Adam Cracknell

Adam Cracknell
Date of birth	July 15, 1985
place of birth	Prince Albert , Saskatchewan , Canada
size	188 cm
Weight	96 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 22
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2004 , 9th lap, 279th position Calgary Flames
Career stations
2002-2006	Kootenay Ice
2005-2006	Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben Knights
2006-2008	Las Vegas Wranglers
2007-2009	Quad City Flames
2009-2014	Peoria Rivermen Chicago Wolves
2011-2014	St. Louis Blues
2014	Los Angeles Kings
2014-2015	Columbus Blue Jackets
2015	Chicago Wolves
2015-2016	Vancouver Canucks
2016	Edmonton Oilers
2016-2017	Dallas Stars
2017	New York Rangers
2017-2018	Rocket de Laval
2018	Toronto Marlies
2018-2019	Anaheim Ducks San Diego Gulls
since 2019	Kunlun Red Star

Adam Cracknell (born July 15, 1985 in Prince Albert , Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Kunlun Red Star from the Continental Hockey League since July 2019, where he will be playing in the position of right winger .

Career

youth

Adam Cracknell started playing hockey at the age of three. At the age of 15, he and his family moved to British Columbia from his hometown of Prince Albert , Saskatchewan . There he played in the youth field in the Juan de Fuca Minor Hockey Association , a local youth league , and later for the Saanich Junior Braves . At the beginning of the 2002/03 season he joined the Kootenay Ice and played in the Western Hockey League , one of Canada's top three junior leagues.

At the Kootenay Ice he was temporarily trained by Cory Clouston and Brad Lauer , both of whom were active as coaches and players in the NHL. In his second season, Cracknell was able to draw attention to himself with 61 points from 72 games and was then selected in the final round of the NHL Entry Draft in 2004 by the Calgary Flames . He then remained two more years with the Kootenay Ice, before moving into the system of the Calgary Flames and even the end of season 2005/06 six forces in the AHL - farm team , the Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben Knights , graduated. In the AHL, however, Cracknell did not find a connection, so he was initially given to the ECHL farm team, the Las Vegas Wranglers . In his second season in Las Vegas he was with the team in the final of the Kelly Cup , but had to admit defeat to the Cincinnati Cyclones there. Although he was regularly used in the AHL in the following season, the Calgary Flames let his contract expire in the summer of 2009, so he went as a free agent in search of a new team.

St. Louis Blues

In July of the same year then took him to the St. Louis Blues under contract, where he was initially for their farm team, the Peoria Rivermen , in the AHL for use. In his first full AHL season, Cracknell came to 38 scorer points from 76 games, so he was appointed to the NHL squad of the Blues for the first time in the following season 2010/11 and on December 15, 2010 against the Detroit Red Wings for his first NHL - Use came. In March 2011, he managed his first NHL goal, also against the Red Wings. After a season that he spent almost exclusively in the AHL, he switched frequently between AHL and NHL in the 2012/13 season, where he increasingly received playing time in the NHL and in 2013 took part in the play-offs for the Stanley Cup for the first time. In the Blues he normally forms the fourth row together with Chris Porter and Ryan Reaves . Due to a pronounced physique and the associated defensive strength, but also due to the serious risk of scoring, this is one of the best fourth rows in the league and was nicknamed "CPR Line" by fans ( CPR as the acronym for the surnames of the three players and as English name for heart-lung resuscitation , cardiopulmonary resuscitation ).

After a contract extension after the end of the 2012/13 season by one year, Cracknell also spent the 2013/14 season in approximately equal parts in the AHL and NHL. With St. Louis he was eliminated in the first round of the play-offs, so he was handed over to the Chicago Wolves , the new AHL farm team, in April 2014 , to also play in the play-offs there. There they failed in the conference semi-finals 4-0 to the Toronto Marlies .

Constant changes in the NHL

After his expiring contract was not renewed after the 2013/14 season with the Blues, he joined the Los Angeles Kings in July 2014 and signed a one-year contract there. With the Kings, however, he could not prevail in the pre-season and was put on the waiver . From this he signed the Columbus Blue Jackets in October 2014. After almost half a season in Columbus, he returned to the St. Louis Blues in February 2015 and was there for the Chicago Wolves until the end of the season.

He then signed a one-year contract as a free agent with the Vancouver Canucks , where he was subsequently used on a regular basis. In February 2016, however, he was to be sent to the AHL via the waiver, where he was signed by the Edmonton Oilers . In Edmonton, the attacker ended the season with eight missions and received no new contract as a result. In July 2016, he then joined the Dallas Stars as a free agent and signed another one-year contract. After this was extended, the stars wanted to send him to the AHL via the waiver in October 2017, with the Canadian's contract then being taken over by the New York Rangers . There he came to NHL for New York as well as AHL missions for their cooperation partner Hartford Wolf Pack , before he was transferred to the Rocket de Laval , the farm team of the Canadiens de Montréal , in exchange for Peter Holland at the end of November 2017 . The attacker then signed a contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs in July 2018, again as a free agent . This put him to December of the same years with the Toronto Marlies , before he was transferred to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for Steven Oleksy .

