Matthew Tkachuk

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Matthew Tkachuk
Date of birth December 11, 1997
place of birth Scottsdale , Arizona , USA
size 188 cm
Weight 88 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2016 , 1st round, 6th position
Calgary Flames
Career stations
2013-2015 USA Hockey National Team Development Program
2015-2016 London Knights
since 2016 Calgary Flames

Matthew Tkachuk (born December 11, 1997 in Scottsdale , Arizona ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Calgary Flames in the National Hockey League since July 2016 . The left winger was selected in sixth position by the Flames in the 2016 NHL Entry Draft .

Career

Matthew Tkachuk was born in Scottsdale when his father Keith Tkachuk was under contract with the Phoenix Coyotes , and grew up in St. Louis when Keith Tkachuk switched to the blues there during the 2000/01 season. There, Matthew Tkachuk played in the youth teams of the St. Louis Blues before he switched to the USA Hockey National Team Development Program (USA Hockey NTDP), the central talent factory of the US ice hockey association, at the beginning of the 2013/14 season . With the NTDP, the winger took part in the game operations of the United States Hockey League (USHL), the highest junior league in the USA, and in parallel played many games outside of the game operations of a league against junior and college teams in the country. In addition, the U17 and U18 teams of the NTDP each act as junior national teams, so that he took part in the World U17 Hockey Challenge 2014 with the U17 and won the gold medal there. Tkachuk also won the gold medal the following year at the U18 World Cup in 2015 , where he also led all players in templates (10).

After the 2015/16 season, he left the NTDP for reasons of age and did not, as previously announced in January 2013, switch to the Fighting Irish of the University of Notre Dame and thus to the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), but decided to a move to the Canadian Ontario Hockey League (OHL), one of the three major Canadian junior leagues . His OHL rights have held the London Knights (selected in 64th place) since the Priority Selection of 2013 , so that he ran up for the team at the beginning of the 2015/16 season. At the Knights, Tkachuk, together with Mitchell Marner and Christian Dvorak, formed by far the best offensive series in the league and scored 107 points in 57 games , the fifth best value of the season, so that he was elected to the OHL's First All-Star Team . He then won the OHL playoffs with the team and thus the J. Ross Robertson Cup , where he led the league with 20 goals, and then the Memorial Cup . Over the turn of the year he was also part of Team USA at the U20 World Cup in 2016 , where he won the bronze medal with the team.

Tkachuk was available for the 2016 NHL Entry Draft and was considered a likely top 5 pick, as the International Scouting Service placed him in fourth overall position and the Central Scouting Service in second overall position for North American outfield players. In the actual draft, the Calgary Flames then elected him in sixth position and a little later equipped him with a three-year entry-level contract .

In his first NHL season, Tkachuk came in 76 games to 48 scorer points and led the Flames in penalty minutes (105). At the same time, however, he regularly succeeds in convincing opponents to punish them, leading the league in the 2017/18 season in penalty minutes incurred by the opponent per game. In sum, his style of play is mainly described with the term plague .

In the 2018/19 season, the attacker significantly increased his personal stats to 77 points from 80 games and then signed a new three-year contract in Calgary in September 2019, which should bring him an average annual salary of seven million US dollars. With his 61 points in the following season, the American became his team's top scorer for the first time.

Achievements and Awards

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
2013/14 USA Hockey NTDP USHL 33 5 12 17th -12 18th - - - - - -
2014/15 USA Hockey NTDP USHL 24 13 20th 33 +20 75 - - - - - -
2015/16 London Knights OHL 57 30th 77 107 +45 80 18th 20th 20th 40 +23 42
2016 London Knights Memorial Cup 4th 5 3 8th +8 4th
2016/17 Calgary Flames NHL 76 13 35 48 +14 105 4th 0 0 0 -2 4th
2017/18 Calgary Flames NHL 68 24 25th 49 -1 61 - - - - - -
2018/19 Calgary Flames NHL 80 34 43 77 +14 62 5 2 1 3 -4 18th
2019/20 Calgary Flames NHL 69 23 38 61 -5 74 6th 1 1 2 +1 10
USHL total 57 18th 32 50 +8 93 - - - - - -
NHL overall 293 94 141 235 +22 302 15th 3 2 5 -5 32

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2014 United States WHC gold medal 6th 4th 3 7th 2
2015 United States U18 World Cup gold medal 7th 2 10 12 +10 2
2016 United States U20 World Cup Bronze medal 7th 4th 7th 11 +7 6th
Juniors overall 20th 10 20th 30th 8th

( 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 )

family

Matthew's father Keith Tkachuk completed 1290 games in the NHL and came up with 1121 scorer points, making him the fifth best American in NHL history in this category. He also won silver at the 2002 Winter Olympics and is a member of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame . Matthew's brother Brady Tkachuk (* 1999) currently plays for the Ottawa Senators . He is also a cousin of NHL pros Tom Fitzgerald , Kevin Hayes and Jimmy Hayes .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Marshall Mackinder: # 6 on ISS May Top 30 Countdown: Matthew Tkachuk, London Knights (OHL). (No longer available online.) Hockeynow.ca, May 29, 2016, archived from the original on June 19, 2016 ; accessed on June 19, 2016 (English). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hockeynow.ca
  2. ^ Nathan Wells: Matthew Tkachuk officially de-commits from Notre Dame. sbncollegehockey.com, November 21, 2014, accessed June 19, 2016 .
  3. Dubois jumps to the top of draft rankings. nhl.com, April 12, 2016, accessed June 19, 2016 .
  4. ISS Top 30 - June 2016. International Scouting Services, June 1, 2016, accessed June 19, 2016 (English).
  5. Flames sign Matthew Tkachuk. flames.nhl.com, July 7, 2016, accessed July 7, 2016 .
  6. Jump up ↑ Rachel Halliwell: Matthew Tkachuk is More Than the League's Best Pest. thehockeywriters.com, January 26, 2018, accessed June 19, 2018 .