Alex DeBrincat

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Alex DeBrincat
Date of birth December 18, 1997
place of birth Farmington Hills , Michigan , USA
size 170 cm
Weight 75 kg
position Left wing
number # 12
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2016 , 2nd round, 39th position
Chicago Blackhawks
Career stations
2014-2017 Erie Otters
since 2017 Chicago Blackhawks

Alexander "Alex" DeBrincat (born December 18, 1997 in Farmington Hills , Michigan ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Chicago Blackhawks in the National Hockey League since November 2016 .

Career

youth

Alex DeBrincat was born in Farmington Hills and played in regional youth teams there until 2013. For the 2013/14 season he moved to the Lake Forest Academy , a private boarding school in Lake Forest in the greater Chicago area , and ran for their ice hockey team at high school level. After only one year, however, the winger joined the Erie Otters from the higher-quality Ontario Hockey League (OHL), which is one of the three major Canadian junior leagues. In his first year DeBrincat made his breakthrough with the Otters, scoring 104 points in 68 games alongside Connor McDavid and Dylan Strome and was awarded by both the OHL ( Emms Family Award ) and the Canadian Hockey League ( CHL Rookie of the Year ) named Rookie of the Year. The American was also appointed to the OHL First All-Rookie Team and the OHL Second All-Star Team .

The attacker confirmed these achievements in his second OHL year, while he represented the U20 national team of the USA over the turn of the year at the U20 World Cup in 2016 and won the bronze medal with the team. After being at the CHL Top Prospects Game had participated and the OHL Third All-Star team was appointed, he chose the Chicago Blackhawks in the NHL Entry Draft in 2016 to 39th position. Although the Blackhawks provided him with an entry-level contract in November 2016 , he also spent the entire 2016/17 season in Erie. There he had a significant share in the success of the Otters with 127 scorer points, who won the playoffs for the J. Ross Robertson Cup at the end of the season . DeBrincat himself was awarded the Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy and the Jim Mahon Memorial Trophy as the best scorer and the Red Tilson Trophy as the most valuable player . He was also appointed to the OHL First All-Star Team and the All-Star Team of the Memorial Cup , in which the Otters were subject to the Windsor Spitfires in the final . The attacker left the Erie Otters as the second best scorer (332) in franchise history , only Dylan Strome (354) was more successful.

NHL

At the beginning of the 2017/18 season DeBrincat was part of the Chicago Blackhawks for the first time, making his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) in October 2017 . At the end of the season he led the team with 28 goals scored. He then made his debut for the senior national team in his home country, winning the bronze medal at the 2018 World Cup . In the following season 2018/19 he increased his personal statistics again significantly to 76 points from 82 games, whereby he also reached the mark of 40 hits. As a result, he signed a new three-year contract in Chicago in October 2019, which should bring him an average annual salary of 6.4 million US dollars from the start of the 2020/21 season.

Despite his physique (170 cm; 75 kg), which is well below average for NHL standards, DeBrincat is considered a talented offensive player who is particularly convincing through his understanding of the game and technical qualities.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2014/15 Erie Otters OHL 68 51 53 104 +59 73 20th 9 7th 16 +1 26th
2015/16 Erie Otters OHL 60 51 50 101 +18 28 13 8th 11 19th +5 13
2016/17 Erie Otters OHL 63 65 62 127 +60 49 22nd 13 25th 38 +11 10
2017 Erie Otters Memorial Cup 5 2 8th 10 +2 2
2017/18 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 82 28 24 52 +6 6th - - - - - -
2018/19 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 82 41 35 76 ± 0 15th - - - - - -
OHL total 191 167 165 332 +137 150 55 30th 43 73 +17 49
NHL overall 164 69 59 128 +6 21st - - - - - -

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2016 United States U20 World Cup Bronze medal 5 1 0 1 +1 25th
2018 United States WM 3rd place, bronze 10 1 8th 9 +3 0
2019 United States WM 7th place 8th 7th 2 9 +1 4th
Juniors overall 5 1 0 1 +1 25th
Men overall 18th 8th 10 18th +4 4th

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Blackhawks agree to terms with DeBrincat. nhl.com, November 7, 2016, accessed October 7, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Dave Hogg: Alex DeBrincat not letting size keep him from becoming big scorer. nhl.com, May 27, 2017, accessed October 7, 2017 .
Squad of the Chicago Blackhawks in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME DeBrincat, Alex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES DeBrincat, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Farmington Hills , Michigan , United States