Matt Duchene

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
CanadaCanada  Matt Duchene Ice hockey player
Matt Duchene
Date of birth January 16, 1991
place of birth Peterborough , Ontario , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 91 kg
position center
number # 95
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2009 , 1st round, 3rd position
Colorado Avalanche
Career stations
2006-2007 Central Ontario Wolves
2007-2009 Brampton Battalion
2009-2017 Colorado Avalanche
2012 Frölunda
HC Ambrì-Piotta HC
2017-2019 Ottawa Senators
2019 Columbus Blue Jackets
since 2019 Nashville Predators

Matthew "Matt" Duchene (born January 16, 1991 in Peterborough , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Nashville Predators from the National Hockey League since July 2019 . Previously, the center was active for almost eight years for the Colorado Avalanche , which had selected him in the NHL Entry Draft 2009 in third overall position, as well as the Ottawa Senators and Columbus Blue Jackets . With the Canadian national team , he won gold medals at the 2014 Winter Olympics and at the 2015 and 2016 World Championships .

Career

Duchene in the Colorado Avalanche jersey

Duchene grew up in Haliburton in the province of Ontario and first played for the Central Ontario Wolves in the junior junior league in Ontario before the striker was selected by the Brampton Battalion at the OHL Priority Selection 2007 . For this Duchene was the first time in the 2007/08 season in the Ontario Hockey League on the ice. In the two years in Brampton he achieved good statistical values with 61 goals and 68 assists . Together with his teammate Cody Hodgson , he led the Brampton Battalion in the 2008/09 season up to the OHL final. There the team lost to the later Memorial Cup winner Windsor Spitfires .

Before the 2009 NHL Entry Draft , the tech-savvy striker was compared to former NHL players such as Steve Yzerman and Joe Sakic due to his distinctive two-way play with qualities on both the offensive and the defensive by some experts and journalists . Duchene himself describes the latter as his role model alongside Peter Forsberg . He was rated by the scouts leading up to the draft as the second best North American youth player behind John Tavares . On the day of the draft, he was selected in Montréal by the Colorado Avalanche - the team he had raved about as an adolescent - in the first round in overall third position.

He scored his first assist in his very first game. His first goal was scored on October 17 against the Avalanche's longtime rival Detroit Red Wings . In December 2009, Matt Duchene was named Rookie of the Month by the NHL after scoring five goals and eight assists in 14 games. Duchene finished his first season in the NHL as the best scorer in the Rookie category and was instrumental in the play-off entry of the Avalanche, the earlier in the year completed the worst season in their history and the last place in the Western Conference took . In the Western Conference quarterfinals Colorado was eliminated after six games against the San Jose Sharks . Duchene was used in all Colorado games and scored three assists.

Following the season, the center was elected to the NHL All-Rookie Team and nominated together with Detroit goalkeeper Jimmy Howard and Tyler Myers for the Calder Memorial Trophy , which is awarded annually to the best rookie. The trophy, however, went to Defender Myers of the Buffalo Sabers .

In his sophomore year as a professional, Matt Duchene was first invited to the NHL All-Star Game , having scored 18 goals and 25 assists in the first 43 games of the 2010/11 season . The striker scored once in this game. In addition, he was the first player ever to be awarded a penalty in the history of the All-Star Game . His shot attempt was stopped by goalkeeper Henrik Lundqvist . The Colorado Avalanche missed the play-offs this season. Duchene ended the season as Colorado's most successful scorer with a total of 67 points in 80 games.

In the 2011/12 season , the offensive player was only able to play 58 out of 82 possible games due to injuries to his left knee and right ankle. On October 2, 2012, he signed a two-month contract with Frölunda HC from the Swedish Elitserien due to the lockout before the start of the 2012/13 NHL season . He also completed four games for HC Ambri-Piotta in the Swiss National League A .

