Karl Stollery

Karl Stollery
Date of birth	November 21, 1987
place of birth	Camrose , Alberta , Canada
size	180 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2004-2008	Camrose Kodiaks
2008–2012	Merrimack College
2012-2015	Lake Erie Monsters
2015	Worcester Sharks
2015-2016	San Jose Barracuda
2016-2017	New Jersey Devils Albany Devils
2017-2018	Dinamo Riga
2018-2019	Jokerite
since 2019	Frölunda HC

Karl Stollery (born November 21, 1987 in Camrose , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Frölunda HC from the Svenska Hockeyligan since May 2019 and plays there in the position of defender .

Career

Stollery played between 2004 and 2008 in his hometown for the youth team of the Camrose Kodiaks, with whom he won the Rogers Wireless Cup , the championship title of the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL) in 2005, 2007 and 2008 . In the same three years, the team also won the Doyle Cup , which served to qualify for the Royal Bank Cup . The defender himself was elected twice to the AJHL's South Division All-Star Team during this time.

Without being drafted by a team from the National Hockey League , the attacking defender decided to attend Merrimack College by spring 2012 . With his ice hockey team he played in Hockey East , a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . Within the four years Stollery was appointed to numerous selection teams and also took part in the rookie training camp of the Atlanta Thrashers from the NHL. Ultimately, however, it was the Lake Erie Monsters from the American Hockey League (AHL) who secured the services of the Canadian in March 2012 on the basis of an Amateur Tryout Offer (ATO).

After a successful start in the professional field, Stollery received a permanent contract with the Monsters in September 2012, which was rewarded by the Colorado Avalanche in May 2013 and extended by one year with validity for the NHL. There he came to two NHL appearances during the 2013/14 season, as well as five more in the following season, after his contract was renewed in July 2014 by a year. Mainly he spent both playing years in the roster of the farm team in the AHL before he was transferred to the San Jose Sharks in March 2014 in exchange for Freddie Hamilton . There the defensive player could not particularly recommend himself despite another five NHL appearances and played until the end of the 2014/15 season with the Worcester Sharks in the AHL. With the relocation of the team, he came to the AHL for the San Jose Barracuda in autumn 2015 .

After the 2015/16 season , Stollery did not get a new contract in San Jose, so he joined the New Jersey Devils as a free agent in July 2016 and signed a one-year contract there. In addition to eleven missions for New Jersey, the Canadian also worked for the Albany Devils farm team before he ventured to Europe in the summer of 2017. There he spent the 2017/18 season at the Latvian club Dinamo Riga . After a year, he left the club and moved to league rivals Jokerit from the Finnish capital Helsinki in August 2018 . There the Canadian spent another season in the KHL before he moved to the Swedish club Frölunda HC in the Svenska Hockeyligan in summer 2019 .

International

As part of the 2018 Winter Olympics , Stollery made his debut for the senior national team of Canada and won the bronze medal with the team that competed without NHL players.

Achievements and Awards

2005 Rogers Wireless Cup win with the Camrose Kodiaks 2005 Doyle Cup win with the Camrose Kodiaks 2007 AJHL South All-Star Team 2007 Rogers Wireless Cup win with the Camrose Kodiaks 2007 Doyle Cup win with the Camrose Kodiaks 2008 AJHL South All-Star Team 2008 Rogers Wireless Cup win with the Camrose Kodiaks

2008 Doyle Cup win with the Camrose Kodiaks 2009 Hockey East All-Rookie Team 2009 Hockey East All-Academic Team 2010 Hockey East All-Academic Team 2011 Hockey East All-Tournament Team 2012 Hockey East Second All-Star Team

International

• 2018 bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games

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
2004/05	Camrose Kodiaks	AJHL		4th	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Camrose Kodiaks	AJHL		42	1	5	6th	40		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Camrose Kodiaks	AJHL		59	11	24	35	57		17th	2	7th	9	26th
2007/08	Camrose Kodiaks	AJHL		52	3	24	27	40		18th	5	10	15th	18th
2008/09	Merrimack College	Hockey East		34	5	11	16	26th
2009/10	Merrimack College	Hockey East		35	4th	15th	19th	42
2010/11	Merrimack College	Hockey East		39	6th	21st	27	48
2011/12	Merrimack College	Hockey East		37	7th	14th	21st	58
2011/12	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		9	2	5	7th	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		72	5	29	34	62		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		68	7th	23	30th	42		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		2	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		45	5	9	14th	55		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		5	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Worcester Sharks	AHL		14th	2	4th	6th	8th		4th	1	1	2	6th
2014/15	San Jose Sharks	NHL		5	0	0	0	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	San Jose Barracuda	AHL		67	6th	18th	24	65		4th	0	0	0	0
2016/17	Albany Devils	AHL		59	1	16	17th	53		3	0	1	1	2
2016/17	New Jersey Devils	NHL		11	0	3	3	13		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Dinamo Riga	KHL		53	3	11	14th	48		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Jokerite	KHL		54	3	7th	10	8th		3	0	0	0	2
AJHL total				157	15th	53	68	137		35	7th	17th	24	44
Hockey East overall				145	22nd	61	83	174
AHL total				335	28	104	132	289		11	1	2	3	8th
NHL overall				23	0	3	3	21st		-	-	-	-	-
KHL total				107	6th	18th	24	11		3	0	0	0	2

International

Represented Canada to:

• Olympic Winter Games 2018

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2018	Canada	Olympia			4th	0	0	0	0
Men overall					4th	0	0	0	0

( 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

• Karl Stollery in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Karl Stollery at eliteprospects.com (English)