Chris Kreider

United States 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

2010 gold medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
2011 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
2018 bronze medal at the 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
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		7th	6th	1	7th	2
2010	United States	WM	13th place	6th	1	1	2	0
2011	United States	U20 World Cup		6th	4th	2	6th	0
2011	United States	WM	8th place	7th	2	1	3	6th
2018	United States	WM		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 )

Web links

Player biography on the New York Rangers website
Chris Kreider at eliteprospects.com (English)

Squad of the New York Rangers in the season 2019/20

personal data
SURNAME	Kreider, Chris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kreider, Christopher James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	April 30, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH	Boxford , Massachusetts , USA