Blake Wheeler
Date of birth | August 31, 1986 |
place of birth | Plymouth , Minnesota , USA |
Nickname | Wheels |
size | 193 cm |
Weight | 99 kg |
position | Right wing |
number | # 26 |
Shot hand | Right |
Draft | |
NHL Entry Draft |
2004 , 1st round, 5th position Phoenix Coyotes |
Career stations | |
2004-2005 | Green Bay Gamblers |
2005-2008 | University of Minnesota |
2008-2011 | Boston Bruins |
2011 | Atlanta Thrashers |
2012 | EHC Red Bull Munich |
since 2011 | Winnipeg Jets |
Blake James Wheeler (born August 31, 1986 in Plymouth , Minnesota ) is an American ice hockey player . Since July 2011 he has played for the Winnipeg Jets in the National Hockey League in the position of right winger and has been captain of the team since 2016 . He also holds several records there , including the most assists in franchise history.
Career
Youth and Studies
Wheeler initially played at Wayzata Senior High School during his high school years, but moved to Breck School after just one year . There he made the breakthrough in the 2003/04 season when he was able to record 45 goals and 55 assists , making it the most successful player in his age group in the state of Minnesota . He also led his team to win the state championship and was named Most Valuable Player . The following summer, the Phoenix Coyotes selected the then 17-year-old in fifth overall position in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft . At the beginning of the 2004/05 season, Wheeler decided to spend his last year of high school in the United States Hockey League with the Green Bay Gamblers in order to get used to the higher level of college ice hockey. In the Gamblers, the right winger played a successful season with 47 points in 58 games, making him the Gamblers' best-point player and which earned him an appointment to the USHL's all-rookie team.
In the summer of 2005, Wheeler began his college education at the University of Minnesota , where he also played for the university team in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association , a league of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . In his first year he completed a solid year of play with 23 points in 39 games. In addition, the US Ice Hockey Association nominated him for the U20 national team for the U20 Junior World Championship 2006 in Canada . In seven games, Wheeler scored two goals and only reached fourth place with the team after defeats in the semifinals and game for third place. The following season Wheeler played his most successful year for the Golden Gophers, which was crowned with winning the championship of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. Wheeler himself contributed a hat trick in the semifinals and the overtime winning goal in the final in the decisive tournament , which earned him the title of tournament MVP. Also in the 2007/08 season he stayed at college and decided against moving to the professional field. The season he completed - measured by his offensive statistics - similar to the previous season, but the team could not repeat the success in the championship, also due to injury-related losses of some leading players.
Boston Bruins
Four years after Wheeler had been drafted by the Phoenix Coyotes, he had still not come to an agreement with them. Although the Coyotes had offered him a contract valid for the National Hockey League at the maximum conditions for a rookie , Wheeler decided at the end of May 2008 with the start of the free agent period on July 1, 2008 to become an unrestricted free agent, and thus to have the chance to sign a contract with the team of his choice. The Phoenix Coyotes were compensated by Wheeler's cancellation according to the NHL draft regulations with a second-round draft pick in 35th place in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft . As a result, his agent named the New York Rangers , Boston Bruins , New Jersey Devils and Montréal Canadiens some teams for which Wheeler was ready to play, but at the same time signed a contract with the Minnesota Wild , which, like two-thirds of all NHL teams, due to Wheeler's origin, hoped for a commitment. On June 16, 2008, the 21-year-old finally announced that he had decided to move to the Boston Bruins. The signing of a three-year contract was officially announced on July 1, 2008, the first day for possible free agent engagements.
Winnipeg Jets
In February 2011 the Boston Bruins gave him in a transfer deal together with Mark Stuart in exchange for Rich Peverley and Boris Valábik to the Atlanta Thrashers . At the end of October 2012, he signed a contract with EHC Red Bull Munich , which was valid until the end of the NHL lockout.
Even after the Atlanta Thrashers were relocated to Winnipeg and now operated as Winnipeg Jets , Wheeler showed consistently good offensive performances, so he holds the team records for most assists, most scorer points and most games - together with Andrew Ladd - and most consecutive games . He also holds the respective season records in the templates and scorer points categories .
Wheeler had the opportunity to replace Jonathan Toews in the 2016 NHL All-Star Game in January 2016 , but declined. In the summer of 2016, he was named the second team captain in the history of the Winnipeg Jets.
In the 2017/18 season, Wheeler increased his personal statistics significantly to 91 scorer points from 81 games and became the best goal setter in the NHL with 68 assists (alongside Claude Giroux ). At the same time he set a new season record for scorer points and assists at the Winnipeg Jets. He is also considered in the NHL Second All-Star Team at the end of the season . As a result, he signed a new five-year contract in Winnipeg in September 2018, which is expected to earn him an average annual salary of $ 8.25 million from the start of the 2019/20 season.
