Jonas Siegenthaler

Jonas Siegenthaler
Date of birth	May 6, 1997
place of birth	Zurich , Switzerland
Size	189 cm
Weight	99 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2015 , 2nd round, 57th position Washington Capitals
Career stations
until 2011	ZSC Lions
2011-2014	GCK Lions
2014-2017	ZSC Lions
since 2017	Hershey Bears

Jonas Siegenthaler (* 6. May 1997 in Zurich ) is a Swiss ice hockey player who, since July 2015, the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League is under contract and in March 2017 their farm team , the Hershey Bears in the American Hockey League on the position of the defender plays.

Career

Jonas Siegenthaler as a junior player (2014)

Siegenthaler comes from the offspring of the ZSC Lions , during the 2013/14 season he made his debut for the ZSC in the National League A (NLA) and at the same time gained match practice with the GCK Lions in the National League B (NLB). In the following season he established himself as a regular for the ZSC Lions and was selected in the second round of the National Hockey League (NHL) draft in June 2015 in a total of 57th place by the Washington Capitals . On July 30th of the same year he signed a three-year contract with Capitals. Thanks to a loan agreement, he stayed with the ZSC Lions, with whom he won the Swiss Cup in 2016 before making his debut with Washington's farm team Hershey Bears in the American Hockey League (AHL) in March 2016 . Siegenthaler completed six missions for the Bears by the end of the season.

In October 2016, the Capitals and the ZSC Lions signed another loan agreement for Siegenthalers, which was valid until the end of the 2016/17 season. After leaving the NLA quarter-finals with the ZSC, he returned to the Hershey Bears in mid-March 2017.

Siegenthaler made his debut in the NHL on November 8, 2018 against the Columbus Blue Jackets . He scored his first NHL scorer point on December 14, 2018 against the Carolina Hurricanes when he assisted Alexander Ovetschkin early in the first third of the game.

International

Siegenthaler was a member of the Swiss national team from the U16 age group. In the 2015 IIHF World U18 Championships , he was in the All-Star selected team. In February 2017, he was called up for the first time in the senior team, but had to cancel his participation due to an injury.

Achievements and Awards

• 2013 Swiss Elite Novices. Master (U17) with the ZSC Lions
• 2013 Swiss Elite A-Junior Champion (U20) with the GCK Lions
• 2016 Swiss Cup winner with the ZSC Lions

International

• 2013 bronze medal at the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival
• 2015 All-Star Team of the U18 Junior World Championship

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
2011/12	GCK Lions U20	Elite A Juniors		7th	0	2	2	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	GCK Lions U20	Elite A Juniors		34	2	12	14th	54		7th	0	1	1	8th
2013/14	GCK Lions U20	Elite A Juniors		-	-	-	-	-		7th	0	0	0	2
2013/14	GCK Lions	NLB		40	2	6th	8th	24		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	ZSC Lions	NLA		6th	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	GCK Lions	NLB		10	1	7th	8th	10		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	ZSC Lions	NLA		41	0	3	3	39		18th	0	2	2	4th
2015/16	ZSC Lions U20	Elite A Juniors		-	-	-	-	-		1	1	0	1	2
2015/16	ZSC Lions	NLA		40	3	5	8th	28		4th	0	0	0	2
2015/16	Hershey Bears	AHL		6th	0	1	1	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	ZSC Lions	NLA		28	1	6th	7th	16		6th	0	0	0	8th
2016/17	Hershey Bears	AHL		7th	0	0	0	2		5	0	0	0	2
2017/18	Hershey Bears	AHL		75	6th	6th	12	61		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Hershey Bears	AHL		34	2	4th	6th	30th		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Washington Capitals	NHL		26th	0	4th	4th	10		4th	0	0	0	2
Elite A Juniors total				41	2	14th	16	58		15th	1	1	2	12
NLB total				50	3	13	16	34		-	-	-	-	-
NLA total				115	4th	14th	18th	85		28	0	2	2	14th
AHL total				122	8th	11	19th	101		5	0	0	0	2

International

Represented Switzerland at:

European Youth Olympic Winter Festival 2013 U18 Junior World Championship 2013 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2013 U18 World Junior Championship 2014

U20 World Junior Championship 2015 U18 Junior World Championship 2015 U20 World Junior Championship 2016 U20 Junior World Championship 2017

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2013	Switzerland	EOWYF			3	0	1	1	4th
2013	Switzerland	U18 World Cup	6th place		5	0	0	0	8th
2013	Switzerland	HIMT	6th place		4th	0	0	0	2
2014	Switzerland	U18 World Cup	7th place		5	0	1	1	2
2015	Switzerland	U20 World Cup	9th place		6th	0	1	1	8th
2015	Switzerland	U18 World Cup	4th Place		7th	0	4th	4th	20th
2016	Switzerland	U20 World Cup	9th place		6th	0	1	1	6th
2017	Switzerland	U20 World Cup	7th place		5	1	5	6th	2
Juniors overall					41	1	13	14th	52

( 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 : Jonas Siegenthaler  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the Washington Capitals website
• Jonas Siegenthaler at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jonas Siegenthaler's path to the NHL seems mapped out. In: tagesanzeiger.ch/. Retrieved October 17, 2016 . 
2. ↑ si / jäg: NHL Draft: Capitals grab in round 2 Siegenthaler. In: Swiss Radio and Television (SRF). June 27, 2015, accessed October 17, 2016 . 
3. ^ Capitals Sign Jonas Siegenthaler. In: NHL.com. Retrieved October 17, 2016 . 
4. ↑ The ZSC Lions get the bucket. In: 20 minutes. Retrieved October 17, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Jon Sorensen: Welcome to the AHL, Jonas Siegenthaler! In: NoVa Caps. March 25, 2016. Retrieved October 17, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Loan from Jonas Siegenthaler. In: zsclions.ch. Retrieved October 17, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Hockey - LNA: le défenseur des ZSC Lions Jonas Siegenthaler va finir la Saison avec les Hershey Bears en AHL . In: RTSSport.ch . ( rts.ch [accessed on March 18, 2017]).
8. ^ Capitals Recall Ness and Siegenthaler from Hershey. In: nhl.com. November 9, 2018, accessed January 30, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Ovechkin nets second straight hat trick in Caps' win. In: tsn.ca. December 14, 2018, accessed January 30, 2019 . 
10. ↑ USA takes second straight gold! Retrieved October 17, 2016 . 
11. ↑ St. Galler Tagblatt AG, Switzerland: Switzerland with ten newcomers . In: St.Galler Tagblatt Online . ( archive.org [accessed February 8, 2017]).
12. ↑ News. Retrieved February 7, 2017 .