Janine Weber | |||
---|---|---|---|
Born | Innsbruck, Austria | 19 June 1991||
Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) | ||
Position | Forward | ||
Shoots | Left | ||
PHF team Former teams | Connecticut Whale | ||
National team | Austria | ||
Playing career | 2004–present |
Janine Weber (born 19 June 1991) is an Austrian professional ice hockey player and member of the Austrian national team, currently playing in the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF) with the Connecticut Whale. She previously played with the Boston Pride and the New York Riveters of the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL; rebranded as PHF in 2021), the Boston Blades of the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL), and the EHV Sabres Wien and Ravens Salzburg of the Elite Women's Hockey League (EWHL). With the Blades, Weber scored the game-winning goal of the 2015 Clarkson Cup.
Weber was born and raised in Innsbruck, the capital city of Tyrol in the Austrian Alps. She began playing ice hockey at 8 years old and developed in the youth ice hockey department of HC Innsbruck, playing on the club's boys' teams until turning 17. [1] She made her senior women's club debut at age 14 with the DEHC Red Angels Innsbruck in the Women's Ice Hockey Bundesliga (DEBL) and the Austrian Championship . With the Red Angels, she won the DEBL Championship in the 2005–06 season.
She played most of the 2006–07 season with EC The Ravens Salzburg in the Elite Women's Hockey League, finishing fourth in team scoring, but also appeared in a small number of DEBL and Austrian Championship games with the Red Angels. The 2007–08 and 2008–09 seasons were played entirely with The Ravens in the EWHL and Austrian Championship.
In the 2009–10 season, she moved to Vienna and joined the EHV Sabres Wien of the EWHL and Austrian Championship. She played with the Sabres for four seasons, winning the Austrian Championship four consecutive times and claiming the EWHL Championship in 2011 and 2012. The 2011–12 season was the most productive of her career – across 18 games played, she topped EWHL statistics charts with 29 goals, 46 points, and a +31 plus-minus.
As a teen, Weber had dreamed of playing college ice hockey in the United States, so when an American teammate from the Sabres put her in touch with the Providence Friars women's ice hockey program, she jumped at the opportunity. With her undergraduate studies already completed in Austria, she was eligible to play one year in the NCAA as a graduate student and joined the Friars for the 2013–14 season. She made her NCAA debut on 4 October 2013 against Union College, and logged her first point in the same game. [2] Weber scored the game-winning overtime goal for Providence in the 19th Annual Mayors Cup, a yearly ice hockey match between the two Providence-based NCAA programs, the Providence Friars and the Brown Bears. [3]
Selected by the Boston Blades in the 2014 CWHL Draft, Weber made her CWHL debut on 15 November 2014, logging her first career goal in a 6–2 win against the Toronto Furies. [4] Most of the season was spent skating on the third line with fellow rookies Corinne Buie (a former Friars teammate) and Jordan Smelker. Scoring the Clarkson Cup-winning goal in 2015, Weber became the first European player to accomplish the feat and the second European player to win the Clarkson Cup, following Katka Mrázová who won with the Blades in 2013. [5] The stick with which she scored the Cup-winning goal was donated to the Hockey Hall of Fame. [6]
In the spring of 2015, Weber attended the training camp of the Connecticut Whale, part of the newly established National Women's Hockey League. She ultimately signed with the New York Riveters, making her not just the first player in to sign with the club in franchise history, but the first player in the history of the NWHL to be signed to a contract. [7]
Weber was selected to the 1st NWHL All-Star Game, becoming the first European to compete in the All-Star Game. She would score a goal in a 4-0 win on 20 November 2016, against the Connecticut Whale, which was the first shutout in Riveters history. [8]
Following two seasons with the Riveters, Weber signed with the Boston Pride for the 2017–18 season as a free agent. [9]
After sitting out the 2019–20 season Weber signed with the Connecticut Whale in January 2020. She was named an alternate captain in the 2021–22 season.
Weber made her international debut with the Austrian national team at the 2008 IIHF Women's World Championship Division II, contributing an assist to Austria’s promotion to Division I.
