Brad Hunt (ice hockey player)

Brad Hunt
Date of birth	August 24, 1988
place of birth	Maple Ridge , British Columbia , Canada
size	175 cm
Weight	85 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2005-2008	Burnaby Express
2008–2012	Bemidji State University
2012-2013	Chicago Wolves
2013-2015	Oklahoma City Barons
2015-2016	Bakersfield Condors
2016-2017	St. Louis Blues
2017	Nashville Predators
2017-2019	Vegas Golden Knights
since 2019	Minnesota Wild

Bradley Shawn "Brad" Hunt (born August 24, 1988 in Maple Ridge , British Columbia ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Minnesota Wild from the National Hockey League since January 2019 and plays for them on the position of defender .

Career

Hunt in the jersey of the Chicago Wolves (2012)

Hunt first played in the British Columbia Hockey League for the Burnaby Express during his junior years between 2005 and 2008 . With the team he won the Royal Bank Cup at the end of the 2005/06 season . Following his time at BCHL, the defense attorney moved to the United States , where he enrolled at Bemidji State University for a degree . In the four years between 2008 and 2012 he played parallel for the university ice hockey team in College Hockey America and Western Collegiate Hockey Association , both divisions in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . The defender received numerous individual awards in both divisions. He also won the CHA division title with the team at the end of the 2008/09 season.

Hunt was un drafted after completing his studies in March 2012 by the Chicago Wolves from the American Hockey League . Due to his performance during the rest of the season, the contract, which was initially issued on a trial basis, was converted into a permanent commitment for the 2012/13 season . The Canadian recommended himself in the course of the season with 33 points scorer in 65 games for a two-year contract with the Edmonton Oilers from the National Hockey League for the 2013/14 season . Mainly he spent the two years with the Oklahoma City Barons in the AHL, but was also used in 14 games for the Oilers in the NHL. In the summer of 2015, his expiring contract was extended for another year, but again he spent most of the season in the AHL. However, he was now in the squad of the new Bakersfield Condors farm team ; for Edmonton he ran in seven games.

After his contract was not renewed in the summer by the Oilers, Hunt joined as a free agent in the franchise of the St. Louis Blues . This put him back in the AHL, where he was in the squad of his ex-team Chicago Wolves. With 29 points in 23 games until the beginning of December, the defensive player started the season well and from then on found himself in the NHL squad of the Blues. There he played nine games until mid-January, in which he posted five points. When trying to send him back to Chicago via the waiver list, the Nashville Predators secured his services, but where he was only used three times. After the 2016/17 season , his expiring contract in Nashville was not renewed, so he joined the newly founded Vegas Golden Knights as a free agent in July 2017 . With the team he surprisingly reached the final of the Stanley Cup in the 2018 playoffs , but lost to the Washington Capitals there . After another half a season in the jersey of the Golden Knights, in which he was only used sporadically, the defensive player was given up to the Minnesota Wild together with a six- round vote in the NHL Entry Draft 2019 in exchange for a five-round vote in the same draft .

Achievements and Awards

2006 Royal Bank Cup win with the Burnaby Express 2009 CHA All-Rookie Team 2009 CHA Championship with Bemidji State University 2009 CHA All-Tournament Team 2009 CHA First All-Star Team 2009 CHA Rookie of the Year 2010 CHA All-Academic Team 2010 CHA First All-Star Team

2011 WCHA All-Academic Team 2012 WCHA All-Academic Team 2013 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic 2014 AHL Second All-Star Team 2015 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic 2015 AHL First All-Star Team 2016 Participation in the AHL All-Star Classic

Career statistics

Hunt in the Edmonton Oilers Jersey (2014)

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2005/06	Burnaby Express	BCHL		3	0	0	0	0		2	0	0	0	0
2006/07	Burnaby Express	BCHL		60	4th	34	38	65		14th	2	6th	8th	16
2007/08	Burnaby Express	BCHL		60	16	39	55	53		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Bemidji State University	CHA		37	9	23	32	24
2009/10	Bemidji State University	CHA		37	7th	26th	33	35
2010/11	Bemidji State University	WCHA		38	3	18th	21st	33
2011/12	Bemidji State University	WCHA		38	5	21st	26th	8th
2011/12	Chicago Wolves	AHL		14th	1	4th	5	8th		5	1	3	4th	0
2012/13	Chicago Wolves	AHL		65	4th	29	33	22nd		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Oklahoma City Barons	AHL		66	11	39	50	34		3	1	0	1	4th
2013/14	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		3	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		11	1	2	3	0		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Oklahoma City Barons	AHL		62	19th	32	51	18th		10	3	7th	10	6th
2015/16	Bakersfield Condors	AHL		57	13	28	41	18th		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		7th	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Chicago Wolves	AHL		23	9	20th	29	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	St. Louis Blues	NHL		9	1	4th	5	2		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Nashville Predators	NHL		3	0	1	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Vegas Golden Knights	NHL		45	3	15th	18th	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Vegas Golden Knights	NHL		13	2	5	7th	2		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Minnesota Wild	NHL		29	3	2	5	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Minnesota Wild	NHL		59	8th	11	19th	6th		4th	0	0	0	2
BCHL total				123	20th	73	93	118		16	2	6th	8th	16
NCAA overall				150	24	88	112	100
AHL total				287	57	152	209	106		18th	5	10	15th	10
NHL overall				179	18th	40	58	24		4th	0	0	0	2

( 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 Minnesota Wild website
• Brad Hunt at eliteprospects.com (English)