Christian Thomas (ice hockey player)

Canada Christian Thomas


Date of birth	May 26, 1992
place of birth	Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size	174 cm
Weight	79 kg

position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2010 , 2nd round, 40th position New York Rangers

Career stations

2008-2009	London Knights
2009–2012	Oshawa Generals
2012-2013	Connecticut Whale
2013-2015	Hamilton Bulldogs
2015	St. John's IceCaps
2015-2016	Springfield Falcons
2016-2017	Hershey Bears
2017-2018	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins
2018	Rögle BK
2018-2020	HK tractor Chelyabinsk
2020	SC Bern

Christian Patrick Thomas (born May 26, 1992 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who was last under contract with SC Bern from the Swiss National League until April 2020 , where he played in the position of right winger . His father Steve Thomas was also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Thomas first played for the London Knights in the Ontario Hockey League during his junior years between 2008 and 2012 . In the course of the 2008/09 season , the striker was then part of the transfer deal in January 2009 that John Tavares had to move from the Oshawa Generals to London, so that Thomas ran up for Oshawa from this point on. He spent three and a half successful years with the generals. After he was selected in the second round in the NHL Entry Draft 2010 in 40th place, the attacker followed his best season with 99 points in 66 games. This made him the best scorer of his team and one of the most successful across the league, which earned him the election to the league's third all-star team. In addition, the Rangers got him to sign the contract in May 2011, but subsequently decided that Thomas should spend another year in the junior division.

After the 2011/12 OHL season was over , Thomas moved to the professional field that same season and supported the New York Rangers' farm team , the Connecticut Whale , in the American Hockey League . There he also spent the entire 2012/13 season with the exception of a deployment in the NHL for the Rangers. In July 2013 he was finally transferred to the Canadiens de Montréal , who let Danny Kristo move to New York for it. With the Franco-Canadians, Thomas was only sporadically used in the NHL in the following two and a half seasons up to December 2015 with 25 other games. Instead, he was an integral part of the Canadiens farm teams Hamilton Bulldogs and later St. John's IceCaps . During the 2015/16 season , Thomas was again part of a transfer when he was given to the Arizona Coyotes in exchange for Lucas Lessio . There he came in the rest of the season also mainly in the AHL for the Springfield Falcons and only once for the Coyotes themselves in the NHL.

Since his contract had expired at the end of the season, he signed on July 1, 2016 as a free agent a one-year contract with the Washington Capitals , valid for both the NHL and AHL. Nevertheless, the striker was only used for the AHL farm team Hershey Bears during the 2016/17 season . After a long search for a club over the summer of 2017, he finally found a new employer in the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins from the AHL.

After his sixth professional season, Thomas decided to move to Europe and signed a one-year contract with Rögle BK from Svenska Hockeyligan (SHL) in July 2018 . On November 1, 2018, Thomas left Rögle BK again and received a contract with HK Traktor Tscheljabinsk from the Continental Hockey League (KHL) until the end of the season . The Canadian finally played there until February 2020 before joining the Swiss club SC Bern . Until April of the same year, however, he only played one game before the engagement was ended.

International

Thomas represented his home country at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2009 and the U18 Junior World Championship in 2010 . He won the gold medal with the selection Canada Ontario at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge . At the U18 Junior World Championship the following year, the Canadians did not get past seventh place. After winning the Spengler Cup with the senior national team in 2017 , he was also part of Canada's Olympic squad, which won the bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Games without relying on NHL players .

Achievements and Awards

2009 gold medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
2011 OHL Third All-Star Team
2017 Spengler Cup win with Team Canada
2018 bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games

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
2008/09	London Knights	OHL	32	4th	7th	11	4th	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Oshawa Generals	OHL	27	4th	10	14th	10	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Oshawa Generals	OHL	64	41	25th	66	27	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Oshawa Generals	OHL	66	54	45	99	38	10	9	10	19th	4th
2011/12	Oshawa Generals	OHL	55	34	33	67	12	6th	2	2	4th	0
2011/12	Connecticut Whale	AHL	5	1	1	2	0	6th	0	0	0	0
2012/13	Connecticut Whale	AHL	73	19th	16	35	15th	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	New York Rangers	NHL	1	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Hamilton Bulldogs	AHL	55	11	16	27	22nd	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL	2	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Hamilton Bulldogs	AHL	52	11	11	22nd	18th	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL	18th	1	0	1	7th	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	St. John's IceCaps	AHL	18th	7th	7th	14th	4th	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL	5	0	2	2	2	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Springfield Falcons	AHL	16	3	4th	7th	4th	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Arizona Coyotes	NHL	1	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Hershey Bears	AHL	65	24	25th	49	6th	5	1	0	1	0
2017/18	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL	51	18th	16	34	14th	2	0	0	0	2
2018/19	Rögle BK	SHL	11	0	1	1	0	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	HK tractor Chelyabinsk	KHL	35	9	10	19th	22nd	4th	1	0	1	2
2019/20	HK tractor Chelyabinsk	KHL	20th	2	1	3	6th	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	SC Bern	NL	1	1	0	1	0	-	-	-	-	-
OHL total			244	137	120	257	91	16	11	12	23	4th
AHL total			335	94	96	190	83	13	1	0	1	2
NHL overall			27	1	2	3	9	-	-	-	-	-
KHL total			55	11	11	22nd	28	4th	1	0	1	2

International

Represented Canada to:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2009	Canada Ontario	U17-WHC		6th	2	0	2	6th
2010	Canada	U18 World Cup	7th place	6th	2	1	3	6th
2018	Canada	Olympia		6th	1	1	2	2
Juniors overall				12	4th	1	5	12
Men overall				6th	1	1	2	2

( 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 : Christian Thomas - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Christian Thomas at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Tom: Christian Thomas: Move From Sweden To Russia For Generals Grad. In: ohlalumnicentral.com. December 18, 2018, accessed October 11, 2019 .
↑ Seizures clear for Rögle. In: roglebk.se. Retrieved October 11, 2019 (Swedish).
↑ «Трактор» договорился о подписании контракта с Кристианом Томасом. In: hctraktor.org. October 31, 2018, accessed October 11, 2019 (Russian).

personal data
SURNAME	Thomas, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Thomas, Christian Patrick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	May 26, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH	Toronto , Ontario , Canada

[ohlalumn-Christia-1] Tom: Christian Thomas: Move From Sweden To Russia For Generals Grad. In: ohlalumnicentral.com. December 18, 2018, accessed October 11, 2019 .

[roglebk-3501-2] Seizures clear for Rögle. In: roglebk.se. Retrieved October 11, 2019 (Swedish).

[hctrakto-21033-3] «Трактор» договорился о подписании контракта с Кристианом Томасом. In: hctraktor.org. October 31, 2018, accessed October 11, 2019 (Russian).