Jeff Petry

Jeff Petry
Date of birth	December 9, 1987
place of birth	Ann Arbor , Michigan , USA
size	191 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	defender
number	# 26
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2006 , 2nd lap, 45th position Edmonton Oilers
Career stations
2005-2007	Des Moines Buccaneers
2007-2010	Michigan State University
2010	Springfield Falcons
2010-2015	Edmonton Oilers
since 2015	Canadiens de Montréal

Jeffrey "Jeff" Petry (* 9. December 1987 in Ann Arbor , Michigan ) is an American ice hockey player who, since March 2015, the de Canadiens Montréal in the National Hockey League is under contract and for those on the position of the defender plays . His father Dan Petry was a professional baseball player and played in Major League Baseball for 13 years .

Career

Jeff Petry began his career as a hockey player with the Des Moines Buccaneers, for which he was active from 2005 to 2007 in the junior league United States Hockey League . In 2006 he won the Clark Cup with his team . He himself has also received several awards and was voted best defender and the USHL's All-Star Team in 2007. He also took part in the league's all-star game. During his junior years he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2006 in the second round as a total of 45 players by the Edmonton Oilers . First, however, he attended Michigan State University from 2007 to 2010 , for whose ice hockey team he played parallel in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association . During this period he was also able to convince and was appointed to the All-Rookie Team of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association in 2008 and to the second All-Star Team of the CCHA in 2010.

Towards the end of the 2009/10 season , Petry made his professional ice hockey debut for Edmonton's then- farm team Springfield Falcons from the American Hockey League . In eight games he prepared three goals. In the 2010/11 season , the American played for the first time for the Edmonton Oilers in the National Hockey League , but continued to play regularly in the AHL for Edmonton's new farm team Oklahoma City Barons . In the 2011/12 season, the right-handed shooter was finally able to earn a regular place in the Oilers' NHL team.

In March 2015, the Oilers then gave him to the Canadiens de Montréal and received in return a second-round vote and a performance-based five-round vote for the 2015 NHL Entry Draft . In the Canadiens jersey, the defender achieved his best career performance to date with 42 scorer points in the 2017/18 season and increased it by a further four points the following year.

International

For the USA , Petry first took part in the 2012 World Cup in Sweden and Finland . In his competitive debut for the national team on May 4, 2012, he scored a goal in a 7-2 win over France . At the 2013 World Cup in Stockholm and Helsinki he was again part of the national team and won the bronze medal with it.

Achievements and Awards

2006 Clark Cup win with the Des Moines Buccaneers 2007 USHL All-Star Game 2007 USHL Defenseman of the Year 2007 USHL First All-Star Team

2007 USA Hockey Junior Player of the Year 2008 CCHA All-Rookie Team 2010 CCHA Second All-Star Team

International

• 2013 bronze medal at the world championship

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
2005/06	Des Moines Buccaneers	USHL		48	1	14th	15th	68		11	2	5	7th	8th
2006/07	Des Moines Buccaneers	USHL		55	18th	27	45	71		8th	0	6th	6th	10
2007/08	Michigan State University	CCHA		42	3	21st	24	28
2008/09	Michigan State University	CCHA		38	2	12	14th	32
2009/10	Michigan State University	CCHA		38	4th	25th	29	26th
2009/10	Springfield Falcons	AHL		8th	0	3	3	2		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Oklahoma City Barons	AHL		41	7th	17th	24	18th		6th	0	1	1	5
2010/11	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		35	1	4th	5	10		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		73	2	23	25th	26th		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Oklahoma City Barons	AHL		2	0	1	1	2		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		48	3	9	12	29		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		80	7th	10	17th	42		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		59	4th	11	15th	32		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		19th	3	4th	7th	10		12	2	1	3	4th
2015/16	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		51	5	11	16	16		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		80	8th	20th	28	22nd		6th	1	0	1	2
2017/18	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		82	12	30th	42	28		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		82	13	33	46	28		-	-	-	-	-
USHL total				103	19th	41	60	171		19th	2	11	13	18th
CCHA total				118	9	58	67	86
AHL total				43	7th	18th	25th	20th		-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				609	58	155	213	243		18th	3	1	4th	6th

International

Represented the USA at:

• World Championship 2012
• World Championship 2013
• World Championship 2014

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2012	United States	WM	7th place		8th	2	3	5	4th
2013	United States	WM			10	0	0	0	4th
2014	United States	WM	6th place		8th	0	4th	4th	4th
Men overall					26th	2	7th	9	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 : Jeff Petry  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Player biography on the Canadiens de Montréal website
• Jeff Petry at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Jeff Petry at eliteprospects.com (English)