Chris Wideman

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Chris Wideman
Date of birth January 7, 1990
place of birth St. Louis , Missouri , USA
size 188 cm
Weight 95 kg
position defender
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2009 , 4th round, 100th position
Ottawa Senators
Career stations
2007-2008 Cedar Rapids Roughriders
2008–2012 Miami University
2012-2015 Binghamton Senators
2015-2018 Ottawa Senators
2018 Edmonton Oilers
2018-2019 Springfield Thunderbirds
2019 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins
2019-2020 San Diego Gulls
since 2020 Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod

Chris Wideman (* 7. January 1990 in St. Louis , Missouri ) is an American ice hockey player , who in June 2020 Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod from the Continental Hockey League is (KHL) under contract and there on the position of the defender plays . Previously, Wideman was exclusively active in North America, where he completed nearly 200 games for the Ottawa Senators , Edmonton Oilers and Florida Panthers in the National Hockey League (NHL).

Career

Wideman in a Miami University jersey

Wideman began his career in the 2007-08 season with the Cedar Rapids Roughriders in the junior division of the United States Hockey League . Between 2008 and 2012 he was on the ice for the university team of Miami University in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA), which is part of the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). In the 2010/11 season, the American scored a total of 24 points in 41 games and, as the defender with the highest points, was instrumental in winning his team's conference championship. In the same year he was also elected to the Second All-Star Team of the CCHA.

In March 2013, Wideman signed an entry contract with the Ottawa Senators , who had previously secured the transfer rights to him as part of the 2009 NHL Entry Draft . Initially, the defender was used exclusively for the farm team Binghamton Senators in the American Hockey League in the following three seasons and served as the team's assistant captain from the 2013/14 season . In the 2014/15 season , Wideman was the most attacking defender in the league with 19 goals and 42 assists and was consequently awarded the Eddie Shore Award as the best defensive player in the AHL and voted into the First All-Star Team . After his contract was renewed for another year in the summer of 2015, the American was able to recommend himself to the Senators' NHL squad in preparation for the season and had been an integral part of the team since the beginning of the 2015/16 season . In November 2015, Wideman scored his first goal in North America's top division in the game against the Carolina Hurricanes . Due to a thigh injury, he was out most of the 2017/18 season , but remained a regular with the team from the Canadian capital until the 2018/19 season.

Wideman's time in the Ottawa Senators franchise finally came to an end after more than six years in late November 2018 when he was handed over to the Edmonton Oilers in exchange for a conditional six- round suffrage in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft . At the Oilers, the defender was only active for barely a month until he was transferred to the Florida Panthers at the end of December 2018, including a third-round vote in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft . In return, Alex Petrovic moved to Edmonton. The Oilers have from an earlier swap deal in addition to their own third-round voting rights of the New York Islanders , with Florida receiving the higher of the two. In the service of the Panthers, the defender only played one more NHL game until February 2019 and otherwise played for the Springfield Thunderbirds in the AHL. After a total of 17 missions throughout the organization, including one for the Florida Panthers themselves, he was swapped for Jean-Sébastien Dea to the Pittsburgh Penguins . There the defender ended the season in the farm team Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins .

For the 2019/20 season, the free agent received a one-year contract with the Anaheim Ducks , but was only used in the San Diego Gulls farm team in the AHL during the season. There he came in 53 missions and 31 points. To give his career a new impetus, the American decided to play in Europe in June 2020, where he joined Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod from the Continental Hockey League (KHL).

International

Wideman represented his home country at the 2016 World Cup in Russia for the first time on an international level and achieved fourth place with the team. He himself was used in all ten tournament games of the Americans and scored six points scorer. There were two gates underneath.

Achievements and Awards

  • 2009 CCHA All-Rookie Team
  • 2011 CCHA championship with Miami University
  • 2011 CCHA Second All-Star Team
  • 2014 AHL Player of the Month for October

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
2007/08 Cedar Rapids RoughRiders USHL 53 2 12 14th 51 1 0 0 0 0
2008/09 Miami University NCAA 39 0 26th 26th 56
2009/10 Miami University NCAA 44 5 17th 22nd 63
2010/11 Miami University NCAA 39 3 20th 23 32
2011/12 Miami University NCAA 41 4th 20th 24 40
2012/13 Elmira Jackals ECHL 5 0 5 5 7th - - - - -
2012/13 Binghamton Senators AHL 60 2 16 18th 46 3 1 2 3 2
2013/14 Binghamton Senators AHL 73 9 42 51 101 4th 1 0 1 6th
2014/15 Binghamton Senators AHL 75 19th 42 61 116 - - - - -
2015/16 Ottawa Senators NHL 64 6th 7th 13 34 - - - - -
2016/17 Ottawa Senators NHL 76 5 12 17th 46 15th 1 3 4th 4th
2017/18 Ottawa Senators NHL 16 3 5 8th 5 - - - - -
2018/19 Ottawa Senators NHL 19th 2 3 5 12 - - - - -
2018/19 Edmonton Oilers NHL 5 0 2 2 4th - - - - -
2018/19 Springfield Thunderbirds AHL 16 3 10 13 12 - - - - -
2018/19 Florida panthers NHL 1 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
2018/19 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins AHL 3 0 2 2 7th - - - - -
2019/20 San Diego Gulls AHL 53 9 22nd 31 73 - - - - -
NCAA overall 163 12 83 95 191
AHL total 280 42 134 176 355 7th 2 2 4th 8th
NHL overall 181 16 29 45 104 15th 1 3 4th 4th

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2016 United States WM 4th Place 10 2 4th 6th 8th
Men overall 10 2 4th 6th 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 )

family

His younger brother Alex is also a professional ice hockey player, with whom he played intermittently at Miami University and the Binghamton Senators . Wideman was mainly active in the ECHL .

Web links

Commons : Chris Wideman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ senators.nhl.com Bulletin: Senators sign defender Chris Wideman to an entry-level contract
  2. ↑ theahl.com Wideman voted winner of Eddie Shore Award
  3. ↑ pressconnects.com Chris Wideman re-signs with the Senators
  4. ↑ theahl.com B-Sens' Widemans continuing careers together
Logo of Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
Squad of Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME Wideman, Chris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis , Missouri , USA