Danny DeKeyser

Danny DeKeyser
Date of birth	March 7, 1990
place of birth	Detroit , Michigan , United States
size	191 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	defender
number	# 65
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2008-2009	Trail Smoke Eaters
2009-2010	Sioux City Musketeers
2010-2013	Western Michigan University
2013	Grand Rapids Griffins
since 2013	Detroit Red Wings

Daniel Christopher "Danny" DeKeyser (* 7. March 1990 in Detroit , Michigan ) is an American ice hockey player , who in March 2013 in the Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League is under contract and for those on the position of the defender plays .

Career

youth

Danny DeKeyser was born in Detroit and grew up in Macomb , a town in Macomb County in the metropolitan area of ​​Detroit . He attended De La Salle Collegiate High School in Warren and has six siblings. In the junior area, however, he did not play for the pilots of his high school, but was active in the Compuware Youth Program from 2006 to 2008. He then left the Detroit area and joined the Trail Smoke Eaters from Trail in the Canadian British Columbia Hockey League . After spending the 2008/09 season there and scoring 25 points in 58 games, the defender moved back to the United States for the Sioux City Musketeers from the United States Hockey League , the highest US junior league.

Western Michigan University

After a year in Sioux City, he accepted a scholarship to Western Michigan University , began studying communications and then played for the Western Michigan Broncos in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA). As a freshman , he was voted the team's second best defender on points and at the end of the season he was elected to the CCHA All-Rookie Team . His breakthrough came in the 2011/12 season when the team won the CCHA playoffs for the first time and he himself was named CCHA Best Defensive Defenseman and was elected to the CCHA Second All-Star Team . In addition, he was appointed to the NCAA (West) Second All-American Team ; a success that he was able to repeat the following year, as well as the award for best defensive defender. In 2013 he was also elected to the CCHA First All-Star Team . Despite all of these awards, DeKeyser was not selected in any NHL Entry Draft , so the Detroit Red Wings took the opportunity in March 2013 to sign him as a free agent .

Detroit Red Wings

Just one week after signing the contract, the defender made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) and made eleven appearances and one assist by the end of the season. He was also in two playoff games for the Red Wings on the ice before he was given to the Grand Rapids Griffins , the farm team of the Red Wings from the American Hockey League (AHL). DeKeyser also took part in the playoffs in Grand Rapids, played six games and subsequently won the Calder Cup with the team .

At the beginning of the 2013/14 season, the American had established himself in the Red Wings NHL line-up and scored 23 points in his rookie season, making him the second best defender of the Red Wings. After the season he was named Rookie of the Year by the Red Wings organization. He was also called up to the national team of the United States and as a result took part in the 2014 World Cup, in which the team finished sixth.

In the 2014/15 season, DeKeyser was on the ice in almost all games and led the entire league (in February 2015) in permitted scoring chances per game, so the opponent only had 19.6 scoring chances per game with him as a defender on the ice Game.

Achievements and Awards

2011 CCHA All-Rookie Team 2012 CCHA playoff winner 2012 CCHA Best Defensive Defenseman 2012 CCHA Second All-Star Team 2012 NCAA (West) Second All-American Team

2013 CCHA Best Defensive Defenseman 2013 CCHA First All-Star Team 2013 NCAA (West) Second All-American Team 2013 Calder Cup win with the Grand Rapids Griffins

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
2008/09	Trail Smoke Eaters	BCHL		58	8th	17th	25th		12		-	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Sioux City Musketeers	USHL		41	1	10	11	–6	12		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Western Michigan University	NCAA		42	5	12	17th	+14	43
2011/12	Western Michigan University	NCAA		41	5	12	17th	+15	42
2012/13	Western Michigan University	NCAA		35	2	13	15th	-4	22nd
2012/13	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		11	0	1	1	+4	2		2	0	0	0	± 0	0
2012/13	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		-	-	-	-	-	-		6th	0	1	1	± 0	8th
2013/14	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		65	4th	19th	23	+10	30th		5	0	0	0	-1	6th
2014/15	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		80	2	29	31	+11	42		7th	1	0	1	-4	12
2015/16	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		78	8th	12	20th	+2	44		5	0	1	1	-3	4th
2016/17	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		82	4th	8th	12	-22	33		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		65	6th	6th	12	+2	28		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		52	5	15th	20th	+2	39		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		8th	0	4th	4th	± 0	4th		-	-	-	-	-	-
NCAA overall				118	12	27	49	+25	107
NHL overall				441	29	94	123	+9	222		19th	1	1	2	-8th	22nd

International

Represented the USA at:

• World Championship 2014
• World Championship 2017

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2014	United States	WM	6th place		8th	0	2	2	-2	16
2017	United States	WM	5th place		8th	0	0	0	+5	6th
Men overall					16	0	2	2	+3	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 )

engagement

DeKeyser launched the DeKeyser's Hometown Heroes program, which invites active or retired soldiers to Red Wings home games. He also visited military service workers in barracks and gave autograph sessions there. He is also involved in the Kids' Food Basket , an organization to combat child poverty and child hunger in Michigan.

Web links

Commons : Danny DeKeyser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the Detroit Red Wings website
• Danny DeKeyser at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bill Roose: DeKeyser is 'amped' for Friday's debut. redwings.nhl.com, April 5, 2013, accessed May 5, 2015 (English). 
2. ^ Compuware / Whalers NHL Honor Roll. compuwarehockey.org, accessed May 5, 2015 . 
3. ^ Profile on the pages of the Western Michigan Broncos. wmubroncos.com, accessed May 5, 2015 . 
4. ^ Todd Beam: Wings agree to terms on DeKeyser. redwings.nhl.com, March 29, 2013, accessed May 5, 2015 (English). 
5. ^ Prashanth Iyer: Danny DeKeyser - Detroit's Defensive Superstar. The Hockey Writers, February 13, 2015, accessed May 5, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Detroit Red Wings Media Guide 2014–2015 . Detroit Red Wings Hockey Club, 2014, p. 35.