Braden Holtby

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Braden Holtby
Date of birth September 16, 1989
place of birth Lloydminster , Saskatchewan , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 89 kg
position goalkeeper
number # 70
Catch hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2008 , 4th round, 93rd position
Washington Capitals
Career stations
2004-2005 Lloydminster Blazers
2005-2009 Saskatoon Blades
since 2009 Hershey Bears
since 2010 Washington Capitals

Braden Holtby (born September 16, 1989 in Lloydminster , Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper who has been under contract with the Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League since 2009 , with whom he won the Stanley Cup in the 2018 playoffs . He was also awarded the Vezina Trophy as the best goalkeeper in the NHL in 2016. With the Canadian national team he won the gold medal at the World Cup of Hockey 2016 .

Career

Braden Holtby began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the junior team Lloydminster Blazers, for which he was active in the 2004/05 season in the Alberta Junior Hockey League . The goalkeeper then played from 2005 to 2009 for the Saskatoon Blades in the Canadian top junior league Western Hockey League and was elected to the All-Star Team of the Eastern Conference of the WHL in his senior year with the Blades. During his time in Sakatoon he was also selected in the fourth round of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft as a total of 93rd player by the Washington Capitals . For their farm team , the Hershey Bears , he made his senior professional debut in the 2009/10 season and won the Calder Cup with his team straight away . In the same year he also came to twelve missions for the South Carolina Stingrays in the ECHL .

The 2010/11 season began Holtby with the Hershey Bears in the AHL, before he made his debut for the Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League on November 5, 2010 in the home game against the Boston Bruins . In the following period he came as the third goalkeeper behind the Czech Michal Neuvirth and the Russian Semjon Varlamow regularly to another ice age in the NHL, while he was parallel to Hershey in the AHL between the posts.

In the 2015/16 season Holtby was represented for the first time at the NHL All-Star Game and won the Presidents' Trophy with the Capitals . He achieved 48 victories in the regular season and thus set the record held by Martin Brodeur since the 2006/07 season . After the end of the season he therefore received the Vezina Trophy as the best goalkeeper in the NHL and was elected to the First All-Star Team . In the following season 2016/17 Holtby was also honored with the William M. Jennings Trophy and thus the second major goalkeeper trophy of the NHL.

In the 2018 playoffs , Holtby won the first Stanley Cup in franchise history with the Capitals .

International

For Canada , Holtby took part in the U18 World Junior Championship in 2007 , where he finished fourth with his team. In the course of the tournament he was used. At the World Cup of Hockey 2016 , the Canadian was called up to the senior national team of his home country for the first time and won the gold medal with the team, but without coming behind Carey Price and Corey Crawford .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp S. N U / OT Min. GT SO GTS Sv% Sp S. N Min. GT SO GTS Sv%
2005/06 Saskatoon Blades WHL 1 0 1 0 59 4th 0 4.07 92.5 - - - - - - - -
2006/07 Saskatoon Blades WHL 51 17th 29 3 2727 146 0 3.21 89.5 - - - - - - - -
2007/08 Saskatoon Blades WHL 64 25th 29 8th 3632 172 1 2.84 90.8 - - - - - - - -
2008/09 Saskatoon Blades WHL 61 40 16 4th 3571 156 6th 2.62 91.0 7th 3 4th 414 16 0 2.32 91.2
2009/10 South Carolina Stingrays ECHL 12 7th 2 3 712 35 0 2.95 91.1 - - - - - - - -
2009/10 Hershey Bears AHL 37 25th 8th 2 2146 83 2 2.32 91.7 3 2 1 200 12 0 3.60 85.7
2010/11 Hershey Bears AHL 30th 17th 10 2 1785 68 5 2.29 92.0 6th 2 4th 359 18th 0 3.01 89.3
2010/11 Washington Capitals NHL 14th 10 2 2 736 22nd 2 1.79 93.4 - - - - - - - -
2011/12 Hershey Bears AHL 40 20th 15th 2 2322 101 3 2.61 90.6 - - - - - - - -
2011/12 Washington Capitals NHL 7th 4th 2 1 361 15th 1 2.49 92.2 14th 7th 7th 922 30th 0 1.95 93.5
2012/13 Hershey Bears AHL 25th 12 12 1 1458 52 4th 2.14 93.2 - - - - - - - -
2012/13 Washington Capitals NHL 36 23 12 1 2090 90 4th 2.58 92.0 7th 3 4th 433 16 1 2.22 92.2
2013/14 Washington Capitals NHL 48 23 15th 4th 2657 126 4th 2.85 91.5 - - - - - - - -
2014/15 Washington Capitals NHL 73 41 20th 10 4248 157 9 2.22 92.3 13 6th 7th 806 23 1 1.71 94.4
2015/16 Washington Capitals NHL 66 48 9 7th 3842 141 3 2.20 92.2 12 6th 6th 732 21st 2 1.72 94.2
2016/17 Washington Capitals NHL 63 42 13 6th 3681 127 9 2.07 92.5 13 7th 6th 804 33 0 2.47 90.9
2017/18 Washington Capitals NHL 54 34 16 4th 3068 153 0 2.99 90.7 23 16 7th 1386 50 2 2.16 92.2
2018/19 Washington Capitals NHL 59 32 19th 5 3407 160 3 2.82 91.1 7th 3 4th 449 20th 1 2.67 91.4
WHL overall 177 82 75 15th 9989 478 7th 2.87 90.5 7th 3 4th 414 16 0 2.32 91.2
AHL total 132 74 45 7th 7711 304 14th 2.37 91.8 9 4th 5 559 30th 0 3.22 88.1
NHL overall 420 257 108 40 24086 991 35 2.47 91.8 89 48 41 5531 193 7th 2.09 92.8

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp S. N Min. GT SO GTS Sv%
2007 Canada U18 World Cup 4th Place 1 0 1 9 2 0 13.58 83.3
2016 Canada World cup 1st place, gold Without any effort
Juniors overall 1 0 1 9 2 0 13.58 83.3

( 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)

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Squad of the Washington Capitals in the season 2019/20

Goalkeeper: Braden Holtby  | Ilja Samsonow  
Defender: John Carlson  ( A ) | Brenden Dillon  | Radko Gudas  | Nick Jensen  | Michal Kempný  | Dmitri Orlov  | Jonas Siegenthaler  
attacker: Nicklas Bäckström  ( A ) | Travis Boyd  | Nic Dowd  | Lars Eller  | Carl Hagelin  | Garnet Hathaway  | Ilya Kovalchuk  | Yevgeny Kuznetsov  | TJ Oshie  | Alexander Ovechkin  ( C ) | Richard Pánik  | Jakub Vrána  | Tom Wilson  
Head Coach:  vacant      Assistant  Coach : Scott Arniel  | Reid Cashman  | Blaine Forsythe    General Manager:  Brian MacLellan

personal data
SURNAME Holtby, Braden
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Lloydminster , Saskatchewan , Canada