Kevin Fiala

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SwitzerlandSwitzerland Czech RepublicCzech Republic  Kevin Fiala Ice hockey player
Date of birth July 22, 1996
place of birth St. Gallen , Switzerland
Size 180 cm
Weight 88 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2014 , 1st round, 11th position
Nashville Predators
Career stations
2007-2010 EHC Uzwil
2007-2010 EC Wil
2008-2009 SC Rhine Valley
2010–2012 ZSC Lions
2012-2013 Malmo Redhawks
2013-2015 HV71
2015-2019 Nashville Predators
since 2019 Minnesota Wild

Template: Infobox ice hockey player / country code 2

Kevin Fiala (born July 22, 1996 in St. Gallen ) is a Swiss ice hockey player of Czech origin who has been under contract with the Minnesota Wild in the National Hockey League since February 2019 and plays for them in the position of left winger . He is the son of ice hockey player Jan Fiala , who was born in Czechoslovakia , emigrated to Switzerland and played for HC Lugano in the National League A.

Career

youth

Fiala, who grew up in Zuzwil in St. Gallen , started his career at EHC Uzwil , where his father played with Mathias Seger and worked as a junior manager and head of sports. On the basis of a cooperation agreement between the respective clubs regarding juniors, he played a few games at EC Wil and SC Rheintal . In 2009/2010 - as a 13-year-old - he played 19 games with the top novices of the Uzwiler U17.

Fiala played for the ZSC Lions in the 2010/11 season , where he played in the U17 team as a 14-year-old. In 25 games he scored ten goals and ten assists. In seven playoff games he gave the decisive pass twice. In the 23 games that he played for the U15 team and was one of the pillars of the team, he scored 44 goals and 38 assists (46 penalty minutes). With the U20 team Fiala took part in the elite junior B in the following season and won it; he was also the top scorer in the U17 team. In the elite juniors he scored one goal and four assists in seven games of the main round; In another four playoff games, three goals and two assists and 18 penalty minutes were added. For the U17 team, he played 28 games, scored 34 goals and 18 assists (98 penalty minutes). In the U17 playoffs, six more goals and eight assists were added in eight games (24 penalty minutes). He played 16 times for the Swiss U16 national team; 14 goals, six assists and 14 penalty minutes were the result. Before the start of the 2012/13 season he played for Switzerland at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2012 before moving to Sweden to play in the J20 SuperElit , the junior league, at Malmö IF . In 36 games of the main U20 round, he scored nine goals and 19 assists (30 penalty minutes). He also appeared in nine main round games and four playoff games for the U18, where he scored a total of ten goals and seven assists (32 penalty minutes). He played 20 times for Switzerland: 8 goals and 7 assists.

In the 2013/14 season Fiala ran for the second time in his career at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament , and he also moved within Sweden to HV71 Jönköping. In his first eleven professional games for HV71 he scored three goals and seven assists, for the U20 he appeared 26 times, scoring ten goals and 14 assists. In the World Cup Under-18 juniors in 2014 , the World Championship for U20 juniors in 2014 and the World Championship for Men 2014 Fiala ran on to Switzerland. With that, Fiala wrote ice hockey history, as he is only the third player to appear at three World Championships in three different age categories in the same season. Before that, in 2003, the two Belarusians Andrej Kaszizyn and Wadim Karaga also succeeded .

Nashville Predators

At the 2014 NHL Entry Draft in Philadelphia, Kevin Fiala was chosen as the seventh Swiss in the first round. The Nashville Predators drafted the 17-year-old Zuzwiler as number 11. In the subsequent preparation for the 2014/15 season, however, he could not prevail in the NHL squad and thus continues to play for HV71 Jönköping. At the turn of the year 2014/15 he took part with Switzerland in the U20 World Cup in Canada, where he finished ninth with the team. Subsequently, Fiala joined the organization of the Nashville Predators and has been playing for the Milwaukee Admirals , their farm team from the American Hockey League (AHL) , since January 2015 . He also came to one use in the regular season and playoffs for the Predators.

After the 2015/16 season , which the attacker had also largely spent in the AHL, Fiala established himself in the Predators' NHL squad during the 2016/17 season. During the subsequent Stanley Cup Playoffs 2017 , Fiala suffered a fracture of the left thigh in the first game of the second round against the St. Louis Blues when he slipped violently into the gang during a duel with Robert Bortuzzo . The Swiss was operated on in St. Louis and fell out for the rest of the playoffs, in which Nashville only failed in the final against the Pittsburgh Penguins . In the following season 2017/18 , which he spent completely in the NHL for the first time, Fiala increased his personal statistics significantly to 48 points from 80 games. The following year Fiala started the season again in the Predators NHL squad, where he scored 32 points in 64 games.

Minnesota Wild

At the trade deadline on February 25, 2019, Fiala was transferred to the Minnesota Wild in exchange for Mikael Granlund . There he signed a new two-year contract in September 2019, which should bring him an average annual salary of three million US dollars. In the following season 2019/20 he recorded his best season statistics by far with 54 points from 64 games.

