Hal Gill

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Hal Gill
Date of birth April 6, 1975
place of birth Concord , Massachusetts , USA
size 201 cm
Weight 113 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1993 , 8th lap, 207th position
Boston Bruins
Career stations
1993-1997 Providence College
1997-2006 Boston Bruins
2004-2005 Rauman Lukko
2006-2008 Toronto Maple Leafs
2008-2009 Pittsburgh Penguins
2009–2012 Canadiens de Montréal
2012-2013 Nashville Predators
2013-2014 Philadelphia Flyers

Harold Priestley "Hal" Gill III. (Born April 6, 1975 in Concord , Massachusetts ) is a former American ice hockey player who played 1219 games for the Boston Bruins , Toronto Maple Leafs , Pittsburgh Penguins , Canadiens de Montréal , Nashville, among others, in the course of his active career between 1993 and 2014 Predators and Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League on the position of defenderhas denied. Gill celebrated his greatest career success in the service of the Pittsburgh Penguins by winning the Stanley Cup in 2009 .

Career

The 2.01 m tall defender was selected ( drafted ) in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft as 207th in the eighth round of the Boston Bruins and played during his student days for the team of Providence College in the Hockey East , a league in the game operations of the college organization National Collegiate Athletic Association .

In his first season in Boston, the left-handed shooter made it into the regular Bruins squad in 1997 , for which he was continuously on the ice in the highest North American professional league until 2006 . Gill spent the lockout in the 2004/05 season with Lukko Rauma in the Finnish SM-liiga . On July 1, 2007, the defender signed a three-year contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs , but they transferred him to the Pittsburgh on February 26, 2008 in exchange for a second-round draft pick in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft and a five-round draft pick in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft Penguins . With the penguins, Gill reached the final of the Stanley Cup , the North American ice hockey championship, in the same year , but the franchise lost this in six games against the Detroit Red Wings .

Gill signed a contract with the Canadiens de Montréal on July 1, 2009 .

On February 17, 2012, the Habs transferred him to the Nashville Predators, along with a five-round performance-related vote in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft in exchange for strikers Blake Geoffrion and Robert Slaney, and a second-round vote in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft . He played his first game for the Predators on February 19, 2012 against the Dallas Stars , in which the defender was on the ice for 16 minutes and the Predators won 3-2.

On October 1, 2013, Gill signed a one-year contract with the Philadelphia Flyers , which, however , was not renewed after only six missions following the 2013/14 season . After the American did not receive any new engagement within the NHL in the following season , he announced his official end of career in April 2015.

International

With the US national team , Hal Gill won the bronze medal at the 2004 World Cup , and he also took part with the team in the 2000 , 2001 , 2005 and 2006 finals. The defender scored a total of two assists in 39 World Cup games . In addition, Gill was in the team of "Team USA" at the World Cup of Hockey 2004 and at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1993/94 Providence College NCAA 31 1 2 3 26th
1994/95 Providence College NCAA 26th 1 3 4th 22nd
1995/96 Providence College NCAA 39 5 12 17th 54
1996/97 Providence College NCAA 35 5 16 21st 52
1997/98 Providence Bruins AHL 4th 1 0 1 23 - - - - -
1997/98 Boston Bruins NHL 68 2 4th 6th 47 6th 0 0 0 4th
1998/99 Boston Bruins NHL 80 3 7th 10 63 12 0 0 0 14th
1999/00 Boston Bruins NHL 81 3 9 12 51 - - - - -
2000/01 Boston Bruins NHL 80 1 10 11 71 - - - - -
2001/02 Boston Bruins NHL 79 4th 18th 22nd 77 6th 0 1 1 2
2002/03 Boston Bruins NHL 76 4th 13 17th 56 5 0 0 0 4th
2003/04 Boston Bruins NHL 82 2 7th 9 99 7th 0 1 1 4th
2004/05 Rauman Lukko SM-liiga 31 2 8th 10 110 8th 0 0 0 57
2005/06 Boston Bruins NHL 80 1 9 10 124 - - - - -
2006/07 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 82 6th 14th 20th 91 - - - - -
2007/08 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 63 2 18th 20th 52 - - - - -
2007/08 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 18th 1 3 4th 16 20th 0 1 1 12
2008/09 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 62 2 8th 10 53 24 0 2 2 6th
2009/10 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 68 2 9 11 68 18th 0 1 1 20th
2010/11 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 75 2 7th 9 43 7th 0 0 0 2
2011/12 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 53 1 7th 8th 29 - - - - -
2011/12 Nashville Predators NHL 23 0 5 5 8th 5 0 0 0 0
2012/13 Nashville Predators NHL 32 0 0 0 12 - - - - -
2013/14 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 6th 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0
NCAA overall 131 12 33 45 154
NHL overall 1108 36 148 184 962 111 0 6th 6th 68

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2000 United States WM 5th place 7th 0 0 0 14th
2001 United States WM 4th Place 9 0 0 0 4th
2004 United States WM 3rd place, bronze 9 0 2 2 12
2004 United States World cup 4th Place Without any effort
2005 United States WM 6th place 7th 0 0 0 6th
2006 United States Olympia 8th place Without any effort
2006 United States WM 7th place 7th 0 0 0 14th
Men overall 39 0 2 2 50

( 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 : Hal Gill  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Message on the Nashville Predators website
  2. ↑ nhlpa.com Hal Gill retires from NHL after 16 seasons
personal data
SURNAME Gill, Hal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gill, Harold Priestley III. (Full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Concord , Massachusetts , United States