Mackenzie Blackwood

Mackenzie Blackwood
Date of birth	December 9, 1996
place of birth	Thunder Bay , Ontario , Canada
size	193 cm
Weight	102 kg
position	goalkeeper
Catch hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2015 , 2nd round, 42nd position New Jersey Devils
Career stations
2013-2016	Barrie Colts
2016-2017	Albany Devils
since 2017	Binghamton Devils
since 2018	New Jersey Devils

Mackenzie Blackwood (born December 9, 1996 in Thunder Bay , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper . He has been under contract with the New Jersey Devils in the National Hockey League (NHL) since December 2015 and also works for their farm team , the Binghamton Devils , in the American Hockey League (AHL).

Career

Mackenzie Blackwood grew up in Thunder Bay in Northern Ontario and did not start playing ice hockey until he was nine years old. He has played in the position of goalkeeper since he was twelve. About the youth clubs Volunteer Pool Bearcats and Neebing Hawks he came in 2011 to the Thunder Bay Kings , with whom he competed in the Thunder Bay Junior Hockey League . In the Priority Draft of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), the highest regional junior league, Blackwood was selected by the Barrie Colts in 2012 . The goalkeeper then played for another year with the Elmira Sugar Kings in the Greater Ontario Hockey League .

In the 2013/14 season Blackwood made his debut for the Barrie Colts, at the end of the season he was selected due to his good performance in the OHL First All-Rookie Team . In the same year he was selected into the OHL All-Stars Team for participation in the Subway Super Series . In 2015 the goalkeeper was able to take part in the CHL Top Prospects Game , but he was canceled for health reasons. In the 2015 NHL Entry Draft , Mackenzie Blackwood was selected in the second round in 42nd position by the New Jersey Devils , with whom he signed a three-year entry contract on December 30, 2015 . The OHL season 2015/16 was statistically Blackwoods best game time, its catch quota was 91.4% with a Gegentorschnitt of 2.72. After the season, the goalkeeper was elected to the OHL First All-Star Team , and he was also named OHL Goaltender of the Year .

From 2016 Blackwood came to the Albany Devils , the New Jersey Devils farm team , in the American Hockey League (AHL). The following year the team was relocated to Binghamton , where it has since been known as Binghamton Devils . In the 2017/18 season Blackwood played 32 games for the Devils and conceded an average of 3.41, the worst average of his career to date. At the same time, he was also used for the Adirondack Thunder in the ECHL from January 1, 2018 , in the playoff games for the Kelly Cup , the team made it to the conference finals , where they were eliminated against the Florida Everblades . The season 2018/19 Mackenzie Blackwood initially began in Binghamton Devils. He was named to the New Jersey Devils squad on December 17, 2018 , and made his NHL debut the following day in the loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs when he replaced Keith Kinkaid in the third quarter and blocked eight out of ten shots . On December 20, 2018, Blackwood played his first game in the NHL from the start against the Columbus Blue Jackets , where he was again able to fend off 36 of 38 shots. In early 2019 Blackwood took part in the AHL All-Star Classic .

International

In 2016 Mackenzie Blackwood took part with the Canadian U20 national ice hockey team in the U20 Junior World Championship 2016 , where the team was eliminated in the quarter-finals against the team from Finland and finished sixth. The goalkeeper made his debut for the senior national team at the 2019 World Cup in Slovakia , where he won the silver medal with the team.

Achievements and Awards

• 2014 OHL First All-Rookie Team
• 2016 OHL First All-Star Team
• 2016 OHL Goaltender of the Year
• 2019 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic

International

• 2019 silver medal at the world championship

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season										Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	S.	N	U / OT	Min	GT	SO	GTS	Sv%		Sp	S.	N	Min	GT	SO	GTS	Sv%
2013/14	Barrie Colts	OHL		45	23	15th	2	2497	124	0	2.93	93.1		10	5	4th	552	24	1	2.61	90.4
2014/15	Barrie Colts	OHL		51	33	14th	2	2953	152	0	3.09	93.1		9	5	4th	562	27	0	2.88	92.2
2015/16	Barrie Colts	OHL		43	28	13	0	2452	111	2	2.72	91.4		13	6th	5	796	36	1	2.71	91.5
2016/17	Albany Devils	AHL		36	17th	14th	3	2048	87	3	2.55	90.7		4th	1	3	254	9	1	2.13	92.8
2017/18	Binghamton Devils	AHL		32	7th	17th	6th	1810	103	2	3.41	88.2		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Adirondack Thunder	ECHL		5	2	1	1	242	10	0	2.48	92.0		5	3	1	241	4th	1	1.00	96.4
2018/19	Binghamton Devils	AHL		20th	8th	10	1	1139	56	1	2.95	90.2		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	New Jersey Devils	NHL		23	10	10	0	1264	55	2	2.61	91.8		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	New Jersey Devils	NHL		47	22nd	14th	8th	2685	124	3	2.77	91.5		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
OHL total				139	84	42	4th	7902	387	2	2.93	92.5		32	16	13	1910	87	2	2.73	91.4
AHL total				88	32	41	11	4997	246	6th	2.95	89.7		4th	1	3	254	9	1	2.13	92.8
NHL overall				70	32	24	8th	3948	179	5	2.72	91.6		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Canada to:

• U20 World Junior Championship 2016
• World Championship 2019

year	team	event	result		Sp	S.	N	Min	GT	SO	GTS	Sv%
2016	Canada	U20 World Cup	6th place		3	1	2	183	12	0	3.95	85.9
2019	Canada	WM			1	0	0	9	0	0	0.00	100.0
Juniors overall					3	1	2	183	12	0	3.95	85.9
Men overall					1	0	0	9	0	0	0.00	100.0

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; ¹  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

Web links

Commons : Mackenzie Blackwood  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the New Jersey Devils website
• Mackenzie Blackwood at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Mackenzie Blackwood at hockeygoalies.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Junior goaltender MacKenzie Blackwood signs three-year entry contract with Devils. nhl.ca, December 30, 2015, accessed December 26, 2018 (English). 
2. ↑ Amanda Stein: Devils fall to Maple Leafs. nhl.ca, December 19, 2018, accessed December 26, 2018 (English).