Colin McDonald (ice hockey player)

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Colin McDonald
Date of birth September 30, 1984
place of birth Wethersfield , Connecticut , USA
size 191 cm
Weight 92 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2003 , 2nd lap, 51st position
Edmonton Oilers
Career stations
2001-2003 New England Jr. Coyotes
2003-2007 Providence College
2007-2011 Springfield Falcons
Oklahoma City Barons
2011–2012 Wilkes-Barre Scranton Penguins
2012-2015 New York Islanders
Bridgeport Sound Tigers
2015-2017 Philadelphia Flyers
since 2015 Lehigh Valley Phantoms

Colin McDonald (born September 30, 1984 in Wethersfield , Connecticut ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms of the American Hockey League since July 2015 . His father Gerry McDonald was also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

McDonald at the AHL All-Star Classic (2019)

McDonald was at the beginning of his career from the 2001/02 season for two seasons with the New England Jr. Coyotes in the American Junior League Eastern Junior Hockey League on the ice. Between 2003 and 2007, the attacker played for the university team of Providence College in Hockey East , which is part of the game operations of the national college league NCAA .

In the summer of 2007, the American was signed by the Edmonton Oilers from the National Hockey League , who had previously secured the transfer rights to McDonald as part of the 2007 NHL Draft . In the following three seasons, he was primarily in the American Hockey League (AHL) with the Springfield Falcons , the farm team of the Oilers , are used. In November 2009 he was called up to the roster of the Oilers for the first time and was able to score his first goal in his second and last NHL game for the Oilers .

After another season in the AHL with the Oklahoma City Barons , in which he completed his professional season with 58 points and was honored with the Willie Marshall Award as top scorer, the Pittsburgh Penguins signed him in July 2011 . There, too, the winger was mostly on the farm with the Wilkes-Barre Scranton Penguins and only made five NHL appearances with the Penguins in the 2011/12 season . For the 2012/13 season he signed a contract with the New York Islanders , where the right- shooter was used exclusively in the NHL in the following season . From the 2014/15 season onwards, McDonald played mainly in the AHL for the Islanders ' farm team , the Bridgeport Sound Tigers .

After three years with the Islanders, his contract was not renewed after the 2014/15 season, so he joined the Philadelphia Flyers as a free agent in July 2015 . There he was mainly employed by their farm team, the Lehigh Valley Phantoms , in the AHL, where he signed a contract that was strictly limited to the AHL after his NHL contract expired in June 2018.

Achievements and Awards

  • 2011 Willie Marshall Award
  • 2012 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic
  • 2019 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2003/04 Providence College NCAA 37 10 6th 16 47
2004/05 Providence College NCAA 26th 11 5 16 14th
2005/06 Providence College NCAA 36 9 19th 28 +9 29
2006/07 Providence College NCAA 36 13 4th 17th -14 30th
2007/08 Springfield Falcons AHL 73 12 11 23 -21 46 - - - - - -
2008/09 Stockton Thunder ECHL 3 0 2 2 +2 0 - - - - - -
2008/09 Springfield Falcons AHL 77 10 12 22nd -8th 65 - - - - - -
2009/10 Springfield Falcons AHL 76 12 11 23 -25 38 - - - - - -
2009/10 Edmonton Oilers NHL 2 1 0 1 +1 0 - - - - - -
2010/11 Oklahoma City Barons AHL 80 42 16 58 +2 63 6th 1 1 2 -1 6th
2011/12 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins AHL 68 14th 35 49 +12 41 12 6th 7th 13 +2 2
2011/12 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 5 0 0 0 ± 0 0 - - - - - -
2012/13 Bridgeport Sound Tigers AHL 35 6th 21st 27 –9 32 - - - - - -
2012/13 New York Islanders NHL 45 7th 10 17th -1 32 6th 2 1 3 +2 2
2013/14 New York Islanders NHL 70 8th 10 18th -22 34 - - - - - -
2014/15 Bridgeport Sound Tigers AHL 40 14th 21st 35 –7 28 - - - - - -
2014/15 New York Islanders NHL 18th 2 6th 8th -3 0 2 0 0 0 +1 2
2015/16 Lehigh Valley Phantoms AHL 51 14th 18th 32 –6 30th - - - - - -
2015/16 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 5 1 0 1 ± 0 7th 3 0 0 0 ± 0 0
2016/17 Lehigh Valley Phantoms AHL 72 25th 19th 44 +6 27 5 2 1 3 +1 0
2016/17 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 3 1 0 1 +1 0 - - - - - -
2017/18 Lehigh Valley Phantoms AHL 56 8th 17th 25th –7 21st 13 1 5 6th +4 0
2018/19 Lehigh Valley Phantoms AHL 69 13 15th 28 –6 14th - - - - - -
NCAA overall 135 43 34 77 120
AHL total 697 170 196 366 -69 405 36 10 14th 24 +2 12
NHL overall 148 20th 26th 46 -24 73 11 2 1 3 +3 4th

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2014 United States WM 6th place 7th 1 0 1 -2 0
Men overall 7th 1 0 1 -2 0

( 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 : Colin McDonald  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ oilers.nhl.com Oilers sign Colin McDonald and three others
  2. ↑ newsok.com Edmonton Oilers sign Corey Potter; Penguins sign former Baron Colin McDonald
personal data
SURNAME McDonald, Colin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Wethersfield , Connecticut , United States