Connor Clifton

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United StatesUnited States  Connor Clifton Ice hockey player
Date of birth April 28, 1995
place of birth Long Branch , New Jersey , USA
size 180 cm
Weight 79 kg
position defender
number # 75
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2013 , 5th round, 133rd position
Phoenix Coyotes
Career stations
2009-2011 New Jersey Hitmen
2011-2013 US National Team Development Program
2013-2017 Quinnipiac University
2017-2019 Providence Bruins
since 2019 Boston Bruins

Connor Clifton (born April 28, 1995 in Long Branch , New Jersey ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League since May 2018 and for their farm team , Providence, since October 2017 Bruins , plays in the American Hockey League in the position of defender . His older brother Tim is also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Clifton initially spent his junior years between 2009 and 2011 with the New Jersey Hitmen in the Empire Junior Hockey League and Eastern Junior Hockey League . For the 2011/12 season, the defender was accepted into the National Team Development Program of the US Ice Hockey Association USA Hockey , where he spent another two seasons. He then began his studies at Quinnipiac University . There Clifton played the following four seasons parallel to his studies for the hockey team of the university in the ECAC Hockey , a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . Even before his engagement there, he was selected in the fifth round in the fifth round in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft by the Phoenix Coyotes from the National Hockey League (NHL).

After the Coyotes refrained from signing after completing his studies in spring 2017, the defensive player signed a contract with the Providence Bruins of the American Hockey League (AHL) in August 2017 . Clifton knew how to convince in the AHL and received after the end of the season an NHL entry contract with a term of two years with Providence's NHL cooperation partner, the Boston Bruins . Initially, he remained in the AHL in the 2018/19 season and only played his first NHL games for Boston at the end of the year. From mid-March 2019 he finally established himself in the Boston Bruins squad.

International

Clifton played for his home country at the U18 World Junior Championships in 2013 in the Russian Olympic city of Sochi . He was used in all seven tournament games and won the silver medal with the team. The defender scored one goal during the tournament.

Achievements and Awards

International

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
2011/12 US National Team Development Program USHL 8th 1 0 1 16 - - - - -
2012/13 US National Team Development Program USHL 25th 3 6th 9 90 - - - - -
2013/14 Quinnipiac University NCAA 36 5 4th 9 106
2014/15 Quinnipiac University NCAA 38 0 5 5 54
2015/16 Quinnipiac University NCAA 43 7th 21st 28 42
2016/17 Quinnipiac University NCAA 39 7th 7th 14th 82
2017/18 Providence Bruins AHL 54 4th 9 13 35 4th 0 0 0 2
2018/19 Providence Bruins AHL 53 6th 21st 27 52 - - - - -
2018/19 Boston Bruins NHL 19th 1 1 2 15th 18th 2 3 5 16
USHL total 33 4th 6th 10 106 - - - - -
NCAA overall 156 19th 37 56 284
AHL total 107 10 30th 40 87 4th 0 0 0 2
NHL overall 19th 1 1 2 15th 18th 2 3 5 16

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2013 United States U18 World Cup 2nd place, silver 7th 1 0 1 2
Juniors overall 7th 1 0 1 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Clifton, Connor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Long Branch , New Jersey , USA