John Hayden

John Hayden
Date of birth	February 14, 1995
place of birth	Chicago , Illinois , USA
size	191 cm
Weight	101 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 15
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2013 , 3rd round, 74th position Chicago Blackhawks
Career stations
2011-2013	USA Hockey National Team Development Program
2013-2017	Yale University
2017-2019	Chicago Blackhawks
since 2019	New Jersey Devils

John Hayden (born February 14, 1995 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the New Jersey Devils in the National Hockey League since June 2019 .

Career

John Hayden was born in Chicago, but grew up in Greenwich , Connecticut , where he attended the Brunswick School in his youth and played for their ice hockey team in the regional high school league. For the 2011/12 season, the attacker moved to the USA Hockey National Team Development Program (NTDP), the central talent factory of the US hockey association USA Hockey . With the selections of the NTDP he took part in the game operation of the United States Hockey League (USHL), the highest junior league in the country. In addition, the teams in the program act as junior national teams, so that Hayden took part in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2012 and the U18 World Championship in 2013 , where they each won the silver medal. After two seasons he retired due to age from the NTDP and was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2013 in 74th position by the Chicago Blackhawks from his native city.

In the fall of 2013, Hayden enrolled at Yale University , where he began studying political science , while at the same time participating in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) game operations for the Yale Bulldogs in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) . At Yale, the American increased his personal statistics from year to year, so that in the 2016/17 season, as captain of the Bulldogs, with 34 scorer points from 33 games, he achieved an average of over 1.0 for the first time and as a result made it into the ECAC Second All-Star Team was chosen. He also represented the US U20 national team at the 2015 U20 World Cup , where he finished fifth with the team.

After the college season ended, Hayden signed an entry-level deal with the Chicago Blackhawks in March 2017 . As a result, the striker made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) and came to a total of 13 appearances for the Blackhawks by the end of the season. As part of the subsequent preparation for the 2017/18 season, Hayden was able to defend his place in Chicago's squad for the time being.

After a little over two years in the organization of the Blackhawks, Hayden was handed over to the New Jersey Devils in June 2019 in exchange for John Quenneville .

Achievements and Awards

• 2012 silver medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
• 2013 silver medal at the U18 World Championship
• 2017 ECAC Second All-Star Team

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2011/12	USA Hockey NTDP	USHL		36	8th	7th	15th	–7	51		2	0	2	2	-2	2
2012/13	USA Hockey NTDP	USHL		24	11	9	20th	+13	51		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Yale University	NCAA		33	6th	10	16	-3	18th
2014/15	Yale University	NCAA		29	7th	11	18th	+2	10
2015/16	Yale University	NCAA		32	16	7th	23	+2	26th
2016/17	Yale University	NCAA		33	21st	13	34	+5	62
2016/17	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		12	1	3	4th	+3	4th		1	0	0	0	± 0	0
2017/18	Rockford IceHogs	AHL		24	5	12	17th	± 0	7th		13	3	0	3	-1	2
2017/18	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		47	4th	9	13	-4	54		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		54	3	2	5	-12	27		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	New Jersey Devils	NHL		43	3	1	4th	-2	77		-	-	-	-	-	-
USHL total				60	19th	16	35	+6	102		2	0	2	2	-2	2
NCAA overall				127	50	41	91	+6	116
NHL overall				156	11	15th	26th	-15	162		1	0	0	0	± 0	0

International

Represented the USA at:

• World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2012
• U18 World Championship 2013
• U20 World Cup 2015

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2012	United States	WHC			5	0	1	1		0
2013	United States	U18 World Cup			7th	1	1	2	+3	6th
2015	United States	U20 World Cup	5th place		5	1	0	1	± 0	2
Juniors overall					17th	2	2	4th		8th

( 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

• Player biography on the New Jersey Devils website
• John Hayden at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Blackhawks agree to terms with Hayden. nhl.com, March 12, 2017, accessed October 20, 2017 .