KHL

In July 2019, Cracknell made the first decision to leave North America and joined Kunlun Red Star from the Continental Hockey League .

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Ptk	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Ptk	+/-	SM
2002/03	Kootenay Ice	WHL		67	7th	4th	11	–7	37		11	0	0	0	-2	2
2003/04	Kootenay Ice	WHL		72	26th	35	61	-2	63		4th	1	1	2	-4	2
2004/05	Kootenay Ice	WHL		72	19th	29	48	+6	65		16	8th	8th	16	+4	6th
2005/06	Kootenay Ice	WHL		72	42	51	93	+29	85		6th	1	4th	5	-5	6th
2005/06	Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben Knights	AHL		6th	1	2	3	-1	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Las Vegas Wranglers	ECHL		31	8th	14th	22nd	-4	35		8th	3	3	6th		6th
2007/08	Las Vegas Wranglers	ECHL		61	29	30th	59	+12	47		21st	9	13	22nd		4th
2007/08	Quad City Flames	AHL		4th	1	0	1	± 0	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Quad City Flames	AHL		79	10	16	26th	-12	36		-	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Peoria Rivermen	AHL		76	17th	21st	38	+2	40		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Peoria Rivermen	AHL		61	6th	19th	25th	+1	54		4th	2	0	2	-1	0
2010/11	St. Louis Blues	NHL		24	3	4th	7th	+1	8th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Peoria Rivermen	AHL		72	23	26th	49	+18	54		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	St. Louis Blues	NHL		2	1	0	1	+1	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Peoria Rivermen	AHL		49	17th	16	33	+6	26th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	St. Louis Blues	NHL		20th	2	4th	6th	+3	4th		5	0	0	0	-1	0
2013/14	Chicago Wolves	AHL		28	12	13	25th	+9	8th		7th	3	1	4th	-1	2
2013/14	St. Louis Blues	NHL		19th	0	2	2	± 0	0		5	1	0	1	± 0	2
2014/15	Springfield Falcons	AHL		18th	3	4th	7th	-3	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		17th	0	1	1	-8th	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Chicago Wolves	AHL		22nd	7th	6th	13	-1	8th		5	1	0	1	± 0	4th
2015/16	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		44	5	5	10	+1	14th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		8th	0	0	0	-2	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Dallas Stars	NHL		69	10	6th	16	+9	12		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Dallas Stars	NHL		1	0	0	0	± 0	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Hartford Wolf Pack	AHL		15th	2	1	3	-5	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	New York Rangers	NHL		4th	0	0	0	-1	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Rocket de Laval	AHL		54	27	21st	48	-27	42		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Toronto Marlies	AHL		14th	3	7th	10	± 0	10		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	San Diego Gulls	AHL		32	15th	13	28	+11	18th		15th	7th	9	16	+3	0
2018/19	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		2	0	0	0	-1	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
WHL overall				283	94	119	213	+26	250		37	10	13	23	–7	16
ECHL total				92	37	44	81	+8	82		29	12	16	28	± 0	10
AHL total				530	144	165	309	-2	306		31	13	10	23	+1	6th
NHL overall				210	21st	22nd	43	+3	46		10	1	0	1	-1	2

( 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 )

Private

Cracknell is married. In the off-season he trains young players in an ice hockey school in Colwood , where he also received additional training from NHL professionals such as Curtis Brown and Roman Vopat when he was a junior player .

Web links

• Adam Cracknell in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Adam Cracknell at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} babesdigballs.com: "Sports Babe of the Day Presents: Adam Cracknell" ( Memento from March 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English, August 30, 2013, accessed on May 6, 2014)
2. ↑ ^{a b} vicnews.com: "From JDF minor hockey to the NHL" (English, June 8, 2011, accessed on May 6, 2014)
3. ↑ chatsports.com: "Stanley Cup Playoffs: St. Louis Blues CPR Line Difference Against Kings" (English, May 3, 2013, accessed May 6, 2014)
4. ↑ stlouisgametime.com: "Adam Cracknell Re-Signed To One Year, One Way Deal" (English, May 24, 2013, accessed on May 6, 2014)
5. ↑ blues.nhl.com: "Blues Assign Cracknell to Wolves" (English, April 30, 2014, accessed on May 6, 2014)
6. ↑ kings.nhl.com: "Kings Sign Adam Cracknell And David Van Der Gulik To One-Year Contracts" (English, July 1, 2014, accessed September 15, 2014)