Jake Gardiner

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Jake Gardiner
Date of birth 4th July 1990
place of birth Deephaven , Minnesota , USA
size 188 cm
Weight 79 kg
position defender
number # 51
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2008 , 1st round, 17th position
Anaheim Ducks
Career stations
2005-2008 Minnetonka High School
2008-2011 University of Wisconsin – Madison
2011-2019 Toronto Maple Leafs
since 2019 Carolina Hurricanes

Jake Gardiner (born July 4, 1990 in Deephaven , Minnesota ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Carolina Hurricanes in the National Hockey League since September 2019 and plays for them in the position of defender . Prior to that, he spent over eight years in the Toronto Maple Leafs organization .

Career

Jake Gardiner first played ice hockey from 2005 to 2008 with the Minnetonka Skippers , the high school team of Minnetonka High School , in the high school league system of the United States. During this time he also gained match experience in the ice hockey team of the South West team , for which the defensive player was also active in the high school league system. In the 2007/08 season, Gardiner acted in the role of the team captain of the Minnetonka Skippers , where he managed his best point season at Minnetonka High School . In 24 games, the American, who had mainly acted as an attacking player in the course of his career, scored 20 goals and 28 assists . Because of his convincing achievements, Gardiner was nominated in 2008 for the annual Minnesota Mr. Hockey award, which honors the best high school player in the US state of Minnesota . In the end, it wasn't enough to win the award, which was secured by attacking defender Aaron Ness . During this time, the secured Anaheim Ducks in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft , the rights to the Americans when they picked him in the first round 17th overall position.

For the 2008/09 season, Gardiner decided to work at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and went on ice for its ice hockey team, the Wisconsin Badgers , in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association . In his debut season he was with 21 points in 39 games, including 18 assists, the second best rookie defender of the WCHA and took third place within the team among the defenders of the Wisconsin Badgers after Jamie McBain and Brendan Smith . In the following season, his points yield was reduced, but Gardiner scored two of his six goals this season undernumbered and led the team's internal ranking of the plus / minus balance with a value of +25. For the 2010/11 season he acted as assistant captain of the Badgers and increased his points balance significantly compared to the previous season and scored at least one scorer point in 26 of 41 season appearances . Within the WCHA, the player from the US state of Minnesota was the most successful defender together with the Canadian Chay Genoway , who also recorded 31 assists.

On February 9, 2011, the Anaheim Ducks gave his rights together with offensive player Joffrey Lupul to the Toronto Maple Leafs to sign defender François Beauchemin . The Leafs also received a four-round vote in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft from the Californians. On March 15, 2011, Gardiner finally signed a three-year entry contract in the organization of the Leafs and was then sent to the farm team to the Toronto Marlies in the American Hockey League . The defender made his professional debut for this shortly afterwards. At the end of the season, Gardiner received a nomination for the WCHA Second All-Star Team. For the 2011/12 season he made it to the Toronto NHL squad. He played his first NHL game on October 6, 2011 against the Montréal Canadiens .

Over the course of the following years, Gardiner established himself in the NHL squad of the Maple Leafs and therefore signed a new five-year contract in July 2014, which should bring him a total salary of 20.25 million US dollars. In the 2017/18 season he significantly increased his personal statistics to 52 scorer points from 82 games. In the summer of 2019, he did not reach an agreement with the Leafs about a contract extension, so he left the franchise after more than eight years as a free agent . In September 2019, the defender finally signed a new four-year deal with the Carolina Hurricanes , which should earn him an average annual salary of $ 4.05 million.

International

Gardiner was on the US national team for the 2010 U20 World Junior Championship . In seven games he posted three assists and secured the tournament victory with the USA after a 6-5 win after extra time in the final against Canada . At senior level, he took part in the 2014 and 2015 World Championships, where he won the bronze medal with the team in the latter.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2005/06 Minnetonka High School High MN 21st 2 14th 16 6th
2006/07 Minnetonka High School High MN 19th 10 22nd 32 20th
2006/07 Team South West UMWEHL 11 4th 3 7th
2007/08 Minnetonka High School High MN 24 20th 28 48 14th
2007/08 Team Southwest UMWEHL 11 8th 7th 15th
2008/09 University of Wisconsin – Madison NCAA 39 3 18th 21st 16
2009/10 University of Wisconsin – Madison NCAA 41 6th 7th 13 20th
2010/11 University of Wisconsin – Madison NCAA 41 10 31 41 24
2010/11 Toronto Marlies AHL 10 0 3 3 4th - - - - -
2011/12 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 75 7th 23 30th 18th - - - - -
2011/12 Toronto Marlies AHL 4th 0 2 2 2 17th 2 9 11 10
2012/13 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 12 0 4th 4th 0 6th 1 4th 5 0
2012/13 Toronto Marlies AHL 43 10 21st 31 12 - - - - -
2013/14 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 80 10 21st 31 19th - - - - -
2014/15 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 79 4th 20th 24 24 - - - - -
2015/16 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 79 7th 24 31 32 - - - - -
2016/17 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 82 9 34 43 34 6th 1 2 3 4th
2017/18 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 82 5 47 52 32 7th 0 2 2 2
2018/19 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 62 3 27 30th 26th 7th 0 2 2 0
High MN total 64 32 64 96 40
UMWEHL total 22nd 12 10 22nd
NCAA overall 121 19th 56 75 60
AHL total 57 10 26th 36 18th 17th 2 9 11 10
NHL overall 551 45 200 245 185 26th 2 10 12 6th

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2010 United States U20 World Cup 1st place, gold 7th 0 3 3 4th
2014 United States WM 6th place 8th 1 3 4th 0
2015 United States WM 3rd place, bronze 8th 1 0 1 0
Juniors overall 7th 0 3 3 4th
Men overall 16 2 3 5 0

( 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 : Jake Gardiner  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hockeysfuture.com, Jake Gardiner at hockeysfuture.com
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Squad of the Carolina Hurricanes in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME Gardiner, Jake
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Deephaven , Minnesota