Corban Knight

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  Corban Knight Ice hockey player
Corban Knight
Date of birth September 10, 1990
place of birth Oliver , British Columbia , Canada
size 188 cm
Weight 88 kg
position center
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2009 , 5th round, 135th position
Florida Panthers
Career stations
2008-2009 Okotoks Oilers
2009-2013 University of North Dakota
2013-2015 Calgary Flames
Abbotsford Heat
Adirondack Flames
2015-2016 Florida Panthers
San Antonio Rampage
Portland Pirates
2016-2019 Philadelphia Flyers
Lehigh Valley Phantoms
2019-2020 Barys Nur-Sultan
since 2020 HK Awangard Omsk

Corban Knight (born September 10, 1990 in Oliver , British Columbia ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with HK Awangard Omsk from the Continental Hockey League (KHL) since May 2020 and plays there on the position of the center .

Career

Corban Knight ran in his youth for the Okotoks Oilers in the Alberta Junior Hockey League . There he scored an average of 1.0 scorer points per game in the 2008/09 season, so that he was selected in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft in 135th position by the Florida Panthers . He then chose the rather unusual route for Canadian players into the US university sport, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). There he was from then on for the ice hockey team of the University of North Dakota , the Fighting Sioux , in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) active. With the team of the attackers in the first three years won each the championship of the WCHA before moving to 49 scorer points from 41 games in his final year at university in the WCHA Second All-Star Team appointed and as one of ten finalists for the Hobey Baker Award nominated has been.

After the Florida Panthers had given the player rights to him in June 2013 in exchange for a four-round vote in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft to the Calgary Flames , Knight signed an entry contract with the Flames a few weeks later . There he was initially employed with Calgary's farm team , the Abbotsford Heat , in the American Hockey League (AHL) before making his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) in March 2014 . In addition to a total of eight other NHL missions, the center was transferred back to the Florida Panthers in January 2015, who in return gave Drew Shore to the Flames. The Canadian also played mainly in the AHL with the Panthers, with the San Antonio Rampage and the Portland Pirates , while he also played 20 games for Florida in the NHL in the 2015/16 season.

After the 2015/16 season, his expiring contract with the Panthers was not extended, so he signed a limited AHL contract with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms as a free agent . There Knight appeared again as a regular scorer, so that the NHL cooperation partner of the Phantoms, the Philadelphia Flyers , also provided him with a contract in July 2017. Under their head coach Dave Hakstol , who had already coached him during his time in North Dakota, he made his debut in October 2018 for Philadelphia and thus for his third franchise in the NHL. Ultimately, the Canadian remained part of the club until the summer of 2019 without being able to permanently assert himself in the NHL.

He therefore moved to the Continental Hockey League (KHL) in May 2019 , where he spent the 2019/20 season at the Kazakh club Barys Nur-Sultan . After only one season he moved to HK Awangard Omsk within the league .

Achievements and Awards

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
2007/08 Okotoks Oilers AJHL 4th 1 0 1 0 7th 0 0 0 0
2008/09 Okotoks Oilers AJHL 61 34 38 72 55 9 10 2 12 12
2009/10 University of North Dakota NCAA 37 6th 7th 13 +8 35
2010/11 University of North Dakota NCAA 44 14th 30th 44 +26 34
2011/12 University of North Dakota NCAA 39 16 24 40 +15 36
2012/13 University of North Dakota NCAA 41 16 33 49 +16 40
2013/14 Abbotsford Heat AHL 70 18th 27 45 +11 50 2 0 1 1 -1 2
2013/14 Calgary Flames NHL 7th 1 0 1 -1 0 - - - - - -
2014/15 Adirondack Flames AHL 22nd 8th 4th 12 -1 12 - - - - - -
2014/15 Calgary Flames NHL 2 0 0 0 ± 0 0 - - - - - -
2014/15 San Antonio Rampage AHL 36 8th 16 24 +3 8th 3 1 0 1 -1 0
2015/16 Portland Pirates AHL 33 4th 7th 11 –11 8th 5 0 3 3 +1 6th
2015/16 Florida panthers NHL 20th 2 5 7th +3 4th - - - - - -
2016/17 Lehigh Valley Phantoms AHL 72 11 29 40 +8 44 5 0 1 1 +2 2
2017/18 Lehigh Valley Phantoms AHL 58 14th 23 37 +20 20th 13 1 3 4th -2 4th
2018/19 Lehigh Valley Phantoms AHL 8th 4th 6th 10 +7 2 - - - - - -
2018/19 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 23 1 3 4th -5 0 - - - - - -
2019/20 Barys Nur-Sultan KHL 60 20th 20th 40 +5 12 5 0 1 1 +1 0
AJHL total 65 35 38 73 55 16 10 2 12 12
NCAA overall 161 52 94 146 +65 145
AHL total 299 67 112 179 +37 144 28 2 8th 10 -1 14th
NHL overall 52 4th 8th 12 -3 4th - - - - - -

( 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 : Corban Knight  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Flames acquire Corban Knight. nhl.com, June 18, 2013, accessed October 22, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Flames sign Greg Nemisz, Corban Knight, Karri Ramo. nhl.com, July 5, 2013, accessed October 22, 2018 .
Logo of HK Awangard Omsk
Squad of HK Awangard Omsk in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME Knight, Corban
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Oliver , British Columbia , Canada