Boo nieves

Boo nieves
Date of birth	January 23, 1994
place of birth	Baldwinsville , New York , USA
size	191 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2012 , 2nd round, 59th position New York Rangers
Career stations
2010–2012	Kent School
2012	Indiana Ice
2012-2016	University of Michigan
since 2016	New York Rangers Hartford Wolf Pack

Cristoval "Boo" Nieves (born January 23, 1994 in Baldwinsville , New York ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League since March 2016 and for their farm team , the Hartford Wolf Pack , plays in the American Hockey League on the position of the center .

Career

Nieves first played between 2010 and 2012 at the Kent School , a high school in the US state of Connecticut . Towards the end of the 2011/12 season, the striker then completed a few appearances for the Indiana Ice in the United States Hockey League before enrolling at the University of Michigan . He had previously been selected in the second round of the 2012 NHL Entry Draft in 59th place by the New York Rangers from the National Hockey League . At the University of Michigan, the attacker ran for the next four years up to spring 2016 while studying for the university's ice hockey team, which was active in the Big Ten Conference , a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . With the team he won the Big Ten championship at the end of his last season .

After completing college season, Nieves signed a professional contract with the New York Rangers at the end of March 2016, who used him for their farm team , the Hartford Wolf Pack , in the American Hockey League at the end of the 2015/16 season . There the center forward reached five scorer points in eight missions and found himself in the Wolf Pack squad at the beginning of the 2016/17 season . His achievements in the AHL ultimately led to his being appointed to the New York NHL squad for the first time in mid-November, where he made his debut.

International

Nieves played for his home country at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2011 . There he reached fifth place with the team. In four tournament appearances, he scored one goal and prepared three more.

Achievements and Awards

• 2016 Big Ten Conference Championship with the University of Michigan

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
2011/12	Indiana Ice	USHL		13	2	8th	10	2		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	University of Michigan	Big Ten		40	8th	21st	29	18th
2013/14	University of Michigan	Big Ten		34	3	18th	21st	18th
2014/15	University of Michigan	Big Ten		35	7th	21st	28	18th
2015/16	University of Michigan	Big Ten		35	10	21st	31	18th
2015/16	Hartford Wolf Pack	AHL		8th	2	3	5	0		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Hartford Wolf Pack	AHL		40	6th	12	18th	10		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	New York Rangers	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Hartford Wolf Pack	AHL		40	8th	13	21st	12		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	New York Rangers	NHL		28	1	8th	9	12		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Hartford Wolf Pack	AHL		16	2	5	8th	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	New York Rangers	NHL		43	4th	6th	10	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Hartford Wolf Pack	AHL		43	5	22nd	27	16		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	New York Rangers	NHL		4th	0	0	0	4th		-	-	-	-	-
NCAA overall				144	28	81	109	72
AHL total				147	24	55	79	44		-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				76	5	14th	19th	24		-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented the USA at:

• Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2011

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2011	United States	HIMT	5th place		4th	1	3	4th	0
Juniors overall					4th	1	3	4th	0

( 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 New York Rangers website
• Boo Nieves at eliteprospects.com (English)