Colby Genoway
| Colby Genoway | |||
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Genoway with LHC in Villars on February 21, 2014 during their friendly game against Briançon. | |||
| Born |
December 12, 1983 Morden, Manitoba, Canada | ||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) | ||
| Weight | 198 lb (90 kg; 14 st 2 lb) | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Shoots | Right | ||
| NLA team Former teams |
HC Fribourg-Gottéron Ilves Tampere HockeyAllsvenskan Mora IK Czech Extraliga HC Pardubice KHL Medvescak Zagreb | ||
| NHL Draft | Undrafted | ||
| Playing career | 2005–present | ||
Colby Genoway (born December 12, 1983) is a Canadian professional ice hockey center. He is currently playing for HC Fribourg-Gottéron of the NLA
Playing career
On July 11, 2006, he was signed by the Anaheim Ducks of the NHL as a free agent to a 2-year contract.[1] A few months later, on January 24, 2007, he was traded to the Vancouver Canucks for Joe Rullier.[2] However, he never got to play with either of these two teams in the NHL. He played for the Hartford Wolf Pack, the Portland Pirates and the Manitoba Moose in the AHL instead. He went on to play in Sweden, Finland and Czech Republic before making his way to Switzerland in 2010.[3]
Lausanne Hockey Club
Genoway made his National League A debut playing with HC Lugano during the 2010–11 NLA season.[4] At the end of that season, he signed a 3-year contract with Lausanne [5] as they were still playing in National League B. They went on to win the National League B title and to get promoted in April 2013, upsetting SC Langnau Tigers in the promotion-relegation game, after many unfruitful attempts including 2 promotion-relegation games lost to EHC Biel over 8 years spent playing in second division.[6] That year, Genoway was also nominated for the Best National League B Player 2013 award at the Swiss Golden Player Award ceremony in Basle, Switzerland.[7]
In 2013/14, he tallied 26 points in 42 games [8] and contributed to LHC clinching a playoff spot in the Swiss elite league for the first time in the club's history.[9] They went on to push the top seed ZSC Lions to a seventh game that LHC lost 1-0 in Zurich.[10] Genoway got two assists in that series.[11] On March 27, 2014, Lausanne HC announced that Genoway's contract had been automatically renewed after the promotion in April 2013.[12] On April 2, 2014, the club released a statement regarding the state of the current contracts and additions to the roster for the 2014/15 season. That statement confirmed that the promotion had actually granted Genoway a 2-year extension to his deal (and not only one as previously stated).[13]
Genoway played his first game of the 2014/15 season on November 11, 2014 after a long wrist injury that necessitated surgery.[14][15] He played 6 games in a row (while Ossi Louhivaara[16] and Juha-Pekka Hytönen[17] were sidelined) before getting injured again.[18] When Daniel Bång suffered a concussion, Genoway got to play a seventh game[19] and scored his first point of the season (an assist) in the win over Biel (3-2) on January 25, 2015.[20] On February 20, 2015, he scored his first (and only) goal of the season, once again against Biel in yet another 3-2 win.[21] As Bång's injury proved to be season-ending, Genoway also got to play most of the 7-game playoff series against Bern. LHC ended up losing that close matchup 2-1 in overtime in the deciding game.[22] Interviewed by local newspaper 24 Heures during the 2014/15 playoffs, Genoway said that he'd like to stay at the club until the end of his contract in 2016 but not as a fifth wheel among imports (behind Hytönen, Bång, Louhivaara and Harri Pesonen) as was the case at the time.[23]
KHL and return to Switzerland
Genoway ended up leaving Switzerland to join Medvescak Zagreb in the KHL on a one-year contract at the end of that season.[24] On February 2, 2016, after Medvescak didn't qualify for the playoffs, he signed a deal for the rest of the season with HC Fribourg-Gottéron in the NLA he had left a few months before.[25] According to Fribourg newspaper La Liberté, the Canadian center's contract with Zagreb is still valid and he should therefore start next season in the KHL in spite of the original announcement that he had only been signed for a year.[26]
International play
In December 2014, Colby Genoway was selected by head coach Guy Boucher to represent Canada at the Spengler Cup in Davos for the second time after 2013.[27] Genoway tallied two assists[28] and Team Canada ended up losing to Genève-Servette in the semifinals.[29]
Career statistics
