Chris Stewart (ice hockey player)

Chris Stewart
Date of birth	October 30, 1987
place of birth	Scarborough , Ontario , Canada
size	188 cm
Weight	103 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2006 , 1st lap, 18th position Colorado Avalanche
Career stations
2004-2007	Kingston Frontenacs
2007-2008	Lake Erie Monsters
2008-2011	Colorado Avalanche
2011-2014	St. Louis Blues
2012	Ice pirates Crimmitschau
2014-2015	Buffalo Sabers
2015	Minnesota Wild
2015-2016	Anaheim Ducks
2016-2018	Minnesota Wild
2018	Calgary Flames
2019	Nottingham Panthers
since 2019	Philadelphia Flyers

Chris Stewart (born October 30, 1987 in Scarborough , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League since October 2019 and plays there in the position of right winger . He was previously active in the NHL for the Colorado Avalanche , St. Louis Blues , Buffalo Sabers , Minnesota Wild , Anaheim Ducks and Calgary Flames . His older brother Anthony Stewart is also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Chris Stewart began his career with the Kingston Frontenacs in the Ontario Hockey League where his brother also played. In his first season with the Frontenacs, he scored 30 points in a total of 64 games. When his brother Anthony moved to the NHL at the beginning of his second season, he was appointed assistant captain by then coach Jim Hulton . He was able to significantly expand his points mark from his rookie season and scored 87 points in a total of 62 games in the regular season.

On June 24, 2006, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in the first round at a total of 18th position by the Colorado Avalanche . In his third season with the Kingston Frontenacs in the OHL, he was named captain in October 2006 . After 82 points in 61 games in the regular season, he made his professional debut with the Albany River Rats in the American Hockey League following the OHL season . In five games he drove scored three points. The 2007/08 AHL season he spent the entire season on the farm team of the Colorado Avalanche, the Lake Erie Monsters , where he was the most successful player in the team with 25 goals. After 19 games in the following season , he was appointed to the NHL squad in December 2008 by the Colorado Avalanche. He played his first NHL game against the Dallas Stars , two games later he scored his first two points in the 6-1 success of the Avalanche against the Los Angeles Kings by preparing a goal and scoring a goal himself in a shortened situation . The powerful winger completed 53 games in his rookie season and scored 19 points.

Stewart in the jersey of the St. Louis Blues

In his second year in the top division, he was sent back to the farm team at the beginning of the 2009/10 season due to unsatisfactory performance after the first four games in which he was able to achieve an assist. After only two days and two games for the Lake Erie Monsters, which remained without points for Stewart, the Denver franchise brought him back to the NHL team due to an injury to Cody McLeod . The Power Forward was able to stabilize its performance and secure a regular place in Colorado's top row.

On March 6, 2010, the attacker managed his first hat trick in the game against the St. Louis Blues . Chris Stewart finished the regular season with 28 goals as Colorado's top scorer and with 64 points as the team's second best scorer behind Paul Stastny . As a result of these benefits, his contract was expiring in September 2010 before the start of the 2010/11 NHL season was extended by two years and his annual salary multiplied from $ 850,000 to $ 2.5 million or $ 3.25 million in the second year.

In the 2010/11 season Stewart was able to build on his good performance from the previous season, so the winger scored 11 goals and a total of 25 points in the first 23 games before he fisted against Minnesota's Kyle Brodziak on November 27, 2010 the left hand broke. Chris Stewart missed the avalanche for 21 games and after his return to the team could no longer match his points quota, he scored two goals and five points in 13 games after his injury. On February 19, 2011, the attacker was transferred to the St. Louis Blues in a swap from the Avalanche along with Kevin Shattenkirk and a second-round draft pick for the 2011 NHL Entry Draft , Colorado received defender Erik Johnson , attacker Jay McClement and in return a first-round draft pick for the 2011 NHL Entry Draft.

During the lockout before the start of the 2012/13 NHL season , he played with compatriot Wayne Simmonds for the Eispiraten Crimmitschau in the 2nd Bundesliga ice hockey . On October 22, 2012 he moved together with Wayne Simmonds in the Czech extra league to Bílí Tygři Liberec . After five games for Liberec, he returned to Crimmitschau.

