Kevin Fiala
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 |
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
- 2018 silver medal at the world championship
Career statistics
Status: end of the 2019/20 season
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||||
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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 | |
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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 | 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
- Player biography on the Minnesota Wild website
- Kevin Fiala at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Urs Berger: " Kevin Fiala - a fine hand for goals ", January 1, 2014, on hockeyfans.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ sportalsports.com, Kevin alone abroad
- ↑ The rise and fall of a talent factory . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 27, 2014, ISSN 0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed October 16, 2017]).
- ↑ Urs Nobel: EHC Uzwil with a new trainer and head of sports . In: St. Galler Tagblatt . ( tagblatt.ch [accessed on October 16, 2017]).
- ↑ Raphael Zahner: The Uzwil renovation continues . In: St. Galler Tagblatt . ( tagblatt.ch [accessed on October 16, 2017]).
- ↑ Kevin Fiala of Predators has surgery to repair fractured left femur. nhl.com, April 27, 2017, accessed April 27, 2017 .
- ^ Granlund traded to Predators by Wild. nhl.com, February 25, 2019, accessed on February 26, 2019 .
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 | |
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SURNAME | Fiala, Kevin |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss-Czech ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 22, 1996 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Gallen , Switzerland |