so that he has been looking for a new employer as an unrestricted free agent since July 2014 . In addition, the Canadian was banned from playing 20 games in May 2014 for violating the NHLPA's anti-doping guidelines .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1998/99 Ottawa 67's OHL 56 7th 8th 15th 62 7th 0 0 0 2
1999 Ottawa 67's Memorial Cup 3 0 1 1 0
1999/00 Ottawa 67's OHL 59 8th 11 19th 107 11 1 2 3 8th
2000/01 Ottawa 67's OHL 66 20th 45 65 120 20th 7th 13 20th 47
2001 Ottawa 67's Memorial Cup 4th 1 0 1 19th
2001/02 Ottawa 67's OHL 61 18th 68 86 100 13 8th 6th 14th 49
2002/03 Wheeling Nailers ECHL 68 22nd 48 70 231 - - - - -
2002/03 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins AHL 4th 0 1 1 9 - - - - -
2003/04 Idaho steelheads ECHL 23 6th 22nd 28 82 17th 9 8th 17th 30th
2003/04 Utah grizzlies AHL 43 7th 4th 11 198 - - - - -
2004/05 Cincinnati Mighty Ducks AHL 75 17th 29 46 212 12 3 3 6th 26th
2005/06 Portland Pirates AHL 34 18th 26th 44 57 19th 11 18th 29 46
2005/06 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 23 4th 3 7th 48 - - - - -
2006/07 HK Lada Tolyatti Super league 4th 0 0 0 8th - - - - -
2006/07 Portland Pirates AHL 42 11 24 35 97 - - - - -
2006/07 Syracuse crunch AHL 20th 9 11 20th 70 - - - - -
2006/07 Columbus Blue Jackets NHL 6th 0 0 0 20th - - - - -
2007/08 Syracuse crunch AHL 62 24 31 55 194 13 3 7th 10 42
2007/08 Columbus Blue Jackets NHL 3 0 0 0 15th - - - - -
2008/09 Norfolk Admirals AHL 70 17th 40 57 186 - - - - -
2008/09 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 7th 0 1 1 29 - - - - -
2009/10 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 74 2 3 5 265 - - - - -
2010/11 New York Islanders NHL 82 2 7th 9 307 - - - - -
2011/12 Ottawa Senators NHL 55 3 2 5 193 6th 0 2 2 2
2012/13 Minnesota Wild NHL 37 0 0 0 117 2 0 0 0 0
2013/14 Minnesota Wild NHL 36 1 1 2 55 - - - - -
2013/14 Buffalo Sabers NHL 23 0 1 1 33 - - - - -
2014/15 KH Sanok Ekstraliga 3 1 0 1 4th 8th 2 0 2 35
OHL total 242 53 132 185 389 51 16 21st 37 106
ECHL total 91 28 70 98 313 17th 9 8th 17th 30th
AHL total 350 103 166 269 1023 44 17th 28 45 114
NHL overall 346 12 18th 30th 1082 8th 0 2 2 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

Commons : Zenon Konopka  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mike Doyle: Wild Signs Mitchell, Konopka. Minnesota Wild , July 1, 2012, accessed August 9, 2012 .
  2. ↑ nhl.com: "Sabers' Konopka suspended 20 games" (English, May 15, 2014, accessed on September 7, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Konopka, Zenon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd January 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Niagara Falls , Ontario , Canada