Alex Chiasson

Canada Alex Chiasson


Date of birth	October 1, 1990
place of birth	Montreal , Quebec , Canada
size	193 cm
Weight	93 kg

position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2009 , 2nd round, 38th position Dallas Stars

Career stations

2008-2009	Des Moines Buccaneers
2009–2012	Boston University
2012-2013	Texas Stars
2013-2014	Dallas Stars
2014-2016	Ottawa Senators
2016-2017	Calgary Flames
2017-2018	Washington Capitals
since 2018	Edmonton Oilers

Alex Chiasson (born October 1, 1990 in Montreal , Québec ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League since October 2018 and plays for them in the position of right winger . With the Washington Capitals , he won the Stanley Cup in the 2018 playoffs .

Career

Youth and college

Alex Chiasson was born in Lorraine , a suburb of the Canadian city of Montreal , and grew up in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, 250 kilometers away . At the age of four, at the suggestion of his sister, he began playing ice hockey. In Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures he attended the Séminaire Saint-François , a private high school for which he was active in junior ice hockey leagues. After just two years, he left high school and moved to Lake Placid , New York State , in the United States . There he attended Northwood School , a private boarding school that has already produced a number of successful winter sports enthusiasts. In addition, Chiasson only learned English at this point, as French is his mother tongue.

Chiasson left Northwood a year later after completing his schooling. Before he started his studies, however, he took the opportunity to play in the United States Hockey League , the highest junior league in the USA. The 2008/09 season he spent for this purpose with the Des Moines Buccaneers in Des Moines , Iowa and was there with 50 points from 56 games team best. He was also elected to the USHL All-Rookie Team and took part in the USHL All-Star Game . With these achievements, he also drew the attention of scouts to himself, as he was eligible for the upcoming NHL Entry Draft 2009 . There he was selected by the Dallas Stars in 38th position.

Chiasson with the Texas Stars in a shootout against Dov Grumet-Morris (2013)

Despite the draft, Chiasson did not switch to the Dallas Stars system for the time being, but enrolled at Boston University in order to obtain a degree in economics there. As a result, he played from now on for the Boston University Terriers , the team that was national college champions of the NCAA the year before . In the second season in Boston, the winger led the team in scorer points (34 in 35 games). He increased this rate in the following season 2011/12 to 46 points from 38 games.

National Hockey League

The Dallas Stars took his performance in the Hockey East college league as an opportunity to provide him with a three-year entry level contract in March 2012 . He then switched directly to the farm team in the AHL , to the Texas Stars , and completed there nine games by the end of the season. In the following season 2012/13 he was an integral part of the AHL squad and recorded 13 goals and 22 assists in 57 games. In April 2013, Chiasson was then appointed to the NHL squad for the first time , made his debut and scored six goals in his first six games. With this performance, the stars took him firmly into the NHL squad from the 2013/14 season . With 35 points from 79 games, Chiasson was fourth in his team at the end of his first regular season in the highest North American ice hockey league.

On July 1, 2014, however, the stars gave it to the Ottawa Senators together with Alex Guptill , Nick Paul and a second-round vote for the 2015 NHL Entry Draft and received Jason Spezza and Ludwig Karlsson in return . In Ottawa, Chiasson was the undisputed regular player and came to 153 games and 40 scorer points in two seasons before the Senators handed him over to the Calgary Flames in June 2016 in exchange for Patrick Sieloff . The striker was able to stay there straight away, but received no follow-up offer after his contract expired in summer 2017. He was then invited to a trial training session by the Washington Capitals in September and was given a permanent one-year contract in October. At the end of the season, Chiasson managed to win the Stanley Cup with the Capitals , but his contract was not extended in July 2018, so he has been looking for a new employer ever since. He found this in the Edmonton Oilers , where he completed the pre-season on a trial basis and finally signed a one-year contract in October 2018.

Achievements and Awards

2009 USHL All-Star Game
2009 USHL All-Rookie Team
2018 Stanley Cup win with the Washington Capitals

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
2008/09	Des Moines Buccaneers	USHL	56	17th	33	50	–9	101	-	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Boston University	NCAA	35	7th	12	19th	+6	44
2010/11	Boston University	NCAA	35	14th	20th	34	-4	75
2011/12	Boston University	NCAA	38	15th	31	46	+15	67
2011/12	Texas Stars	AHL	9	1	4th	5	-4	9	-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Texas Stars	AHL	57	13	22nd	35	+3	43	7th	2	1	3	–6	4th
2012/13	Dallas Stars	NHL	7th	6th	1	7th	+3	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Dallas Stars	NHL	79	13	22nd	35	-21	38	6th	1	1	2	–7	2
2014/15	Ottawa Senators	NHL	76	11	15th	26th	-5	67	4th	0	0	0	-3	0
2015/16	Ottawa Senators	NHL	77	8th	6th	14th	+2	45	-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Calgary Flames	NHL	81	12	12	24	–6	46	4th	0	0	0	-1	2
2017/18	Washington Capitals	NHL	61	9	9	18th	+1	26th	16	1	1	2	± 0	4th
2018/19	Edmonton Oilers	NHL	73	22nd	16	38	-1	32	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Edmonton Oilers	NHL	65	11	13	24	-3	42	4th	1	1	2	+1	0
NCAA overall			108	36	63	99	+17	186
AHL total			66	14th	26th	40	-1	52	7th	2	1	3	–6	4th
NHL overall			519	92	94	186	-30	296	34	3	3	6th	-10	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 )