Ben Chiarot

Ben Chiarot
Date of birth	May 9, 1991
place of birth	Hamilton , Ontario , Canada
size	190 cm
Weight	98 kg
position	defender
number	#8th
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2009 , 4th round, 120th position Atlanta Thrashers
Career stations
2007-2010	Guelph Storm
2010	Sudbury Wolves
2010-2011	Saginaw Spirit
2011-2014	St. John's IceCaps
2013-2019	Winnipeg Jets
since 2019	Canadiens de Montréal

Ben Chiarot (born May 9, 1991 in Hamilton , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Canadiens de Montréal in the National Hockey League since July 2019 . Previously, the defender spent eight years in the Winnipeg Jets organization .

Career

youth

Ben Chiarot comes from a football family, with his grandfather playing in the Canadian Football League and his father for the University of Western Ontario . Ben Chiarot started organized ice hockey in his hometown of Hamilton at the age of five and later played on youth teams in Toronto and Mississauga . In 2007 he was selected by the Guelph Storm in 34th position of the OHL Priority Selection and thus played with the beginning of the 2007/08 season in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), one of the three highest junior leagues in Canada .

After he had only come to 31 missions in his debut season, he established himself in his second season with the Storm and came in 67 games to 13 points scorer. He was then selected in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft in 120th position by the Atlanta Thrashers . After 41 games in the next season, the Guelph Storm gave him to the Sudbury Wolves and received Chris VanLaren in return; in addition, two second-round voting rights of the OHL Priority Selections in 2011 and 2012 went to Sudbury, while the Storm received a six -round (2011) and an eleven-round vote (2012). After finishing the season in Sudbury, Chiarot made his professional debut with the first appearance for the Atlanta Thrashers' farm team , the Chicago Wolves of the American Hockey League (AHL).

After just under a year with the Sudbury Wolves, Chiarot was handed over to the Saginaw Spirit together with John McFarland in December 2010 , while the Wolves received Michael Sgarbossa , Alex Racino and Frank Schumacher in return ; in addition, a third-round suffrage went to Saginaw and a four-round suffrage to Sudbury (each for the OHL Priority Selection 2011). He finished the season with the Spirit with 24 points from 39 games and signed an entry-level contract with the Thrashers after the end of the season .

Winnipeg Jets

The Atlanta Thrashers were relocated to Canada in the summer of 2011 and from then on operated as Winnipeg Jets . At the same time, the farm team changed, so that Chiarot spent the 2011/12 season with the St. John's IceCaps in the AHL and with the Colorado Eagles in the ECHL , with only a total of 42 missions due to some injuries. After the Canadian finished last in the Atlantic Division with the IceCaps in the 2012/13 season , sporting success returned the following season, with Chiarot scoring 20 points in 65 games and reaching the final of the Calder Cup with the team , that they lost to the Texas Stars . He also made his debut for the Winnipeg Jets in the NHL in November 2013 , although this was his only assignment for the time being. In July 2014, the Jets extended his contract for a year.

After the defender was back in the ranks of St. John's IceCaps at the beginning of the 2014/15 season, the Winnipeg Jets called him back to the NHL squad in December 2014, where he was able to establish himself.

Canadiens de Montréal

After eight years in the organization of the Jets, his contract was not renewed after the 2018/19 season. As a result, Chiarot joined the Canadiens de Montréal as a free agent in July 2019 , who provided him with a three-year contract that is expected to earn him an average annual salary of $ 3.5 million.

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
2007/08	Guelph Storm	OHL		31	0	0	0	-3	14th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Guelph Storm	OHL		67	2	10	12	+11	111		4th	0	3	3	-4	8th
2009/10	Guelph Storm	OHL		41	4th	9	13	+6	106		-	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Sudbury Wolves	OHL		26th	4th	4th	8th	-13	61		4th	1	0	1	–6	6th
2009/10	Chicago Wolves	AHL		1	0	0	0	-1	4th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Sudbury Wolves	OHL		25th	5	8th	13	-5	62		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Saginaw Spirit	OHL		39	5	19th	24	+11	51		12	1	4th	5	± 0	21st
2011/12	Colorado Eagles	ECHL		24	6th	7th	13	-1	13		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	St. John's IceCaps	AHL		18th	1	1	2	–6	19th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	St. John's IceCaps	AHL		61	1	11	12	-5	81		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	St. John's IceCaps	AHL		65	6th	14th	20th	+29	96		21st	2	3	5	+8	16
2013/14	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		1	0	0	0	-3	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	St. John's IceCaps	AHL		24	4th	5	9	± 0	21st		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		40	2	6th	8th	+5	22nd		2	0	0	0	-2	2
2015/16	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		70	1	9	10	–9	43		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		59	2	10	12	+2	33		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		57	2	12	14th	+15	32		16	0	3	3	+3	15th
2018/19	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		78	5	15th	20th	+6	62		6th	0	0	0	+2	0
OHL total				229	20th	50	70	+7	405		20th	2	7th	9	-10	35
AHL total				169	12	31	43	+17	221		21st	2	3	5	+8	16
NHL overall				305	12	52	64	+16	192		24	0	3	3	+3	17th

( 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 Canadiens de Montréal website
• Ben Chiarot at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ nhl.com: Draft Prospect Ben Chiarot (accessed February 9, 2015)
2. ↑ guelphstorm.com: "Interview with Storm Draft Pick Ben Chiarot" (July 16, 2007, accessed February 9, 2015)
3. ↑ northernlife.ca: "Wolves acquire Atlanta Thrasher prospect" (January 11, 2010, accessed February 10, 2015)
4. ↑ saginawspirit.com: "Spirit Complete Blockbuster Trade to Acquire McFarland and Chiarot" (English, December 9, 2010, accessed February 10, 2015)
5. ↑ oursportscentral.com: "Chiarot Signs with Atlanta Thrashers" (March 16, 2011, accessed February 10, 2015)
6. ↑ Ben Chiarot at hockeysfuture.com (accessed February 10, 2015)
7. ↑ slam.canoe.ca: "Winnipeg Jets sign D Ben Chiarot to one-year, two-way deal" (English, July 23, 2014, accessed on February 10, 2015)