Alex Pietrangelo

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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

Pietrangelo in the jersey of the blues (2014)

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

  • 2007 OHL First All-Rookie Team
  • 2007 OHL All Academic Team
  • 2007 CHL All-Rookie Team
  • 2007 OHL Third All-Star Team
  • 2008 Participation in the CHL Top Prospects Game
  • 2008 OHL Third All-Star Team
  • 2009 OHL Third All-Star Team

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
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
2009 Canada U20 World Cup 1st place, gold 6th 1 2 3 0
2010 Canada U20 World Cup 2nd place, silver 6th 3 9 12 14th
2011 Canada WM 5th place 7th 2 3 5 2
2014 Canada Olympia 1st place, gold 6th 0 1 1 0
2016 Canada World cup 1st place, gold 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

Commons : Alex Pietrangelo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ italiansrus.com, Italian hockey player - Complete List
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Squad of the St. Louis Blues in the 2019/20 season
personal data
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