The following season, she made her international junior debut with the Austrian national under-18 team at the inaugural IIHF U18 Women's World Championship tournament: the 2008 U18 Women's World Championship. She served as team captain and led the team in scoring with 3 goals and 2 assists for 5 points in four games. At the 2013 IIHF Women's World Championship Division I Group A tournament, Weber led all skaters in scoring, notching 4 goals and 7 points. [10]
Weber earned her Matura at the Reithmann Gymnasium in her home city of Innsbruck in 2009. She completed undergraduate studies while living in Vienna during 2009 to 2013 and holds a Master of Education from Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island.
She and her husband, Bruce Messier, reside in Rhode Island.
In 2022, she began working as development coach with the Warwick, Rhode Island-based junior ice hockey team HC Rhode Island of the Eastern Hockey League (EHL).
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
2004–05 | Red Angels Innsbruck | DEBL | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
2005–06 | Red Angels Innsbruck | DEBL | 3 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
2006–07 | Ravens Salzburg | EWHL | 21 | 26 | 14 | 40 | 33 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
2006–07 | Red Angels Innsbruck | DEBL | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
2007–08 | Ravens Salzburg | EWHL | 19 | 20 | 20 | 40 | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
2008–09 | Ravens Salzburg | EWHL | 11 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 6 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
2009–10 | Sabres Wien | EWHL | 14 | 15 | 11 | 26 | 8 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
2010–11 | Sabres Wien | EWHL | 6 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
2011–12 | Sabres Wien | EWHL | 18 | 29 | 17 | 46 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
2012–13 | Sabres Wien | EWHL | 21 | 23 | 20 | 43 | 10 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
2013–14 | Providence Friars | NCAA | 35 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 22 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
2014–15 | Boston Blades | CWHL | 17 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | ||
2015–16 | New York Riveters | NWHL | 18 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
2016–17 | New York Riveters | NWHL | 17 | 10 | 12 | 22 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||
2017–18 | Boston Pride | NWHL | 13 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
2019–20 | Connecticut Whale | NWHL | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
2020–21 | Connecticut Whale | NWHL | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
2021–22 | Connecticut Whale | PHF | 16 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
DEBL totals | 6 | 9 | 5 | 14 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
EWHL totals | 110 | 129 | 91 | 220 | 65 | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
PHF totals | 76 | 21 | 34 | 55 | 26 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
Jessica "Jess" Koizumi (COY-Zoo-Mee) is an American ice hockey coach and player, currently serving as the associate head coach of the Vermont Catamounts women's ice hockey program. She won a gold medal as a member of the United States national women's ice hockey team at the 2008 IIHF Women's World Championship. During her playing career, Koizumi played with the Minnesota Whitecaps of the Western Women's Hockey League (WWHL), the Montreal Stars and the Boston Blades of the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL), and the Connecticut Whale of the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF). She scored the first goal in PHF history in the league’s inaugural game, which featured the Whale facing off against the New York Riveters.
Kateřina Mrázová is a Czech ice hockey forward and a member of the Czech national team, currently playing with Ottawa of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL). Known for her stickhandling skill, she was the first European player to win the Clarkson Cup, winning the championship with the Boston Blades in 2013, and the first Czech player to score a goal in the National Women's Hockey League.
Rachel Llanes, also known by the Chinese name Lin Ni, is an American ice hockey player and member of the Chinese national ice hockey team. She most recently played in the 2021–22 season of the Zhenskaya Hockey League (ZhHL) with the KRS Vanke Rays.
The Premier Hockey Federation (PHF) was a women's professional ice hockey league in the United States and Canada that operated from March 2015 until June 2023. The league was established in 2015 as the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL), comprising four league-owned teams. Over time, some teams gained independent ownership and the number of teams grew to seven; teams during the league's final season in 2022–23 included the Boston Pride, Buffalo Beauts, Connecticut Whale, Metropolitan Riveters, Minnesota Whitecaps, Montreal Force, and Toronto Six. The Isobel Cup was awarded annually to the league playoff champion.
