Alex Stalock

Alex Stalock
Date of birth	July 28, 1987
place of birth	South St. Paul , Minnesota , USA
size	183 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	goalkeeper
Catch hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2005 , 4th round, 112th position San Jose Sharks
Career stations
2004	USA Hockey National Team Development Program
2004-2006	Cedar Rapids RoughRiders
2006-2009	University of Minnesota Duluth
2009-2013	Worcester Sharks
2011-2016	San Jose Sharks
2016	Toronto Marlies
2016-2017	Iowa Wild
since 2017	Minnesota Wild

Alexander "Alex" Stalock (born July 28, 1987 in South St. Paul , Minnesota ) is an American ice hockey goalkeeper who has been under contract with the Minnesota Wild from the National Hockey League since July 2016 .

Career

Stalock in the dress of the Worcester Sharks

Stalock played at junior level at the South St. Paul High School and contested in 2003/04 two games for the U18 junior team of the youth development program of the American Hockey Association USA Hockey in the North American Hockey League . For the 2004/05 season he then moved to the United States Hockey League , where he played for the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders for two years. In his rookie year , he and the team won the Clark Cup , the USHL championship trophy. With the award for Most Valuable Player of the Playoffs, the goalkeeper played a key role in the team's success. The decisive factor was that he was able to reduce his average goal conceded from 2.73 to 1.44 in the playoffs . In the following season, the RoughRiders could not defend the title, but Stalock was considered with the election to the First All-Star Team of the league.

Although the American had already been selected in the fourth round of the 2005 NHL Entry Draft in 112th place by the San Jose Sharks , he did not move to the professional field after completing his second season in the USHL. He joined the university team at the University of Minnesota Duluth in the summer of 2006 while studying . In the following three years until the spring of 2009 he was the team's regular goalkeeper. After he was only able to win five of 23 games in the 2006/07 season and was still elected to the All-Rookie Team of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association , he was able to improve steadily in the 2007/08 and 2008/09 seasons. In the 2007/08 season he got 13 wins in 36 games before he led the team to their first championship win since 1985 in his senior year in college. He was also elected to the First All-American Team of the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the end of the season . Furthermore, he set university records in the categories conceded goals and catch quota on or in the category shutouts .

Following college season, the San Jose Sharks Stalock signed on April 11, 2009. They then sent him to their farm team , the Worcester Sharks , in the American Hockey League for the remainder of the 2008/09 season . Behind Thomas Greiss and Taylor Dakers he only held the post of third goalkeeper in the squad and did not get a move. For the 2009/10 season , the rookie finally took over the regular place in the gate of the Worcester Sharks after Greiss was promoted to the NHL squad and the expiring contract was not extended by Dakers. Tyson Sexsmith from Canada stood by Stalock's side . Already at the beginning of 2010, Stalock had won so many games that he placed himself behind Greiss in second place on the team-internal list after wins by goalkeepers.

After more than six years in the organization of the Sharks, Stalock was handed over to the Toronto Maple Leafs in February 2016 together with Ben Smith and a success-based four-round vote for the NHL Entry Draft 2018 . In return, goalkeepers James Reimer and Jeremy Morin moved to the Sharks. By the end of the season, Stalock was used by the Toronto Marlies in the AHL and received no new contract in Toronto after the end of the season. He subsequently joined the Minnesota Wild as a free agent in July 2016 , with whom he signed a one-year contract. There he spent most of the season with the Iowa Wild in the AHL before making his debut for Minnesota in the NHL in March 2017.

With the start of the 2017/18 season, Stalock established himself in the Wild's NHL squad as the second goalkeeper behind Devan Dubnyk . In the 2019/20 season he played more games than the Canadian for the first time and was also preferred in the 2020 playoffs .

