Brendan Lemieux

Brendan Lemieux


Date of birth	March 15, 1996
place of birth	Denver , Colorado , USA
size	185 cm
Weight	95 kg

position	Left wing
number	# 48
Shot hand	Left

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2014 , 2nd round, 31st position Buffalo Sabers

Career stations

2012-2015	Barrie Colts
2015-2016	Windsor Spitfires
2016-2018	Manitoba mosses
2018-2019	Winnipeg Jets
since 2019	New York Rangers

Brendan Lemieux (born March 15, 1996 in Denver , Colorado ) is an American - Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL) since February 2019 and is on the left for them Winger plays.

Career

Brendan Lemieux is the son of former ice hockey player Claude Lemieux and was born in Denver , where his father played for the Colorado Avalanche in the National Hockey League (NHL).

In his youth, Brendan Lemieux played for the Green Bay Gamblers in the United States Hockey League (USHL) from 2012 and moved to the Barrie Colts in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) during the 2012/13 season . He distinguished himself at the Colts by his aggressive style of play and was one of the team's top 5 scorers. In the final 2014 ranking of the NHL Central Scouting Service, he was ranked 28th and selected for participation in the 2014 CHL Top Prospects Game . In the NHL Entry Draft 2014 Lemieux was considered in the second round in 31st position by the Buffalo Sabers , but initially continued to play for the Barrie Colts.

In February 2015, Lemieux was transferred to the Winnipeg Jets along with Tyler Myers , Joel Armia , Drew Stafford and a first-round vote in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft , in return the Sabers received Evander Kane , Zach Bogosian and the rights to Jason Kasdorf . He received an NHL entry-level contract from the Jets in July 2015 .

In December 2015 he was transferred from the Colts to the Windsor Spitfires , his last stint in the junior division. Towards the end of the 2015/16 season he wore the jersey of the Manitoba Moose , the Jets farm team , in the American Hockey League (AHL) for the first time. He made his NHL debut for the Winnipeg Jets on October 20, 2017 in the home game against the Minnesota Wild , and scored his first goal in the NHL nine days later in a 7-1 home win against the Pittsburgh Penguins . As a result, the attacker established himself in the NHL with the start of the 2018/19 season . In February 2019, he was given a conditional first-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft 2019 or 2020 and a conditional four-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft 2022 , provided the Jets win the Stanley Cup in 2019 , in exchange for Kevin Hayes to the New York Rangers handed in.

International

Lemieux won the gold medal with Team Canada at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2013 .

Achievements and Awards

2013 gold medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament
2014 CHL Top Prospects Game

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
2012/13	Barrie Colts	OHL	42	6th	8th	14th	+2	52	21st	2	0	2	+3	36
2013/14	Barrie Colts	OHL	65	27	26th	53	−7	145	11	7th	3	10	−1	16
2014/15	Barrie Colts	OHL	57	41	19th	60	−9	145	5	1	2	3	−4	12
2015/16	Barrie Colts	OHL	11	9	5	14th	−1	28	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Windsor Spitfires	OHL	34	23	25th	48	+20	37	3	4th	1	5	−3	13
2015/16	Manitoba mosses	AHL	5	2	1	3	+1	6th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Manitoba mosses	AHL	61	12	7th	19th	−16	130	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Manitoba mosses	AHL	51	19th	24	43	+10	170	8th	3	2	5	−2	22nd
2017/18	Winnipeg Jets	NHL	9	1	0	1	+2	21st	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Winnipeg Jets	NHL	44	9	2	11	+10	64	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	New York Rangers	NHL	19th	3	3	6th	-4	44	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	New York Rangers	NHL	59	6th	12	18th	-14	111	1	0	0	0	± 0	0
OHL total			209	106	83	189	+5	407	40	14th	6th	20th	−5	77
AHL total			117	33	32	65	−5	306	8th	3	2	5	−2	22nd
NHL overall			131	19th	17th	36	–6	240	1	0	0	0	± 0	0

International

Represented Canada to:

Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2013

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2013	Canada	IH18			5	1	1	2	+1	4th
Juniors overall					5	1	1	2	+1	4th

( 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 )