Cody Almond

Cody Almond
Date of birth	July 24, 1989
place of birth	Calgary , Alberta , Canada
size	188 cm
Weight	89 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2007 , 5th round, 140th position Minnesota Wild
Career stations
2005-2009	Kelowna Rockets
2009–2012	Minnesota Wild Houston Eros
2012-2019	Genève-Servette HC
2014	Iowa Wild
since 2019	Lausanne HC

Cody Almond (born July 24, 1989 in Calgary , Alberta ) is a Swiss - Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Lausanne HC in the National League since 2019 .

Career

Cody Almond began his career as a hockey player with the Kelowna Rockets , for which he was active from 2005 to 2009 in the Canadian Junior Western Hockey League . With the Rockets he won the Ed Chynoweth Cup , the WHL championship, in the 2008/09 season . In the 2007 NHL Entry Draft , the center was selected in the fifth round as the 140th player of the Minnesota Wild . For the Minnesota Wild he made his debut in the National Hockey League in the 2009/10 season , but played mostly for their farm team Houston Eros in the American Hockey League . The following two years were similar for him, when he played significantly more often for Houston in the AHL than for Minnesota in the NHL. For the 2012/13 season Almond moved to Switzerland for Genève-Servette HC .

After two years in Geneva, Almond returned to the Minnesota Wild in July 2014 and then played for their farm team in the AHL , the Iowa Wild . After only five missions there, he returned to Genève-Servette HC .

He made his debut for the Swiss national team at the 2015 World Cup , having received dual citizenship in 2012.

After a total of seven years in Geneva, he decided in April 2019 to sign a three-year contract with Lausanne HC .

Achievements and Awards

• 2009 Ed Chynoweth Cup win with the Kelowna Rockets

Personal

His maternal grandmother comes from Olten . His father applied for dual citizenship on Cody Almond's 18th birthday, which he received in 2012.

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2014/15 season

				Regular season							Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-
2005/06	Kelowna Rockets	WHL		23	2	1	3	7th	± 0		8th	0	0	0	0	± 0
2006/07	Kelowna Rockets	WHL		68	15th	28	43	72	-14		-	-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Kelowna Rockets	WHL		69	22nd	34	56	114	+1		7th	1	2	3	2	−2
2008/09	Kelowna Rockets	WHL		70	33	33	66	105	+15		22nd	10	17th	27	51	18th
2009/10	Minnesota Wild	NHL		7th	1	0	1	9	-3		-	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Houston Eros	AHL		48	7th	11	18th	77	−7		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Minnesota Wild	NHL		8th	0	0	0	2	± 0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Houston Eros	AHL		65	15th	19th	34	124	-2		22nd	0	6th	6th	20th	−2
2011/12	Minnesota Wild	NHL		10	1	0	1	15th	-1		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Houston Eros	AHL		46	7th	8th	15th	91	-8th		4th	1	1	2	6th	-1
2012/13	Genève-Servette HC	NLA		39	8th	22nd	30th	56	+4		7th	0	2	2	18th	+1
2013/14	Genève-Servette HC	NLA		44	18th	16	34	75	+12		12	0	5	5	6th	+3
2014/15	Iowa Wild	AHL		5	0	0	0	6th	-3		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Genève-Servette HC	NLA		20th	5	6th	11	24	-1		12	3	6th	9	16	+4
NHL overall				25th	2	0	2	26th	-8th		-	-	-	-	-	-
AHL total				164	29	38	67	298	-20		26th	1	7th	8th	26th	-3
WHL overall				230	72	96	168	298	+2		37	11	19th	30th	53	+16
NLA total				103	31	44	75	155	+15		31	3	13	16	40	+8

International

Represented Switzerland at:

• World Championship 2015

year	team	event	result		GP	G	A.	Pts	+/-	PIM
2015	Switzerland	WM	8th.		8th	0	2	2	± 0	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

• Cody Almond at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Cody Almond at legendsofhockey.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} wild.nhl.com, Almond Returns After Working On His Game In Europe , September 21, 2014
2. ^ Cody Almond of Lausanne. In: eishockeyticker.ch. April 11, 2019, accessed October 9, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Swiss cross instead of maple leaf and stars and stripes. In: az Solothurn newspaper. Retrieved March 14, 2016 . 
4. ↑ The Debut of Dual Citizens. In: bernerzeitung.ch/. Retrieved March 14, 2016 .