Chris Kreider

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Chris Kreider
Date of birth April 30, 1991
place of birth Boxford , Massachusetts , USA
size 188 cm
Weight 92 kg
position Left wing
number # 20
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2009 , 1st lap, 19th position
New York Rangers
Career stations
2005-2007 Masconomet Regional Chieftains
2007-2009 Phillips Andover
2009–2012 Boston College
since 2012 New York Rangers

Christopher James "Chris" Kreider (born April 30, 1991 in Boxford , Massachusetts ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the New York Rangers in the National Hockey League since April 2012 .

Career

Chris Kreider began his career as a hockey player in the high school team of the Masconomet Regional Chieftains , for which the winger was active from 2005 to 2007. In the following two seasons, Kreider went on the ice for the elite high school Phillips Academy team . There he scored 41 scorer points in 24 games in his debut season; In his second season, the American contributed 56 scorer points in 26 games. He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2009 in the first round as a total of 19th player by the New York Rangers . First, the winger attended Boston College , for which he first played in the 2009/10 season in the National Collegiate Athletic Association . With his college team, he won the Hockey East championship and the NCAA straight away in his rookie year . Two years later he was able to repeat this success with Boston College and was elected to the Second All-Star Team of Hockey East.

As a result, Kreider signed a three-year entry-level contract with the New York Rangers on April 10, 2012 . Just six days later he made his first appearance in the NHL in the play-off game against the Ottawa Senators . He scored his first goal in the sixth game in the series when he scored the winning goal in a 3-2 win over the Senators. He scored a total of seven points in 18 play-off games.

In the following two seasons, however, Kreider was only in the squad of the Hartford Wolf Pack , the farm team of Rangers from the American Hockey League . In the course of the season he was appointed to the Rangers' NHL squad. On November 30, 2013, the rookie scored his first NHL hat trick against the Vancouver Canucks .

In February 2020, Kreider signed a new seven-year contract in New York that is expected to earn him an average annual salary of $ 6.5 million from the start of the 2020/21 season.

International

For the USA , Kreider took part in the junior division of the 2010 U20 World Junior Championship , where he and his team became world champions. He contributed to this success with six goals and an assist in seven games. He won the bronze medal with his team at the U20 World Junior Championship in 2011 .

In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad for the first time at the 2010 World Cup in Germany . In this he was on the ice in all six games of his team, scored a goal and gave an assist. He also represented the USA at the 2011 World Cup in Slovakia . A bronze medal at the 2018 World Cup followed seven years later .

Achievements and Awards

  • 2010 Hockey East Championship with Boston College
  • 2010 Hockey East All-Rookie Team
  • 2010 NCAA Division I Championship with Boston College
  • 2011 Hockey East Championship with Boston College
  • 2012 Hockey East Championship with Boston College
  • 2012 Hockey East Second All-Star Team
  • 2012 NCAA Division I Championship with Boston College
  • 2020 participation in the NHL All-Star Game

International

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
2005/06 Masconomet Regional Chieftains High MA 19th 5 10 15th
2006/07 Masconomet Regional Chieftains High MA 20th 28 13 41
2007/08 Phillips Andover USHS 24 26th 15th 41
2008/09 Phillips Andover USHS 26th 33 23 56 10
2008/09 Valley Junior Warriors Minor MA 5 4th 2 6th
2009/10 Boston College Hockey East 38 15th 8th 23 26th
2010/11 Boston College Hockey East 32 11 13 24 37
2011/12 Boston College Hockey East 44 23 22nd 45 66
2011/12 New York Rangers NHL - - - - - 18th 5 2 7th 6th
2012/13 Connecticut Whale AHL 48 12 11 23 73 - - - - -
2012/13 New York Rangers NHL 23 2 1 3 6th 8th 1 1 2 0
2013/14 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 6th 2 2 4th 16 - - - - -
2013/14 New York Rangers NHL 66 17th 20th 37 72 15th 5 8th 13 14th
2014/15 New York Rangers NHL 80 21st 25th 46 88 19th 7th 2 9 14th
2015/16 New York Rangers NHL 79 21st 22nd 43 58 5 2 0 2 6th
2016/17 New York Rangers NHL 75 28 25th 53 58 12 3 1 4th 18th
2017/18 New York Rangers NHL 58 16 21st 37 44 - - - - -
2018/19 New York Rangers NHL 79 28 24 52 57 - - - - -
2019/20 New York Rangers NHL 63 24 21st 45 58 3 1 1 2 6th
US high schools as a whole 50 59 38 97
Hockey East overall 114 49 43 92 129
AHL total 54 14th 13 27 89 - - - - -
NHL overall 523 157 159 316 441 80 24 15th 39 64

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2010 United States U20 World Cup 1st place, gold 7th 6th 1 7th 2
2010 United States WM 13th place 6th 1 1 2 0
2011 United States U20 World Cup 3rd place, bronze 6th 4th 2 6th 0
2011 United States WM 8th place 7th 2 1 3 6th
2018 United States WM 3rd place, bronze 10 4th 6th 10 2
2019 United States WM 7th place 8th 3 1 4th 2
Juniors overall 13 10 3 13 2
Men overall 31 10 9 19th 10

( 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 )

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