Eric Tangradi

Eric Tangradi
Date of birth	February 10, 1989
place of birth	Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA
Nickname	Big dog
size	193 cm
Weight	100 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2007 , 2nd round, 42nd position Anaheim Ducks
Career stations
2006-2009	Belleville Bulls
2009-2013	Pittsburgh Penguins Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins
2013-2014	Winnipeg Jets
2014-2015	Hamilton Bulldogs
2015-2018	Detroit Red Wings Grand Rapids Griffins
2018-2019	Binghamton Devils
2019	Barys Nur-Sultan
since 2019	Grand Rapids Griffins

Eric Tangradi (born February 10, 1989 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Grand Rapids Griffins in the American Hockey League since December 2019 . The 1.93 m tall power forward was drafted by the Anaheim Ducks in 2007 , before playing for four years for the Pittsburgh Penguins and three years for the Detroit Red Wings and their farm teams.

Career

youth

Eric Tangradi was born in Manayunk , a neighborhood in Philadelphia , and grew up there with his parents and two sisters. He attended Archbishop John Carroll High School and played for them in the regional high school league before going to Wyoming Seminary from 2005 to 2006 , a private school in preparation for college . Tangradi, however, decided not to study and moved to Belleville , Ontario at the age of 17 to play for the Belleville Bulls in one of the top three Canadian junior leagues , the Ontario Hockey League .

In his first regular season, he scored five weak goals in 65 games for a winger . However, he increased in the subsequent play-offs , achieved 17 points scorer in 15 games and thus drew attention for the upcoming NHL Entry Draft 2007 on itself. In this, the Anaheim Ducks selected him in 42nd position, but left him as usual with his junior team in order to continue to collect match practice. His second season in Belleville was directly more successful, he got 60 points in 56 games and failed with the team only in the final of the play-offs for the J. Ross Robertson Cup with 3: 4 at the Kitchener Rangers . Due to his convincing performances, he led the Bulls as team captain the next year and increased his statistics again to 88 points, which made him one of the top 10 scorers in the league . In December 2008 he had already signed an entry level contract with the Anaheim Ducks , which allowed the Ducks to hand it over to the Pittsburgh Penguins together with Chris Kunitz in February 2009 in return for Ryan Whitney .

Before Tangradi finally switched to the Penguins system, he took part with the US U20 national team at the 2009 U20 World Junior Championships in Ottawa , where he finished fifth. Tangradi himself was noticed negatively when he held the bat in the face of his opponent Christopher DiDomenico in the preliminary round match against Canada when he passed close to the American bench after a goal by his team.

Pittsburgh Penguins

Tangradi in the Pittsburgh Penguins jersey (2012)

In the Pittsburgh Penguins , Tangradi was first handed over to the farm team in the American Hockey League , the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins . There he completed his first games on a professional level, with Tangradi's style of playing as a classic power forward (at a height of 1.93 m and 100 kg body weight) established here at the latest. In this context, his nickname "Big Dog" developed. At the end of the 2009/10 season he made his debut in the NHL in the last game of the regular season . The following season 2010/11 began Tangradi in the NHL squad, but was sent back to the AHL after a few games. In the AHL he convinced with his achievements, so that he took part in the AHL All-Star Game 2011. In the spring of 2011 he was in the NHL squad again, but fell out for two months after an elbow blow from opponent Trevor Gillies in the game against the New York Islanders ; Gillies was banned for nine games. In total, he was on the ice 15 times in the NHL, scoring one goal and preparing two more.

In the following two seasons Tangradi played alternately in the NHL and AHL, where he had a large share of the success in the AHL, while in the NHL he was still said to have a lack of scorers (24 games and only two scorer points in the 2011/12 season). Most of the time he played in the fourth row as a classic power forward with a body-hugging game, but less pronounced technique.

Winnipeg Jets

In February 2013, during the 2012/13 season shortened by the lockout , the Penguins gave him in exchange for a six-round draft pick to the Winnipeg Jets . The pick was originally for the seventh round of the 2013 Entry Draft, but was upgraded to one for the sixth round by a certain number of inserts Tangradi achieved with the Jets. Indeed, Tangradi promptly became a regular player, playing 91 games for the Jets in his first two years in Winnipeg.

