Cale Fleury

Cale Fleury
Date of birth	November 19, 1998
place of birth	Regina , Saskatchewan , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	92 kg
position	defender
number	# 20
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2017 , 3rd round, 87th position Canadiens de Montréal
Career stations
2014-2017	Kootenay Ice
2017-2018	Regina Pats
2018-2019	Rocket de Laval
since 2019	Canadiens de Montréal

Cale Fleury (born November 19, 1998 in Regina , Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Canadiens de Montréal in the National Hockey League since October 2018 and plays for them in the position of defender .

Career

Cale Fleury was born in Regina and grew up in Carlyle and later in Calgary . In 2013 he was selected in the Bantam Draft of the Western Hockey League (WHL) in 78th position by the Kootenay Ice , for which he played in the highest junior league of his home province at the beginning of the 2014/15 season. At the Ice, the defender quickly developed into a leader, so he took over the office of team captain for the 2016/17 season . This year the Ice were hardly competitive in the WHL, so they finished last in the league , while Fleury personally had the worst plus / minus statistics in the WHL with a value of −61 . Nevertheless, he was considered in the subsequent NHL Entry Draft 2017 in 87th place by the Canadiens de Montréal before returning to the junior division for a final year. There, in turn, the Kootenay Ice gave it to the Regina Pats in November 2017 in an exchange deal involving several players and draft options . In his hometown, the Canadian significantly increased his personal statistics to 41 scorer points from 51 games before he took part in the 2018 Memorial Cup with the Pats as host . There the team reached the final, but lost to the Titan d'Acadie-Bathurst with 0: 3.

In October 2018, Fleury finally signed an entry-level contract with the Canadiens de Montréal. As expected, they initially used him with their farm team from the American Hockey League (AHL), the Rocket de Laval . There he spent the entire year before he earned a place in the Canadiens squad as part of the preparation for the 2019/20 season and thus made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) in early October 2019 . It has been used there regularly since then.

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
2014/15	Kootenay Ice	WHL		70	1	12	13	–11	8th		7th	0	1	1	-1	0
2015/16	Kootenay Ice	WHL		61	8th	17th	25th	-37	45		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Kootenay Ice	WHL		70	11	27	38	-61	67		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Kootenay Ice	WHL		17th	6th	4th	10	–6	17th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Regina Pats	WHL		51	6th	35	41	+23	41		7th	0	4th	4th	+3	4th
2018	Regina Pats	Memorial Cup									5	0	1	1	+1	0
2018/19	Rocket de Laval	AHL		60	9	14th	23	-16	23		-	-	-	-	-	-
WHL overall				269	32	95	127	-92	178		14th	0	5	5	+2	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 )

family

His older brother Haydn Fleury is also an ice hockey player and was selected in seventh position by the Carolina Hurricanes in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft .

Web links

• Player biography on the Canadiens de Montréal website
• Cale Fleury at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Matt Cudzinowski: A Memorial Cup with some extraspecial meaning. nhl.com, May 11, 2018, accessed on January 22, 2020 . 
2. ^ Pats acquire Montreal Canadiens prospect Cale Fleury from the Kootenay ICE. reginapats.com, November 13, 2017, accessed January 22, 2020 . 
3. ^ Three-year, entry-level contract for Cale Fleury. nhl.com, October 4, 2018, accessed on January 22, 2020 .