Casey DeSmith

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Casey DeSmith
Date of birth August 13, 1991
place of birth Rochester , New Hampshire , USA
size 183 cm
Weight 82 kg
position goalkeeper
number #1
Catch hand Left
Career stations
2009-2011 Indiana Ice
2011-2014 University of New Hampshire
2015-2016 Wheeling Nailers
since 2015 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins
since 2017 Pittsburgh Penguins

Casey DeSmith (born August 13, 1991 in Rochester , New Hampshire ) is an American ice hockey goalkeeper who has been under contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League since July 2017 and for their farm team, the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins , is used in the American Hockey League .

Career

Youth and University

DeSmith in the jersey of the Penguins (2017)

Casey DeSmith was born in Rochester and attended Berwick Academy and Deerfield Academy , two prestigious private schools, for whose ice hockey teams he played in regional high school teams. For the 2009/10 season he moved to the Indiana Ice in the United States Hockey League (USHL), the highest-ranking junior league in the United States. He was active in Indiana for two years before returning to his home country and enrolling at the University of New Hampshire . For their Wildcats , he ran from then on in the Hockey East , a league of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and recorded as a rookie a catch rate of 92.6%, so he was elected to the Hockey East All-Rookie Team . Then the American rose to the regular goalkeeper in New Hampshire and confirmed his achievements from his freshman year, but without being considered in an NHL entry draft .

Following an August 2014 incident, DeSmith was suspended from the University of New Hampshire on suspicion of domestic violence against his significant other. Although the allegations against him were dropped during a hearing (apart from disorderly conduct ) and he was allowed to return to college as a student, he remained banned from the Wildcats' gaming operations. As a result, the goalkeeper did not play a competitive game in the 2014/15 season, while the NCAA subsequently denied him to spend his fourth year of college in the following season at another university, so DeSmith switched to professional business in the 2015/16 season and the Wheeling Nailers from ECHL joined.

Pittsburgh Penguins

DeSmith was convincing at the Wheeling Nailers, so that he was used for the first time in December 2015 in the higher-ranking American Hockey League (AHL) with the cooperation partner of the Nailers, the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins . Both teams act as respective farm teams of the Pittsburgh Penguins from the National Hockey League (NHL). For the season 2016/17 the goalkeeper established in Wilkes-Barre / Scranton and won together with his teammates Tristan Jarry the Harry "Hap" Holmes Memorial Award as the best Torhüterduo Gegentorschnitt while in addition to the AHL All-Rookie Team was selected . As a result, DeSmith signed an NHL entry-level contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins in July 2017 . He finally made his debut in the highest league in North America in October 2017 and has been there regularly - often alternating with Tristan Jarry - as a backup for Matt Murray . He was also represented at the AHL All-Star Classic 2018. With the beginning of the 2018/19 season, he prevailed in the competition against Jarry and spent the entire season in the NHL lineup of the Penguins.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp S. N U / OT Min. GT SO Sv% GTS Sp S. N Min. GT SO Sv% GTS
2009/10 Indiana Ice USHL 27 11 11 1 1434 76 0 89.7 3.18 8th 4th 3 412 17th 0 92.2 2.48
2010/11 Indiana Ice USHL 37 22nd 13 2 2174 92 3 92.0 2.54 4th 2 2 229 10 1 92.9 2.63
2011/12 University of New Hampshire NCAA 22nd 9 10 1 1285 50 1 92.6 2.33
2012/13 University of New Hampshire NCAA 38 19th 10 7th 2204 82 5 92.4 2.23
2013/14 University of New Hampshire NCAA 37 20th 16 0 2148 86 3 92.0 2.40
2014/15 University of New Hampshire NCAA locked from the University of New Hampshire
2015/16 Wheeling Nailers ECHL 13 5 2 2 611 26th 0 91.5 2.55 - - - - - - - -
2015/16 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins AHL 6th 2 2 0 309 10 0 92.5 1.94 9 5 4th 541 22nd 1 91.9 2.44
2016/17 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins AHL 29 21st 5 3 1731 58 1 92.6 2.01 5 2 3 303 14th 0 91.6 2.78
2017/18 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins AHL 27 16 8th 3 1562 71 2 91.0 2.73 - - - - - - - -
2017/18 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 14th 6th 4th 1 700 28 1 92.1 2.40 - - - - - - - -
2018/19 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 36 15th 11 5 1944 89 3 91.6 2.75 - - - - - - - -
USHL total 64 33 24 3 3608 168 3 91.1 2.79 12 6th 5 641 27 1 92.5 2.53
NCAA overall 97 48 36 8th 5637 218 9 92.3 2.32
AHL total 62 39 15th 6th 3602 139 3 91.9 2.32 14th 7th 7th 844 36 1 91.8 2.56
NHL overall 50 21st 15th 6th 2644 117 4th 91.7 2.66 - - - - - - - -

( 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

Commons : Casey DeSmith  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mike McMahon: DeSmith Signs Pro Contract After NCAA Declines Waiver. collegehockeynews.com, July 26, 2015, accessed November 8, 2018 .
  2. ^ Penguins Re-Sign Tom Sestito and Frank Corrado; Sign Casey DeSmith. nhl.com, July 2, 2017, accessed November 8, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME DeSmith, Casey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochester , New Hampshire , United States