Mats Zuccarello
Date of birth | September 1, 1987 |
place of birth | Oslo , Norway |
size | 170 cm |
Weight | 73 kg |
position | Right wing |
number | # 36 |
Shot hand | Left |
Career stations | |
2003-2008 | Frisk Asker |
2008-2010 | MODO hockey |
2010–2012 | New York Rangers |
2012-2013 | HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk |
2013-2019 | New York Rangers |
2019 | Dallas Stars |
since 2019 | Minnesota Wild |
Mats André Zuccarello Aasen (born September 1, 1987 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian ice hockey player of Italian descent who has been under contract with the Minnesota Wild from the National Hockey League since July 2019 and plays for them in the position of right winger .
Career
Mats Zuccarello began his career as an ice hockey player with Frisk Asker , for whose professional team he was active for five years from 2003 to 2008 in the GET-ligaen , the highest Norwegian league. His greatest success with the team was reaching the finals in the 2007/08 season, in which they were subject to the Storhamar Dragons . In the same season he was also voted the best Norwegian player in the league. The attacker then signed a contract with MODO Hockey Örnsköldsvik from the Swedish Elitserien and was able to convince especially in the 2009/10 season when he was the top scorer of the Elitserien and for that with the Guldhjälmen as the most valuable player of the Elitserien and with the Gullpucken as Norway's player of the Year was awarded.
In the summer of 2010, Zuccarello Aasen was committed by the New York Rangers , who first used him in the American Hockey League with their farm team Hartford Wolf Pack . After strong performances in the AHL, he was used for the first time with the New York Rangers during the 2010/11 season and scored his first goal for the Rangers in the game against the Carolina Hurricanes on January 5, 2011 . In the further course of the season he played parallel for the New York Rangers in the NHL and the meanwhile renamed Connecticut Whale farm team in the AHL. With both teams he was eliminated in the playoffs in the first round.
In June 2012 he left the Rangers and was signed by HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk , for which he scored a total of 32 scorer points in the 2012/13 season . After Metallurg was eliminated in the second KHL play-off round, Zuccarello returned to the New York Rangers. Following the 2012/13 season , his contract in New York was extended for another year. In the following season Zuccarello was finally able to establish himself as a top performer in the Rangers team and, with 59 points from 77 games, played the season with the highest points in his NHL career to date. In the play-offs he failed with his team only in the Stanley Cup final against the Los Angeles Kings and was the first Norwegian to take part in a final series in the NHL.
After his contract was renewed for another year in the summer of 2014, he agreed with the Rangers in the course of the 2014/15 season on a further extension of his current contract by four years at a rumored annual salary of 4.5 million US dollars . Over the course of the season, the attacker acted in an attacking formation with Rick Nash and helped his team with solid offensive performances to win the Presidents' Trophy for the most points after the main round. In the fifth game of the first play-off round against the Pittsburgh Penguins , Zuccarello was injured after the puck hit him in the head by a shot by his team-mate Ryan Callahan and was subsequently out with a serious head injury for the remainder of the play-offs. His successful return in the 2015/16 season brought him the Aftenposten gold medal in his home country of Norway and a second place in the election for Norway's Sportsman of the Year .
In the following three and a half seasons, the Scandinavian remained a reliable scorer in the Broadway Blushirts team . He always reached over 50 scorer points before he was handed over by the Rangers to the Dallas Stars in February 2019 . The Stars took over 70 percent of the salary of the expiring contract with Zuccarello, while the Rangers took over the remainder. As compensation for the change, New York received a conditional second-round vote for the 2019 NHL Entry Draft and a conditional third-round vote for the 2020 NHL Entry Draft . Both draft picks can become first-round voting rights in the respective drafts. For the conversion of the pick of the second round, Dallas must move into the third round of the Stanley Cup playoffs 2019 and Zuccarello is used in at least 50 percent of the games in the first two rounds; this did not happen. The third-round voting right can also become a first-round voting right, provided the attacker signs a new contract in Dallas. This was also not fulfilled, as the attacker joined the Minnesota Wild as a free agent in July 2019 and signed a five-year contract there, which is said to bring him an average annual salary of six million US dollars.
International
For Norway Zuccarello took Aasen at junior level at the Under-18 World Youth Championship in 2004 , the Under-18 Junior B World Cup 2005 and the Under-20 World Youth Championship in 2006 and the U20 Junior B World Cup 2007 in part. In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad at the A-World Championships in 2008 , 2009 and 2010 as well as at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver . He also represented his home country at the 2014 Winter Olympics and the 2016 World Cup .
He also represented the Europe team at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey , where he finished second with the team.
Achievements and Awards
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International
- 2005 Promotion to the top division at the U18 Junior World Championship of Division I.
