Chris Tierney (ice hockey player)

Chris Tierney
Date of birth	July 1, 1994
place of birth	Keswick , Ontario , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	85 kg
position	center
number	# 71
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2012 , 2nd round, 55th position San Jose Sharks
Career stations
until 2010	York Simcoe Express
2010-2014	London Knights
2014-2018	San Jose Sharks
since 2018	Ottawa Senators

Chris Tierney (born July 1, 1994 in Keswick , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has played for the Ottawa Senators in the National Hockey League on the position of the center since September 2018 .

Career

Tierney played as a youth first until the summer of 2010 with the York Simcoe Express and moved after his selection in 19th place in the first round in the OHL Priority Selection of 2010 to the London Knights in the Ontario Hockey League . There he spent four successful years, which were crowned with two times the J. Ross Robertson Cup , the championship trophy of the OHL, and three times participation in the Memorial Cup . Tierney completed his final year with the Knights as team captain .

After he was selected in the second round of the NHL Entry Draft in 2012 in 55th place by the San Jose Sharks from the National Hockey League and was signed in the spring of the following year, the center moved to the NHL squad in autumn 2014 . In the course of the 2014/15 season he repeatedly commuted between the same and the Worcester Sharks farm team from the American Hockey League . Nevertheless, he was able to collect 21 scorer points in 43 NHL games and 29 more in as many games in the AHL. In the following game year he finally established himself under the new head coach Peter DeBoer in the NHL squad of the San Jose Sharks and played 79 of the 82 games in the regular season. Only in January 2016 did he play two games for the San Jose Barracuda in the AHL.

After four years in San Jose, Tierney was handed over to the Ottawa Senators in September 2018, along with Dylan DeMelo , Rūdolfs Balcers , up-and-coming player Josh Norris and a number of voting rights for the NHL Entry Draft . In return, Erik Karlsson and Francis Perron moved to the Sharks.

Achievements and Awards

• 2012 J. Ross Robertson Cup win with the London Knights
• 2013 J. Ross Robertson Cup win with the London Knights

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
2010/11	London Knights	OHL		47	3	8th	11	12		4th	0	1	1	0
2011/12	London Knights	OHL		65	11	23	34	20th		19th	5	2	7th	4th
2012/13	London Knights	OHL		68	18th	39	57	12		21st	6th	15th	21st	6th
2013/14	London Knights	OHL		67	40	49	89	12		9	6th	11	17th	0
2014/15	San Jose Sharks	NHL		43	6th	15th	21st	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Worcester Sharks	AHL		29	8th	21st	29	10		4th	1	2	3	0
2015/16	San Jose Sharks	NHL		79	7th	13	20th	20th		24	5	4th	9	6th
2015/16	San Jose Barracuda	AHL		2	1	2	3	0		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	San Jose Sharks	NHL		80	11	12	23	6th		6th	0	1	1	0
2017/18	San Jose Sharks	NHL		82	17th	23	40	8th		10	0	2	2	2
2018/19	Ottawa Senators	NHL		81	9	39	48	26th		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Ottawa Senators	NHL		71	11	26th	37	20th		-	-	-	-	-
OHL total				247	72	119	191	56		53	17th	29	46	10
AHL total				31	9	23	32	10		4th	1	2	3	0
NHL overall				436	61	128	189	86		40	5	7th	12	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 )

Web links

• Player biography on the Ottawa Senators website
• Chris Tierney at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Chris Tierney at hockeydb.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ottawa Senators trade Erik Karlsson to San Jose Sharks. sportsnet.ca, September 13, 2018, accessed on September 13, 2018 .