Kyle Connor

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Kyle Connor
Date of birth December 9, 1996
place of birth Clinton Township , Michigan , USA
size 185 cm
Weight 83 kg
position Left wing
number # 41
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2015 , 1st round, 17th position
Winnipeg Jets
Career stations
2012-2015 Youngstown Phantoms
2015-2016 University of Michigan
since 2016 Winnipeg Jets

Kyle Connor (born December 9, 1996 in Clinton Township , Michigan ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Winnipeg Jets in the National Hockey League since April 2016 .

Career

youth

Kyle Connor went through the Belle Tire junior teams from the Detroit area in his youth . In the summer of 2012, the attacker moved to the Youngstown Phantoms from the United States Hockey League (USHL), the highest junior league in the United States. As a rookie , he got 41 scorer points in 62 games, so that a little later he belonged to the U18 selection of the USA, which won the silver medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2013 . In the following season 2013/14 he made his breakthrough in USHL, so Connor scored 31 goals and 43 assists in 56 games and was appointed to the league's First All-Star Team at the end of the season. He was then again part of the US U18 national team, which won the gold medal at the 2014 U18 World Cup . Connor himself achieved a tournament- best plus / minus statistic of +8.

After the attacker had led in the following season in points (80), the USHL and was named player of the year who elected him Winnipeg Jets in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft at 17th overall position. Since Connor had retired from the USHL for reasons of age, he began studying at the University of Michigan in the fall of 2015 and played at the same time for their ice hockey team, the Wolverines , in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). In the Wolverines jersey, the American managed an outstanding freshman season in which he achieved an average of almost 2.0 points per game (71 points in 38 games) and won the championship in the Big Ten Conference with the team . He also set a record for most goals by a freshman at the University of Michigan with 35 goals. He was also voted Rookie and Player of the Year at the Conference and was appointed to the First All-Star Team. In addition, Connor was one of three finalists for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award , which honors the best college player in the country, alongside Jimmy Vesey (later winner) and Thatcher Demko .

NHL

After his first season in college, he signed an entry-level contract with the Winnipeg Jets in April 2016 . He then took part in the 2016 World Cup with Team USA in May of the same year , where he finished fourth with the team. In the 2017/18 season, Connor established himself in the NHL line-up of the Jets, scored 57 points and also led all rookies in the league with 31 goals. After 66 scorer points in the following season, he signed a new seven-year contract in Winnipeg in September 2019, which should bring him an average annual salary of 7.14 million US dollars. In the following season 2019/20 he achieved a points average of over 1.0 per game for the first time (73 points in 71 games).

Achievements and Awards

International

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
2012/13 Youngstown Phantoms USHL 62 17th 24 41 -17 16 9 0 3 3 -2 0
2013/14 Youngstown Phantoms USHL 56 31 43 74 -15 12 - - - - - -
2014/15 Youngstown Phantoms USHL 56 34 46 80 +3 6th 4th 3 1 4th -4 0
2015/16 University of Michigan NCAA 38 35 36 71 +34 6th
2016/17 Manitoba mosses AHL 52 25th 19th 44 -8th 14th - - - - - -
2016/17 Winnipeg Jets NHL 20th 2 3 5 –7 4th - - - - - -
2017/18 Manitoba mosses AHL 4th 3 2 5 +1 0 - - - - - -
2017/18 Winnipeg Jets NHL 76 31 26th 57 +8 16 17th 3 7th 10 +2 2
2018/19 Winnipeg Jets NHL 82 34 32 66 −7 18th 6th 3 2 5 −1 0
2019/20 Winnipeg Jets NHL 71 38 35 73 +4 34 4th 0 1 1 -4 0
USHL total 174 82 113 195 -29 34 13 3 4th 7th –6 0
AHL total 56 28 21st 49 –7 14th - - - - - -
NHL overall 249 105 96 201 -2 72 27 6th 10 16 -3 2

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2013 United States Hlinka Memorial Silver medal 5 2 1 3 +1 2
2014 United States U18 World Cup gold medal 7th 4th 3 7th +8 0
2016 United States WM 4th Place 5 0 2 2 -3 0
Juniors overall 12 6th 4th 10 +9 2
Men overall 5 0 2 2 -3 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

Commons : Kyle Connor  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kyle Connor Bio. mgoblue.com, accessed on September 14, 2016 (English).
  2. ^ Matt Wenzel: Michigan's Kyle Connor named runner-up for Hobey Baker Award. mlive.com, April 8, 2016, accessed September 14, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Jets sign Kyle Connor. jets.nhl.com, April 11, 2016, accessed September 14, 2016 .
  4. ^ Jets agree to terms with Kyle Connor. nhl.com, September 29, 2019, accessed October 2, 2019 .
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Squad of the Winnipeg Jets in the 2019/20 season
personal data
SURNAME Connor, Kyle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Clinton Township , Michigan , United States