Brandon Maxwell

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Flags of Canada and the United States.svg  Brandon Maxwell Ice hockey player
Date of birth March 22, 1991
place of birth Winter Park , Florida , USA
size 185 cm
Weight 89 kg
position goalkeeper
Catch hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2009 , 6th round, 154th position
Colorado Avalanche
Career stations
2007-2009 USA Hockey National Team Development Program
2009-2011 Kitchener Rangers
2011–2012 Sarnia Sting
2012 Mississauga St. Michael's Majors
2012-2013 University of Guelph
2013 HK Berkut
2013-2014 Rögle BK
2014 Utah grizzlies
2014-2015 HC Vítkovice Steel
2015-2017 HC Pardubice
2017-2018 BK Mladá Boleslav
2018-2019 Mountfield HK
2019-2020 EC VSV
since 2020 Fischtown Pinguins Bremerhaven

Brandon Maxwell (born March 22, 1991 in Winter Park , Florida ) is an American - Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper who has been under contract with the Fischtown Pinguins Bremerhaven from the German Ice Hockey League (DEL) since May 2020 .

Career

Youth and college

Brandon Maxwell was born in Winter Park, Florida, but grew up in Canada's Ontario at the home of his father. There he played in his youth for the Cambridge Hawks , among others , before he joined the USA Hockey National Team Development Program (NTDP) for the 2007/08 season, the central talent factory of the USA Hockey Association . With the junior selection of the NTDP, the goalkeeper took part in the game operations of the North American Hockey League , the second highest junior league in the country, before he was selected in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft at 154th position by the Colorado Avalanche .

For the 2009/10 season Maxwell returned to Canada and played there at the highest junior level for the Kitchener Rangers in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). He served as first goalkeeper with the Rangers for two years before being transferred to the Sarnia Sting in June 2011 . In Sarnia, on the other hand, the goalkeeper was only active for barely half a season until he was transferred to the Mississauga St. Michael's Majors in January 2012 and spent the remainder of his last OHL season there. With the end of his junior years, he received no professional contract in North American ice hockey, so he ran for about three months for the University of Guelph in Canadian university sports.

Professional area

A little later, Maxwell decided to move to Europe and signed his first professional contract with HK Berkut from the Ukrainian professional hockey league . After only three appearances there, he moved to Rögle BK in the Allsvenskan , the second highest Swedish league, for the 2014/15 season and was promptly set as the first goalkeeper. He then returned to North America and joined the Utah Grizzlies from the third-rate ECHL , but this engagement ended after a few weeks and a completed game when Maxwell moved to HC Vítkovice Steel in the Czech extra league. In the Extraliga he established himself as a result, so he joined HC Pardubice for the new season and acted there as the first goalkeeper for a year and a half. In January 2017 he moved within the league to BK Mladá Boleslav and has been there regularly since then. After a year at Mountfield HK , the goalkeeper was under contract with EC VSV from August 2019 . On the 43rd matchday against HC Innsbruck , Maxwell scored a goal in the 58th minute, as the fifth goalie in the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga .

In May 2020 the Fischtown Pinguins signed Bremerhaven Maxwell, who signed a contract for three years.

