Brett Lernout

Brett Lernout
Date of birth	September 24, 1995
place of birth	Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada
size	193 cm
Weight	97 kg
position	defender
number	# 36
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2014 , 3rd round, 73rd position Canadiens de Montréal
Career stations
2009-2010	Winnipeg Sharks Bantam AAA
2010-2011	Winnipeg Warriors City Midget
2011–2012	Winnipeg Wild Midget AAA
2012	Steinbach Pistons Saskatoon Blades
2012-2015	Swift Current Broncos
2015	Hamilton Bulldogs
2015-2019	Canadiens de Montréal
2015-2017	St. John's IceCaps
2017-2019	Rocket de Laval
since 2019	Chicago Wolves

Brett Lernout (born September 24, 1995 in Winnipeg , Manitoba ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League (NHL) since July 2019 and for their farm team , the Chicago Wolves , in the American Hockey League (AHL) plays on the position of defender .

Career

Lernout was born in Winnipeg and played there for various youth teams before moving to the Western Hockey League (WHL) at the end of the 2011/12 season, where he was initially active for the Saskatoon Blades and later for the Swift Current Broncos .

Due to his good performance at the Broncos, the Canadiens de Montréal became aware of him and selected him in the third round of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft in 73rd position. During another successful season with the Broncos, in which he was promoted to one of the assistant captains, he received a three-year entry-level contract from the Canadiens in December 2014 .

At the end of the 2014/15 season he was on the ice for the first time in the American Hockey League (AHL) for the Canadiens' farm team , the Hamilton Bulldogs . He made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) on April 3, 2016 in a 4-3 away defeat by the Florida Panthers .

After more than four years in the organization of the Canadiens, Lernout moved to the Vegas Golden Knights as a free agent in July 2019 .

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2011/12	Saskatoon Blades	WHL		2	0	0	0	−2	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Saskatoon Blades	WHL		18th	0	0	0	± 0	15th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Swift Current Broncos	WHL		41	1	1	2	−4	28		5	0	0	0	−2	0
2013/14	Swift Current Broncos	WHL		72	8th	14th	22nd	+7	103		6th	0	1	1	−1	0
2014/15	Swift Current Broncos	WHL		72	14th	28	42	−12	68		4th	1	0	1	−7	4th
2014/15	Hamilton Bulldogs	AHL		6th	0	0	0	−1	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		1	0	0	0	± 0	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	St. John's IceCaps	AHL		69	2	10	12	−4	73		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		2	0	0	0	−1	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	St. John's IceCaps	AHL		74	3	13	16	+5	63		4th	0	1	1	−1	2
2017/18	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		18th	0	1	1	−5	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Rocket de Laval	AHL		56	1	7th	8th	−16	33		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Rocket de Laval	AHL		74	4th	5	9	+3	41		-	-	-	-	-	-
WHL overall				205	23	43	66	−11	214		15th	1	1	2	−10	4th
AHL total				279	10	35	45	−13	212		4th	0	1	1	−1	2
NHL overall				21st	0	1	1	−6	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-

( 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 Vegas Golden Knights website
• Brett Lernout at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Canadiens sign third round pick Brett Lernout to a three-year contract. In: Canadiens de Montréal . December 19, 2014, accessed March 23, 2018 .