Achievements and Awards

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
2010/11 ZSC Lions U17 Elite novices 25th 10 10 20th 14th 7th 0 2 2 0
2011/12 ZSC Lions U17 Elite novices 28 34 18th 52 98 8th 6th 8th 14th 24
2011/12 ZSC Lions U20 Elite Jr. B 7th 1 4th 5 8th 4th 3 2 5 18th
2011/12 GCK Lions U20 Elite Jr. A 2 0 1 1 0 - - - - - -
2012/13 Malmo Redhawks J20 J20 SuperElit 33 9 19th 28 –6 28 3 0 0 0 -2 2
2013/14 HV71 J20 J20 SuperElit 27 10 15th 25th +10 40 - - - - - -
2013/14 HV71 SHL 17th 3 8th 11 -2 10 8th 1 5 6th +5 14th
2014/15 HV71 SHL 20th 5 9 14th -3 14th - - - - - -
2014/15 Milwaukee Admirals AHL 33 11 9 20th -5 18th - - - - - -
2014/15 Nashville Predators NHL 1 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0
2015/16 Milwaukee Admirals AHL 66 18th 32 50 -19 78 3 0 0 0 -3 2
2015/16 Nashville Predators NHL 5 1 0 1 ± 0 0 - - - - - -
2016/17 Milwaukee Admirals AHL 22nd 7th 12 19th +8 45 - - - - - -
2016/17 Nashville Predators NHL 54 11 5 16 +1 18th 5 2 0 2 ± 0 0
2017/18 Nashville Predators NHL 80 23 25th 48 +20 26th 12 3 1 4th -3 8th
2018/19 Nashville Predators NHL 64 10 22nd 32 –11 26th - - - - - -
2018/19 Minnesota Wild NHL 19th 3 4th 7th -12 10 - - - - - -
2019/20 Minnesota Wild NHL 64 23 31 54 -1 42 4th 3 1 4th +1 10
Elite novices total 53 44 28 72 112 15th 6th 10 16 24
J20 SuperElit overall 60 19th 34 53 +4 68 3 0 0 0 -2 2
Svenska hockey player overall 37 8th 17th 25th -5 24 8th 1 5 6th +5 14th
AHL total 121 36 53 89 -16 141 3 0 0 0 -3 2
NHL overall 287 71 87 158 -4 122 22nd 8th 2 10 -3 18th

International

Represented Switzerland at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2012 Switzerland Hlinka Memorial 6th place 4th 3 0 3 +1 2
2013 Switzerland Hlinka Memorial 6th place 4th 2 0 2 ± 0 12
2014 Switzerland U20 World Cup 7th place 5 1 4th 5 -2 6th
2014 Switzerland U18 World Cup 7th place 5 4th 5 9 +4 8th
2014 Switzerland WM 10th place 7th 0 2 2 +3 2
2015 Switzerland U20 World Cup 9th place 6th 4th 1 5 +6 16
2015 Switzerland WM 8th place 8th 1 2 3 ± 0 6th
2018 Switzerland WM 2nd place, silver 5 1 4th 5 +2 6th
2019 Switzerland WM 8th place 8th 4th 3 7th +4 2
Juniors overall 24 14th 10 24 +9 44
Men overall 28 6th 11 17th +9 16

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sportalsports.com, Kevin alone abroad
  2. ↑ The rise and fall of a talent factory . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 27, 2014, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed October 16, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Urs Nobel: EHC Uzwil with a new trainer and head of sports . In: St. Galler Tagblatt . ( tagblatt.ch [accessed on October 16, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Raphael Zahner: The Uzwil renovation continues . In: St. Galler Tagblatt . ( tagblatt.ch [accessed on October 16, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Kevin Fiala of Predators has surgery to repair fractured left femur. nhl.com, April 27, 2017, accessed April 27, 2017 .
  6. ^ Granlund traded to Predators by Wild. nhl.com, February 25, 2019, accessed on February 26, 2019 .
Squad of the Minnesota Wild in the season 2019/20

Goalkeeper: Devan Dubnyk  | Alex Stalock  
Defender: Jonas Brodin  | Matt Dumba  | Brad Hunt  | Greg Pateryn  | Carson Soucy  | Jared Spurgeon  | Ryan Suter  ( A ) 
attacker: Ryan Donato  | Joel Eriksson Ek  | Kevin Fiala  | Marcus Foligno  | Alex Galchenyuk  | Jordan Greenway  | Ryan Hartman  | Mikko Koivu  ( C ) | Luke Kunin  | Zach Parise  ( A ) | Victor Rask  | Eric Staal  | Mats Zuccarello  
Head Coach:  Dean Evason    Assistant  Coach : Darby Hendrickson  | Bob Woods    General Manager:  Bill Guerin

personal data
SURNAME Fiala, Kevin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-Czech ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen , Switzerland