Derek Grant (ice hockey player, 1990)

Derek Grant
Date of birth	April 20, 1990
place of birth	Abbotsford , British Columbia , Canada
size	191 cm
Weight	87 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2008 , 4th round, 119th position Ottawa Senators
Career stations
2005-2006	Vancouver SE Flames
2006-2007	Abbotsford Pilots
2007-2009	Langley Chiefs
2009-2011	Michigan State University
2011-2015	Binghamton Senators Ottawa Senators
2015-2016	Calgary Flames Stockton Heat
2016-2017	Buffalo Sabers
2017	Nashville Predators
2017	Buffalo Sabers Rochester Americans
2017-2018	Anaheim Ducks
2018-2019	Pittsburgh Penguins Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins
2019-2020	Anaheim Ducks
since 2020	Philadelphia Flyers

Derek Grant (born April 20, 1990 in Abbotsford , British Columbia ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League since February 2020 and plays for them on the position of the center .

Career

Grant was initially active from 2005 to 2006 for the Vancouver SE Flames from the lower class Canadian junior league BC Hockey Major Midget League . In the 2006/07 season he was on the ice for the Abbotsford Pilots from the Pacific Junior Hockey League . Following this season, the striker ran from 2007 to 2009 for the Langley Chiefs in the British Columbia Hockey League . Grant finished his rookie season in the jersey of the Langley Chiefs with 63 points scorer in 57 regular season matches, making him the team's second best scorer after top scorer Taylor Stefishen . He was then selected in the fourth round of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft at a total of 119th position by the Ottawa Senators . In the following season, the left-shooter played only 35 games in the British Columbia Hockey League, in which the striker scored 60 points. Grant then continued his career with a degree at Michigan State University and ran for their ice hockey team, the Spartans , in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association .

There he completed two personally successful seasons before the Canadian signed a three-year entry - level contract with the Ottawa Senators in March 2011 . During the 2010/11 season he made his debut for the AHL - farm team , the Binghamton Senators , on a professional level. By the end of the season he was on the ice in a total of 21 AHL games for the Senators and contributed eight points to the Binghamton Senators' Calder Cup win. The following game year Grant played exclusively in Binghamton and received no new contract in the organization of the Senators after the end of the season.

As a result, he was hired on July 1, 2015 as a free agent by the Calgary Flames , who used him mainly on their AHL farm team, the newly formed Stockton Heat . After his contract in Calgary was not renewed, he joined the Buffalo Sabers in July 2016 . After 35 missions for the Sabers Grant should be sent to the AHL in January 2017 via the waiver , but the Nashville Predators signed him . After just under a month and six NHL appearances for the Predators, Grant returned to Buffalo, also through a waiver commitment.

At the end of the 2016/17 season, his contract in Buffalo was not renewed, so Grant joined the Anaheim Ducks as a free agent in July 2017 . In the same way, he moved to the Pittsburgh Penguins in July 2018 . In Steel City , however, the attacker was only active until January 2019, when he was given to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for Joseph Blandisi and thus returned to his previous employer. There he played for about a year until the trade deadline in February 2020, when he was given to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for Kyle Criscuolo and a four-round vote in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft .

Achievements and Awards

• 2011 Calder Cup win with the Binghamton Senators
• 2016 Participation in the AHL All-Star Classic

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
2005/06	Vancouver SE Flames	BCMML		21st	9	12	21st	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Abbotsford Pilots	PIJHL		47	31	20th	51	42		11	6th	5	11	20th
2007/08	Langley Chiefs	BCHL		57	24	39	63	44		12	5	5	10	15th
2008/09	Langley Chiefs	BCHL		35	25th	35	60	22nd		4th	2	1	3	2
2009/10	Michigan State University	CCHA		38	12	18th	30th	10
2010/11	Michigan State University	CCHA		38	8th	25th	33	44
2010/11	Binghamton Senators	AHL		14th	1	5	6th	0		7th	1	1	2	2
2011/12	Binghamton Senators	AHL		60	8th	15th	23	26th		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Binghamton Senators	AHL		63	19th	9	28	37		3	0	0	0	6th
2012/13	Ottawa Senators	NHL		5	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Binghamton Senators	AHL		46	12	10	22nd	30th		4th	0	1	1	2
2013/14	Ottawa Senators	NHL		20th	0	2	2	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Binghamton Senators	AHL		73	21st	17th	38	45		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Stockton Heat	AHL		36	27	18th	45	36		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Calgary Flames	NHL		15th	0	1	1	2		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		35	0	3	3	19th		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Nashville Predators	NHL		6th	0	1	1	5		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Rochester Americans	AHL		23	11	8th	19th	22nd		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		5	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		66	12	12	24	11		4th	0	0	0	0
2018/19	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		5	3	1	4th	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		25th	2	3	5	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		31	2	7th	9	8th		-	-	-	-	-
BCHL total				92	49	74	123	66		16	7th	6th	13	17th
CCHA total				76	20th	43	63	54
AHL total				320	102	83	185	202		14th	1	2	3	10
NHL overall				208	16	29	45	55		4th	0	0	0	0

( 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

• Player biography on the Philadelphia Flyers website
• Derek Grant at eliteprospects.com (English)