Matt McKnight

Matt McKnight
Date of birth	June 14, 1984
place of birth	Halkirk , Alberta , Canada
size	186 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	center
number	# 19
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2004 , 9th round, 280th position Dallas Stars
Career stations
2002-2004	Camrose Kodiaks
2004-2008	University of Minnesota Duluth
2008	Las Vegas Wranglers
2008-2011	Idaho steelheads
2011-2013	Lusatian foxes
since 2013	Bietigheim Steelers

Matt McKnight (born June 14, 1984 in Halkirk , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has played for the Bietigheim Steelers in the DEL2 since 2013 .

Career

McKnight played from 2002 to 2004 in the Alberta Junior Hockey League for the Camrose Kodiaks and won the Rogers Wireless Cup with his team in 2003 as a play-off winner . Of the Dallas Stars , he was in the NHL Entry Draft in 2004 in the ninth round at the 280th spot drafted . He then moved to the United States and played four seasons at the University of Minnesota Duluth in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association .

From this purely American college league National Collegiate Athletic Association , he moved to the ECHL in 2008 , where he signed on after a few games for the Las Vegas Wranglers with the Idaho Steelheads , the farm team of the NHL team Dallas Stars . After an injury in the 2010/11 season , he was only used in 16 games.

He then ventured to Germany in the 2011/12 season and, like his previous teammate Mark Derlago, joined the Lausitzer Füchsen . In 2013 he moved within the DEL2 to the Bietigheim Steelers , with whom he was able to become master of the DEL2 for the first time in 2015 . Following the main round in 2016/17 , he was named "Striker of the Year" by the DEL2. He had led the DEL2 main round that season with 72 points (24 goals). He was also able to convince in 2017/18 and with 78 points (34 goals) was the third-best scorer in the main round and contributed 15 points (2 goals) to his team's title win in the subsequent playoffs in 13 games. The main round 2018/19 was also extremely successful for McKnight, as he and his team again took second place after the main round and scored just as many points as the Heilbronn Roope Ranta ; He led the template and face-off statistics (57 percent). Following the main round, he was again named “Striker of the Year” and, for the first time, “Player of the Year” of the DEL2.

Achievements and Awards

• 2003 Rogers Wireless Cup win with the Camrose Kodiaks
• 2015 DEL2 champion
• 2017 DEL2 striker of the year
• 2017 DEL2 top scorer of the year (72 points)
• 2018 DEL2 champion
• 2019 DEL2 striker of the year
• 2019 DEL2 player of the year
• 2019 Best assists in the DEL2 main round 2018/19 (53 assists)

Career statistics

				Regular season							Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-
2002/03	Camrose Kodiaks	AJHL		56	16	31	47	12			-	-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Camrose Kodiaks	AJHL		42	20th	36	56	31			-	-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	University of Minnesota Duluth	WCHA		30th	6th	13	19th	16
2005/06	University of Minnesota Duluth	WCHA		40	9	16	25th	24	−9
2006/07	University of Minnesota Duluth	WCHA		29	4th	5	9	16	−16
2007/08	University of Minnesota Duluth	WCHA		33	6th	10	16	24	9
2008/09	Las Vegas Wranglers	ECHL		4th	0	1	1	4th	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Idaho steelheads	ECHL		62	10	23	33	44	−4		4th	1	0	1	0	0
2009/10	Idaho steelheads	ECHL		48	13	18th	31	16	4th		9	5	2	7th	6th
2010/11	Idaho steelheads	ECHL		16	3	6th	9	6th	−3		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Lusatian foxes	2nd BL		45	16	28	44	32			5	1	7th	8th	6th
2012/13	Lusatian foxes	2nd BL		40	15th	40	55	28			5	3	5	8th	16
2013/14	Bietigheim Steelers	DEL2		46	20th	32	52	18th			16	5	15th	20th	8th
2014/15	Bietigheim Steelers	DEL2		51	21st	56	77	14th			4th	0	4th	4th	0
2015/16	Bietigheim Steelers	DEL2		34	8th	24	32	12	+4		14th	1	9	10	8th	+7
2016/17	Bietigheim Steelers	DEL2		51	24	48	72	20th	+21		15th	9	13	22nd	10	+6
2017/18	Bietigheim Steelers	DEL2		52	34	44	78	16	+14		13	2	13	15th	10	+2
2018/19	Bietigheim Steelers	DEL2		51	26th	53	79	28	−1		7th	3	8th	11	8th	−2
2019/20	Bietigheim Steelers	DEL2
AJHL total				98	36	67	103	43			-	-	-	-	-
WCHA overall				132	25th	44	69	80
ECHL total				130	26th	48	74	70			13	6th	2	8th	6th

( 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

• Matt McKnight at hockeydb.com (English)
• Matt McKnight at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Matt McKnight at eurohockey.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Matt McKnight receives three-month contract. Lausitzer Füchse, August 24, 2011, accessed on March 30, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Thomas Röstel, Matthias Geissler: Kaufbeurens Stefan Vajs is the best player in the DEL2 2016/2017. DEL2 , accessed March 5, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Ice Hockey News Playoffs 2019, page 69