In the course of the following years Duchene established himself as one of the best scorers of his team, so during his time in Colorado no player scored nearly as many points for the Avalanche as the Canadian. However, at the latest with the sportingly indisputable 2016/17 season, the transfer rumors about him, which finally resulted in a transfer from Duchene to the Ottawa Senators in November 2017 . In a larger swap deal, the Nashville Predators third party received Kyle Turris from the Senators and in return gave up Samuel Girard , Wladislaw Kamenew and a second-round vote for the 2018 NHL Entry Draft . Ottawa himself contributed Andrew Hammond , Shane Bowers as well as a conditional first-round right to vote in the 2018 draft and a third-round right to vote in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft , so that the Avalanche received a total of four players and three draft picks for Duchene. Ottawa could keep the first-round voting rights for the 2018 draft if it was a pick in the top 10 and instead send the voting rights for the first round to Colorado the following year. This happened as a result, so the Senators voted in fourth position in 2018 and gave up the right to vote for 2019.

The idea of ​​the Canadian capital city club to build a powerful team around Duchene was broken up in the summer of 2018 at the latest. After another weak year, it was not possible to tie the top performers Mike Hoffman and Erik Karlsson in the long term, who were then transferred to other teams. Finally, Duchene himself was handed over to the Columbus Blue Jackets together with Julius Bergman a few days before the trade deadline . In return, they sent Vitali Abramow , Jonathan Davidsson and two conditional first-round voting rights to Ottawa as compensation. The right to vote for the 2019 NHL Entry Draft was lottery protected , so it would have been postponed by one year if it had made it into the top three places via the draft lottery - this did not happen. The second option, which Ottawa only receives if Duchene signs a new contract in Columbus, applies to the NHL Entry Draft 2020 , but would also be postponed by one year in the former case. In addition, with Mark Stone and Ryan Dzingel , who also moved to Columbus, almost all of the remaining top performers left the Senators, so that the team's sporting “sell-out” was more or less completed.

With the Blue Jackets, Duchene ended the season and then moved to the Nashville Predators as a free agent in July 2019 , with whom he signed a seven-year contract that should earn him an average annual salary of eight million US dollars.

International

On the international stage, Duchene represented the Canadian national team at the U18 Junior World Cup in 2008 in Kazan, Russia . The center was used in all seven Canadians games, scoring five goals and three assists. With the team he won the gold medal after an 8-0 final victory against the Russian junior selection . At the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament a few months later, he and his team took first place again after beating the Russians in the final. The center made its international professional debut at the 2010 Ice Hockey World Championship in Germany . A medal rank was missed, however, the team was eliminated from the tournament in the quarter-finals against the Russians. At the World Cup in the following year , the striker was again in the Canadians' squad, but as in the previous year, the team was eliminated in the quarter-finals against Russia. Duchene was used in all seven games and remained without a scorer point in this tournament . In 2014 he became Olympic champion with the Canadian national team. In 2015 and 2016 he won gold medals at world championships.

He also represented his home country at the World Cup of Hockey 2016 and won the gold medal there with the team.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2006/07 Central Ontario Wolves OMHA 52 69 37 106 36
2007/08 Brampton Battalion OHL 64 30th 20th 50 -2 22nd 5 1 1 2 -3 10
2008/09 Brampton Battalion OHL 57 31 48 79 +32 42 21st 14th 12 26th +1 21st
2009/10 Colorado Avalanche NHL 81 24 31 55 +1 16 6th 0 3 3 -2 0
2010/11 Colorado Avalanche NHL 80 27 40 67 -8th 33 - - - - - -
2011/12 Colorado Avalanche NHL 58 14th 14th 28 –11 8th - - - - - -
2012/13 Frölunda HC Elitserien 19th 4th 10 14th +10 12 - - - - - -
2012/13 HC Ambrì-Piotta NLA 4th 2 3 5 +2 2 - - - - - -
2012/13 Colorado Avalanche NHL 47 17th 26th 43 -12 12 - - - - - -
2013/14 Colorado Avalanche NHL 71 23 47 70 +8 19th 2 0 3 3 -1 2
2014/15 Colorado Avalanche NHL 82 21st 34 55 +3 16 - - - - - -
2015/16 Colorado Avalanche NHL 76 30th 29 59 -8th 24 - - - - - -
2016/17 Colorado Avalanche NHL 77 18th 23 41 -34 12 - - - - - -
2017/18 Colorado Avalanche NHL 14th 4th 6th 10 +1 4th - - - - - -
2017/18 Ottawa Senators NHL 68 23 26th 49 -23 14th - - - - - -
2018/19 Ottawa Senators NHL 50 27 31 58 -2 6th - - - - - -
2018/19 Columbus Blue Jackets NHL 23 4th 8th 12 -1 2 10 5 5 10 +4 0
2019/20 Nashville Predators NHL 66 13 29 42 -4 24 4th 1 1 2 -4 2
OHL total 121 61 68 129 +30 64 26th 15th 13 28 -2 31
NHL overall 793 245 344 589 -90 190 22nd 6th 12 18th -3 4th

