Gilles Senn

Gilles Senn
Date of birth	March 1, 1996
place of birth	Saas-Almagell , Switzerland
Size	195 cm
Weight	87 kg
position	goalkeeper
number	# 91
Catch hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2017 , 5th round, 129th position New Jersey Devils
Career stations
2011-2019	HC Davos
since 2019	Binghamton Devils

Gilles Senn (born March 1, 1996 in Saas-Almagell ) is a Swiss ice hockey goalkeeper who has been under contract with the New Jersey Devils in the National Hockey League since April 2019 and also for their farm team, the Binghamton Devils , in the American Hockey League is used.

Career

Senn joined the youth department of HC Davos in 2011 at the age of 15 through the stations EHC Saastal and EHC Visp . He attended the sports high school in Davos . HCD coach Arno Del Curto provided him with his first short appearances in the National League A (NLA) during the 2014/15 season . Davos won the championship title that season.

With a view to the 2016/17 season, Davos decided to put their trust in a very young team of goalkeepers: Senn and Joren van Pottelberghe, who is around a year younger . In view of this decision, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung wrote: “It is an exciting experiment that the HCD is carrying out. The club is taking a risk that not many of the competition can afford - or want to. In any case, Davos is the ideal biotope for such a series of experiments ”.

In the 2017 NHL Entry Draft , Senn was selected 129th by the New Jersey Devils . After he achieved a 90.1% catch rate in 20 league games for Davos in the 2018/19 season, he was awarded a two-year contract by the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League (NHL) in April 2019 . For the time being, he will be used there with the Binghamton Devils in the American Hockey League (AHL). In December 2019, he finally made his debut for New Jersey in the National Hockey League (NHL).

International

Senn belonged to the Swiss national team in the age groups U17, U18 and U20. He was appointed to the senior national team for the first time in February 2017.

Achievements and Awards

• 2017 NLA Youngster of the Year
• 2018 silver medal at the world championship

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season										Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	S.	N	OTN	Min	GT	SO	GTS	Sv%		Sp	S.	N	Min	GT	SO	GTS	Sv%
2012/13	HC Davos	Elite-A-Jun.		8th							3.43			3						4.75
2013/14	HC Davos	Elite-A-Jun.		34							2.76			3						5.00
2014/15	HC Davos	Elite-A-Jun.		32	17th	9	2	1862	76	3	2.52			9	5	3	568	22nd	1	2.33
2014/15	HC Davos	NLA		4th	1	0	0	85	3	0	2.11	91.7		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	HC Davos	Elite-A-Jun.		16	8th	5	1	838	45	0	3.22			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	HC Davos	NLA		6th	1	2	0	234	15th	0	3.84	88.3		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	HC Davos	NLA		34	16	14th	3	2000	88	1	2.64	91.7		10	6th	4th	639	29	0	2.72	89.7
2017/18	HC Davos	NL		30th	12	10	1	1748	85	1	2.92	90.5		6th	2	4th	358	19th	0	3.19	89.4
2018/19	HC Davos	NL		20th	4th	15th	0	1167	62	0	3.19	90.1		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Binghamton Devils	AHL		27	17th	17th	2	1605	74	1	2.77	90.1		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	New Jersey Devils	NHL		2	0	1	0	71	4th	0	3.42	90.2		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Elite A Juniors total				90							2.82			15th						3.35
National League (A) overall				94	34	41	4th	5234	253	2	2.90	91.0		16	8th	8th	997	48	0	2.89	89.6
NHL overall				2	0	1	0	71	4th	0	3.42	90.2		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Switzerland at:

• U20 World Junior Championship 2015
• World Championship 2018

year	team	event	result		Sp	S.	N	Min	GT	SO	GTS	Sv%
2015	Switzerland	U20 World Cup	9th place		Without any effort
2018	Switzerland	WM			Without any effort

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; ¹  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

Web links

• Player biography on the New Jersey Devils website
• Gilles Senn at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Gilles Senn at hockeygoalies.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Exclusive: Interview with Gilles Senn | Hockey Club Davos. In: www.hcd.ch. Retrieved October 25, 2016 . 
2. ^ Coach: Hiller and Senn in the national team. In: Sport-Gymnasium Foundation Davos. November 8, 2017, accessed January 12, 2019 . 
3. ^ Gilles Senn with NLA debut - Stiftung Sport-Gymnasium Davos . In: Sport-Gymnasium Foundation Davos . September 15, 2014 ( sportgymnasium.ch [accessed October 25, 2016]). Gilles Senn with NLA debut - Stiftung Sport-Gymnasium Davos ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Every mountain chilbi has a herdsman: Davos heralds a new goalie dynasty . In: watson.ch . ( watson.ch [accessed on October 25, 2016]).
5. ↑ Nicola Berger: The new goalies in HC Davos: New main characters in the heroic epic . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 8, 2016, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed October 25, 2016]).
6. ^ New Jersey is also drafting Gilles Senn. Retrieved September 14, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Gilles Senn moves to North America. In: Liechtenstein Fatherland. Retrieved April 17, 2019 . 
8. ↑ St. Galler Tagblatt AG, Switzerland: Switzerland with ten newcomers . In: St.Galler Tagblatt Online . ( archive.org [accessed February 8, 2017]).