Kevin Hayes

Kevin Hayes
Date of birth	May 8, 1992
place of birth	Dorchester , Massachusetts , USA
size	193 cm
Weight	98 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2010 , 1st round, 24th position Chicago Blackhawks
Career stations
2008-2010	Noble and Greenough School
2010-2014	Boston College
2014-2019	New York Rangers
2019	Winnipeg Jets
since 2019	Philadelphia Flyers

Kevin Patrick Hayes (born May 8, 1992 in Dorchester , Massachusetts ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League since June 2019 . Previously, the right winger , who is also used in the center position, played for about four and a half years for the New York Rangers , who had selected him in the first round in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft . Hayes also played for the USA national team at the 2014 and 2017 World Championships .

Career

Hayes moved after completion of high school and the election in the first round of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft by the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League to the Boston College , where he worked for the local hockey team in the Hockey East , one of the Division National Collegiate Athletic Association played. In the first season he spent there with his brother Jimmy , he won the division championship. The team repeated this success the following year and also secured the national championship of the NCAA. After a transition year, he was able to achieve the point yield from his first three years in his last college season, which earned him a nomination for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award , but his teammate Johnny Gaudreau won.

On August 15, 2014, the Chicago Blackhawks' contractual rights , which they had acquired through the NHL Entry Draft to Hayes, expired . As a free agent , he then joined the New York Rangers on August 20, 2014 . There he established himself straight away and played 79 of 82 regular season games in the 2014/15 season. He scored 45 points and confirmed this value in the following three seasons. In February 2019 the Americans in exchange for was Brendan Lemieux and a conditional first-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 2019 or 2020 and a conditional fourth-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 2022 , the Jets unless the Stanley Cup in 2019 win at the Winnipeg Jets handed in. The latter did not come true. A few weeks before the official start of the 2019/20 season, the Philadelphia Flyers acquired their transfer rights for a five-round vote in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft and agreed in mid-June 2019 on a seven-year contractual relationship with a total volume of 50 million US dollars.

International

Hayes represented his home country for the first time at the 2014 World Cup in the Belarusian capital Minsk . At the 2017 World Cup , he was also part of Team USA .

Achievements and Awards

2011 Hockey East Championship with Boston College 2012 Hockey East Championship with Boston College 2012 NCAA Division I Championship with Boston College

2014 Hockey East First All-Star Team 2014 NCAA East First All-American Team

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
2010/11	Boston College	NCAA		31	4th	10	14th	8th
2011/12	Boston College	NCAA		44	7th	21st	28	10
2012/13	Boston College	NCAA		27	6th	19th	25th	14th
2013/14	Boston College	NCAA		40	27	38	65	16
2014/15	New York Rangers	NHL		79	17th	28	45	22nd		19th	2	5	7th	2
2015/16	New York Rangers	NHL		79	14th	22nd	36	30th		3	0	0	0	4th
2016/17	New York Rangers	NHL		76	17th	32	49	18th		12	0	3	3	4th
2017/18	New York Rangers	NHL		76	25th	19th	44	18th		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	New York Rangers	NHL		51	14th	28	42	10		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		20th	5	8th	13	2		6th	2	1	3	2
NCAA overall				142	44	88	132	48
NHL overall				381	92	137	229	100		40	4th	9	13	12

International

Represented the USA at:

• World Championship 2014
• World Championship 2017

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2014	United States	WM	6th place		8th	1	1	2	0
2017	United States	WM	5th place		3	2	2	4th	4th
Men overall					11	3	3	6th	4th

( 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 older brother is Jimmy and his cousins Tom Fitzgerald and Keith Tkachuk were also professional ice hockey players.

Web links

• Player biography on the Philadelphia Flyers website
• Kevin Hayes at eliteprospects.com (English)