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2008 Canada WHC 1st place, gold 6th 4th 6th 10 8th
2008 Canada U18 World Cup 1st place, gold 7th 5 3 8th 6th
2008 Canada HIMT 1st place, gold 4th 1 4th 5 2
2010 Canada WM 7th place 7th 4th 3 7th 0
2011 Canada WM 5th place 7th 0 0 0 2
2013 Canada WM 5th place 8th 4th 1 5 0
2014 Canada Olympia 1st place, gold 4th 0 0 0 0
2015 Canada WM 1st place, gold 10 4th 8th 12 2
2016 Canada WM 1st place, gold 10 5 5 10 2
2016 Canada World cup 1st place, gold 6th 2 2 4th 2
2017 Canada WM 2nd place, silver 10 1 0 1 0
Juniors overall 17th 10 13 23 16
Men overall 62 20th 19th 39 8th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Commons : Matt Duchene  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jeff Richardson: Matt Duchene: An Av's Fan Dreaming Of A Stanley Cup. In: milehighsticking.com. April 24, 2015, accessed January 5, 2018 .
  2. ^ Adrian Dater : Duchene expected for Avs' No. 3 pick. The Denver Post , June 23, 2009, accessed April 15, 2012 .
  3. ^ A year after finishing last in the West, Avs return to playoffs with young roster. The Canadian Press , April 12, 2010, accessed April 15, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Dave Lozo : Lundqvist turns away first ASG penalty shot. National Hockey League , January 30, 2011, accessed April 15, 2012 .
  5. ^ Adrian Dater : Avalanche's Matt Duchene learning to live, play with injuries. The Denver Post , April 3, 2012, accessed April 15, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Peter Gyllander: Kanadensiske centers Matt Duchene till Frölunda. Frölunda HC , October 2, 2012, accessed October 3, 2012 (Swedish).
  7. ^ Dan Rosen: Duchene traded to Senators by Avalanche. nhl.com, November 5, 2017, accessed November 6, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Josh Wegman: Report: 1st-round pick Sens sent to Avs in Duchene deal is top-10 protected. thescore.com, accessed June 23, 2018 .
Squad of the Nashville Predators in the season 2019/20

Goalkeeper: Pekka Rinne  | Juuse Saros  
defender: Mattias Ekholm  ( A ) | Ryan Ellis  ( A ) | Dante Fabbro  | Korbinian Holzer  | Roman Josi  ( C ) | Yannick Weber  
Attacker: Viktor Arvidsson  | Nick Bonino  | Daniel Carr  | Matt Duchene  | Filip Forsberg  ( A ) | Mikael Granlund  | Rocco Grimaldi  | Calle Järnkrok  | Ryan Johansen  ( A ) | Colton Sissons  | Craig Smith  | Kyle Turris  | Austin Watson  
Head Coach:  John Hynes    Assistant  Coach : Dan Lambert  | Dan Muse    General Manager:  David Poile

personal data
SURNAME Duchene, Matt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duchene, Matthew (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Peterborough , Ontario