Kailer Yamamoto

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United StatesUnited States  Kailer Yamamoto Ice hockey player
Date of birth September 29, 1998
place of birth Spokane , Washington , USA
size 173 cm
Weight 70 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2017 , 1st round, 22nd position
Edmonton Oilers
Career stations
2013-2014 Los Angeles Junior Kings
2014-2018 Spokane Chiefs
since 2017 Edmonton Oilers
Bakersfield Condors

Kailer Yamamoto (born September 29, 1998 in Spokane , Washington ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League since August 2017 and at the same time for their farm team, the Bakersfield Condors , in American Hockey League is used.

Career

Kailer Yamamoto grew up in Spokane and was selected in 2013 by the local Spokane Chiefs in the Bantam Draft of the Western Hockey League (WHL) in 105th position. The attacker then spent a season with the Los Angeles Jr. Kings before returning to his homeland for the 2014/15 season and running for the Chiefs in the WHL. In addition, he was twice a brief member of the USA Hockey National Team Development Program , the central talent factory of the American Association USA Hockey , but was unable to establish himself there. In his second WHL season, however, he was the team's best scorer with 71 points and increased his personal statistics again significantly in the following year. With 42 goals and 57 assists, only five WHL players scored more points than the winger, who also belonged to the Second All-Star Team of the WHL's Western Conference. As a result, he was selected in 22nd position by the Edmonton Oilers in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft .

The Oilers provided Yamamoto with an entry-level contract back in August 2017 before the American won a temporary place in the Edmonton squad in the following pre-season. As a result, he made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) in October 2017 and came in a total of nine missions on three assists before he was sent back to the Spokane Chiefs in the WHL in early November. At the beginning of the 2018/19 season, he then returned to the Oilers' NHL squad, but also made regular changes to the farm team , the Bakersfield Condors from the American Hockey League (AHL).

Despite his physique (173 cm; 70 kg), which is clearly below average for NHL standards, Yamamoto is considered a talented offensive player, who therefore impresses above all with his understanding of the game and technical qualities. In this context he has been compared to Johnny Gaudreau .

International

On an international level, Yamamoto made his home country debut at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge in November 2014 , where he won the silver medal with Team USA . This was followed by a fifth place at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2015 and a bronze medal at the U18 World Junior Championship in 2016 , before he was part of the U20 national team of the USA at the U20 World Junior Championship in his own country in 2018 . There he also won the bronze medal.

Achievements and Awards

  • 2017 WHL (West) Second All-Star Team

International

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
2014/15 Spokane Chiefs WHL 68 23 34 57 +12 50 6th 2 3 5 -1 6th
2015/16 Spokane Chiefs WHL 57 19th 52 71 +20 34 6th 1 4th 5 ± 0 10
2016/17 Spokane Chiefs WHL 65 42 57 99 +14 46 - - - - - -
2017/18 Spokane Chiefs WHL 40 21st 43 64 +22 18th 7th 1 3 4th -3 6th
2017/18 Edmonton Oilers NHL 9 0 3 3 -2 2 - - - - - -
2018/19 Bakersfield Condors AHL 27 10 8th 18th +12 16 - - - - - -
2018/19 Edmonton Oilers NHL 17th 1 1 2 –6 2 - - - - - -
2019/20 Bakersfield Condors AHL 23 8th 8th 16 –7 16 - - - - - -
2019/20 Edmonton Oilers NHL 27 11 15th 26th +17 12 4th 0 0 0 -1 6th
WHL overall 230 105 186 291 +68 148 19th 4th 10 14th -4 22nd
AHL total 50 18th 16 34 +5 32 - - - - - -
NHL overall 53 12 19th 31 +9 16 4th 0 0 0 -1 6th

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2014 United States WHC Silver medal 6th 3 3 6th 2
2015 United States Hlinka Memorial 5th place 4th 4th 3 7th +2 14th
2016 United States U18 World Cup 3rd place, bronze 7th 7th 6th 13 +7 12
2018 United States U20 World Cup 3rd place, bronze 7th 2 2 4th +3 4th
Juniors overall 24 16 14th 30th 32

( 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 )

Personal

Yamamoto's grandfather is from Japan and his grandmother from Hawaii .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oilers sign Yamamoto. nhl.com, August 11, 2017, accessed December 29, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Ryan Kennedy: The next Johnny Gaudreau? Meet Kailer Yamamoto. thehockeynews.com, August 4, 2016, accessed December 29, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Yamamoto, Kailer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Spokane , Washington , United States