Greg Jacina

{{Short description|Canadian ice hockey player (born 1982)}}

{{Infobox ice hockey player

| image_size = 230px

| caption = Jacina with the Rochester Americans in 2005

| alt =

| image = Greg Jacina.jpg

| team = Nottingham Panthers

| league = EIHL

| former_teams = Florida Panthers
Lukko Rauma
Tappara
VIK Västerås HK
SV Renon
Odense Bulldogs
Frederikshavn White Hawks
Rosenborg IHK

| position = Right wing

| shoots = Right

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 0

| weight_lb = 203

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1982|5|22|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Guelph, Ontario, Canada

| draft = Undrafted

| career_start = 2003

| career_end = 2015

}}

Greg Jacina (born May 22, 1982) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey Winger. He played 14 games in the National Hockey League with the Florida Panthers during the 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons, though most of his career, which lasted from 2003 to 2015, was spent in the minor leagues and then in Europe.

Biography

Jacina was born in Guelph, Ontario. As a youth, he played in the 1996 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from North York.{{cite web|url=https://www.publicationsports.com/ressources/files/439/Joueurs_Pro.pdf|title=Pee-Wee players who have reached NHL or WHA|year=2018|website=Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament|access-date=2019-02-11|archive-date=2019-03-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306085544/https://www.publicationsports.com/ressources/files/439/Joueurs_Pro.pdf|url-status=dead}} He played major junior hockey in the Ontario Hockey League, before signing as an undrafted free agent to an entry-level contract with the Florida Panthers on August 12, 2003.{{citation needed|date=February 2019}} In the Panthers organization, Jacina made his NHL debut and played in the 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons in the NHL.{{citation needed|date=February 2019}}

He signed for Lukko Rauma of the SM-liiga in Finland, for the 2007–08 season but due to injury he could not complete on game that season. He started the following 2008–09 season in Lukko before after 16 games he switched to Tappara. After 10 games in Tampere, Jacina continued his journeyman campaign in moving to VIK Västerås HK of the HockeyAllsvenskan.{{citation needed|date=February 2019}}

On May 8, 2014, Jacina agree to a one-year contract extension to remain in Notthingham of the EIHL.{{cite news | url = http://www.nottinghampost.com/Canadian-Greg-Jacina-signs-Nottingham-Panthers/story-21075590-detail/story.html | title = Canadian Greg Jacina signs on in Nottingham | newspaper = Nottingham Post | date = 2014-05-08 | accessdate = 2014-05-08 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140521040445/http://www.nottinghampost.com/Canadian-Greg-Jacina-signs-Nottingham-Panthers/story-21075590-detail/story.html | archive-date = 2014-05-21 | url-status = dead }}

Career statistics

=Regular season and playoffs=

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! colspan="5"|Regular season

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! colspan="5"|Playoffs

bgcolor="#e0e0e0"

! Season

! Team

! League

! GP !! G !! A !! Pts !! PIM

! GP !! G !! A !! Pts !! PIM

1998–99

| Orangeville Crushers

| MWJHL

| 25

13122533

| —

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| 1998–99

| Guelph Storm

| OHL

| 6

1010

| —

1999–00

| Owen Sound Platers

| OHL

| 66

12294162

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2000–01

| Owen Sound Attack

| OHL

| 57

252651101

| 4

01115
2001–02

| Owen Sound Attack

| OHL

| 33

15203564

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2001–02

| Mississauga IceDogs

| OHL

| 28

14264043

| —

2002–03

| Mississauga IceDogs

| OHL

| 56

194766104

| 5

65114
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| 2003–04

| San Antonio Rampage

| AHL

| 13

04422

| —

2003–04

| Augusta Lynx

| ECHL

| 58

152338170

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2004–05

| San Antonio Rampage

| AHL

| 78

112031150

| —

2005–06

| Florida Panthers

| NHL

| 11

0114

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2005–06

| Rochester Americans

| AHL

| 35

7411152

| —

2006–07

| Florida Panthers

| NHL

| 3

0002

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2006–07

| Rochester Americans

| AHL

| 61

15203596

| 3

0114
2008–09

| Lukko

| FIN

| 16

24620

| —

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| 2008–09

| Tappara

| FIN

| 10

10139

| —

2008–09

| Västerås IK

| SWE-2

| 14

33639

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2009–10

| Ritten/Renon

| ITA

| 37

17294682

| 15

591436
2010–11

| Odense Bulldogs

| DEN

| 38

132942118

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2011–12

| Frederikshavn White Hawks

| DEN

| 40

15243978

| 4

22410
2012–13

| Ritten/Renon

| ITA

| 41

16274391

| 7

2024
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| 2013–14

| Rosenborg IHK

| NOR

| 28

81523130

| —

2013–14

| Nottingham Panthers

| EIHL

| 23

4101432

| 2

0000
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2014–15

| Nottingham Panthers

| EIHL

| 47

131730107

| 2

0004
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! colspan="3" | AHL totals

! 187 !! 33 !! 48 !! 81 !! 420

! 3 !! 0 !! 1 !! 1 !! 4

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! colspan="3" | NHL totals

! 14 !! 0 !! 1 !! 1 !! 6

! — !! — !! — !! — !! —

References

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