Achievements and Awards
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Career statistics
Status: end of the 2019/20 season
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
2004/05 | Green Bay Gamblers | USHL | 58 | 19th | 28 | 47 | 43 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2005/06 | University of Minnesota | NCAA | 39 | 9 | 14th | 23 | 41 | |||||||
2006/07 | University of Minnesota | NCAA | 44 | 18th | 20th | 38 | 42 | |||||||
2007/08 | University of Minnesota | NCAA | 44 | 15th | 20th | 35 | 72 | |||||||
2008/09 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 81 | 21st | 24 | 45 | 46 | 8th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
2009/10 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 82 | 18th | 20th | 38 | 53 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 6th | 6th | ||
2010/11 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 58 | 11 | 16 | 27 | 32 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2010/11 | Atlanta Thrashers | NHL | 23 | 7th | 10 | 17th | 14th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2011/12 | Winnipeg Jets | NHL | 80 | 17th | 47 | 64 | 55 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2012/13 | EHC Munich | DEL | 15th | 6th | 14th | 20th | 51 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2012/13 | Winnipeg Jets | NHL | 48 | 19th | 22nd | 41 | 28 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2013/14 | Winnipeg Jets | NHL | 82 | 28 | 41 | 69 | 63 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2014/15 | Winnipeg Jets | NHL | 79 | 26th | 35 | 61 | 73 | 4th | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||
2015/16 | Winnipeg Jets | NHL | 82 | 26th | 52 | 78 | 49 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2016/17 | Winnipeg Jets | NHL | 82 | 26th | 48 | 74 | 47 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2017/18 | Winnipeg Jets | NHL | 81 | 23 | 68 | 91 | 52 | 17th | 3 | 18th | 21st | 10 | ||
2018/19 | Winnipeg Jets | NHL | 82 | 20th | 71 | 91 | 60 | 6th | 1 | 4th | 5 | 6th | ||
2019/20 | Winnipeg Jets | NHL | 71 | 22nd | 43 | 65 | 37 | 4th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||
USHL total | 58 | 19th | 28 | 47 | 43 | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
NCAA overall | 127 | 42 | 54 | 96 | 155 | |||||||||
NHL overall | 931 | 264 | 497 | 761 | 609 | 52 | 6th | 28 | 34 | 29 |
International
Represented the USA at:
- U20 Junior World Championship 2006
- World Championship 2011
- 2014 Winter Olympics
- World Cup of Hockey 2016
year | team | event | result | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | |
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2006 | United States | U20 World Cup | 4th Place | 7th | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6th | |
2011 | United States | WM | 8th place | 7th | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6th | |
2014 | United States | Olympia | 4th Place | 6th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
2016 | United States | World cup | 7th place | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
Juniors overall | 7th | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6th | ||||
Men overall | 16 | 2 | 5 | 7th | 8th |
( 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
Individual evidence
- ↑ coyotes.nhl.com, former Coyotes draft pick Blake Wheeler elects for free agency
- ↑ startribune.com, Wheeler not interested in the Wild ( Memento of September 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), June 10th, 2008
- ^ Boston.com, Bruins to sign Wheeler
- ↑ CBC Sports Online , Bruins sign Blake Wheeler
- ↑ EHC Red Bull Munich signs NHL star Blake Wheeler. (No longer available online.) In: hockeyweb.de. November 6, 2012, archived from the original on March 15, 2017 ; accessed on March 15, 2017 .
- ^ Paul Friesen: Jets' Wheeler says no thanks to all-star game. Winnipeg Sun , January 28, 2016; accessed January 29, 2016 .
- ^ Jets sign Blake Wheeler to a five-year contract extension. nhl.com, September 4, 2018, accessed September 4, 2018 .
Goalkeeper:
Laurent Brossoit |
Connor Hellebuyck
Defender:
Nathan Beaulieu |
Anthony Bitetto |
Dylan DeMelo |
Dmitri Kulikov |
Josh Morrissey ( A ) |
Neal Pionk |
Tucker Poolman |
Luca Sbisa
Attacker:
Mason Appleton |
Gabriel Bourque |
Kyle Connor |
Andrew Copp |
Cody Eakin |
Nikolaj Ehlers |
Patrik Laine |
Mark Letestu |
Bryan Little |
Adam Lowry |
Mathieu Perreault |
Jack Roslovic |
Mark Scheifele ( A ) |
Logan Shaw |
Nick Shore |
Blake Wheeler ( C )
Head Coach: Paul Maurice Assistant Coach : Charlie Huddy | Jamie Compos | Todd Woodcroft General Manager: Kevin Cheveldayoff
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wheeler, Blake |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wheeler, Blake James (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 31, 1986 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Plymouth , Minnesota |