Christian Dvorak

United States Christian Dvorak


Date of birth	February 2, 1996
place of birth	Mokena , Illinois , USA
size	183 cm
Weight	85 kg

position	Left wing
number	# 18
Shot hand	Left

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2014 , 2nd round, 58th position Arizona Coyotes

Career stations

2013	Chicago Steel
2013-2016	London Knights
since 2016	Arizona Coyotes

Christian Dvorak (born February 2, 1996 in Mokena , Illinois ) is an American ice hockey player who has played in the left winger position of the Arizona Coyotes in the National Hockey League since October 2016 .

Career

Dvorak played as a teenager with the Chicago Mission team in various age groups, before he played for the first time in the United States Hockey League with the Chicago Steel during the 2012/13 season. They had selected him in the Futures Draft in summer 2012, as did the London Knights from the Ontario Hockey League in the OHL Priority Selection . The winger played a total of nine games for Steel. For the 2013/14 season , Dvorak then joined the London Knights. Although he in his rookie season denied only 33 matches, and 14 points scorer collected, who chose him Arizona Coyotes of the National Hockey League in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft in the second round 58th out.

In the following game year , the attacker celebrated the breakthrough in the OHL. With Max Domi and Mitchell Marner he formed a very successful storm series. With 109 points, he was the team's second-best scorer behind Marner and the fifth-best in the league. He was able to increase these values again in the 2015/16 season , after he had been signed by the Coyotes in April 2015 and made his professional debut in the American Hockey League for the Portland Pirates . Dvorak and Marner got Matthew Tkachuk as a new partner in the storm row after the departure of Domi . The trio led the Knights to win the J. Ross Robertson Cup at the end of the season . Dvorak closed the game year with 121 points scorer, six points behind top scorer Kevin Labanc . With 52 goals, however, he was the top scorer in the league and was appointed to the league's First All-Star team. In the Memorial Cup that followed , the American made a significant contribution to winning the traditional tournament with seven goals.

In the summer of 2016, Dvorak finally switched to the professional field and made the jump into the NHL roster of the Arizona Coyotes at the beginning of the 2016/17 season . There he established himself as a regular scorer over the course of the next two years and as a result signed a new six-year contract with the Coyotes in August 2018, which should bring him an average annual salary of 4.45 million US dollars.

International

Dvorak represented his home country at the U20 World Junior Championships 2016 in the Finnish capital Helsinki . He posted eight scorer points in seven tournament games and was thus instrumental in winning the bronze medal. At the 2017 World Cup , the attacker made his debut in the senior division and finished fifth with the team.

Achievements and Awards

2016 J. Ross Robertson Cup win with the London Knights
2016 OHL First All-Star Team
2016 Memorial Cup win with the London Knights
2016 Memorial Cup All-Star Team

International

2016 bronze medal at the U20 Junior 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
2012/13	Chicago Steel	USHL	9	2	3	5	2	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	London Knights	OHL	33	6th	8th	14th	0	-	-	-	-	-
2014	London Knights	Memorial Cup						3	0	0	0	0
2014/15	London Knights	OHL	66	41	68	109	24	10	5	8th	13	0
2014/15	Portland Pirates	AHL	2	1	1	2	4th	5	0	1	1	0
2015/16	London Knights	OHL	59	52	69	121	27	18th	14th	21st	35	4th
2016	London Knights	Memorial Cup						4th	7th	5	12	0
2016/17	Arizona Coyotes	NHL	78	15th	18th	33	22nd	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Arizona Coyotes	NHL	78	15th	22nd	37	22nd	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Tucson Roadrunners	AHL	2	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Arizona Coyotes	NHL	20th	2	5	7th	2	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Arizona Coyotes	NHL	70	18th	20th	38	12	9	2	1	3	0
OHL total			158	99	145	244	51	28	19th	29	48	4th
AHL total			4th	1	1	2	4th	5	0	1	1	0
NHL overall			246	50	65	115	58	9	2	1	3	0

International

Represented the USA at:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2016	United States	U20 World Cup		7th	3	5	8th	0
2017	United States	WM	5th place	8th	1	0	1	6th
Juniors overall				7th	3	5	8th	0
Men overall				8th	1	0	1	6th

( 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 Arizona Coyotes website
Christian Dvorak at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Emily Sadler: Coyotes sign Christian Dvorak to six-year extension. sportsnet.ca, August 9, 2018, accessed August 10, 2018 .

Squad of the Arizona Coyotes in the 2019-20 season

personal data
SURNAME	Dvorak, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	February 2, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mokena , Illinois , United States

[1] Emily Sadler: Coyotes sign Christian Dvorak to six-year extension. sportsnet.ca, August 9, 2018, accessed August 10, 2018 .