Cal Petersen

Cal Petersen
Date of birth	October 19, 1994
place of birth	Waterloo , Iowa , USA
size	185 cm
Weight	83 kg
position	goalkeeper
Catch hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2013 , 5th round, 129th position Buffalo Sabers
Career stations
2011-2014	Waterloo Black Hawks
2014-2017	University of Notre Dame
since 2017	Ontario Reign
since 2018	Los Angeles Kings

Calvin Louis "Cal" Petersen (born October 19, 1994 in Waterloo , Iowa ) is an American ice hockey goalkeeper who has been under contract with the Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League since July 2017 and for their farm team, the Ontario Reign , is used in the American Hockey League .

Career

Cal Petersen grew up in Waterloo and played in his youth, among others, for two years at the Chicago Young Americans in nearly 400 kilometers away in Chicago . From the 2012/13 season he returned firmly to his hometown, where he joined the Waterloo Black Hawks from the United States Hockey League (USHL), the highest-ranking junior league in the country. In his first full season, the goalkeeper recorded a catch rate of 90.6% and an average goal against 2.97, so that he was called to the USHL All-Rookie Team . He was then selected in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft in 129th position by the Buffalo Sabers . After another year in Waterloo, where he was elected to the USHL Second All-Star Team , the American moved to college and henceforth played for the Fighting Irish of the University of Notre Dame in Hockey East , a league in the game operation of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

After four shutouts from 33 games in his first season, he was also elected to the all-rookie team of Hockey East. He then significantly increased his personal statistics once again, recording an average of around 2.20 conceded goals and a catch rate of over 92.5% in the 2015/16 and 2016/17 seasons. As a result, he was appointed to the Hockey East First All-Star Team in 2017 , while the Buffalo Sabers did not provide him with a contract, so he was able to join the Los Angeles Kings as a free agent in July 2017 and sign an entry-level contract there. As expected, the Kings first used the goalkeeper on their farm team , the Ontario Reign , in the American Hockey League (AHL), where he shared the playing time mainly with Jack Campbell and convinced with his performances that he became an AHL All-Star Classic was invited.

After Campbell was out with a knee injury at the beginning of the 2018/19 season, Petersen replaced him as the second goalkeeper behind Jonathan Quick in the Kings squad, so that he made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) in November 2018 and has been there regularly since then comes.

International

Petersen gained his first international experience at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2011 , where he only played the first third of the preliminary round against Slovakia , conceding three goals and then being replaced by goalkeeper Jon Gillies . The World Junior A Challenge 2013 went much better for Petersen, where he led the U19 juniors in his home country to gold medals with three wins in three games. In addition, he was part of the squad of the senior national team for the World Cup in 2017 , but he left the established NHL goalies in Jimmy Howard and Connor Hellebuyck was no use.

Achievements and Awards

2013 USHL All-Rookie Team 2013 gold medal at the World Junior A Challenge 2014 USHL Second All-Star Team 2015 Hockey East All-Rookie Team

2017 Hockey East First All-Star Team 2018 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic 2020 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season										Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	S.	N	U / OT	Min.	GT	SO	GTS	Sv%		Sp	S.	N	Min.	GT	SO	GTS	Sv%
2011/12	Waterloo Black Hawks	USHL		5	3	1	0	265	13	0	2.94	90.2		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Waterloo Black Hawks	USHL		35	19th	11	1	1937	96	3	2.97	90.6		4th	2	2	211	15th	0	4.26	88.1
2013/14	Waterloo Black Hawks	USHL		38	26th	7th	4th	2229	93	2	2.50	91.5		12	8th	4th	760	30th	0	2.37	92.8
2014/15	University of Notre Dame	NCAA		33	13	16	3	1892	79	4th	2.51	91.9
2015/16	University of Notre Dame	NCAA		37	19th	11	7th	2232	82	1	2.20	92.7
2016/17	University of Notre Dame	NCAA		40	23	12	5	2375	88	6th	2.22	92.6
2017/18	Ontario Reign	AHL		41	23	14th	2	2330	100	4th	2.58	91.0		4th	1	3	277	11	0	2.38	91.5
2018/19	Ontario Reign	AHL		38	13	19th	3	2103	141	0	4.02	89.6		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		11	5	4th	1	622	27	1	2.60	92.4		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Ontario Reign	AHL		37	17th	15th	4th	2079	119	3	3.43	90.6		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		8th	5	3	0	478	21st	0	2.64	92.2		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
USHL total				79	48	19th	5	4460	203	5	2.73	91.1		16	10	6th	971	45	0	2.78	91.7
NCAA overall				110	55	39	15th	6499	249	11	2.30	92.4
AHL total				116	53	48	9	6512	360	7th	3.32	90.4		4th	1	3	277	11	0	2.38	91.5
NHL overall				19th	10	7th	1	1100	48	1	2.62	92.3		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented the USA at:

• Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2011
• World Junior A Challenge 2013
• World Championship 2017

year	team	event	result		Sp	S.	N	Min.	GT	SO	GTS	Sv%
2011	United States	Hlinka Memorial	5th place		1	0	0	20th	3	0	9.00	72.7
2013	United States	WJAC			3	3	0	180	8th	0	2.67	86.9
2017	United States	WM	5th place		Without any effort
Juniors overall					4th	3	0	200	11	0	3.30	84.7

( 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

• Player biography on the Los Angeles Kings website
• Cal Petersen at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Cal Petersen at hockeygoalies.org
• From a hotel to the Golden Dome - article by Petersen in The Players' Tribune (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2016-17 Men's Ice Hockey Roster: Cal Petersen. und.com, accessed December 20, 2018 . 
2. ^ Cal Petersen Agrees to Entry-Level Deal with LA Kings. nhl.com, July 1, 2017, accessed December 21, 2018 .