Casey Mittelstadt

United States Casey Mittelstadt

Date of birth	November 22, 1998
place of birth	Edina , Minnesota , USA
size	185 cm
Weight	91 kg

position	center
number	# 37
Shot hand	Left

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2017 , 1st round, 8th position Buffalo Sabers

Career stations

2014-2017	Eden Prairie High
2015-2016	USA Hockey National Team Development Program
2016-2017	Green Bay Gamblers
2017-2018	University of Minnesota
since 2018	Buffalo Sabers Rochester Americans

Casey Mittelstadt (born November 22, 1998 in Edina , Minnesota ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Buffalo Sabers in the National Hockey League since March 2018 and at the same time for their farm team, the Rochester Americans , in American Hockey League is used.

Career

Casey Mittelstadt spent almost his entire junior career at Eden Prairie High , a high school in his hometown. For their ice hockey team he ran with small interruptions from 2014 to 2017 and achieved a point average of over 2.0 scorer points per game. Additionally, the center-forward was named Minnesota Mr. Hockey in 2017 , which is awarded to the best high school players in the state. At the same time, during the 2015/16 season, he was briefly a member of the USA Hockey National Team Development Program (NTDP), the central talent factory of the USA Hockey Association . The following year he played almost 25 games for the Green Bay Gamblers in the United States Hockey League (USHL), the country's highest junior league.

Eventually, Mittelstadt was selected in eighth position by the Buffalo Sabers in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft , before enrolling at the University of Minnesota and starting the 2017/18 season for their Golden Gophers in the Big Ten Conference , a college league in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) gaming operations . As a freshman , he scored 30 points in 34 games, so that the attacker was selected for the Big Ten Conference All-Rookie Team . After the end of the college season, the American signed an entry-level contract with the Buffalo Sabers in March 2018 and made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) a few days later .

In the 2018/19 season he recorded 25 points in 77 games for the Sabers as a rookie , before losing his regular place in the NHL squad in the middle of the 2019/20 season and was given up to Buffalo's farm team , the Rochester Americans from the American, in December 2019 Hockey League (AHL).

International

At the international level, Mittelstadt made his debut at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2015 , which he led in scorer points together with Kailer Yamamoto , but only finished fifth with the team. He then took part in the U18 World Cup in 2016 with the U18 team and won the bronze medal there. With the U20 national team followed in the U20 World Cup in 2018 , another bronze medal, but the center-forward collected the most points among all players of the tournament and therefore the MVP award and was elected to the All-Star team.

Achievements and Awards

2017 Minnesota Mr. Hockey
2018 Big Ten Conference All-Rookie Team

International

2016 bronze medal at the U18 Junior World Championship
2018 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
2018 Most valuable player in the U20 World Junior Championship
2018 All-Star Team of the U20 Junior World Championship

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
2014/15	Eden Prairie High	High school	25th	22nd	25th	47		4th	2	2	1	3		0
2015/16	Eden Prairie High	High school	25th	22nd	37	59		16	3	6th	3	9		0
2015/16	USA Hockey NTDP	USHL	2	2	0	2	+1	2
2016/17	Eden Prairie High	High school	25th	21st	43	64		8th	2	1	4th	5		0
2016/17	Green Bay Gamblers	USHL	24	13	17th	30th	+3	2
2017/18	University of Minnesota	NCAA	34	11	19th	30th	+4	10
2017/18	Buffalo Sabers	NHL	6th	1	4th	5	+1	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Buffalo Sabers	NHL	77	12	13	25th	-19	10	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Rochester Americans	AHL	36	9	16	25th	-15	6th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Buffalo Sabers	NHL	31	4th	5	9	-5	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
High school overall			75	65	105	170		28	7th	9	8th	17th		0
USHL total			26th	15th	17th	32	+4	4th	-	-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall			114	17th	22nd	39	-23	14th	-	-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented the USA at:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2015	United States	Hlinka Memorial	5th place	4th	3	4th	7th	+3	4th
2016	United States	U18 World Cup		7th	4th	5	9	+6	2
2018	United States	U20 World Cup		7th	4th	7th	11	+8	2
Juniors overall				18th	11	16	27	+17	8th

( 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 Buffalo Sabers website
Casey Mittelstadt at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

^ Sabers, Mittelstadt agree to entry-level deal. nhl.com, March 26, 2018, accessed on March 31, 2018 .

Squad of the Buffalo Sabers in the season 2019/20

personal data
SURNAME	Middle Town, Casey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	November 22, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH	Edina , Minnesota , United States

[1] Sabers, Mittelstadt agree to entry-level deal. nhl.com, March 26, 2018, accessed on March 31, 2018 .