Ben Bishop

United States Ben Bishop


Date of birth	November 21, 1986
place of birth	Denver , Colorado , USA
Nickname	Big Ben
size	201 cm
Weight	93 kg

position	goalkeeper
Catch hand	Left

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2005 , 3rd round, 85th position St. Louis Blues

Career stations

2004-2005	Texas tornado
2005-2008	University of Maine
2008–2012	Peoria Rivermen
2012-2013	Ottawa Senators
2013-2017	Tampa Bay Lightning
2017	Los Angeles Kings
since 2017	Dallas Stars

Benjamin Manning "Ben" Bishop III (born November 21, 1986 in Denver , Colorado ) is an American ice hockey goalkeeper who has been under contract with the Dallas Stars in the National Hockey League since May 2017 .

Career

Ben Bishop began his career as a hockey player with the Texas Tornado from the North American Hockey League , with which he won the Robertson Cup in 2005. He was then selected in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft in the third round as the 85th player of the St. Louis Blues .

Initially, however, the goalkeeper spent three years in the team of the University of Maine in the university and college league Hockey East . Towards the end of the 2007/08 season , the American made his professional ice hockey debut for St. Louis' farm team , the Peoria Rivermen of the American Hockey League . In the following season Bishop was the first time in the National Hockey League for the Blues between the posts, but again spent most of the season with the Peoria Rivermen in the AHL, in whose squad he was also during the following two seasons.

On February 26, 2012, the St. Louis Blues transferred him to the Ottawa Senators in exchange for a second-round vote in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft . They gave it to the Tampa Bay Lightning for the trade deadline on April 3, 2013 . There the American advanced to become a regular goalkeeper over the next four years and reached the final series of the Stanley Cup with the team in spring 2015 . After he went through a weaker phase in the 2016/17 season and his contract expired at the end of the season, the Lightning separated from him and transferred him and a five-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft 2017 to the Los Angeles Kings . In return, Tampa received the players Peter Budaj and Erik Černák as well as a seventh-round and a conditional vote in the same draft. In addition, Bishop's ex-club took over a fifth of his salary for the rest of the season.

With the Kings, Bishop ended the 2016/17 season with seven appearances before he was given to the Dallas Stars in May 2017 in exchange for a four-round vote in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft . For the time being, however, the stars only secured the negotiating rights to the American, whose contract threatened to expire on July 1, 2017. Finally, a few days later, Bishop signed a new six-year contract in Dallas, which should bring him a total salary of 29.5 million US dollars during that period. In the 2018/19 season he led the league's goalkeepers with a catch rate of 93.4% and placed second with an average goal against goals of 1.98, making him the best goalkeeper for the Vezina Trophy alongside Andrei Wassilewski and Robin Lehner the NHL was nominated. This was won by Wassilewski, but Bishop was elected to the NHL Second All-Star Team for the second time after 2016 .

International

Bishop took part in the 2010 World Cup with the US national team. In the encounter against Kazakhstan , he had his only 20-minute bet in which he remained clean.

At the 2013 World Cup in Stockholm and Helsinki he was again part of the national team and won the bronze medal with it. He was also part of Team USA at the World Cup of Hockey 2016 , from which the team was eliminated in the group stage.

Achievements and Awards

2005 Robertson Cup win with the Texas Tornado
2005 NAHL First All-Rookie Team
2006 Hockey East All-Rookie Team
2008 Hockey East Second All-Star Team
2012 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic

2012 AHL All-Star Classic MVP
2012 AHL Second All-Star Team
2016 Participation in the NHL All-Star Game
2016 NHL Second All-Star Team
2019 NHL Second All-Star Team

