Alex Pietrangelo
Date of birth | January 18, 1990 |
place of birth | King City , Ontario , Canada |
size | 191 cm |
Weight | 93 kg |
position | defender |
number | # 27 |
Shot hand | Right |
Draft | |
NHL Entry Draft |
2008 , 1st round, 4th position St. Louis Blues |
Career stations | |
2005-2006 | Toronto Junior Canadiens |
2006-2007 | Mississauga IceDogs |
2007-2009 | Niagara IceDogs |
since 2009 | St. Louis Blues |
2010 | Barrie Colts |
Alexander "Alex" Pietrangelo (born January 18, 1990 in King City , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player of Italian descent. The defender has been with the St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League since 2008 , which had selected him in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in fourth position. He has also been captain of the team since 2016 and led it to win the Stanley Cup in the 2019 playoffs . With the Canadian national team , he won the gold medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics and the 2016 World Cup of Hockey .
Career
Alex Pietrangelo began his career in 2005 in the Greater Toronto Hockey League , where he played for the Toronto Junior Canadiens . Especially with his 13 goals and 31 assists , he was able to attract attention and moved to the Canadian junior league Ontario Hockey League for the Mississauga IceDogs in the summer of 2006 .
For the IceDogs he was already a fixture in his debut season. He had the team's best plus / minus value, was the team's defender with the highest points with 52 points in 59 games and was also second in the league's list of rookie defenders behind Michael Del Zotto . In the playoffs, the IceDogs were eliminated in the first round when Pietrangelo remained without a point in four games. At the end of the season he was elected to the OHL All-Rookie Team.
In the summer of 2007 the team moved to St. Catharines and was named Niagara IceDogs . Pietrangelo was named one of the team's assistant captains at the start of the 2007-08 season and during the year he confirmed his qualities as an attacking defender with strengths in physical play. Again he was the IceDogs' defender with the highest points with 13 goals and 40 assists and was invited to the OHL's All-Star Game. While his form dropped significantly in the playoffs of the previous year, this time he was able to build on his good performances of the regular season in the finals. Although he was absent from four games due to injury, he still managed to score five goals and four assists in six games before the IceDogs were eliminated in the second round.
After Pietrangelo was already counted among the most promising talents of his class during the season, the St. Louis Blues finally selected him in the first round in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in fourth place. Just a few months later, he was able to prevail in the training camp of the Blues and received a regular place in the team's NHL squad. There he spent the first one and a half months of the 2008/09 season until mid-November before he was sent back to the OHL to the IceDogs by the management of the Blues. In total, he played eight games in the NHL by this time, in which he prepared a goal. Pietrangelo finally ended the OHL season in Niagara and won World Cup gold with the Canadian junior national team at the turn of the year, but was summoned to the blues farm team Peoria Rivermen at the end of the AHL season , where he played eight more professional games.
The 2009/10 season started the defender again with the St. Louis Blues in the NHL and came to another nine missions by mid-December, in which he also scored his first goal. Then the Blues put him off for the U20 Junior World Championship , where Pietrangelo received numerous individual awards in addition to the silver medal. Following the World Cup, management sent the defender back to the Niagara IceDogs in the OHL. This transferred him immediately to the league competitor Barrie Colts .
In the 2010/11 season, Pietrangelo finally established himself as a regular with the St. Louis Blues and only missed three games in the regular season. In the following season Pietrangelo was able to improve again and led the statistics of the St. Louis Blues with almost 25 minutes per game and 39 assists . At the end of the season, he was selected for his services to the NHL Second All-Star Team .
In 2014 he became Olympic champion with the Canadian national team. In the run-up to the 2016/17 season , Pietrangelo was appointed the new team captain of the Blues, succeeding David Backes . He also represented his home country at the World Cup of Hockey 2016 and won the gold medal there with the team.
With the Blues, Pietrangelo won the Stanley Cup in the 2019 playoffs .
