Byron Froese

Byron Froese
Date of birth	March 12, 1991
place of birth	Winkler , Manitoba , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	90 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2009 , 4th round, 119th position Chicago Blackhawks
Career stations
2008-2010	Everett Silvertips
2010-2011	Red Deer Rebels
2011-2014	Rockford IceHogs Toledo Walleye
2014	Cincinnati Cyclones San Antonio Rampage
2014-2017	Toronto Maple Leafs Toronto Marlies
2017	Syracuse crunch
2017-2018	Canadiens de Montréal
2018-2019	Rocket de Laval
2019	Lehigh Valley Phantoms
since 2019	Stockton Heat

Byron Froese (* 12. March 1991 in Winkler , Manitoba ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who since July 2019 with the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League is under contract and in parallel for their farm team , the Stockton Heat , in the American Hockey League on the position of the center plays.

Career

Froese spent his junior years in the Western Hockey League between 2008 and 2011 . First he went two years for the Everett Silvertips on the ice and was selected meanwhile in the NHL Entry Draft 2009 in the fourth round in 119th place by the Chicago Blackhawks from the National Hockey League . The attacker then spent the 2010/11 season after a transfer with the Red Deer Rebels . There he formed a storm row with Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Andrej Kudrna and collected 81 points scorer over the course of the season .

In May 2011, the then 20-year-old ended his junior career and signed a contract with the Chicago Blackhawks, who used him in the American Hockey League with the Rockford IceHogs and the Toledo Walleye and the Cincinnati Cyclones in the ECHL for the next three years . After the expiry of the three-year contract, Froese received no new offer from the NHL and therefore signed up for a year with the Cincinnati Cyclones, where he had spent parts of the 2013/14 season. In the course of the 2014/15 season , the striker was loaned to the San Antonio Rampage from the AHL in the first half of the season and a little later received a trial contract with the Toronto Marlies , who were also based in the AHL. A little later, the contract was then extended to the end of the season and finally for two more years in the summer of 2015 by the cooperation partner of the Marlies, the Toronto Maple Leafs from the NHL.

In the Maple Leafs franchise , the attacker made his debut in the NHL in the 2015/16 season and played 56 games. In the 2016/17 season he was again mainly active for the Marlies before the Maple Leafs handed him over to the Tampa Bay Lightning in February 2017, including a second-round vote in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft . In return, Brian Boyle moved to Toronto. The Lightning did not extend the attacker's contract, which was running out at the end of the season, so he joined the Canadiens de Montréal as a free agent in July 2017 . There the Canadian came in his first year mainly in the NHL squad of the Habs to use. However, in the further course of his engagement he was mostly on the ice for their farm team, the Rocket de Laval in the AHL. Their team captain was Froese until February 2019, when he was transferred to the Philadelphia Flyers together with David Schlemko . In return, Christian Folin and Dale Weise moved to the French-Canadian metropolis. Under contract with the Flyers, Froese came to work with their farm team Lehigh Valley Phantoms . Froese then moved to the Calgary Flames as a free agent in July 2019 .

International

For his home country, Froese played at the U18 World Junior Championship in the United States in 2009 . The Canadian played six tournament games and scored seven points. There were four gates below. But the Canadians were unable to win a medal after defeats in the semi-finals and the game for third place.

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
2008/09	Everett Silvertips	WHL		72	19th	38	57	30th		5	0	3	3	4th
2009/10	Everett Silvertips	WHL		70	29	32	61	37		7th	3	2	5	0
2010/11	Red Deer Rebels	WHL		70	43	38	81	37		9	5	2	7th	4th
2011/12	Rockford IceHogs	AHL		57	4th	6th	10	17th		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Toledo Walleye	ECHL		3	1	1	2	2		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Toledo Walleye	ECHL		38	12	21st	33	12		6th	2	4th	6th	6th
2012/13	Rockford IceHogs	AHL		9	0	2	2	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Rockford IceHogs	AHL		28	0	5	5	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Cincinnati Cyclones	ECHL		25th	11	10	21st	20th		23	8th	17th	25th	20th
2014/15	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		3	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Cincinnati Cyclones	ECHL		17th	8th	16	24	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Toronto Marlies	AHL		46	18th	24	42	26th		5	1	3	4th	4th
2015/16	Toronto Marlies	AHL		4th	3	0	3	0		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		56	2	3	5	16		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Toronto Marlies	AHL		48	24	15th	39	18th		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		2	0	0	0	5		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Syracuse crunch	AHL		6th	3	4th	7th	4th		22nd	6th	7th	13	8th
2016/17	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		4th	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Rocket de Laval	AHL		13	3	8th	11	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		48	3	8th	11	26th		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Rocket de Laval	AHL		46	14th	16	30th	23		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Lehigh Valley Phantoms	AHL		24	7th	7th	14th	28		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Stockton Heat	AHL		46	19th	23	42	44		-	-	-	-	-
WHL overall				212	91	108	199	104		21st	8th	7th	15th	8th
ECHL total				83	32	48	80	48		29	10	21st	31	26th
AHL total				330	95	110	205	186		27	7th	10	17th	12
NHL overall				110	5	11	16	47		-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Canada to:

• U18 Junior World Championship 2009

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2009	Canada	U18 World Cup	4th Place		6th	4th	3	7th	4th
Juniors overall					6th	4th	3	7th	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 )

Web links

• Player biography on the Calgary Flames website
• Byron Froese at eliteprospects.com (English)