Blake Lizotte

Blake Lizotte
Date of birth	December 13, 1997
place of birth	Lindstrom , Minnesota , USA
size	171 cm
Weight	78 kg
position	center
number	# 46
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2014-2015	Minot Minotaur
2015-2017	Fargo Force
2017-2019	St. Cloud State University
since 2019	Los Angeles Kings

Blake Lizotte (born December 13, 1997 in Lindstrom , Minnesota ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League since April 2019 and plays for them on the position of the center .

Career

Blake Lizotte played for the Chisago Lakes High School ice hockey team in his youth . For the 2014/15 season he moved to the Minot Minotauros in the North American Hockey League , the second highest junior league in the USA after the United States Hockey League (USHL). There he convinced with 52 scorer points from 56 games and was therefore named Rookie of the Year. In the following year, the attacker joined the Fargo Force from the USHL, which he led as team captain from the 2016/17 season . At the same time he achieved a point average of over 1.0 per game and was therefore considered in the USHL Second All-Star Team . He then enrolled at St. Cloud State University , with whose huskies he participated in the game operations of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC), a league in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The American also achieved convincing offensive performances in college and was elected to the NCHC All-Rookie Team and the NCHC First All-Star Team during his two years at St. Cloud State .

Without previously being considered in an NHL Entry Draft , Lizotte signed an entry contract with the Los Angeles Kings from the National Hockey League (NHL) in April 2019 as a free agent . Only a little later, towards the end of the 2018/19 season, he made his debut in the highest professional league in North America. With the start of the 2019/20 season, the center will be used regularly for the Kings in the NHL.

Achievements and Awards

• 2015 NAHL rookie of the year
• 2017 USHL Second All-Star Team
• 2018 NCHC All-Rookie Team
• 2019 NCHC First All-Star Team

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2014/15	Minot Minotaur	NEAR		56	14th	38	52	+27	14th		6th	0	3	3	+1	4th
2015/16	Fargo Force	USHL		54	12	34	46	+13	26th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Fargo Force	USHL		56	19th	46	65	+23	42		3	0	0	0	-5	0
2017/18	St. Cloud State University	NCAA		39	8th	19th	27	+16	20th
2018/19	St. Cloud State University	NCAA		37	14th	28	42	+28	28
2018/19	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		1	0	0	0	-1	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Ontario Reign	AHL		1	0	0	0	± 0	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		65	6th	17th	23	-4	20th		-	-	-	-	-	-
USHL total				110	31	80	111	+36	68		3	0	0	0	-5	0
NCAA overall				76	22nd	47	69	+44	48
NHL overall				66	6th	17th	23	-5	20th		-	-	-	-	-	-

( 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 Los Angeles Kings website
• Blake Lizotte at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ St. Cloud State Forward Blake Lizotte Signs Three-Year, Entry-Level Deal. nhl.com, April 2, 2019, accessed May 30, 2020 .