Oren Eizenman (; born March 27, 1985) is an

Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

i-Canadian former professional

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player. He last played for the

Nippon Paper Cranes The were an Asia League Ice Hockey team based in Kushiro City in Hokkaidō, Japan. History The club was founded as Jūjō Paper Kushiro Ice Hockey Club in 1949. They adopted the new name Nippon Paper Cranes in 1993 when Jūjō Paper and Sanyō K ...

in the

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(ALIH).

Biography

Eizenman was born in

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, Canada, to Ronit and Moshe Eizenman, and is Jewish.RPI Engineers – Oren Eizenman – 2006 Men's Hockey
/ref> He spent some of his childhood living in a suburb of Tel Aviv.">"Israels ice man: Oren Eizenman feels at home playing minor league hockey in Stockton" – ''J''
/ref> His father is a University of Toronto professor and an expert on eye tracking, and his mother is a teacher. He is the brother of ice hockey players Alon (now a lawyer) and Erez Eizenman (now a management consultant), all three of whom have played for the Israeli national team. Eizenman played hockey for the

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in the

Ontario Provincial Junior Hockey League The Ontario Junior Hockey League (OJHL) is a Junior A ice hockey league in Ontario, Canada. It is under the supervision of the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) and the Canadian Junior Hockey League (CJHL). The league dates back to 1954 where i ...

(OPJHL). He played two years on the varsity hockey team at Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto. He played college hockey for RPI. As a freshman in 2003-04, he was seventh in the ECAC in freshmen scoring, was named to the ECAC Weekly Honor Roll twice, was ECAC Rookie of the Week once, and was named to the ECAC All-Rookie Team. In 2005-06 he was ECACHL Weekly Honor Roll four times, and ECACHL All-Academic. In 2006-07, he was ECACHL Weekly Honor Roll and ECACHL All-Academic. Eizenman's professional career began with the Fresno Falcons of the

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. He would spend most of his career between that league and the AHL before finishing his career in Asia.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

Personal life

Eizenman was married to Jacqueline Frisch on June 26, 2016.

Awards and honours

References

External links

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