On February 28, 2014, Stewart was given a first-round suffrage in 2015 and a performance-related first-round suffrage in the NHL Entry Draft 2014 to the Buffalo Sabers together with Jaroslav Halák , William Carrier , who in return transferred Ryan Miller and Steve Ott to St. Louis . After about a year in Buffalo, the Sabers gave him to the Minnesota Wild in March 2015 and received a second-round vote for the 2017 NHL Entry Draft . In Minnesota, Stewart finished the 2014-15 season before signing a one-year contract with the Anaheim Ducks as a free agent in July 2015 . He then returned to the Minnesota Wild, who provided him with a two-year contract. In the middle of the 2017/18 season he lost his regular place with the Wild, so that he was signed by the Calgary Flames via the waiver . There he ended the season, but received no further contract in Calgary.

In September 2018 Stewart signed a one-year contract with HC Slovan Bratislava in the Continental Hockey League (KHL), but announced the end of his playing career a few days later for personal reasons. In January 2019, the Canadian returned to the ice for the Nottingham Panthers from the British Elite Ice Hockey League . In July 2019 he finally received a trial contract with the Philadelphia Flyers , which finally signed him in October 2019 as part of a one-year contract.

International

On the international stage, Stewart represented the Canadian national team for the first time at the 2011 World Cup . The winger played all seven Canadians' games, scoring four points before being eliminated from the tournament with his team in the quarter-finals against the Russian selection .

Achievements and Awards

• 2006 Participation in the CHL Top Prospects Game

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2004/05	Kingston Frontenacs	OHL		64	18th	12	30th	45		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Kingston Frontenacs	OHL		62	37	50	87	118		6th	2	0	2	13
2006/07	Kingston Frontenacs	OHL		61	36	46	82	108		5	4th	2	6th	6th
2006/07	Albany River Rats	AHL		5	1	2	3	2		1	0	0	0	0
2007/08	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		77	25th	19th	44	93		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		19th	5	6th	11	23		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		53	11	8th	19th	54		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		2	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		77	28	36	64	73		6th	3	0	3	4th
2010/11	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		36	13	17th	30th	38		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	St. Louis Blues	NHL		26th	15th	8th	23	15th		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	St. Louis Blues	NHL		79	15th	15th	30th	109		7th	2	0	2	12
2012/13	Ice pirates Crimmitschau	2nd Bundesliga		15th	6th	14th	20th	24		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Bílí Tygři Liberec	Extra league		5	0	1	1	2		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	St. Louis Blues	NHL		48	18th	18th	36	40		6th	0	1	1	0
2013/14	St. Louis Blues	NHL		58	15th	11	26th	112		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		5	0	0	0	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		61	11	14th	25th	63		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Minnesota Wild	NHL		20th	3	8th	11	25th		8th	0	2	2	2
2015/16	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		56	8th	12	20th	73		7th	1	2	3	0
2016/17	Minnesota Wild	NHL		79	13	8th	21st	94		5	0	0	0	0
2017/18	Minnesota Wild	NHL		49	9	4th	13	27		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Calgary Flames	NHL		7th	1	2	3	0		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Hamilton Steelhawks	OH		1	0	2	2	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Nottingham Panthers	EIHL		23	6th	7th	13	27		-	-	-	-	-
OHL total				187	91	108	199	271		11	6th	2	8th	19th
AHL total				103	31	27	58	120		1	0	0	0	0
NHL overall				652	160	161	321	729		39	6th	5	11	18th

International

Represented Canada to:

• World Championship 2011

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2011	Canada	WM	5th place		7th	2	2	4th	0
Men overall					7th	2	2	4th	0

( 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

Commons : Chris Stewart  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the Philadelphia Flyers website
• Chris Stewart at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Chris Stewart at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ avalanche.nhl.com, Avalanche Reassigns Stewart
2. ↑ avalanche.nhl.com, Avalanche Recalls Stewart
3. ↑ avalanche.nhl.com, Stewart Filling In Nicely
4. ↑ nhl.com, Stewart gets hat trick in Avs' 7-3 win over blues
5. ↑ denverpost.com, Avalanche signs Stewart to two-year deal
6. ↑ tsn.ca, Avs' Stewart out 4-6 weeks with broken hand
7. ^ Avalanche.nhl.com, Avs Acquire Johnson, McClement, Pick
8. ↑ etconline.de, Westsachsen secure services of NHL Stars Chris Stewart and Wayne Simmonds
9. ↑ hcbilitygri.cz, Tigers strengthen themselves with Canadians Simmonds and Stewart ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ eishockey-24.de, Chris Stewart returns to the Eispiraten Crimmitschau ( memento of the original from November 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ NHL.com, Miller, Ott traded to Blues by Sabers for Halak, Stewart