Brock Nelson

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Brock Nelson
Date of birth October 15, 1991
place of birth Minneapolis , Minnesota , USA
size 193 cm
Weight 87 kg
position center
number # 29
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2010 , 1st round, 30th position
New York Islanders
Career stations
2010–2012 University of North Dakota
2012-2013 Bridgeport Sound Tigers
since 2013 New York Islanders

Brock Nelson (born October 15, 1991 in Minneapolis , Minnesota ) is an American ice hockey player who has been with the New York Islanders in the National Hockey League since April 2012 .

Career

Nelson in the jersey of the Islanders (2014)

Brock Nelson began his career on the school team at Warroad High School , for which he was on the ice for three seasons. After scoring 73 points in 25 games for his school in the 2009-10 season, he was named to the Great Plains high school selection and played there for the remainder of the season. Overall, he finished the season as the fourth best scorer in the American high school system. In the NHL Entry Draft 2010 he was then selected in the first round in 30th position by the New York Islanders .

Nelson then moved to the University of North Dakota and played for the university's ice hockey team in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association . In his debut season he won the championship in the WCHA with the team. In the following season Nelson finally achieved the breakthrough with 47 points from 42 games and he was appointed to the Third All-Star Team of the WCHA. At the same time he helped the team to defend their title in the WCHA championship.

After the end of the season he signed a three-year entry-level contract with the New York Islanders and moved permanently to the Islanders' farm team , the Bridgeport Sound Tigers , in the American Hockey League for the 2012/13 season . With 52 points from 66 games, he immediately became the team's top scorer and also finished second in the league in the rookie scorer ranking behind Ryan Spooner . Nelson also set a new rook record for the Sound Tigers with 25 goals. On May 11, 2013, the center also made his debut for the Islanders in the National Hockey League in the play-off game against the Pittsburgh Penguins .

In the 2013/14 season Brock Nelson was permanently in the NHL roster of the New York Islanders and completed 72 games in the regular season . When John Tavares was out with an injury in February 2014, Nelson briefly moved up to the first line of attack by the Islanders.

After having achieved his best career record to date with 53 scorer points in the 2018/19 season, he signed a new six-year contract in New York in May 2019, which from now on should bring him an average annual salary of six million US dollars.

International

Nelson represented the USA for the first time at the 2011 U20 World Junior Championship and won the bronze medal with the team. He was appointed to the men's national team for the first time at the 2014 World Cup in Minsk , as well as at the 2015 World Cup , where he won the bronze medal and was the top scorer of his team with 10 points. At the 2016 World Cup , he joined the team late due to the playoff participation with the Islanders and subsequently took fourth place with the team.

Achievements and Awards

  • 2011 WCHA championship with the University of North Dakota
  • 2012 WCHA championship with the University of North Dakota
  • 2012 WCHA Third All-Star Team
  • 2012 WCHA All-Academic Team

International

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
2010/11 University of North Dakota WCHA 42 8th 13 21st 27 - - - - -
2011/12 University of North Dakota WCHA 42 28 19th 47 4th - - - - -
2011/12 Bridgeport Sound Tigers AHL 4th 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
2012/13 Bridgeport Sound Tigers AHL 66 25th 27 52 34 - - - - -
2012/13 New York Islanders NHL - - - - - 1 0 0 0 0
2013/14 Bridgeport Sound Tigers AHL 1 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
2013/14 New York Islanders NHL 72 14th 12 26th 12 - - - - -
2014/15 New York Islanders NHL 82 20th 22nd 42 24 6th 2 0 2 2
2015/16 New York Islanders NHL 81 26th 14th 40 30th 11 1 4th 5 6th
2016/17 New York Islanders NHL 81 20th 25th 45 36 - - - - -
2017/18 New York Islanders NHL 82 19th 16 35 43 - - - - -
2018/19 New York Islanders NHL 81 25th 28 53 28 8th 4th 0 4th 2
WCHA overall 84 36 32 68 31 - - - - -
AHL total 71 25th 28 53 36 2 0 0 0 0
NHL overall 480 124 117 241 173 26th 7th 4th 11 10

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2011 United States U20 World Cup 3rd place, bronze 5 0 1 1 0
2014 United States WM 6th place 8th 5 2 7th 20th
2015 United States WM 3rd place, bronze 10 6th 4th 10 8th
2016 United States WM 4th Place 6th 1 3 4th 2
2017 United States WM 5th place 8th 4th 3 7th 2
Juniors overall 5 0 1 1 0
Seniors total 32 16 12 28 32

( 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 )

family

Brock Nelson comes from a hockey family. His grandfather Bill Christian and his great uncle Roger Christian won the gold medal at the Olympic ice hockey tournament together with the USA in 1960 . Both are also members of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame . His other great-uncle Gordon Christian had already won the silver medal with the USA four years earlier . His uncles Ed and Dave Christian were also professional ice hockey players, with Dave continuing the family's Olympic tradition and also becoming Olympic champion with the USA in 1980 at the Miracle on Ice .

Web links

Commons : Brock Nelson  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rookies scorers for the 2012/13 season on the American Hockey League website
  2. ↑ Player biography on the New York Islanders website
  3. ↑ Brett Cyrgalis: Rookie Islander Brock Nelson new 'center' of attention , New York Post, February 26, 2014
Squad of the New York Islanders in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME Nelson, Brock
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Minneapolis , Minnesota