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 1999–00 | Winkler Flyers | MJHL | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2000–01 | Winkler Flyers | MJHL | 61 | 23 | 42 | 65 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2002–03 | University of North Dakota | WCHA | 31 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 24 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2003–04 | University of North Dakota | WCHA | 40 | 11 | 23 | 34 | 22 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2004–05 | University of North Dakota | WCHA | 42 | 13 | 31 | 44 | 38 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2004–05 | Hartford Wolf Pack | AHL | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2005–06 | Hartford Wolf Pack | AHL | 77 | 26 | 35 | 61 | 78 | 13 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 10 | ||
| 2006–07 | Portland Pirates | AHL | 41 | 8 | 21 | 29 | 36 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2006–07 | Manitoba Moose | AHL | 32 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | ||
| 2007–08 | Manitoba Moose | AHL | 67 | 15 | 34 | 49 | 37 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 6 | ||
| 2008–09 | Ilves Tampere | SM-liiga | 11 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2008–09 | Mora IK | Swe.1 | 30 | 13 | 17 | 30 | 61 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2009–10 | Ilves Tampere | SM-liiga | 32 | 4 | 24 | 28 | 46 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2009–10 | HC Pardubice | Czech Extraliga | 10 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2010–11 | HC Lugano | NLA | 41 | 12 | 18 | 30 | 80 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2011–12 | Lausanne HC | NLB | 33 | 15 | 34 | 49 | 48 | 15 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 14 | ||
| 2012–13 | Lausanne HC | NLB | 39 | 24 | 42 | 66 | 58 | 11 | 6 | 18 | 24 | 10 | ||
| 2013–14 | Lausanne HC | NLA | 42 | 7 | 19 | 26 | 44 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 10 | ||
| 2014–15 | Lausanne HC | NLA | 15 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| NLA totals | 98 | 20 | 42 | 62 | 126 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 10 | ||||
| AHL totals | 221 | 50 | 101 | 151 | 163 | 32 | 5 | 13 | 18 | 22 | ||||
References
- ↑ http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/teams/players/bio/?id=5995
- ↑ http://canucks.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=451817
- ↑ http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=11507
- ↑ Eliteprospects.com - 2010–11 HC Lugano player statistics
- ↑ L'attaquant canadien du HC Lugano Colby Genoway (27 ans) signe un contrat de 3 ans à Lausanne, en LNB - rts.ch - sport
- ↑ Hockey sur glace: Le Lausanne HC est promu en LNA - News Sports: Hockey - lematin.ch
- ↑ Actualité - Swiss Golden Player Award: les nominés | Planète Hockey, toute l'actu du Hockey sur glace
- ↑ http://www.lausannehc.ch/fr/46-17-GENOWAY-Colby
- ↑ Hockey sur glace: Lausanne s'offre un quart de finale historique face à Zurich - News Sports: Lausanne HC - 24heures.ch
- ↑ Hockey sur glace: De tout petits détails mettent un terme à la fantastique aventure du LHC - News Sports: Lausanne HC - 24heures.ch
- ↑ Statistiques - Lausanne HC
- ↑ http://www.planetehockey.com/news-lhc-colby-genoway-encore-sous-contrat,45420.html
- ↑ http://www.lausannehc.ch/fr/49-293-3-arrivees-au-lausanne-hockey-club-pour-la-saison-2014-2015
- ↑ http://www.planetehockey.com/news-nouvelle-operation-en-vue-pour-genoway,47489.html
- ↑ http://www.24heures.ch/sports/lhc/lhc-s-incline-43-face-rapperswil/story/15569111
- ↑ http://www.planetehockey.com/news-ossi-louhivaara-ecope-de-quatre-matches,48897.html
- ↑ http://www.planetehockey.com/news-gshc-lhc-almond-patiente-hytonen-apte,49209.html
- ↑ http://www.planetehockey.com/news-lhc-colby-genoway-absent-contre-zurich,49115.html
- ↑ http://www.planetehockey.com/news-lhc-bang-commotionne-genoway-jouera,50351.html
- ↑ http://www.planetehockey.com/article-le-lhc-s-envole-et-laisse-le-hcb-avec-ses-questions,3906.html
- ↑ http://www.24heures.ch/sports/lhc/Debuts-victorieux-pour-Martin-St-Pierre-au-LHC/story/29719087
- ↑ http://www.24heures.ch/sports/lhc/lhc-exploit/story/26860993
- ↑ http://www.24heures.ch/sports/lhc/encombrant-surnumeraire-devenu-vrai-atout-lhc/story/29507401
- ↑ http://www.lematin.ch/sports/hockey/genoway-quitte-lhc-zagreb/story/18471603
- ↑ http://www.rts.ch/sport/hockey/lna/7465251-hockey-colby-genoway-finira-la-saison-avec-gotteron.html
- ↑ http://www.swisshabs.ch/colby-genoway/
- ↑ http://stats.hockeycanada.ca/roster/show/1447132?subseason=190559&_ga=1.82566879.833593462.1422216886
- ↑ http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=11507
- ↑ http://stats.hockeycanada.ca/page/show/1447125?subseason=190559&tab=content
External links
- Colby Genoway's career statistics at EliteProspects.com
- Colby Genoway's career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database