What is Jason Jaspers?
{{Orphan|date=December 2010}} {{Infobox ice hockey player | image = Jason Jaspers 1.jpg | image_size = 120px | position = [[Centre (ice hockey)|Center]] | shoots = Left | height_ft = 5 | height_in = 11 | weight_lb = 207 | team = [[Kölner Haie]] | league = [[Deutsche Eishockey Liga|DEL]] | former_teams = [[Phoenix Coyotes]]<br>[[Adler Mannheim]] | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1981|4|8|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Thunder Bay]], [[Ontario|ON]], [[Canada|CAN]] | career_start = 2001 | draft = 71st overall | draft_year = 1999 | draft_team = [[Phoenix Coyotes]] }} '''Jason Matthew Jaspers''' (born April 8, 1981 in [[Thunder Bay]], [[Ontario]]), is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[professional]] [[ice hockey]] [[centre (ice hockey)|centre]] who is currently playing for [[Kölner Haie]] (the Cologne Sharks) of the [[Deutsche Eishockey Liga]]. ==Playin career== Jaspers was drafted 71st overall by the [[Phoenix Coyotes]] in the [[1999 NHL Entry Draft]]. He was [[wikt:drafted|drafted]] from the [[Sudbury Wolves]] of the [[Ontario Hockey League]]. Jaspers made his professional start in the [[2001–02 NHL season|2001–02]] season with the Coyotes affiliate the [[Springfield Falcons]] of the [[American Hockey League]]. Jaspers made his [[National Hockey League]] (NHL) start in the same season, after he received his first NHL assignment on January 20, 2002. Jaspers then spent the next four years primarily with the Falcons of the [[American Hockey League]]. Unable to make the NHL regularly he was traded by the Coyotes to the [[Tampa Bay Lightning]] for [[Jarrod Skalde]] on July 25, 2005. Jason however, never played a game with the Lightning, playing for their affiliate coincidentally still the Springfield Falcons. Jaspers finally left the Falcons, ranking second in all-time appearances, in the 2006–07 season when he signed with [[Germany|German]] team [[Adler Mannheim]], on July 6, 2006. After three years with Adler Mannheim signed on 6 April 2009 with [[Kölner Haie]]. == Personal life == In July 2008 Jason married his highschool