Drake Caggiula

Drake Caggiula
Date of birth	June 20, 1994
place of birth	Pickering , Ontario , Canada
size	175 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2010–2012	Stouffville Spirit
2012-2016	University of North Dakota
2016-2018	Edmonton Oilers
since 2018	Chicago Blackhawks

Drake Caggiula (* 20th June 1994 in Pickering , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player , who in since December 2018 Chicago Blackhawks in the National Hockey League on the position of left winger plays.

Career

Caggiula initially spent his junior years from 2010 to 2012 with the Stouffville Spirit in the lower-class Ontario Junior Hockey League . Only at the beginning of the 2011/12 season he played a few games for the Des Moines Buccaneers in the United States Hockey League before returning to Stouffville and leading the team as the most valuable player in the play-offs to win the championship. In the summer of 2012, the striker enrolled at the University of North Dakota . In addition to his studies, he played parallel for the following four years for the university's ice hockey team - first in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, then later in the newly introduced National Collegiate Hockey Conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's game operations . Overall, Caggiula played 162 games over the course of four seasons, in which he collected 127 points scorer . At the end of the 2014/15 season, he was selected as the NCHC's Second All-Star Team.

Since the left winger was not considered in any NHL entry draft , he was signed by the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League after completing his time at college as a free agent in May 2016 . After he missed the start of the season there due to an injury, he finally celebrated his NHL debut after his recovery in mid-November and subsequently established himself in the squad of the Oilers. In December 2018, however, Edmonton gave it to the Chicago Blackhawks along with Jason Garrison and received Brandon Manning and Robin Norell in return .

Achievements and Awards

2012 OJHL Championship with the Stouffville Spirit 2012 OJHL Playoff MVP 2012 OJHL First Team All-Prospect

2015 NCHC Second All-Star Team 2016 NCAA West Second All-American Team

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2010/11	Stouffville Spirit	OJHL		48	22nd	23	45	35		8th	2	6th	8th	4th
2011/12	Des Moines Buccaneers	USHL		4th	1	1	2	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Stouffville Spirit	OJHL		25th	10	24	34	36		23	17th	20th	37	38
2012/13	University of North Dakota	WCHA		39	8th	8th	16	31
2013/14	University of North Dakota	NCHC		42	11	13	24	52
2014/15	University of North Dakota	NCHC		42	18th	18th	36	30th
2015/16	University of North Dakota	NCHC		39	25th	26th	51	60
2016/17	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		60	7th	11	18th	16		13	3	0	3	25th
2017/18	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		67	13	7th	20th	37		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		29	7th	4th	11	16		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		26th	5	7th	12	12		-	-	-	-	-
OJHL overall				73	32	47	79	71		31	19th	26th	45	42
NCAA overall				162	62	65	127	173
NHL overall				182	32	29	61	81		13	3	0	3	25th

( 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 Chicago Blackhawks website
• Drake Caggiula at eliteprospects.com (English)