Mathew Barzal

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Mathew Barzal
Date of birth May 26, 1997
place of birth Coquitlam , British Columbia , Canada
size 183 cm
Weight 83 kg
position center
number # 13
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2015 , 1st round, 16th position
New York Islanders
Career stations
2013-2017 Seattle Thunderbirds
since 2016 New York Islanders

Mathew Barzal (born May 26, 1997 in Coquitlam , British Columbia ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been with the New York Islanders in the National Hockey League since September 2015 . In 2018 he was honored with the Calder Memorial Trophy as the best rookie in the NHL.

Career

Barzal in the Thunderbirds jersey

Mathew Barzal played in his youth for the Burnaby Winter Club , the Vancouver Northeast Chiefs and the Coquitlam Express of the British Columbia Hockey League before the Bantam Draft 2012 Western Hockey League (WHL) in the first overall position of the Seattle Thunderbirds was selected . As a rookie , the attacker scored 54 points in 59 games in his first WHL season and then represented his home country at the U18 World Cup in 2014 , where he won the bronze medal with the team. In August of the same year, the gold medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2014 followed . In the following season 2014/15, his draft season, Barzal fell out for almost three months due to a patellar fracture with subsequent surgery and was nevertheless selected in 16th position by the New York Islanders in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft . He also won another bronze medal at the U18 World Championship .

The Flyers equipped Barzal with an entry-level contract in September 2015 , but sent him back to the WHL for the time being to allow him more match practice. There the attacker completed his best season so far with 27 goals and 61 assists, at the end of which he was elected to the First All-Star Team of the Western Conference of the WHL.

As part of the preparation for the 2016/17 season, Barzal earned a place in the Islanders squad and made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) in October 2016 . After another NHL mission, however, the Islanders sent him back to the Thunderbirds in the WHL to allow the Canadian more game practice. After finishing sixth at the U20 World Cup in 2016 , the attacker won the silver medal at the U20 World Cup in 2017 in his own country. With the Thunderbirds he won the playoffs for the Ed Chynoweth Cup at the end of the season and was also recognized as a WHL Playoff MVP and reelected to the First All-Star Team of the Western Conference.

At the beginning of the 2017/18 season, Barzal established himself in the Islanders' squad and took the lead in the rookie scorer list around the middle of the season , so that he was named NHL Rookie of the Month for January. At the end of the season he was clearly leading all rookies in the league with 85 points, a mark that was last achieved among league beginners over ten years ago by Yevgeny Malkin (2006/07). Accordingly, he received the Calder Memorial Trophy as the best rookie in the NHL at the NHL Awards 2018 and was also voted into the NHL All-Rookie Team .

After his first professional season, Barzal also made his debut for the senior national team of Canada as part of the 2018 World Cup , where he finished fourth with the team.

Achievements and Awards

International

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
2013/14 Seattle Thunderbirds WHL 59 14th 40 54 +3 20th 9 1 5 6th -1 4th
2014/15 Seattle Thunderbirds WHL 44 12 45 57 +13 20th 6th 4th 4th 8th +2 4th
2015/16 Seattle Thunderbirds WHL 58 27 61 88 +22 58 18th 5 21st 26th +2 16
2016/17 Seattle Thunderbirds WHL 41 10 69 79 +32 20th 16 7th 18th 25th +8 16
2017 Seattle Thunderbirds Memorial Cup - - - - - - 3 0 2 2 -4 2
2016/17 New York Islanders NHL 2 0 0 0 -2 6th - - - - - -
2017/18 New York Islanders NHL 82 22nd 63 85 +1 30th - - - - - -
2018/19 New York Islanders NHL 82 18th 44 62 -5 46 8th 2 5 7th +2 8th
WHL overall 202 63 215 278 +70 118 49 17th 48 65 +11 40
NHL overall 166 40 107 147 –6 82 8th 2 5 7th +2 8th

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2014 Canada U18 World Cup 3rd place, bronze 7th 3 1 4th ± 0 6th
2014 Canada Hlinka Memorial 1st place, gold 5 2 5 7th +5 0
2015 Canada U18 World Cup 3rd place, bronze 7th 3 9 12 +2 0
2016 Canada U20 World Cup 6th place 5 2 1 3 ± 0 0
2017 Canada U20 World Cup 2nd place, silver 7th 3 5 8th +4 4th
2018 Canada WM 4th Place 10 0 7th 7th +4 4th
Juniors overall 31 13 21st 34 +11 10
Men overall 10 0 7th 7th +4 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 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rory Boylen: Prospect of Interest: The 411 on Mathew Barzal. sportsnet.ca, June 19, 2015, accessed October 16, 2016 .
  2. ^ Barzal Agrees to Entry-Level Contract. nhl.com, September 10, 2015, accessed October 16, 2016 .
Squad of the New York Islanders in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME Barzal, Mathew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barzal, Matt; Barzal, Mat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Coquitlam , British Columbia , Canada