- 2016 second place at the World Cup of Hockey
Career statistics
Status: end of the 2019/20 season
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | +/- | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | +/- | SM | ||
2004/05 | Frisk Asker | UPC leagues | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
2005/06 | Frisk Asker | UPC leagues | 21st | 5 | 3 | 8th | 12 | 4th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||
2006/07 | Frisk Asker | GET leagues | 43 | 34 | 25th | 59 | 36 | 7th | 4th | 4th | 8th | 2 | ||||
2007/08 | Frisk Asker | GET leagues | 33 | 24 | 40 | 64 | 48 | 15th | 12 | 15th | 27 | 24 | ||||
2008/09 | MODO hockey | Elitserien | 35 | 12 | 28 | 40 | +10 | 38 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2009/10 | MODO hockey | Elitserien | 55 | 23 | 41 | 64 | +6 | 62 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2010/11 | Connecticut Whale | AHL | 36 | 13 | 16 | 29 | +2 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4th | ||
2010/11 | New York Rangers | NHL | 42 | 6th | 17th | 23 | +3 | 4th | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ± 0 | 2 | ||
2011/12 | Connecticut Whale | AHL | 37 | 12 | 24 | 36 | +5 | 22nd | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2011/12 | New York Rangers | NHL | 10 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ± 0 | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2012/13 | Metallurg Magnitogorsk | KHL | 44 | 11 | 17th | 28 | +5 | 30th | 7th | 2 | 2 | 4th | -2 | 10 | ||
2012/13 | New York Rangers | NHL | 15th | 3 | 5 | 8th | +10 | 8th | 12 | 1 | 6th | 7th | -2 | 4th | ||
2013/14 | New York Rangers | NHL | 77 | 19th | 40 | 59 | +11 | 32 | 25th | 5 | 8th | 13 | +7 | 20th | ||
2014/15 | New York Rangers | NHL | 78 | 15th | 34 | 49 | +17 | 45 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | ||
2015/16 | New York Rangers | NHL | 81 | 26th | 35 | 61 | +2 | 34 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 4th | ||
2016/17 | New York Rangers | NHL | 80 | 15th | 44 | 59 | +15 | 26th | 12 | 4th | 3 | 7th | ± 0 | 16 | ||
2017/18 | New York Rangers | NHL | 80 | 16 | 37 | 53 | -10 | 36 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2018/19 | New York Rangers | NHL | 46 | 11 | 26th | 37 | –11 | 24 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2018/19 | Dallas Stars | NHL | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | +3 | 0 | 13 | 4th | 7th | 11 | +2 | 6th | ||
2019/20 | Minnesota Wild | NHL | 65 | 15th | 22nd | 37 | –9 | 18th | 4th | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 0 | ||
Total OPC / GET leagues | 98 | 63 | 68 | 131 | 96 | 26th | 16 | 19th | 35 | 28 | ||||||
Elitserien total | 90 | 35 | 69 | 104 | +16 | 100 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
AHL total | 73 | 25th | 40 | 65 | +7 | 38 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4th | ||||
NHL overall | 576 | 129 | 263 | 392 | +31 | 233 | 77 | 15th | 28 | 43 | +5 | 52 |
International
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Represented Team Europe at: |
year | team | event | result | Sp | T | V | Pt | +/- | SM | |
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2004 | Norway | U18 World Cup | 10th place | 6th | 0 | 2 | 2 | -3 | 8th | |
2005 | Norway | U18 World Championship Div. I. | 1st place | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | +1 | 6th | |
2006 | Norway | U20 World Cup | 10th place | 6th | 0 | 2 | 2 | -5 | 4th | |
2007 | Norway | U20 World Cup Div. I. | 5th place | 5 | 2 | 5 | 7th | -1 | 2 | |
2008 | Norway | WM | 8th place | 7th | 1 | 0 | 1 | -5 | 2 | |
2009 | Norway | Olympic qualification | 1st place | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ± 0 | 0 | |
2009 | Norway | WM | 8th place | 6th | 3 | 0 | 3 | ± 0 | 8th | |
2010 | Norway | Olympia | 10th place | 4th | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 2 | |
2010 | Norway | WM | 9th place | 6th | 3 | 1 | 4th | -1 | 6th | |
2014 | Norway | Olympia | 12th place | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 2 | |
2016 | Norway | WM | 10th place | 7th | 1 | 2 | 3 | -2 | 4th | |
2016 | Norway | Olympic qualification | 1st place | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | +2 | 0 | |
2016 | Team Europe | World cup | 2nd place | 6th | 1 | 3 | 4th | +2 | 4th | |
Juniors overall | 22nd | 4th | 12 | 16 | -8th | 20th | ||||
Men overall | 45 | 12 | 11 | 23 | -5 | 28 |
( 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
- Player biography on the Minnesota Wild website
- Mats Zuccarello at legendsofhockey.net (English)
- Mats Zuccarello at eliteprospects.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ hockeytime.net, Intervista all'italo norvegese Mats Zuccarello
- ↑ New York Rangers: Zuccarello gets first goal in style to sink Hurricanes ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ nhl.com Rangers' Zuccarello, 1st Norwegian to reach Stanley Cup finals, creating hockey buzz at home
- ↑ nhl.com Rangers, Zuccarello agree on new contract
- ↑ nydailynews.com Mats Zuccarello reveals he had brain contusion, lost ability to speak after NY Rangers winger was hit in head with puck
Goalkeeper:
Devan Dubnyk |
Alex Stalock
Defender:
Jonas Brodin |
Matt Dumba |
Brad Hunt |
Greg Pateryn |
Carson Soucy |
Jared Spurgeon |
Ryan Suter ( A )
attacker:
Ryan Donato |
Joel Eriksson Ek |
Kevin Fiala |
Marcus Foligno |
Alex Galchenyuk |
Jordan Greenway |
Ryan Hartman |
Mikko Koivu ( C ) |
Luke Kunin |
Zach Parise ( A ) |
Victor Rask |
Eric Staal |
Mats Zuccarello
Head Coach: Dean Evason Assistant Coach : Darby Hendrickson | Bob Woods General Manager: Bill Guerin
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Zuccarello, Mats |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zuccarello Aasen, Mats André (full name); Zuccarello Aasen, Mats |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1987 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Oslo , Norway |