The Metropolitan Riveters were a professional women's ice hockey team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, with home games at the American Dream Meadowlands ice rink.
The Connecticut Whale were a professional ice hockey team based in the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF). They played in Simsbury, Connecticut at the International Skating Center of Connecticut. The team was established in 2015 as one of the four charter franchises of the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL), which became the PHF in 2021. Their name and colors paid homage to the Hartford Whalers, a former NHL and WHA franchise based in Connecticut. The team folded along with the PHF in 2023 as part of the creation of a new, unified women's league, the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL).
Blake Alexis Bolden is an American ice hockey player and scout for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). On October 11, 2015, she became the first African-American player to compete in the National Women's Hockey League. She won the 2015 Clarkson Cup with the Boston Blades of the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL). In 2016, she won the Isobel Cup with the Boston Pride of the NWHL. Blake is also a reoccurring contributed on ESPN's flagship NHL television show "The Point".
Kaleigh Fratkin is a Canadian women's ice hockey player with PWHL Boston of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL). The second-longest tenured player and leading scorer among defenders in PHF history, she was the first Canadian player to sign a contract in the league, is a five-time PHF all-star, and is a two-time PHF Defender of the Year in 2020 and 2021. She was also a member of the Boston Pride roster that captured the 2021 and 2022 Isobel Cup, and was one of three 2023 PHF All-Star captains. Previous to the joining the NWHL, she won the Clarkson Cup in 2015 and was the first girl to play boys' midget AAA hockey in British Columbia.
Hayley Marie Moore is an American ice hockey executive and former player, currently the vice president of hockey operations of the American Hockey League (AHL). She previously served as the deputy commissioner of the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL) from 2017 to 2019, general manager of the Boston Pride of the NWHL from 2015 to 2017, and president of the Boston Pride from 2019 to 2021.
The Providence Friars represented Providence College in Women's Hockey East Association play during the 2014–15 NCAA Division I women's ice hockey season.
Madison Packer is an American professional ice hockey forward for New York of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL)
Micaela Long is an American professional ice hockey player, most recently for the Connecticut Whale of the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF). Long previously played for the Boston Blades of the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL).
Kiira Dosdall-Arena is an American professional ice hockey player, who currently plays with the Metropolitan Riveters of the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF). She has previously won two Elite Women's Hockey League championships and one Isobel Cup, and is the seventh longest tenured player in PHF history, one of the few still active from the league's inaugural season.
The 2019–20 NWHL season was the fifth season of the National Women's Hockey League. All five teams from the previous season returned: the Boston Pride, Buffalo Beauts, Connecticut Whale, Metropolitan Riveters, and the Minnesota Whitecaps.
Kate Leary is an American ice hockey forward, currently playing for the Metropolitan Riveters of the Premier Hockey Federation.
Rebecca Morse is an American ice hockey defender, currently playing for the Connecticut Whale of the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF).
The Toronto Six was a professional women's ice hockey team in Toronto, Ontario, playing out of Canlan Ice Sports – York. They were one of two Canadian teams in the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF) along with the Montreal Force, and the first expansion team to join the league since the collapse of the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL) in 2019. The team was founded in 2020 with their inaugural regular season held in Lake Placid, New York, followed by the Isobel Cup playoffs in Brighton, Massachusetts.
Lenka Čurmová is a Slovak ice hockey defender and member of the Slovak national team, currently playing in the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF) with the Metropolitan Riveters. She and national team teammate Iveta Klimášová were the first Slovak players to play in the PHF.
Bray Ketchum is an American former ice hockey player and executive. She played for the Metropolitan Riveters of the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF) and the Boston Blades of the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL), winning the Isobel Cup and the Clarkson Cup respectively, before ending her playing career and serving as general manager of the Connecticut Whale during the 2019–20 NWHL season.
Tatiana Rafter is a Canadian ice hockey coach and retired forward. During her playing career, she played in the European Women's Hockey League (EWHL), the Zhenskaya Hockey League (ZhHL), and the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL).
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)