Matt Nieto
Date of birth | 5th November 1992 |
place of birth | Long Beach , California , USA |
size | 180 cm |
Weight | 86 kg |
position | Left wing |
number | # 83 |
Shot hand | Left |
Draft | |
NHL Entry Draft |
2011 , 2nd round, 47th position San Jose Sharks |
Career stations | |
2008-2010 | USA Hockey National Team Development Program |
2010-2013 | Boston University |
2013 | Worcester Sharks |
2013-2017 | San Jose Sharks |
since 2017 | Colorado Avalanche |
Matthew Evan "Matt" Nieto (born November 5, 1992 in Long Beach , California ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Colorado Avalanche in the National Hockey League since January 2017 . Before that, he spent four years in the San Jose Sharks organization .
Career
youth
Matt Nieto grew up with his two sisters in Long Beach , California , in a neighborhood marked by gang crime . His father worked as a dock worker, while his mother worked as a make-up artist . Nieto began roller hockey with the YMCA at the age of three . He started playing ice hockey a little later at the LA Hockey Club , an organization of the Los Angeles Kings , to which Emerson Etem and Rocco Grimaldi also belonged.
At the age of 14, Nieto left California and from then on attended the Salisbury School , a preparatory school in Salisbury , Connecticut, over 4,000 kilometers away with the help of a full scholarship . In his first and only season at the school, the winger scored 18 points in 28 games, drawing the attention of the USA Hockey National Team Development Program (NTDP). As a result, he moved to Ann Arbor in the state of Michigan in the summer of 2008 to be part of the central talent factory of the US ice hockey association USA Hockey .
With the National Team Development Program, Nieto took part in the game operations of the North American Hockey League and the following year in the United States Hockey League , the highest junior league in the USA, but also played a number of non-competitive games, especially against college teams . In addition, the NTDP forms the U18 national team of the USA, with which he participated in the 2009 and 2010 World Championships and won the gold medal there.
Boston University
After the 2009/10 season, he retired from the NTDP for reasons of age and decided, instead of switching to one of Canada's top three junior leagues, to study at Boston University , where he was also awarded a scholarship. As the second youngest player in the Terriers roster , he scored 23 points in 39 games in his first year at college, which aroused the interest of the scouts of the National Hockey League . Eventually he was selected in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft in 47th position by the San Jose Sharks , making him the first Californian to be chosen by the Sharks in the draft. As a sophomore, he significantly increased his personal statistics to over one point per game, an average that he did not quite achieve in the 2012/13 season.
San Jose Sharks
In April 2013 Nieto signed an entry-level contract with the San Jose Sharks from the National Hockey League (NHL), which shortly thereafter gave him to the Worcester Sharks , their farm team from the American Hockey League (AHL). There the winger finished the season with eleven appearances, four assists and two goals. The following season 2013/14 he started in the NHL squad of the Sharks and was sent to the AHL only once for two games during the season. In total, he came as a rookie on 66 NHL missions and scored 24 points scorer, and he particularly knew how to convince in the subsequent playoffs ; although the team lost to the Los Angeles Kings in the first round , Nieto contributed five scorer points in seven games.
In the 2014/15 season reached Nieto with 27 points in eighth place the team internal scorer list, missed the Sharks, however, for the first time in ten years the playoffs . Under the new coach Peter DeBoer , Nieto took on a clearly defensive role in the squad at the beginning of the 2015/16 season , but remained a regular player. In the summer of 2016, his expiring contract was extended by one year.
Colorado Avalanche
In January 2017, Nieto was to be sent to the Sharks' new farm team, the San Jose Barracuda , via the waiver . However, the Colorado Avalanche took over the contract from the American.