Constant change

On October 5, 2014, Tangradi was handed over by the Jets to the Canadiens de Montréal , which in turn transferred Patrick Holland and Peter Budaj to Winnipeg. Tangradi was handed over to the Hamilton Bulldogs of the AHL, the Canadiens' farm team at the time, on the same day . During the season, the attacker came only to seven NHL appearances and spent the rest of the season in the AHL. After the season, his expiring contract was not renewed, so he signed a new one-year contract with the Detroit Red Wings in July 2015 . This was extended for two more seasons in March 2016, before winning the Calder Cup in the 2016/17 season with the Grand Rapids Griffins , the Red Wings farm team . After the 2017/18 season, Tangradi did not get a new contract in Detroit, so he joined the New Jersey Devils as a free agent .

For the 2019/20 season, Tangradi moved to Barys Nur-Sultan in the Continental Hockey League , but returned from there to the Grand Rapids Griffins in the AHL in December 2019.

Achievements and Awards

• 2011 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic
• 2017 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
2006/07	Belleville Bulls	OHL		65	5	15th	20th	+12	32		15th	8th	9	17th	+8	14th
2007/08	Belleville Bulls	OHL		56	24	36	60	+10	41		21st	7th	11	18th	+3	20th
2008/09	Belleville Bulls	OHL		55	38	50	88	+39	61		16	8th	13	21st	+10	12
2009/10	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		65	17th	22nd	39	-1	31		4th	1	1	2	+2	6th
2009/10	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		1	0	0	0	± 0	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		42	18th	15th	33	+9	86		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		15th	1	2	3	-4	10		1	0	0	0	± 0	0
2011/12	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		37	15th	16	31	+1	40		10	4th	6th	10	+2	14th
2011/12	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		24	0	2	2	-4	16		2	0	1	1	+2	0
2012/13	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		34	10	8th	18th	-8th	57		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		5	0	0	0	+2	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		36	1	3	4th	-4	22nd		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		55	3	3	6th	–6	21st		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Hamilton Bulldogs	AHL		48	14th	17th	31	+9	56		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		7th	0	0	0	-3	17th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		72	28	28	56	+17	66		7th	2	3	5	+4	4th
2015/16	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		1	0	0	0	± 0	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		54	17th	27	44	+16	53		19th	2	17th	19th	+6	12
2017/18	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		74	31	33	64	+12	51		4th	2	2	4th	+2	4th
2018/19	Binghamton Devils	AHL		41	10	14th	24	-16	49		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	New Jersey Devils	NHL		6th	0	1	1	-3	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Barys Nur-Sultan	KHL		22nd	5	4th	9	-5	24		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		21st	9	4th	13	–6	12		-	-	-	-	-	-
OHL total				176	67	101	168	+61	134		52	23	33	56	+21	46
AHL total				488	169	184	353	+33	501		44	11	29	40	+16	40
NHL overall				150	5	11	16	-22	86		3	0	1	1	+2	0

International

Represented the USA at:

• U20 Junior World Championship 2009

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2009	United States	U20 World Cup	5th place		6th	1	2	3	± 0	6th
Juniors overall					6th	1	2	3	± 0	6th

( 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 : Eric Tangradi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Eric Tangradi in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Eric Tangradi at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ triblive.com: "Penguins' Tangradi more comfortable, confident" (English, September 10, 2011, accessed on June 9, 2014)
2. ^ ^{A b} philly.com: "Philly boy makes his mark in Canada Eric Tangradi prospers in the tough Ontario Hockey League." (English, January 8, 2009, accessed June 9, 2014)
3. ↑ tsn.ca: "PENGUINS TRADE WHITNEY TO DUCKS FOR KUNITZ, TANGRADI" (English, February 27, 2009, accessed on June 9, 2014)
4. ↑ break.com: Video of the incident  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English, accessed June 9, 2014)  
5. ↑ montgomerynews.com: "Tangradi named to All-Star team" (English, February 4, 2011, accessed June 9, 2014)
6. ↑ tsn.ca: "NHL SLAPS GODARD WITH 10-GAME SUSPENSION, GILLIES GETS NINE" (English, February 13, 2011, accessed on June 9, 2014)
7. ↑ thetimes-tribune.com: "WBS PENGUINS: Tangradi dealt to Winnipeg" (English, February 14, 2013, accessed on June 9, 2014)
8. ↑ post-gazette.com: "Penguins GM Shero still pondering approach to the draft" (English, June 26, 2013, accessed June 9, 2014)
9. ↑ canadiens.nhl.com: "Canadiens acquire Eric Tangradi from the Winnipeg Jets, in return for Peter Budaj and Patrick Holland" (English, October 5, 2014, accessed October 8, 2014)