Charlie Lindgren

Charlie Lindgren
Date of birth	18th December 1993
place of birth	Lakeville , Minnesota , USA
size	185 cm
Weight	83 kg
position	goalkeeper
number	# 39
Catch hand	Right
Career stations
2011-2013	Sioux Falls Stampede
2013-2016	St. Cloud State University
2016-2017	St. John's IceCaps
since 2016	Canadiens de Montréal Rocket de Laval

Charles "Charlie" Lindgren (born December 18, 1993 in Lakeville , Minnesota ) is an American ice hockey goalkeeper who has been under contract with the Canadiens de Montréal in the National Hockey League since March 2016 and for their farm team, the Rocket de Laval , is used in the American Hockey League .

Career

Youth and college

Charlie Lindgren was born in Lakeville, where he played for the Lakeville North High ice hockey team in a regional high school league. For the 2011/12 season he moved to the United States Hockey League (USHL), the highest-ranking junior league in the United States, and ran there from then on for the Sioux Falls Stampede . In his second year he rose there to the undisputed goalkeeper and ensured in the playoffs with a catch rate of 92.1% that the team reached the semi-finals; there, however, they were subject to the Fargo Force . Lindgren then enrolled at St. Cloud State University in the fall of 2013 and from then on guarded the gate for their huskies in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC), a league in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

As a freshman , the US-American acted as a substitute behind Ryan Faragher in the 2013/14 season , came to ten missions and an average goal conceded of 2.42, which finally earned him a call to the NCHC All-Rookie Team . At the beginning of his sophomore year, Lindgren also rose to become a regular goalkeeper with the St. Cloud State Huskies, but only had his breakthrough in the 2015/16 season. In this he led the team with a catch quota of 92.5% and an average of 2.13 against 30 wins and subsequently to the championship of the NCHC. He was also named Goalkeeper of the Year in the league and was appointed to the NCHC First All-Star Team .

NHL

With these achievements, Lindgren also drew the attention of the National Hockey League (NHL), so that he - without having previously been considered in an NHL Entry Draft - signed an entry contract with the Canadiens de Montréal in March 2016 . Just under a week later, he made his debut in the goal of the Canadiens and recorded his first NHL victory directly. As expected, he spent the following 2016/17 season mainly with the St. John's IceCaps in the American Hockey League (AHL), the Montréals farm team . There he prevailed against Yann Danis as the first goalkeeper and came to 48 missions with five shutouts during the season . In April 2016, the Canadiens called him again in their NHL squad, where he played two more games in a row and both played them victoriously.

Lindgren spent the beginning of the 2017/18 season with the Canadiens' new farm team, the Rocket de Laval , but returned to Montréal in early November 2017. The Canadiens had to complain about the injury-related failures of Carey Price and Al Montoya , so that Lindgren as the nominal third goalkeeper now got significantly more ice age in the NHL. A little later, the Canadiens also signed Antti Niemi , so Lindgren was sent back to the AHL after eight NHL appearances and Price's return.

At the 2018 World Cup , Lindgren took part in an international tournament for the first time and won the bronze medal there with the USA national team . Behind Keith Kinkaid and Scott Darling , however, he remained without commitment.

Achievements and Awards

2014 NCHC All-Rookie Team 2016 NCHC Championship with St. Cloud State University 2016 NCHC Goalkeeper of the Year

2016 NCHC First All-Star Team 2017 AHL All-Star Classic

International

• 2018 bronze medal at the world championship

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 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	Sioux Falls Stampede	USHL		33	9	19th	3	1821	101	0	3.33	90.7		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Sioux Falls Stampede	USHL		52	34	14th	2	2853	133	2	2.80	90.0		10	5	5	595	25th	1	2.52	92.1
2013/14	St. Cloud State University	NCAA		10	2	2	1	323	13	1	2.42	90.5
2014/15	St. Cloud State University	NCAA		38	19th	18th	1	2226	84	2	2.26	91.9
2015/16	St. Cloud State University	NCAA		40	30th	9	1	2343	83	5	2.13	92.5
2015/16	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		1	1	0	0	60	2	0	2.00	92.9		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	St. John's IceCaps	AHL		48	24	18th	6th	2859	122	5	2.56	91.4		4th	1	3	272	10	0	2.21	92.2
2016/17	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		2	2	0	0	122	3	0	1.48	94.9		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Rocket de Laval	AHL		37	8th	19th	9	2161	122	2	3.39	88.6		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		14th	4th	8th	2	833	42	2	3.03	90.8		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Rocket de Laval	AHL		33	11	14th	6th	1859	91	0	2.91	88.4		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		1	1	0	0	65	5	0	4.62	89.8		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
USHL total				86	43	34	5	4705	236	2	3.01	90.3		10	5	5	595	25th	1	2.52	92.1
NCAA overall				88	51	29	3	4892	180	8th	2.21	92.1
AHL total				118	43	51	21st	6879	335	7th	2.92	89.8		4th	1	3	272	10	0	2.21	92.2
NHL overall				18th	8th	8th	2	1080	52	2	2.89	91.2		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

( 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)

Personal

His brother Ryan Lindgren is also an ice hockey player and was selected in the second round of the 2016 NHL Entry Draft by the Boston Bruins .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Canadiens agree to terms on a two-year contract with free agent Charlie Lindgren. nhl.com, March 30, 2016, accessed November 23, 2017 .