Achievements and Awards
- 2009 gold medal at the U18 Junior World Championship
- 2010 gold medal at the U18 Junior World Championship
Career statistics
Status: end of the 2018/19 season
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | +/- | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | +/- | SM | ||
2008/09 | USA Hockey NTDP | NEAR | 38 | 11 | 24 | 35 | +26 | 14th | ||||||||
2009/10 | USA Hockey NTDP | USHL | 24 | 15th | 14th | 29 | +20 | 19th | ||||||||
2010/11 | Boston University | NCAA | 39 | 10 | 13 | 23 | -1 | 16 | ||||||||
2011/12 | Boston University | NCAA | 37 | 16 | 26th | 42 | +18 | 26th | ||||||||
2012/13 | Boston University | NCAA | 39 | 18th | 19th | 37 | +5 | 24 | ||||||||
2012/13 | Worcester Sharks | AHL | 11 | 2 | 4th | 6th | -4 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2013/14 | Worcester Sharks | AHL | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | +5 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2013/14 | San Jose Sharks | NHL | 66 | 10 | 14th | 24 | -4 | 16 | 7th | 2 | 3 | 5 | +3 | 0 | ||
2014/15 | San Jose Sharks | NHL | 72 | 10 | 17th | 27 | -12 | 20th | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2015/16 | San Jose Sharks | NHL | 67 | 8th | 9 | 17th | -8th | 10 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 8th | ||
2016/17 | San Jose Sharks | NHL | 16 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -3 | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2016/17 | Colorado Avalanche | NHL | 43 | 7th | 4th | 11 | –9 | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2017/18 | Colorado Avalanche | NHL | 74 | 15th | 11 | 26th | +6 | 14th | 6th | 0 | 3 | 3 | -1 | 2 | ||
2018/19 | Colorado Avalanche | NHL | 64 | 4th | 19th | 23 | +2 | 8th | 12 | 4th | 3 | 7th | +6 | 2 | ||
NCAA overall | 115 | 44 | 58 | 102 | +22 | 66 | ||||||||||
AHL total | 13 | 4th | 7th | 11 | +1 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
NHL overall | 402 | 54 | 76 | 130 | -28 | 76 | 41 | 7th | 11 | 18th | +10 | 12 |
International
Represented the USA at:
year | team | event | result | Sp | T | V | Pt | +/- | SM | |
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2009 | United States | U18 World Cup | 7th | 4th | 0 | 4th | +5 | 12 | ||
2010 | United States | U18 World Cup | 7th | 1 | 3 | 4th | +2 | 4th | ||
Juniors overall | 14th | 5 | 3 | 8th | +7 | 16 |
( 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
- ↑ a b c d David Pollak: San Jose Sharks rookie Matt Nieto helps his mom fight cancer. mercurynews.com, July 4, 2014, accessed August 9, 2015 .
- ↑ LA Jr. Kings alumni. (No longer available online.) Www.jrkingshockey.com, archived from the original on July 28, 2015 ; accessed on August 9, 2015 . 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.
- ↑ Kevin Dillon: A hockey nomad: Matt Nieto's journey from California kid to BU hockey star. The Daily Free Press, October 11, 2012, accessed August 9, 2015 .
- ^ A b San Jose Sharks Media Guide 2014–2015 . San Jose Sharks Hockey Club, 2014, p. 79.
Goalkeeper:
Pavel Francouz |
Philipp Grubauer
Defender:
Mark Barberio |
Ian Cole |
Samuel Girard |
Ryan Graves |
Erik Johnson ( A ) |
Cale Makar |
Nikita Sadorow
Attacker:
Pierre-Édouard Bellemare |
André Burakovsky |
Matt Calvert |
JT Compher |
Joonas Donskoi |
Tyson Jost |
Nazem Kadri |
Vladislav Kamenev |
Gabriel Landeskog ( C ) |
Nathan MacKinnon ( A ) |
Vladislav Namestnikov |
Matt Nieto |
Valery Nichushkin |
Mikko Rantanen |
Colin Wilson
Head Coach: Jared Bednar Assistant Coach : Ray Bennett | Nolan Pratt General Manager: Joe Sakic
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Nieto, Matt |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nieto, Matthew Evan (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | 5th November 1992 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Long Beach , California |