Darnell Nurse

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Darnell Nurse
Date of birth February 4, 1995
place of birth Hamilton , Ontario , Canada
size 193 cm
Weight 88 kg
position defender
number # 25
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2013 , 1st round, 7th position
Edmonton Oilers
Career stations
2011-2015 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds
since 2014 Edmonton Oilers

Darnell Nurse (born February 4, 1995 in Hamilton , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Edmonton Oilers in the National Hockey League since July 2013 and plays for them on the position of defender .

Career

In the junior division, Darnell Nurse played for the St. Michael's Buzzers and the Don Mills Flyers, among others. Nurse was named by Sault Ste. At the OHL Priority Selection 2011 . Marie Greyhounds selected in third place overall. In his first OHL season, Nurse appeared in 53 games for Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds. He also represented Canada (Ontario) at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2012 and played for the Canadian U18 team at the U18 Junior Ice Hockey World Championship in 2012 . At the World U-17 Hockey Challenge, he scored one goal in five games and prepared two more. For the Canadian U18 national team, he played in seven games, in which he did not score any points, but still achieved a plus-4 balance. Nurse was instrumental in making the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds reached the playoffs. As assistant captain, he was the only player who ran up in all 68 games of the regular season , in which he scored 12 goals and 29 assists and ended the season with a plus 15 balance and a total of 115 penalty minutes. In six playoff games he scored one goal and three assists. He also took part in the 2013 U18 Junior Ice Hockey World Championship for Canada.

After the Oilers selected him in seventh position in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft , they signed him directly in July 2013. For the time being, Nurse remained in the OHL and only joined the Oklahoma City Barons , the then farm team of the Oilers from the American Hockey League , in April 2014 . He was unable to establish himself there and also spent the 2014/15 season with the greyhounds in the OHL. At the turn of the year 2014/15 he took part in the World Cup in his own country with the U20 national team and won the gold medal there with the team.

Since the beginning of the 2015/16 season, the defender has been a regular player for the Oilers in the NHL. Nurse made his debut for the senior national team at the 2018 World Cup , where he finished fourth with the team. A year later he won the silver medal with the team.

In September 2018, Nurse signed a new two-year contract with a total volume of 6.4 million US dollars, which was prematurely extended for a further two years in February 2020 and, starting with the 2020/21 season, earned him an average annual salary of 5.6 million US dollars. Should bring in dollars.

Achievements and Awards

  • 2014 OHL Third All-Star Team
  • 2015 OHL Second All-Star Team

International

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
2011/12 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds OHL 53 1 9 10 -15 61 - - - - - -
2012/13 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds OHL 68 12 29 41 +15 116 6th 1 3 4th -1 6th
2013/14 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds OHL 64 13 37 50 +1 91 9 3 5 8th -2 12
2013/14 Oklahoma City Barons AHL 4th 0 1 1 -1 0 3 0 1 1 +1 7th
2014/15 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds OHL 36 10 23 33 +18 58 14th 3 5 8th +9 26th
2014/15 Oklahoma City Barons AHL - - - - - - 4th 0 4th 4th +3 4th
2014/15 Edmonton Oilers NHL 2 0 0 0 -2 0 - - - - - -
2015/16 Bakersfield Condors AHL 9 0 2 2 +2 7th - - - - - -
2015/16 Edmonton Oilers NHL 69 3 7th 10 -13 60 - - - - - -
2016/17 Edmonton Oilers NHL 44 5 6th 11 ± 0 33 13 0 2 2 ± 0 6th
2017/18 Edmonton Oilers NHL 82 6th 20th 26th +15 67 - - - - - -
2018/19 Edmonton Oilers NHL 82 10 31 41 −5 87 - - - - - -
2019/20 Edmonton Oilers NHL 71 5 28 33 -2 48 4th 0 2 2 -3 6th
OHL total 221 36 98 134 +19 326 29 7th 13 20th +6 44
AHL total 13 0 3 3 +1 7th 7th 0 5 5 +4 11
NHL overall 350 29 92 121 −7 295 17th 0 4th 4th −3 12

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2012 Canada Ontario U17-WHC 3rd place, bronze 5 1 2 3 8th
2012 Canada U18 World Cup 3rd place, bronze 7th 0 0 0 +4 14th
2012 Canada Hlinka Memorial 1st place, gold 5 0 0 0 +2 4th
2015 Canada U20 World Cup 1st place, gold 7th 0 1 1 +8 6th
2018 Canada WM 4th Place 10 0 1 1 -1 4th
2019 Canada WM 2nd place, silver 10 2 2 4th +8 8th
Juniors overall 24 1 3 4th 32
Men overall 20th 2 3 5 +7 12

( 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 )

family

Darnell Nurse is the son of former CFL - Wide Receiver Richard Nurse . He is also the nephew of the former NFL star quarterback Donovan McNabb and the brother of the Canadian national basketball player Kia Nurse .

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personal data
SURNAME Nurse, Darnell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamilton , Ontario , Canada