Christian Dvorak

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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

International

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 3rd place, bronze 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

Individual evidence

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