Chandler Stephenson

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Chandler Stephenson
Date of birth April 22, 1994
place of birth Saskatoon , Saskatchewan , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 86 kg
position center
number # 17
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2012 , 3rd round, 77th position
Washington Capitals
Career stations
2010-2014 Regina Pats
2014-2017 Hershey Bears
2015-2019 Washington Capitals
since 2019 Vegas Golden Knights

Chandler Stephenson (born April 22, 1994 in Saskatoon , Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League since December 2019 . Previously, he spent over five years in the organization of the Washington Capitals , with whom he won the Stanley Cup in the 2018 playoffs .

Career

Chandler Stephenson played in his youth for the Saskatoon Blazers and the Saskatoon Contacts in his hometown, before he moved to the Regina Pats in the Western Hockey League (WHL) in the 2010/11 season , which made him fifth in the 2009 WHL Bantam Draft Selected position. During his first year in the WHL, he gained his first experience at an international level when he took part in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2011 with the Canada West team, where he finished sixth with the team. In the 2011/12 season he increased his personal performance at the Pats to 22 goals and 20 assists in 55 games, so that he was invited to the CHL Top Prospects Game and was considered in the following NHL Entry Draft 2012 in 77th position by the Washington Capitals . However, the attacker initially returned to Regina for two more years, where he achieved a significant increase in performance with 89 points in 69 games in the 2013/14 season , as a result of which he was also appointed to the Second All-Star Team of the Eastern Conference .

Stephenson then signed an entry-level contract with the Capitals in April 2014 , who then used him on their farm team , the Hershey Bears , in the American Hockey League (AHL). The Canadian made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) in October 2015, which was followed by eight more appearances before he was called back to the AHL less than a month later. There he reached the final of the Calder Cup with the Bears at the end of the season , but lost to the Lake Erie Monsters . Apart from four NHL games, Stephenson also spent the 2016/17 season mostly in Hershey, where he increased his personal statistics again and scored 38 points in 72 games. As a result, he signed a new two-year contract in Washington in June 2017, before establishing himself in the Capitals NHL squad a few games after the start of the 2017/18 season. At the end of the season he promptly won the Stanley Cup with the team .

After spending over five years in Washington, Stephenson was surrendered to the Vegas Golden Knights in December 2019 , while the Capitals received a five-round vote for the 2021 NHL Entry Draft .

Achievements and Awards

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
2010/11 Regina Pats WHL 60 7th 12 19th +6 6th - - - - - -
2011/12 Regina Pats WHL 55 22nd 20th 42 -1 24 5 1 3 4th +4 0
2012/13 Regina Pats WHL 46 14th 31 45 -1 37 - - - - - -
2013/14 Regina Pats WHL 69 30th 59 89 +27 65 4th 0 4th 4th -3 0
2013/14 Hershey Bears AHL 2 1 0 1 +2 0 - - - - - -
2014/15 Hershey Bears AHL 54 7th 7th 14th +2 10 10 1 4th 5 +4 2
2015/16 Hershey Bears AHL 46 7th 21st 28 -3 26th 17th 1 5 6th -3 2
2015/16 Washington Capitals NHL 9 0 0 0 -3 2 - - - - - -
2016/17 Hershey Bears AHL 72 10 28 38 +9 42 9 3 2 5 +2 6th
2016/17 Washington Capitals NHL 4th 0 0 0 ± 0 0 - - - - - -
2017/18 Hershey Bears AHL 6th 5 1 6th - 2 - - - - - -
2017/18 Washington Capitals NHL 67 6th 12 18th +13 8th 24 2 5 7th +3 8th
2018/19 Washington Capitals NHL 64 5 6th 11 −13 0 6th 0 0 0 −2 2
WHL overall 230 73 122 195 +31 132 9 1 7th 8th +1 0
AHL total 180 30th 57 87 +4 80 36 5 11 16 +3 10
NHL overall 144 11 18th 29 −3 10 30th 2 5 7th +1 10

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2011 Canada West WHC 6th place 5 4th 2 6th 8th
Juniors overall 5 4th 2 6th 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 )

Personal

His uncle Bob Stephenson and his cousins Joe Kocur , Logan Stephenson and Shay Stephenson were or are all professional ice hockey players as well.

Web links

Commons : Chandler Stephenson  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Capital Sign Chandler Stephenson. monumentalsportsnetwork.com, April 12, 2014, accessed December 25, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Capital Re-sign Chandler Stephenson. monumentalsportsnetwork.com, June 29, 2017, accessed December 25, 2017 .
Squad of Vegas Golden Knights in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME Stephenson, Chandler
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Saskatoon , Saskatchewan , Canada