Achievements and Awards
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International
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Career statistics
Status: end of the 2018/19 season
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
2005/06 | Toronto Junior Canadiens | GTHL | 44 | 13 | 31 | 44 | 33 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2006/07 | Mississauga IceDogs | OHL | 59 | 7th | 45 | 52 | 45 | 4th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8th | ||
2007/08 | Niagara IceDogs | OHL | 60 | 13 | 40 | 53 | 94 | 6th | 5 | 4th | 9 | 4th | ||
2008/09 | St. Louis Blues | NHL | 8th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2008/09 | Niagara IceDogs | OHL | 36 | 8th | 21st | 29 | 32 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 6th | 20th | ||
2008/09 | Peoria Rivermen | AHL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4th | 7th | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | ||
2009/10 | St. Louis Blues | NHL | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2009/10 | Barrie Colts | OHL | 25th | 9 | 20th | 29 | 27 | 17th | 2 | 12 | 14th | 8th | ||
2010/11 | St. Louis Blues | NHL | 79 | 11 | 32 | 43 | 19th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2011/12 | St. Louis Blues | NHL | 81 | 12 | 39 | 51 | 36 | 8th | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | ||
2012/13 | St. Louis Blues | NHL | 47 | 5 | 19th | 24 | 10 | 6th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||
2013/14 | St. Louis Blues | NHL | 81 | 8th | 43 | 51 | 32 | 6th | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | ||
2014/15 | St. Louis Blues | NHL | 81 | 7th | 39 | 46 | 28 | 6th | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||
2015/16 | St. Louis Blues | NHL | 73 | 7th | 30th | 37 | 20th | 20th | 2 | 8th | 10 | 16 | ||
2016/17 | St. Louis Blues | NHL | 80 | 14th | 34 | 48 | 24 | 11 | 0 | 4th | 4th | 8th | ||
2017/18 | St. Louis Blues | NHL | 78 | 15th | 39 | 54 | 22nd | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2018/19 | St. Louis Blues | NHL | 71 | 13 | 28 | 41 | 22nd | 26th | 3 | 16 | 19th | 12 | ||
OHL total | 180 | 37 | 126 | 163 | 198 | 39 | 8th | 21st | 29 | 40 | ||||
NHL overall | 688 | 93 | 305 | 398 | 221 | 83 | 7th | 38 | 45 | 38 |
International
Represented Canada to:
year | team | event | result | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | |
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2009 | Canada | U20 World Cup | 6th | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | ||
2010 | Canada | U20 World Cup | 6th | 3 | 9 | 12 | 14th | ||
2011 | Canada | WM | 5th place | 7th | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | |
2014 | Canada | Olympia | 6th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
2016 | Canada | World cup | 6th | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | ||
Juniors overall | 12 | 4th | 11 | 15th | 14th | ||||
Men overall | 19th | 3 | 6th | 9 | 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
- Player biography on the St. Louis Blues website
- Alex Pietrangelo at legendsofhockey.net (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ italiansrus.com, Italian hockey player - Complete List
Goalkeeper:
Jake Allen |
Jordan Binnington
Defenders:
Robert Bortuzzo |
Jay Bouwmeester |
Vince Dunn |
Justin Faulk |
Carl Gunnarsson |
Colton Parayko |
Alex Pietrangelo ( C ) |
Marco Scandella
Attacker:
Iwan Barbaschow |
Samuel Blais |
Tyler Bozak |
Troy Brouwer |
Jacob de la Rose |
Mackenzie MacEachern |
Ryan O'Reilly |
David Perron |
Zach Sanford |
Brayden Schenn |
Jaden Schwartz |
Alexander Steen ( A ) |
Oskar Sundqvist |
Wladimir Tarassenko ( A ) |
Robert Thomas
Head Coach: Craig Berube Assistant Coach : Steve Ott | Marc Savard | Mike Van Ryn General Manager: Doug Armstrong
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Pietrangelo, Alex |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pietrangelo, Alexander (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1990 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | King City , Ontario |