Jack Skille

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Position	Right Wing
Shoots	Right
Height Weight	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) 198 lb (90 kg/14 st 2 lb)
NHL Team	Chicago Blackhawks
Nationality	United States
Born	May 19, 1987 (1987-05-19) (age 21), Madison, WS, USA
NHL Draft	7th overall, 2005 Chicago Blackhawks
Pro career	2007 – present

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Jack Skille is helped off the ice by a team trainer and Jamie McBain (2) on October 13.

Jack Skille (born May 19, 1987 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American ice hockey player for the Rockford IceHogs of the American Hockey League. He was a member of the Wisconsin Badgers men's hockey team. The highly-regarded forward was drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks with the seventh overall pick in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Skille was the third in the group of eight U.S.-born players that were selected in the first round, surpassing the previous record of seven Americans selected in the first round in 1986 and 2003.

Skille, a Madison, Wisconsin native, is the son of Lee and Carrie. Father Lee skated at Wisconsin in the mid-1970s. Skille has two sisters, Maggie (20) and Claire (13). He attended Huron High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Verona Area High School in Verona, Wis.

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Jack Skille scores the game-winning goal against Cornell University.

In his freshman campaign as a Badger, he made an immediate impact. He lead all Badger freshmen in scoring with 12 goals and 7 assists for a total 19 points. He is the eighth-leading point getter for the whole team. Skille’s goal 11:13 into the third overtime propelled the No. 1 seed Wisconsin men’s hockey team past Cornell 1-0 Sunday in the NCAA Midwest Regional Final at the Resch Center and into the team’s first Frozen Four since 1992.^[1]

His Sophomore year, Skille suffered an injury that made him sit out a good portion of the season. After the Badgers failed to qualify for the 2007 NCAA tournament, Skille signed with the Norfolk Admirals, the Chicago Blackhawks AHL affiliate.

Prior to joining the Badgers was a member of the USA Hockey-sponsored National Development Team. He won gold medal at the 2005 World U-18 Championship in the Czech Republic collecting a goals and three assists in six games at the championship. Skille collected 24 goals, 31 assists and 55 points in 54 games for the U.S. Under-18 Team during 2004–05 and was whistled for 76 penalty minutes during the season. In international play as a NDTP player, Skille had tournament-best seven points to lead Team USA to first place at Four Nations Cup in Ann Arbor, Mich. and led tournament with eight points as U.S. team placed first at Five Nations Tournament in Tjorn, Sweden. He split the 2003–04 season with the U.S. Under-17 Team and U.S. Under-18 Team, playing in 61 games total, posted 25 goals, 19 assists and 44 points to go along with 61 penalty minutes. He also had a goal and an assist to help U.S. Under-18 Team to silver at 2004 World U-18 Championship in Minsk, Belarus. Prior to him joining the US Development Team, Skille led the Verona Area Wildcats to two WIAA State Hockey Tournament appearances. He had a total of 99 points in the two years with Verona Area.