International

2013 bronze medal at the world championship

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

			Regular season									Playoffs
season	team	league	Sp	S.	N	U / OTN	Min	GT	SO	GTS	Sv%	Sp	S.	N	Min	GT	SO	GTS	Sv%
2004/05	Texas tornado	NEAR	45	35	8th	2	2577	83	5	1.93	92.0	11	9	2	660	30th	0	2.73	89.1
2005/06	University of Maine	NCAA	31	21st	8th	2	1788	64	0	2.22	90.8
2006/07	University of Maine	NCAA	34	21st	9	2	1907	68	3	2.14	92.3
2007/08	University of Maine	NCAA	34	13	18th	3	1972	80	2	2.43	92.0
2007/08	Peoria Rivermen	AHL	5	2	2	1	302	12	0	2.38	90.8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Peoria Rivermen	AHL	33	15th	16	1	1898	89	1	2.81	89.7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	St. Louis Blues	NHL	6th	1	1	1	245	12	0	2.94	89.3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Peoria Rivermen	AHL	48	23	18th	4th	2793	129	0	2.77	90.1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Peoria Rivermen	AHL	35	17th	14th	2	2043	87	2	2.55	91.4	1	0	1	59	2	0	2.04	89.5
2010/11	St. Louis Blues	NHL	7th	3	4th	0	369	17th	1	2.76	89.9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Peoria Rivermen	AHL	38	24	14th	0	2258	85	6th	2.26	92.8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Binghamton Senators	AHL	3	2	1	0	179	7th	0	2.35	94.4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Ottawa Senators	NHL	10	3	3	2	532	22nd	0	2.48	90.9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Binghamton Senators	AHL	13	8th	3	2	787	34	0	2.59	92.8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Ottawa Senators	NHL	13	8th	5	0	758	31	1	2.45	92.2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL	9	3	4th	1	502	25th	1	2.99	91.7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL	63	37	14th	7th	3586	133	5	2.23	92.4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL	62	40	13	5	3519	136	4th	2.32	91.6	25th	13	11	1459	53	3	2.18	92.1
2015/16	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL	61	35	21st	4th	3585	123	6th	2.06	92.6	11	8th	2	582	18th	2	1.86	93.9
2016/17	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL	32	16	12	3	1813	77	1	2.55	91.1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Los Angeles Kings	NHL	7th	2	3	2	412	17th	0	2.49	90.0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Dallas Stars	NHL	53	26th	17th	5	2887	120	5	2.49	91.6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Dallas Stars	NHL	46	27	15th	2	2638	87	7th	1.98	93.4	13	7th	6th	811	30th	0	2.22	93.3
NCAA overall			99	55	35	7th	5667	212	5	2.27	91.7
AHL total			175	91	68	10	10260	443	9	2.59	91.3	1	0	1	59	2	0	2.04	89.5
NHL overall			369	201	112	32	20843	800	31	2.30	92.1	49	28	19th	2853	101	5	2.12	92.9

International

Represented the USA at:

year	team	event	result	Sp	S.	N	Min	GT	GTS	Sv%
2010	United States	WM	13th place	1	0	0	20th	0	0.00	100.0
2013	United States	WM		5	3	2	297	14th	2.83	87.6
2016	United States	World cup	7th place	1	0	1	40	4th	6.00	80.0
Men overall				7th	3	3	357	18th	3.03	87.4

( 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 : Ben Bishop - collection of images, videos and audio files

Player biography on the Dallas Stars website
Ben Bishop at legendsofhockey.net (English)
Ben Bishop at eliteprospects.com (English)
Ben Bishop at hockeygoalies.org

Individual evidence

↑ Bruce Garrioch: Big Ben Bishop stands tall in 4-1 win over Senators. In: Ottawa Sun . December 10, 2015, accessed May 10, 2017 .
↑ usahockey.com, Ben Bishop - Biography

Squad of the Dallas Stars in the season 2019/20

personal data
SURNAME	Bishop, Ben
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bishop, Benjamin Manning III (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American ice hockey goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH	November 21, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH	Denver , Colorado

[1] Bruce Garrioch: Big Ben Bishop stands tall in 4-1 win over Senators. In: Ottawa Sun . December 10, 2015, accessed May 10, 2017 .

[2] usahockey.com, Ben Bishop - Biography