Matt Roy (ice hockey player)

Matt Roy
Date of birth	March 1, 1995
place of birth	Canton , Michigan , USA
size	185 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	defender
number	# 3
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2015 , 7th round, 194th position Los Angeles Kings
Career stations
2013-2014	Indiana Ice
2014-2017	Michigan Technological University
2017-2019	Ontario Reign
since 2019	Los Angeles Kings

Matthew "Matt" Alan Roy (* 1. March 1995 in Canton , Michigan ) is an American ice hockey player , who has been in March 2017 with the Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League is under contract and for those on the position of the defender plays .

Career

Matt Roy went through the youth organization Victory Honda from Plymouth in his home state Michigan. From there he moved in the 2012/13 season to the Indiana Ice in the United States Hockey League (USHL), the highest-ranking junior league in the country. With these, the defender won the USHL playoffs for the Clark Cup at the end of the following season 2013/14 . He then returned to Michigan, where he enrolled at Michigan Technological University and henceforth with their ice hockey team, the Huskies , participated in the game operations of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA), a league of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). As a freshman , he achieved a plus / minus statistic of +22, third place of all rookies in the NCAA, so that he was considered in the NHL Entry Draft 2015 in 194th position by the Los Angeles Kings . The American then returned to the Huskies for two more years, steadily increasing his offensive statistics and being elected once to the WCHA's First and Second All-Star Team . He also won the WCHA championship with Michigan Tech at the end of the 2016/17 season.

In March 2017 Roy signed an entry-level contract with the Kings and made his professional debut with their farm team , the Ontario Reign from the American Hockey League (AHL) towards the end of the 2016/17 season . The defender also spent the entire 2017/18 season there before making his debut for Los Angeles in the National Hockey League (NHL) in February 2019 . With the start of the 2019/20 season, he finally established himself in the NHL lineup of the Kings.

Achievements and Awards

• 2014 Clark Cup win with the Indiana Ice
• 2016 WCHA Second All-Star Team
• 2017 Broadmoor Trophy win with Michigan Technological University
• 2017 WCHA First All-Star Team

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
2012/13	Indiana Ice	USHL		10	1	2	3	-2	4th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Indiana Ice	USHL		24	4th	5	9	+11	21st		12	2	4th	6th	+1	4th
2014/15	Michigan Technological University	NCAA		36	0	9	9	+21	22nd
2015/16	Michigan Technological University	NCAA		37	7th	13	20th	+24	37
2016/17	Michigan Technological University	NCAA		42	5	21st	26th	+6	74
2016/17	Ontario Reign	AHL		8th	0	1	1	+1	7th		2	0	0	0	-1	2
2017/18	Ontario Reign	AHL		49	4th	13	17th	+10	23		4th	1	1	2	+3	0
2018/19	Ontario Reign	AHL		45	8th	21st	29	-21	17th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		25th	2	4th	6th	-1	8th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		70	4th	14th	28	+16	10		-	-	-	-	-	-
USHL total				34	5	7th	12	+9	25th		12	2	4th	6th	+1	4th
NCAA overall				115	12	43	55	+51	133
AHL total				102	12	35	47	-10	47		6th	1	1	2	+2	2
NHL overall				95	6th	18th	24	+15	18th		-	-	-	-	-	-

( 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 Los Angeles Kings website
• Matt Roy at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ LA Kings Sign Matt Roy to 2-Year Entry-Level Contract. nhl.com, March 27, 2017, accessed May 30, 2020 .