Hilary Knight

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Hilary Knight
Date of birth July 12, 1989
place of birth Palo Alto , California , USA
size 180 cm
Weight 78 kg
position striker
number # 21
Shot hand Right
Career stations
2007–2012 University of Wisconsin – Madison
2012-2015 Boston Blades
2015-2017 Boston Pride
since 2018 Les Canadiennes de Montréal

Hilary Atwood Knight (* 12. July 1989 in Palo Alto , California ) is an American ice hockey player who since March 2018 in Les Canadiennes de Montréal in the Canadian Women's Hockey League on the position of the striker plays. Knight has been a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team since 2007, and with eight gold medals at world championships, she and teammate Kacey Bellamy are the most successful US women in this competition.

Career

Knight at the 2011 World Cup

Hilary Knight was born in Palo Alto , California , but grew up in a household of skiers in Hanover , New Hampshire . Her parents could not ice skate. Her cousin Chip Knight was a skier at the Winter Olympics three times. Hilary Knight skied for the first time at the age of two before her mother had the idea that she should learn to skate too . When Hilary was five, her family moved from California to Chicago, where she started playing ice hockey. Her three younger brothers also learned the sport and Hilary always strived to "be better than my younger brothers" .

As a student, she played for Choate Rosemary Hall and the Connecticut Polar Bears U19 team . After graduating from high school, she had numerous offers from colleges to accept. Knight chose the University of Wisconsin because there worked with Mark Johnson, an experienced ice hockey coach who was also national coach and was supposed to prepare them for the 2010 Winter Olympics .

Success in the NCAA

Hilary Knight played college ice hockey for four years in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA), a league of the NCAA . She reached the NCAA final tournament, the so-called Frozen Four, in all four years with the Wisconsin Badgers , the university's ice hockey team . While the Badgers lost the NCAA Championship finals in 2008 and 2012, they won the Frozen Four final game in 2009 and 2011, reaching the college championship in those two years.

During the 2009/10 season Hilary Knight interrupted her studies to prepare for the Vancouver Winter Olympics with the national team and coach Mark Johnson .

CWHL and NWHL

Hilary Knight in the jersey of the Boston Blades , December 2014

After she finished her studies in 2012, she was signed by the Boston Blades from the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL) and won the Clarkson Cup with her new team in 2013 . With this, Knight has won the three most important trophies in women's ice hockey. For the performances shown in the course of the season, she was also named Most Valuable Player . In 2015, she repeated winning the title with the Blades before moving to the Boston Pride from the newly formed National Women's Hockey League . With these, she won the Isobel Cup in the league's premier season and remained loyal to the team until the end of the 2016/17 season . She then prepared for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang and, following the tournament, joined the Les Canadiennes de Montréal from the CWHL in March 2018 .

International

Hilary Knight began representing the United States internationally early in her career. So she belonged to the youth national teams of the USA. In 2006 she made her debut at the 4 Nations Cup for the women's national team . She completed her first world championship in 2007 and was the youngest player on the national team with which she won the silver medal. As a result, she played at nine world championships until 2017 , winning seven gold and two other silver medals. At her first Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010 , she scored one goal and seven assists, helping her team win the silver medal. In the 2011 world championships , which were held in Switzerland , she was the top scorer of the tournament with five goals and nine assists and was consequently elected to the All-Star team. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , she finally won Olympic gold on the third attempt.

Achievements and Awards

Hilary Knight in January 2010
  • 2008 All- WCHA rookie team
  • 2009 WCHA championship with the University of Wisconsin – Madison
  • 2009 NCAA Division I Championship with the University of Wisconsin – Madison
  • 2009 WCHA Player of the Year
  • 2009 Frozen Four All-Tournament Team
  • 2011 WCHA championship with the University of Wisconsin – Madison
  • 2011 NCAA Division I Championship with the University of Wisconsin – Madison
  • 2011 First Team All-America
  • 2013 Clarkson Cup win with the Boston Blades
  • 2013 Most Valuable Player of the CWHL
  • 2015 participation in the CWHL All-Star Game
  • 2015 CWHL First All-Star Team
  • 2015 Clarkson Cup win with the Boston Blades
  • 2016 Participation in the NWHL All-Star Game
  • 2016 Isobel Cup win with Boston Pride
  • 2016 top scorer of the NWHL
  • 2017 Participation in the NWHL All-Star Game

International

Records

Hilary Knight holds the following Wisconsin Badgers records: total goals (143), shots on goal (986), scorer points (262), game-winning goals (30), power-play goals (37), underpaid goals (8), plus / minus (+ 167) and hat tricks (9).

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 +/-
2007/08 University of Wisconsin – Madison WCHA 41 20th 18th 38 28 +23
2008/09 University of Wisconsin – Madison WCHA 39 45 38 83 24 +48
2009/10 USA hockey International Preparation for the Winter Olympics
2010/11 University of Wisconsin – Madison WCHA 41 47 34 81 12 +57
2011/12 University of Wisconsin – Madison WCHA 40 31 29 60 10 +39
2012/13 Boston Blades CWHL 24 17th 15th 32 10 +22 4th 1 4th 5 0 +1
2013/14 Boston Blades CWHL 4th 4th 4th 8th 0 +4 4th 5 1 6th 0 +4
2014/15 Boston Blades CWHL 13 8th 14th 22nd 4th +23 3 4th 3 7th 6th +3
2015/16 Boston Pride NWHL 17th 15th 18th 33 8th 4th 7th 2 9 0
2016/17 Boston Pride NWHL 10 8th 7th 15th 4th +11 2 3 2 5 2 +6
2017/18 Les Canadiennes de Montréal CWHL 1 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0
2018/19 Les Canadiennes de Montréal CWHL 23 8th 9 17th 4th 4th 4th 4th 4th 8th
NCAA overall 161 143 119 262 86 +167
CWHL overall 65 37 42 79 20th 17th 14th 12 26th 6th
NWHL total 27 23 25th 48 12 6th 10 4th 14th 2

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM +/-
2007 United States WM 2nd place, silver 5 0 0 0 4th ± 0
2008 United States WM 1st place, gold 5 0 1 1 0 ± 0
2009 United States WM 1st place, gold 5 7th 2 9 4th +5
2010 United States Olympia 2nd place, silver 5 1 7th 8th 0 +8
2011 United States WM 1st place, gold 5 5 9 14th 2 +11
2012 United States WM 2nd place, silver 5 5 2 7th 0 +5
2013 United States WM 1st place, gold 5 1 1 2 4th −3
2014 United States Olympia 2nd place, silver 5 3 3 6th 6th +1
2015 United States WM 1st place, gold 5 7th 5 12 6th +8
2016 United States WM 1st place, gold 5 7th 2 9 0 +8
2017 United States WM 1st place, gold 5 4th 5 9 0 +10
2018 United States Olympia 1st place, gold 5 2 1 3 4th ± 0
2019 United States WM 1st place, gold 7th 7th 4th 11 4th +13
Women overall 67 49 42 91 34 +66

( 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 : Hilary Knight  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b hilary-knight.com, Hilary Kight - About
  2. ↑ a b c d uwbadgers.com, # 23 Hilary Knight - Player Profile ( Memento of the original from April 30, 2011 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uwbadgers.com
  3. ↑ olympics.usahockey.com, Hilary Knight - Player Bios
personal data
SURNAME Knight, Hilary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knight, Hilary Atwood (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Palo Alto , California