Matt Irwin

Matt Irwin
Date of birth	November 29, 1987
place of birth	Victoria , British Columbia , Canada
size	188 cm
Weight	95 kg
position	defender
number	# 52
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2004-2008	Nanaimo Clippers
2008-2010	University of Massachusetts Amherst
2010–2012	Worcester Sharks
2012-2015	San Jose Sharks
2015-2016	Providence Bruins
2016-2020	Nashville Predators
since 2020	Anaheim Ducks

Matthew Michael "Matt" Irwin (born November 29, 1987 in Victoria , British Columbia ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Anaheim Ducks from the National Hockey League since February 2020 .

Career

Irwin in the Predators jersey (2017)

Irwin began his career in the 2004/05 season with the Nanaimo Clippers in the British Columbia Hockey League , the junior league of his home province. After four seasons, the defender moved to the university team of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and played there between 2008 and 2010 in Hockey East , which is integrated into the game operations of the NCAA .

In March 2010 he was signed by the San Jose Sharks from the National Hockey League , where he was initially on the ice with the Worcester Sharks farm team in the American Hockey League for the next three years . In 2012 he played for the Sharks in the NHL for the first time and has firmly established himself in the squad there since the beginning of the 2013/14 season . In March 2013, his contract was extended by two years until the end of the 2014/15 season.

This contract was then not renewed, so that he joined the Boston Bruins as a free agent in July 2015 and signed a one-year contract there. In July 2016, he became a free agent again and subsequently signed a two-year contract with the Nashville Predators . In Nashville, Irwin established himself - in contrast to the previous year with the Bruins - again as an NHL regular and reached the Stanley Cup final with the Predators, where they were defeated by the Pittsburgh Penguins . After about three and a half years in Nashville, the Canadian was handed over to the Anaheim Ducks for the trade deadline in February 2020, including a six- round vote in the NHL Entry Draft 2022 , while Korbinian Holzer moved to Nashville in return .

Achievements and Awards

• 2007 defender of the year in the BCHL
• 2008 defender of the year in the BCHL
• 2010 Hockey East All-Academic Team
• 2012 AHL All-Star Classic

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
2004/05	Nanaimo Clippers	BCHL		3	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Nanaimo Clippers	BCHL		56	3	6th	9	41		5	0	1	1	4th
2006/07	Nanaimo Clippers	BCHL		60	22nd	27	49	67		24	10	4th	14th	18th
2007/08	Nanaimo Clippers	BCHL		59	16	37	53	40		14th	6th	7th	13	22nd
2008/09	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Hockey East		31	7th	11	18th	8th
2009/10	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Hockey East		36	7th	17th	24	16
2009/10	Worcester Sharks	AHL		3	0	0	0	2		1	0	0	0	0
2010/11	Worcester Sharks	AHL		72	10	21st	31	43		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Worcester Sharks	AHL		71	11	31	42	48		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Worcester Sharks	AHL		35	1	14th	15th	26th		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	San Jose Sharks	NHL		38	6th	6th	12	10		11	0	1	1	10
2013/14	San Jose Sharks	NHL		62	2	17th	19th	35		2	1	0	1	0
2014/15	San Jose Sharks	NHL		51	8th	11	19th	18th		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Providence Bruins	AHL		64	5	25th	30th	27		2	0	0	0	0
2015/16	Boston Bruins	NHL		2	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Milwaukee Admirals	AHL		4th	0	1	1	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Nashville Predators	NHL		74	3	11	14th	26th		22nd	0	2	2	4th
2017/18	Nashville Predators	NHL		50	2	6th	8th	8th		12	0	0	0	2
2018/19	Nashville Predators	NHL		44	1	6th	7th	38		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Nashville Predators	NHL		27	0	2	2	11		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		9	0	1	1	4th		-	-	-	-	-
Hockey East overall				67	14th	28	42	24
AHL total				249	27	92	119	150		3	0	0	0	0
NHL overall				359	22nd	60	82	150		47	1	3	4th	10

( 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 : Matt Irwin  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Player biography on the Anaheim Ducks website
• Matt Irwin at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ umassathletics.com player profile on the University of Massachusetts Amherst website
2. ↑ sharks.nhl.com Sharks sign defensemen Matt Irwin
3. ↑ vancouversun.com Undrafted Matt Irwin 'looks like he fits' with Sharks
4. ↑ sharks.nhl.com Sharks sign defenseman Matt Irwin to a two-year contract extension