Colby Cave

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Colby Cave
Date of birth December 26, 1994
place of birth North Battleford , Saskatchewan , Canada
date of death April 11, 2020
Place of death Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 91 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Career stations
2009-2011 Battlefords Stars
2011-2015 Swift Current Broncos
2015-2019 Providence Bruins
2019-2020 Edmonton Oilers
Bakersfield Condors

Colby Cave (born December 26, 1994 in North Battleford , Saskatchewan ; † April 11, 2020 in Toronto , Ontario ) was a Canadian ice hockey player who played 67 games for the Boston Bruins and Edmonton Oilers in the National Hockey League between 2011 and 2020 (NHL) contested on the position of the center . Most of his career, however, spent Cave in the American Hockey League (AHL), where he completed over 300 games for the Providence Bruins and Bakersfield Condors .

Career

Cave initially spent his junior years until spring 2011 with various teams from the region of his hometown North Battleford in the province of Saskatchewan . Among other things, he was active for the Battlefords North Stars in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL). For the 2011/12 season he was committed by the Swift Current Broncos from the Western Hockey League (WHL). The center forward had already played a game for them last year after his transfer rights were transferred from the Kootenay Ice to the Broncos in January 2011 . Ice had already acquired these rights as part of the 2009 WHL Bantam Draft . Already in his rookie season , Cave was part of the roster and achieved 15 points in 70 appearances . He was able to increase this yield in the following three years from 41 over 70 to finally 75 points in his fourth and final WHL year. In his last two seasons he served as the team's captain .

After Cave had not been considered by the National Hockey League (NHL) franchises in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft , he received a contract offer from the Boston Bruins from the NHL in April 2015 as an undrafted free agent . For their farm team , the Providence Bruins , from the American Hockey League (AHL), the attacker made his professional debut at the end of the 2014/15 season . At the beginning of the 2015/16 season , Cave was a permanent part of the Bruins' squad in the AHL and was one of the assistant captains from the following season. In December 2017, the attacker finally made his debut for the Boston Bruins in the NHL, two more missions followed in April 2018. Then the Canadian was back in Providence's squad before he managed to get a regular place in the Boston NHL squad from November 2018. When trying to send him back to the AHL in January 2019 via the so-called waiver , he was selected by the Edmonton Oilers , who took over his contract. With the Oilers, Cave played 33 games over the rest of the season. However, he spent most of the 2019/20 season again in the AHL with their farm team Bakersfield Condors , so that 44 appearances for Bakersfield were compared to eleven appearances in the Oilers' jersey.

On April 7, 2020, the Canadian had to undergo emergency surgery to remove a colloid cyst as a result of an overnight cerebral hemorrhage . As a result, Cave was placed in an artificial coma from which he could no longer awaken. He died four days later on April 11, 2020 in Toronto at the age of 25.

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2009/10 Battlefords Stars SMHL 42 15th 21st 36 40 - - - - -
2010/11 Battlefords Stars SMHL 44 14th 22nd 36 28 - - - - -
2010/11 Battlefords North Stars SJHL 3 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
2010/11 Swift Current Broncos WHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2011/12 Swift Current Broncos WHL 70 6th 10 16 36 - - - - -
2012/13 Swift Current Broncos WHL 72 21st 20th 41 39 5 2 2 4th 8th
2013/14 Swift Current Broncos WHL 72 33 37 70 30th 6th 0 2 2 0
2014/15 Swift Current Broncos WHL 72 35 40 75 52 4th 2 0 2 2
2014/15 Providence Bruins AHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2015/16 Providence Bruins AHL 75 13 16 29 27 3 2 1 3 5
2016/17 Providence Bruins AHL 76 13 22nd 35 52 17th 1 5 6th 18th
2017/18 Providence Bruins AHL 72 11 22nd 33 29 4th 0 0 0 2
2017/18 Boston Bruins NHL 3 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
2018/19 Providence Bruins AHL 15th 6th 12 18th 13 - - - - -
2018/19 Boston Bruins NHL 20th 1 4th 5 8th - - - - -
2018/19 Edmonton Oilers NHL 33 2 1 3 8th - - - - -
2019/20 Bakersfield Condors AHL 44 11 12 23 24 - - - - -
2019/20 Edmonton Oilers NHL 11 1 0 1 4th - - - - -
WHL overall 287 95 107 202 157 15th 4th 4th 8th 10
AHL total 283 54 84 138 145 24 3 6th 9 25th
NHL overall 67 4th 5 9 22nd - - - - -

( 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. ↑ a b Draisaitl's teammate Cave put into an artificial coma. Oilers Center suffers from cerebral haemorrhage. In: kicker.de. Kicker , April 7, 2020, accessed April 10, 2020 .
  2. ^ Antun Boskovic: Edmonton Oilers: Colloid cyst removed from Colby Cave. In: nau.ch. Nau media AG, April 9, 2020, accessed on April 10, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Edmonton Oilers forward Colby Cave dies at age 25. In: sportsnet.ca. The Canadian Press , April 11, 2020, accessed April 11, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Cave, Colby
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH North Battleford , Saskatchewan , Canada
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 2020
Place of death Toronto , Ontario , Canada