Matt White (ice hockey player)

Matt White
Date of birth	23rd August 1989
place of birth	Whittier , California , USA
size	178 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2007-2010	Omaha Lancers
2010-2013	Omaha Mavericks
2013-2014	Ontario Reign
2014	HDD Olimpija Ljubljana
2014-2015	Ontario Reign
2015	Manchester monarchs
2015-2017	Milwaukee Admirals
2017-2019	Augsburg panther
2019-2020	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
since 2020	Dinamo Riga

Matthew "Matt" White (* 23. August 1989 in Whittier , California ) is an American ice hockey player , who since August 2020 Dinamo Riga of the Kontinental Hockey League is (KHL) under contract and there on the position of winger plays .

Career

Junior and college league

After being with the ice hockey games at clubs in his native Federal State California began, he joined the age of 18 by Nebraska to the team of the Omaha Lancers in the US Junior League USHL to play. With the Lancers he won the USHL championship in his first year, stayed in Omaha for two more years and was voted top scorer in the league with 35 goals and USHL player of the year in his final year. He was then appointed to the University of Nebraska Omaha ice hockey team , the Omaha Mavericks. He played for the Mavericks for three years in the US college league and was his team's best scorer with 40 points in his second season 2011/12.

ECHL and AHL

His first professional contract then led him back to California when he for the ECHL - farm team of the Los Angeles Kings , the Ontario Reign in the 2013/14 season was on the ice and the top scoring player has been his team. In both 2013 and 2014, he took part in the IIHF Inline Hockey World Championships in Europe for his home country in the summer , where he won the title with Team USA in 2013 . After the 2014 World Cup , he stayed in Europe and joined the Slovenian ice hockey team Olimpija Ljubljana , which was active in the international Austrian ice hockey league at the time. After only eleven games for Ljubljana, White returned to Ontario, where he was the best preparer of his team in the main round in the ECHL season 2014/15 and with 18 goals the top scorer of his club in the play-offs , in which one only lost to the eventual champion Allen Americans in the semifinals . After the restructuring of the AHL and ECHL for the 2015/16 season , White continued to play for the ECHL farm team of the Kings, which now ran up as the Manchester Monarchs . In December 2016, he was signed by the AHL farm team of the Nashville Predators , the Milwaukee Admirals , at which point he was the Monarchs' highest point player. In his second game for the Admirals he was able to score two goals and reached the play-offs with the team from Wisconsins , whereupon his contract was extended for another year.

Change to the DEL and later to the KHL

For the 2017/18 season White moved back to Europe and was signed by the Augsburg Panthers from the German Ice Hockey League . In his first DEL season he was one of the top scorers in the league and his contract with the Swabians was extended for another year. In his second DEL year in the 2018/19 season he was one of the top 10 goalscorers in the league with 22 goals and thus had a large share in 3rd place in the Panthers after the main round, which was the best placement for the play-offs to date Qualification in the DEL history of the association. Due to the performances shown, White left the DEL and signed a contract with Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk from the Continental Hockey League (KHL) in June 2019 . After one season he moved to the Latvian league rivals Dinamo Riga .

Achievements and Awards

2008 Clark Cup win with the Omaha Lancers 2010 participation in the USHL All-Star Game 2010 USHL First All-Star Team

2010 USHL Player of the Year 2010 USA Hockey Junior Player of the Year 2011 WCHA All-Academic 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
2007/08	Omaha Lancers	USHL		38	5	11	16	21st		13	2	8th	10	2
2008/09	Omaha Lancers	USHL		60	17th	30th	47	28		3	1	2	3	0
2009/10	Omaha Lancers	USHL		57	35	47	82	53		8th	4th	7th	11	6th
2010/11	University of Nebraska Omaha	NCAA		39	14th	11	25th	10
2011/12	University of Nebraska Omaha	NCAA		38	17th	23	40	14th
2012/13	University of Nebraska Omaha	NCAA		37	16	18th	34	8th
2013/14	Ontario Reign	ECHL		71	22nd	35	57	8th		4th	0	1	1	0
2014/15	HDD Olimpija Ljubljana	EBEL		11	2	4th	6th	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Ontario Reign	ECHL		68	28	32	60	8th		19th	10	8th	18th	8th
2015/16	Manchester monarchs	ECHL		19th	10	12	22nd	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Milwaukee Admirals	AHL		54	12	15th	27	10		3	0	0	0	0
2016/17	Milwaukee Admirals	AHL		71	15th	26th	41	16		3	0	0	0	0
2017/18	Augsburg panther	DEL		52	16	26th	42	18th
2018/19	Augsburg panther	DEL		50	22nd	27	49	28		14th	4th	5	9	6th
2019/20	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk	KHL		60	19th	15th	34	8th		4th	0	0	0	2
USHL total				155	57	88	145	102		24	7th	17th	24	8th
NCAA overall				114	47	52	99	32
ECHL total				158	60	79	139	22nd		23	10	9	19th	8th
AHL total				125	27	41	68	26th		6th	0	0	0	0

( 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 White at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ USHL 2009/10 Top Scorer , Eliteprospects.com , accessed July 9, 2018
2. ^ Matt White named USHL Player of the year , hockeysfuture.com, April 20, 2010, accessed July 15, 2018
3. ↑ ECHL 2013/14 Ontario Reign Player Statistics , Eliteprospects.com, accessed July 9, 2018
4. ↑ Reign's White happy to be home , http://carubberhockey.com/ , accessed July 9, 2018
5. ^ Fifteen with Matt White , admiralsroundtable.com, April 18, 2016, accessed July 15, 2018
6. ^ No man of the great sayings , Augsburger Allgemeine , September 8, 2017, accessed on July 15, 2018
7. ↑ DEL 2017/18 player statistics , Eliteprospects.com , accessed on July 15, 2018
8. ↑ Panthers also hold Matt White , aev-panther.de, March 30, 2018, accessed on July 15, 2018
9. ↑ Matt White is the goal machine of the Augsburger Panther , Augsburger Allgemeine, November 20, 2018, accessed on March 8, 2019