Alex Galchenyuk

United States Alex Galchenyuk


Date of birth	February 12, 1994
place of birth	Milwaukee , Wisconsin , USA
size	184 cm
Weight	88 kg

position	center
number	# 18
Shot hand	Left

Draft

KHL Junior Draft	2011 , 2nd round, 25th position Atlant Mytishchi
NHL Entry Draft	2012 , 1st round, 3rd position Canadiens de Montréal

Career stations

2010-2013	Sarnia Sting
2013-2018	Canadiens de Montréal
2018-2019	Arizona Coyotes
2019-2020	Pittsburgh Penguins
since 2020	Minnesota Wild

Alexander "Alex" Galchenyuk (* 12. February 1994 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin ) is an American ice hockey player of Belarusian descent, who since February 2020 with the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League is under contract and for those on the position of the center plays . He was previously on the ice for five years for the Canadiens de Montréal , who had selected him in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft in third overall position, and played briefly with the Arizona Coyotes and the Pittsburgh Penguins .

Career

Galchenyuk played in the 2009/10 season for the Chicago Young Americans in the Junior League Midwest Elite Hockey League (MWEHL). He scored 44 goals and a total of 87 scorer points in 38 games , making him MWEHL's top scorer . Then the was Center for the Priority Selection in 2010 of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) first overall position of the Sarnia Sting selected. Alex Galchenyuk decided to immediately enter the Canadian Major Junior League and was used in all 68 games of the Sting in the 2010/11 OHL season ; he got 83 points. Because of this performance, he was elected to the OHL All- Rookie Team this season.

Before the beginning of the following season , Galchenyuk tore a cruciate ligament on September 16, 2011 during a pre-season game against the Windsor Spitfires . After the subsequent operation, the offensive player missed 66 games and only returned to the Sarnia Sting squad about six months later on March 15, 2012. In the play-offs this season, Galchenyuk and his team were eliminated in the first round against the Saginaw Spirit .

At the NHL Entry Draft 2012 Alex Galchenyuk was selected in the first round in third overall position by the Canadiens de Montréal . Shortly afterwards, he signed a three-year entry-level contract . In the 2012/13 OHL season he was named December Player of the Month. This month he scored 11 goals and 17 points scorer in seven games. After the lockout ended at the beginning of the 2012/13 NHL season , Galchenyuk was appointed to the Canadiens squad and made his debut on January 19, 2013 against the Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League . His first goal was a game later against the Florida Panthers .

In the course of the following years, Galchenyuk established himself as a regular scorer with the Canadiens and reached the mark of 30 goals for the first time in the 2015/16 season . After Galchenyuk's development stagnated in the following two seasons, the Franco-Canadians parted ways with the striker in mid-June 2018 and transferred him to the Arizona Coyotes in exchange for Max Domi . In Arizona, Galchenyuk was only active for one season, in which he missed the playoffs with the team and was then handed over to the Pittsburgh Penguins together with young defender Pierre-Olivier Joseph in June 2019 . In return, the Coyotes received Phil Kessel , Dane Birks and a four-round vote in the 2021 NHL Entry Draft .

With the Penguins, Galchenyuk was active until February 2020, when he and Calen Addison and a conditional first-round vote for the 2020 NHL Entry Draft were given to the Minnesota Wild , who in return transferred Jason Zucker to Pittsburgh. Draft voting rights should automatically be postponed by a year if the Penguins miss the playoffs in the 2019/20 season. Ultimately, the Wild received the right to vote for the 2021 draft, as the regulations of the 2020 playoffs , in which the penguins were eliminated in the qualifying round, changed significantly due to the COVID-19 pandemic . For Galchenyuk, this meant the third transfer in just under a year and a half.

International

Alex Galchenyuk represented his home country with the US national team for the first time at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament in 2011 , before taking part in the 2013 U20 World Junior Championship . At the tournament, the striker scored eight points in seven games and won the gold medal with his team after winning the final against the Swedish selection . In the same game year he was also nominated for the Men's World Cup 2013 in Stockholm and Helsinki and won the bronze medal with the national selection.

Achievements and Awards

2010 top scorer of the Midwest Elite Hockey League
2010 Jack Ferguson Award
2011 OHL First All Rookie Team
2012 OHL Player of the Month for December

International

2013 gold medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
2013 bronze medal at the world championship

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

Galchenyuk in the jersey of the Canadiens de Montréal (2013).

			Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2009/10	Chicago Young Americans	MWEHL	83	44	43	87		56	-	-	-	-		-
2010/11	Sarnia Sting	OHL	68	31	52	83	-8th	52	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Sarnia Sting	OHL	2	0	0	0	-4	0	6th	2	2	4th	–6	4th
2012/13	Sarnia Sting	OHL	33	27	34	61	+16	22nd	-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL	48	9	18th	27	+14	20th	5	1	2	3	-4	0
2013/14	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL	65	13	18th	31	-12	26th	5	2	1	3	± 0	2
2014/15	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL	80	20th	26th	46	+8	39	12	1	3	4th	+1	10
2015/16	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL	82	30th	26th	56	-8th	20th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL	61	17th	27	44	-5	24	6th	0	3	3	± 0	4th
2017/18	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL	82	19th	32	51	-31	22nd	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Arizona Coyotes	NHL	72	19th	22nd	41	-19	34	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL	45	5	12	17th	–7	10	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Minnesota Wild	NHL	14th	3	4th	7th	+2	6th	4th	0	0	0	-2	4th
OHL total			103	58	86	144	+4	74	6th	2	2	4th	–6	4th
NHL overall			549	135	185	320	-58	201	32	4th	9	13	-5	20th

International

Represented the USA at:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2011	United States	Hlinka Memorial	5th place	4th	3	1	4th	± 0	12
2013	United States	U20 World Cup		7th	2	6th	8th	+2	4th
2013	United States	WM		4th	2	0	2	−3	0
Juniors overall				11	5	7th	12	+2	16
Men overall				4th	2	0	2	−3	0

( 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

Alex Galchenyuk was born in Milwaukee , Wisconsin , United States in 1994 . His father Aljaksandr Haltschenjuk was active as a player for the Milwaukee Admirals from the International Hockey League at that time . Haltschnejuk represented the Belarusian team as a national player at the 1998 Winter Olympics, among others . Alex Galchenyuk grew up in the USA, but also lived temporarily in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Russia. In addition to English, he also speaks Russian and Italian. The US-American held Russian citizenship at times, but took it off before the 2012 NHL Entry Draft .

Web links

Commons : Alex Galchenyuk - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Player biography on the Minnesota Wild website
Alex Galchenyuk at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

^ NHL draft prospect Galchenyuk to have surgery on ACL. The Sports Network , October 24, 2011, accessed June 20, 2012 .
Jump up ↑ Dave Borody: Spirit beat Sting 7-1. Sarnia Sting , March 15, 2012, accessed June 20, 2012 .
^ Canadiens sign Alex Galchenyuk to a three-year contract. Canadiens de Montréal , July 23, 2012, accessed January 28, 2013 .
^ OHL Top Performers of December. Ontario Hockey League , accessed January 8, 2013 .
^ Coyotes Acquire Kessel From Pittsburgh. nhl.com, June 29, 2019, accessed June 30, 2019 .
↑ Sugar traded to Penguins by Wild for Galchenyuk. nhl.com, February 10, 2020, accessed on February 11, 2020 .
↑ Alex Galchenyuk Draft Profile. National Hockey League , accessed June 21, 2012 .
↑ Terry Koshan: Russian to the NHL. Toronto Sun , June 1, 2012, accessed June 21, 2012 .

Squad of the Minnesota Wild in the season 2019/20

personal data
SURNAME	Galchenyuk, Alex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Galchenyuk, Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	February 12, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH	Milwaukee , Wisconsin

[1] NHL draft prospect Galchenyuk to have surgery on ACL. The Sports Network , October 24, 2011, accessed June 20, 2012 .

[2] Jump up ↑ Dave Borody: Spirit beat Sting 7-1. Sarnia Sting , March 15, 2012, accessed June 20, 2012 .

[3] Canadiens sign Alex Galchenyuk to a three-year contract. Canadiens de Montréal , July 23, 2012, accessed January 28, 2013 .

[4] OHL Top Performers of December. Ontario Hockey League , accessed January 8, 2013 .

[5] Coyotes Acquire Kessel From Pittsburgh. nhl.com, June 29, 2019, accessed June 30, 2019 .

[6] Sugar traded to Penguins by Wild for Galchenyuk. nhl.com, February 10, 2020, accessed on February 11, 2020 .

[7] Alex Galchenyuk Draft Profile. National Hockey League , accessed June 21, 2012 .

[8] Terry Koshan: Russian to the NHL. Toronto Sun , June 1, 2012, accessed June 21, 2012 .