International

Maxwell holds dual citizenship and decided to accrue internationally for the United States. As part of the NTDP, he represented the USA at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2008 and the U18 World Championship in 2008 and won a silver and a bronze medal with the team. He made his debut for the senior national team at the Deutschland Cup 2017 and came up with two missions. He was then appointed to the Team USA squad for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games , in which he forms the goalkeeper trio together with Ryan Zapolski and David Leggio . Maxwell benefited from the decision of the National Hockey League not to interrupt the season for these Olympics and thus to ban their players from participating. Finally, the US selection reached seventh place in Pyeongchang, but Maxwell was not used.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp S. N U / OT Min. GT SO Sv% GTS Sp S. N Min. GT SO Sv% GTS
2007/08 USA Hockey NTDP NEAR 21st 8th 10 1 1201 68 1 88.9 3.40 - - - - - - - -
2008/09 USA Hockey NTDP NEAR 11 7th 3 1 666 35 0 86.8 3.15 9 5 4th 535 23 0 91.5 2.58
2009/10 Kitchener Rangers OHL 41 22nd 14th 4th 2362 147 1 90.1 3.73 20th 11 9 1181 76 0 90.0 3.86
2010/11 Kitchener Rangers OHL 46 23 15th 6th 2649 142 1 90.3 3.22 4th 1 3 256 16 0 89.1 3.75
2011/12 Sarnia Sting OHL 32 17th 12 3 1801 97 1 89.9 3.23 - - - - - - - -
2011/12 Mississauga St. Michael's Majors OHL 27 16 10 1 1488 63 5 92.9 2.54 6th 2 4th 378 13 1 93.3 2.06
2012/13 University of Guelph CIS 14th 10 3 0 812 26th 3 93.5 1.92 - - - - - - - -
2012/13 HK Berkut PHL 3 93.7 1.62 - - - - - - - -
2013/14 Rögle BK Allsvenskan 40 20th 15th 5 2374 105 2 90.3 2.65 - - - - - - - -
2014/15 Utah grizzlies ECHL 1 1 0 0 65 3 0 83.3 2.77 - - - - - - - -
2014/15 HC Vítkovice Steel Extra league 5 2 3 - 193 12 0 85.4 3.73 - - - - - - - -
2015/16 HC Pardubice Extra league 41 15th 26th - 2333 101 3 91.6 2.60 5 1 4th 1 273 10 1 91.2 2.20
2014/15 Hokej Šumperk 2003 2nd league 1 1 0 - 60 3 0 91.9 3.00 - - - - - - - -
2016/17 HC Pardubice Extra league 15th 4th 11 - 833 37 0 91.7 2.67 - - - - - - - -
2016/17 BK Mladá Boleslav Extra league 16 8th 8th - 923 31 4th 93.6 2.02 5 2 3 300 15th 0 90.5 3.00
2017/18 BK Mladá Boleslav Extra league 38 14th 24 - 2126 87 3 91.7 2.46 - - - - - - - -
2018/19 Mountfield HK Extra league 29 16 13 - 1716 59 1 91.8 2.06 2 2 0 120 8th 0 81.0 4.00
2019/20 EC VSV EBEL 47 22nd 17th - 2833 112 4th 92.0 2.37 3 1 2 159 10 0 89.3 3.77
NAHL total 32 15th 13 2 1867 103 1 88.2 3.31 9 5 4th 535 23 0 91.5 2.58
OHL total 146 78 51 14th 8300 449 8th 90.6 3.25 30th 14th 16 1815 105 1 90.5 3.47
Extraliga overall 144 59 85 - 8124 327 11 91.0 2.59 12 8th 4th 693 33 1 87.6 3.06

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp S. N Min. GT SO Sv% GTS
2008 United States WHC Silver medal 5 4th 1 300 11 1 91.4 2.20
2008 United States U18 World Cup Bronze medal 5 4th 1 298 11 0 92.6 2.21
2017 United States Germany Cup 4th Place 2 83.3 4.11
2018 United States Olympia 7th place Without any effort
Juniors overall 10 8th 2 598 22nd 1 2.21 94.3

( 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)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ It's Official: Maxwell Gone. ushr.com, November 11, 2008, accessed January 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ hockey-news.info: EBEL: The VSV has its new number 1. hockey-news.info, August 11, 2019, accessed on August 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Goal of the year: Goalie-Maxwell shoots the VSV to victory! January 24, 2020, accessed May 12, 2020 .
  4. ↑ New goalkeeper for the Pinguins: Maxwell comes from Austria. In: kicker.de . May 13, 2020, accessed May 14, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Bill Doucet: Brandon Maxwell named to US Olympic men's hockey team. cambridgetimes.ca, January 13, 2018, accessed on January 20, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Gary R. Blockus: goalies David Leggio, Brandon Maxwell Complete US Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team. teamusa.org, January 11, 2018, accessed on January 20, 2018 .
Squad of the Fischtown Pinguins Bremerhaven in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME Maxwell, Brandon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Winter Park , Florida , United States