Connor Carrick

Connor Carrick
Date of birth	April 13, 1994
place of birth	Orland Park , Illinois , USA
size	180 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	defender
number	# 5
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2012 , 5th round, 137th position Washington Capitals
Career stations
until 2010	Chicago Fury
2010–2012	US National Team Development Program
2012-2013	Plymouth Whalers
2013-2016	Washington Capitals
2016-2018	Toronto Maple Leafs
2018-2019	Dallas Stars
since 2019	New Jersey Devils

Connor Carrick (born April 13, 1994 in Orland Park , Illinois ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League since February 2019 and plays for them on the position of defender .

Career

Carrick played during his junior years for the Chicago Fury until 2010 before he joined the US National Team Development Program of the US ice hockey association USA Hockey . So he beat the career on the Canadian junior leagues - he had previously been selected in the OHL Priority Selection by the Plymouth Whalers - initially and spent two seasons in the United States Hockey League . It was not until the 2012/13 season that the defender moved to the Plymouth Whalers in the Ontario Hockey League , after he was drawn in the fifth round of the NHL Entry Draft in 2012 in 137th position by the Washington Capitals from the National Hockey League .

After a year with the Whalers, Carrick switched to professional life in the fall of 2013, after the Capitals offered him a three-year contract in September. In the course of the 2013/14 season , the stakes of the defender were shared between the Capitals and their farm team , the Hershey Bears , from the American Hockey League . The seasons 2014/15 and 2015/16 Carrick stayed - with the exception of three games between Christmas and New Year's Eve 2015 - in the AHL with the Bears and stagnated in his development as an attacking defender. On February 28, 2016, he was finally transferred to the Toronto Maple Leafs with Brooks Laich and a second-round vote in the 2016 NHL Entry Draft . In return, they gave Daniel Winnik and a five-round vote in the same draft.

At the Leafs, the management relied on the skills of Carricks from the start and used him in 16 games by the end of the season, in which he scored four points. He was one of the few positive appearances in the season of the traditional Canadian team. Shortly before the end of the NHL season, the American and a large number of other players were loaned to the Toronto Marlies farm team in the AHL in order to strengthen it in the playoffs for the Calder Cup . The team was eliminated in the semifinals. Carrick finished the playoffs with 18 points scorer - the record among all players. On July 22, 2016, the Maple Leafs extended the defender's expiring contract for two years.

After another contract extension in June 2018, the Maple Leafs gave the American to the Dallas Stars in October 2018 . In return, they received a seven-round vote for the 2019 NHL Entry Draft . The defender only played 14 games for the stars until February 2019, after which he joined the New Jersey Devils with a third-round vote in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft . Ben Lovejoy gave them to Dallas for this .

International

At the international level, Carrick represented his home country at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2011 , the U18 Junior World Championship 2012 and the U20 Junior World Championship 2014 . He won the silver medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge and only one year later he was able to achieve the world championship title at the U18 Junior World Championship.

Achievements and Awards

• 2015 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic
• 2016 Participation in the AHL All-Star Classic
• 2016 top scorer of the AHL playoffs

International

• 2011 silver medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
• 2012 gold medal at the U18 Junior World Championship

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
2010/11	US National Team Development Program	USHL		36	1	6th	7th	42		2	0	0	0	2
2011/12	US National Team Development Program	USHL		21st	1	4th	5	30th		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Plymouth Whalers	OHL		68	12	32	44	79		15th	2	16	18th	6th
2013/14	Washington Capitals	NHL		34	1	5	6th	23		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Hershey Bears	AHL		13	0	4th	4th	15th		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Hershey Bears	AHL		73	8th	34	42	132		10	2	2	4th	12
2015/16	Washington Capitals	NHL		3	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Hershey Bears	AHL		47	10	16	26th	50		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		16	2	2	4th	15th		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Toronto Marlies	AHL		5	1	2	3	2		15th	7th	11	18th	12
2016/17	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		67	2	6th	8th	51		6th	0	0	0	4th
2017/18	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		47	4th	8th	12	27		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Dallas Stars	NHL		14th	1	3	4th	13		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Texas Stars	AHL		4th	1	1	2	0		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	New Jersey Devils	NHL		20th	1	6th	7th	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Binghamton Devils	AHL		3	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	New Jersey Devils	NHL		29	1	5	6th	17th		-	-	-	-	-
USHL total				57	2	10	12	72		2	0	0	0	2
AHL total				145	20th	57	77	201		25th	9	13	22nd	24
NHL overall				230	12	35	47	152		6th	0	0	0	4th

International

Represented the USA at:

• World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2011
• U18 Junior World Championship 2012
• U20 Junior World Championship 2014

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2011	United States	U17-WHC			5	2	5	7th	0
2012	United States	U18 World Cup			6th	2	2	4th	2
2014	United States	U20 World Cup	5th place		5	0	3	3	4th
Juniors overall					16	4th	10	14th	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

Commons : Connor Carrick  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the New Jersey Devils website
• Connor Carrick at eliteprospects.com (English)