Luke Kunin

United States Luke Kunin


Date of birth	4th December 1997
place of birth	Chesterfield , Missouri , USA
size	183 cm
Weight	88 kg

position	center
number	# 19
Shot hand	Right

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2016 , 1st round, 15th position Minnesota Wild

Career stations

2013-2015	USA Hockey National Team Development Program
2015-2017	University of Wisconsin – Madison
2017-2019	Iowa Wild
since 2017	Minnesota Wild

Luke Kunin (born December 4, 1997 in Chesterfield , Missouri ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Minnesota Wild in the National Hockey League since March 2017 and plays for there on the position of the center .

Career

Kunin at the AHL All-Star Classic (2018)

Luke Kunin was born in Chesterfield, a suburb of St. Louis , where he played for the St. Louis AAA Blues in his youth . For the 2013/14 season he moved to the USA Hockey National Team Development Program (NTDP), the central talent factory of the US hockey association USA Hockey . For their junior selections, the center took part in the game operations of the United States Hockey League (USHL), the country's highest junior league. At the same time, the NTDP teams act as junior national teams, so that Kunin won gold medals with the U17 and U18 teams at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge in January 2014 and at the U18 World Championship in 2015 . He also took over the captaincy of the U18 team in the 2014/15 season .

In 2015 Kunin retired from the NTDP due to old age and enrolled at the University of Wisconsin – Madison , for whose ice hockey team, the Badgers , he took part in the Big Ten Conference , a conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). As a freshman , the center forward scored 32 points in 34 games and was consequently appointed to the Big Ten All-Rookie Team . Then chose him Minnesota Wild in the NHL Entry Draft in 2016 to 15th position. For the time being, however, the American returned to Wisconsin for another season, during which he acted as team captain for the Badgers and the US U20 national team, with which he won the gold medal at the 2017 U20 World Cup .

After his second season of college, in which he was elected to the Big Ten Second All-Star Team , Kunin signed an entry-level contract with the Minnesota Wild in March 2017 . This sent him to the Iowa Wild , their farm team from the American Hockey League (AHL), where he subsequently made his professional debut. A few game days after the start of the 2017/18 season, Kunin was finally appointed to the Minnesota Wild squad for the first time and thus made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) in October 2017 . This was followed by regular changes between Minnesota and Iowa before he finally established himself in the NHL for the 2019/20 season.

Achievements and Awards

2016 Big Ten All-Rookie Team
2017 Big Ten Second All-Star Team
2018 AHL All-Star Classic

International

2014 gold medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
2015 gold medal at the U18 World Championship
2017 gold medal at the U20 World Cup

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
2013/14	USA Hockey NTDP	USHL	32	11	12	23	-4	27	-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	USA Hockey NTDP	USHL	20th	10	4th	14th	+9	12	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	University of Wisconsin – Madison	NCAA	34	19th	13	32	–9	34
2016/17	University of Wisconsin – Madison	NCAA	35	22nd	16	38	-2	30th
2016/17	Iowa Wild	AHL	12	5	3	8th	+2	16	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Iowa Wild	AHL	36	10	9	19th	–6	34	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Minnesota Wild	NHL	19th	2	2	4th	-3	13	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Iowa Wild	AHL	28	12	8th	20th	+2	30th	11	6th	2	8th	+1	18th
2018/19	Minnesota Wild	NHL	49	6th	11	17th	–9	27	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Minnesota Wild	NHL	63	15th	16	31	-10	55	4th	2	0	2	± 0	2
USHL total			52	21st	16	37	+5	39	-	-	-	-	-	-
NCAA overall			69	41	29	70	–11	64
AHL total			76	27	20th	47	-2	80	11	6th	2	8th	+1	18th
NHL overall			131	23	29	52	-22	95	4th	2	0	2	± 0	2

International

Represented the USA at:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2014	United States	WHC		6th	2	4th	6th		0
2015	United States	U18 World Cup		7th	6th	0	6th	+9	2
2017	United States	U20 World Cup		7th	2	2	4th	+3	25th
2019	United States	WM	7th place	3	0	0	0	± 0	0
Juniors overall				20th	10	6th	16		27
Men overall				3	0	0	0	± 0	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 : Luke Kunin - collection of images, videos and audio files

Player biography on the Minnesota Wild website
Luke Kunin at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Wild Signs Luke Kunin. nhl.com, March 23, 2017, accessed October 15, 2017 .

Squad of the Minnesota Wild in the season 2019/20

personal data
SURNAME	Kunin, Luke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	4th December 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chesterfield , Missouri , United States

[1] Wild Signs Luke Kunin. nhl.com, March 23, 2017, accessed October 15, 2017 .