Keith Yandle

Keith Yandle
Date of birth	September 9, 1986
place of birth	Boston , Massachusetts , USA
size	188 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	defender
number	# 3
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2005 , 4th round, 105th position Phoenix Coyotes
Career stations
2005-2006	Moncton Wildcats
2006-2015	Phoenix / Arizona Coyotes
2015-2016	New York Rangers
since 2016	Florida panthers

Keith Yandle (born September 9, 1986 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American ice hockey player who has been with the Florida Panthers in the National Hockey League since June 2016 . Before that, he spent almost nine years in the organization of the Phoenix / Arizona Coyotes and ran two seasons for the New York Rangers .

Career

Keith Yandle was selected in the fourth round of the 2005 NHL Entry Draft as the 105th player from the Phoenix Coyotes , who have been operating under the name Arizona Coyotes since 2014. Then the defender was active for a year for the Moncton Wildcats from the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec before he was added to the squad of the farm team of the Coyotes from the American Hockey League , the San Antonio Rampage , before the 2006/07 season . During the same season he made his debut in the National Hockey League for the Coyotes.

If Yandle only got two scorer points in seven games in his first NHL season, in the 2007/08 season there were already twelve scorer points, including five goals, in 43 games and finally even 30 scorer points in the 2008/09 season , including four Goals in 69 games.

After nine years and over 550 NHL appearances, the Coyotes gave him to the New York Rangers in March 2015, including Chris Summers and a four-round vote for the 2015 NHL Entry Draft . In return, the Rangers transferred Anthony Duclair , John Moore and two entry-draft options (second round in 2015 and first round in 2016 ) to Arizona. After just over a year, Yandle's contract in New York was not renewed, so the Florida Panthers secured the negotiating rights to him for a six- round vote in the 2016 NHL Entry Draft and a seventh-round vote in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft and then secured him with a seven-year contract. In the Panthers jersey, Yandle recorded his best offensive statistic to date with 62 scorer points in the 2018/19 season, while at the same time he set a new franchise record in Florida.

International

At the international level, Yandle made his debut at the 2010 World Cup , where he completed six appearances for the national team of the United States .

Achievements and Awards

2006 Coupe du Président win with the Moncton Wildcats 2006 LHJMQ First All-Star Team 2006 Émile Bouchard Trophy 2006 LHJMQ Defensive Player of the Year 2006 CHL First All-Star Team

2006 CHL Defenseman of the Year 2007 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic 2011 participation in the NHL All-Star Game 2012 Participation in the NHL All-Star Game 2019 participation in the NHL All-Star Game

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
2005/06	Moncton Wildcats	LHJMQ		66	25th	59	84	+50	109		21st	6th	14th	20th	+10	36
2006	Moncton Wildcats	Memorial Cup									5	3	0	3	+2	12
2006/07	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		69	6th	28	34	-15	97		-	-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Phoenix Coyotes	NHL		7th	0	2	2	± 0	8th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		30th	1	14th	15th	+3	80		5	0	0	0	-4	8th
2007/08	Phoenix Coyotes	NHL		43	5	7th	12	-12	14th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Phoenix Coyotes	NHL		69	4th	26th	30th	-4	37		-	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Phoenix Coyotes	NHL		82	12	29	41	+16	45		7th	2	3	5	-1	4th
2010/11	Phoenix Coyotes	NHL		82	11	48	59	+12	68		4th	0	5	5	-5	0
2011/12	Phoenix Coyotes	NHL		82	11	32	43	+5	51		16	1	8th	9	+5	10
2012/13	Phoenix Coyotes	NHL		48	10	20th	30th	+4	54		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Phoenix Coyotes	NHL		82	8th	45	53	-23	63		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Arizona Coyotes	NHL		63	4th	37	41	-32	32		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	New York Rangers	NHL		21st	2	9	11	+6	8th		19th	2	9	11	+7	10
2015/16	New York Rangers	NHL		82	5	42	47	-4	40		5	1	0	1	-4	2
2016/17	Florida panthers	NHL		82	5	36	41	–6	39		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Florida panthers	NHL		82	8th	48	56	+7	35		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Florida panthers	NHL		82	9	53	62	-17	50		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Florida panthers	NHL		69	5	40	45	± 0	20th		4th	0	3	3	-2	0
AHL total				99	7th	42	49	-12	177		5	0	0	0	-4	8th
NHL overall				976	99	474	573	-48	564		55	6th	28	34	± 0	26th

International

Represented the USA at:

• World Championship 2010

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2010	United States	WM	13th place		6th	1	3	4th	-1	0
Men overall					6th	1	3	4th	-1	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 )

family

His brother Brian Yandle was also a professional ice hockey player.

Web links

Commons : Keith Yandle  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the Florida Panthers website
• Keith Yandle at legendsofhockey.net (English)