James Neal

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CanadaCanada  James Neal Ice hockey player
James Neal
Date of birth 3rd September 1987
place of birth Whitby , Ontario , Canada
Nickname The real deal
size 191 cm
Weight 93 kg
position Left wing
number # 18
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2005 , 2nd round, 33rd position
Dallas Stars
Career stations
2003-2007 Plymouth Whalers
2007-2011 Dallas Stars
2011-2014 Pittsburgh Penguins
2014-2017 Nashville Predators
2017-2018 Vegas Golden Knights
2018-2019 Calgary Flames
since 2019 Edmonton Oilers

James Neal (born September 3, 1987 in Whitby , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League since July 2019 and plays there in the position of the left winger . Previously, Neal was active in the NHL for the Dallas Stars , Pittsburgh Penguins , Nashville Predators , Vegas Golden Knights and Calgary Flames .

Career

James Neal was selected as the 80th player in the third round of the 2003 OHL Priority Selection by the Plymouth Whalers . The Canadian played for the team from the Ontario Hockey League for a total of four years until 2007. In the second round of the 2005 NHL Entry Draft , Neal was selected as the 33rd player by the Dallas Stars . In his senior year in the OHL, Neal won the championship with the Whalers.

In the summer of 2007, the winger was first included in the roster of the Iowa Stars , the then Dallas farm team from the American Hockey League . In his first AHL season, he came to 62 missions and scored 37 points scorer, including 18 goals. The 2008/09 season began Neal with the Manitoba Moose , as the stars gave up the cooperation with the Iowa Stars and thus did not have their own farm team during the season. At its premiere in the National Hockey League , he scored his first NHL goal on October 10, 2008 in a game against the Columbus Blue Jackets .

On February 21, 2011, Neal was given to the Pittsburgh Penguins in a transfer deal together with Matt Niskanen in exchange for Alex Goligoski . In June 2014, he was swapped for Patric Hörnqvist and Nick Spaling for the Nashville Predators . With the Predators, Neal reached the Stanley Cup finals in the 2016/17 season , but lost to his previous team, the Pittsburgh Penguins.

In June 2017, he was selected by the Vegas Golden Knights in the 2017 NHL Expansion Draft . With the team he surprisingly reached the final of the Stanley Cup again in the 2018 playoffs , but failed again, this time at the Washington Capitals . Subsequently, his expiring contract in Vegas was not extended, so that he joined the Calgary Flames as a free agent in July 2018 . There, the attacker signed a five-year contract that is said to bring him an average annual salary of $ 5.75 million. After the first year of the contract, which was by far the weakest of his NHL career with 19 scorer points, the Flames parted ways with him in July 2019. In a transfer, the attacker was handed over to the Edmonton Oilers , while the Flames received Milan Lucic and a conditional third-round vote in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft . Edmonton also paid 12.5 percent of Lucic's salary.

International

Neal won the 2007 U20 World Junior Championship with Canada . For the senior selection he was on the ice for the first time at the 2009 World Cup , where Neal won the silver medal with Team Canada . Also at the 2011 World Cup , he was in the squad of the Canadian selection, which was defeated in the quarter-finals against Russia .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Neal in the jersey of the Golden Knights (2018)

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2002/03 Whitby Wildcats Minor Midget AAA OMHA 47 18th 23 41 47 - - - - -
2003/04 Bowmanville Eagles OPJHL 43 28 27 55 54 - - - - -
2003/04 Plymouth Whalers OHL 9 2 4th 6th 0 - - - - -
2004/05 Plymouth Whalers OHL 67 18th 26th 44 32 4th 1 1 2 6th
2005/06 Plymouth Whalers OHL 66 21st 37 58 109 13 9 7th 16 33
2006/07 Plymouth Whalers OHL 45 27 38 65 94 9 7th 4th 11 32
2007/08 Iowa stars AHL 62 18th 19th 37 63 - - - - -
2008/09 Dallas Stars NHL 77 24 13 37 51 - - - - -
2008/09 Manitoba mosses AHL 5 4th 1 5 2 - - - - -
2009/10 Dallas Stars NHL 78 27 28 55 64 - - - - -
2010/11 Dallas Stars NHL 59 21st 18th 39 60 - - - - -
2010/11 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 20th 1 5 6th 6th 7th 1 1 2 6th
2011/12 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 80 40 41 81 87 5 2 4th 6th 12
2012/13 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 40 21st 15th 36 26th 13 6th 4th 10 8th
2013/14 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 59 27 34 61 55 13 2 2 4th 24
2014/15 Nashville Predators NHL 67 23 14th 37 57 6th 4th 1 5 8th
2015/16 Nashville Predators NHL 82 31 27 58 65 14th 4th 4th 8th 8th
2016/17 Nashville Predators NHL 70 23 18th 41 35 22nd 6th 3 9 14th
2017/18 Vegas Golden Knights NHL 71 25th 19th 44 24 20th 6th 5 11 12
2018/19 Calgary Flames NHL 63 7th 12 19th 28 4th 0 0 0 0
2019/20 Edmonton Oilers NHL 55 19th 12 31 12 4th 2 1 3 0
OHL total 187 68 105 173 235 26th 17th 12 29 71
AHL total 67 22nd 20th 42 65 - - - - -
NHL overall 821 289 256 545 570 108 33 25th 58 92

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2005 Canada U18 World Cup 2nd place, silver 6th 1 1 2 6th
2007 Canada U20 World Cup 1st place, gold 6th 0 0 0 8th
2009 Canada WM 2nd place, silver 3 1 2 3 2
2011 Canada WM 5th place 6th 2 3 5 10
Juniors overall 12 1 1 2 14th
Men overall 9 3 5 8th 12

( 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 : James Neal  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Flames sign James Neal to 5-year deal worth $ 28.75 million. sportsnet.ca, July 2, 2018, accessed July 2, 2018 .
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Squad of the Edmonton Oilers in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME Neal, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd September 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Whitby , Ontario