Achievements and Awards

2005 Clark Cup win with the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders 2005 USHL Playoff MVP 2006 USHL First All-Star Team 2007 WCHA All-Rookie Team

2009 Broadmoor Trophy win with the University of Minnesota Duluth 2009 NCAA First All-American Team 2010 Participation in the AHL All-Star Classic 2010 AHL All-Rookie Team

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season										Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	S.	N	OTN	Min	GT	SO	GTS	Sv%		Sp	S.	N	Min	GT	SO	GTS	Sv%
2004/05	Cedar Rapids RoughRiders	USHL		32	19th	9	1	1801	82	1	2.73	90.5		9	7th	2	582	14th	1	1.44	95.0
2005/06	Cedar Rapids RoughRiders	USHL		44	28	13	3	2641	112	4th	2.54	93.1		8th	3	5	472	25th	0	3.18	91.8
2006/07	University of Minnesota-Duluth	NCAA		23	5	14th	3	1364	76	1	3.34	88.1
2007/08	University of Minnesota-Duluth	NCAA		36	13	17th	6th	2170	85	3	2.35	91.4
2008/09	University of Minnesota-Duluth	NCAA		42	21st	13	8th	2534	90	5	2.13	92.4
2009/10	Worcester Sharks	AHL		61	39	19th	2	3534	155	4th	2.63	90.8		11	6th	5	683	26th	0	2.28	91.9
2010/11	Worcester Sharks	AHL		41	19th	17th	4th	2397	105	0	2.63	90.7		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	San Jose Sharks	NHL		1	1	0	0	30th	0	0	0.00	100.0		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Stockton Thunder	ECHL		6th	5	1	0	360	17th	0	2.83	91.4		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Worcester Sharks	AHL		2	1	1	0	119	5	0	2.51	90.9		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Peoria Rivermen	AHL		3	2	0	0	106	2	1	1.13	96.4		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Worcester Sharks	AHL		38	17th	16	4th	2281	99	2	2.60	91.2		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	San Jose Sharks	NHL		2	0	0	1	42	2	0	2.86	84.6		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	San Jose Sharks	NHL		24	12	5	2	1251	39	2	1.87	93.2		3	0	1	117	4th	0	2.05	92.9
2014/15	San Jose Sharks	NHL		22nd	8th	9	2	1236	54	2	2.62	90.2		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	San Jose Sharks	NHL		13	3	5	2	670	33	0	2.94	88.4		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	San Jose Barracuda	AHL		2	2	0	0	122	4th	0	1.96	93.0		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Toronto Marlies	AHL		3	1	2	0	181	8th	0	2.66	90.7		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Iowa Wild	AHL		50	23	17th	9	2871	109	4th	2.28	92.6		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Minnesota Wild	NHL		2	1	1	0	119	3	0	1.51	94.4		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Minnesota Wild	NHL		28	10	10	4th	1496	71	1	2.85	91.0		1	0	0	49	1	0	1.25	93.8
2018/19	Minnesota Wild	NHL		21st	6th	8th	3	1066	53	0	2.99	89.9		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Minnesota Wild	NHL		38	20th	11	4th	2178	97	4th	2.67	91.0		4th	1	3	238	12	1	3.04	89.7
USHL total				76	47	22nd	4th	4442	194	5	2.62	92.0		17th	10	7th	1054	39	1	2.22	93.6
NCAA overall				101	39	44	17th	6068	251	9	2.48	91.1
AHL total				200	104	72	19th	11611	487	11	2.52	91.4		11	6th	5	683	26th	0	2.28	91.9
NHL overall				151	61	49	18th	8091	352	9	2.61	90.9		8th	1	4th	403	17th	1	2.54	91.0

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; ¹  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

Web links

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

• Player biography on the Minnesota Wild website
• Alex Stalock at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Alex Stalock at hockeygoalies.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dhiren Mahiban: Sharks acquire Reimer from Leafs in four player trade. (No longer available online.) Thehockeynews.com, February 27, 2016, archived from the original on February 27, 2016 ; accessed on February 27, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.