Michael Grabner

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Michael Grabner
Date of birth 5th October 1987
place of birth Villach , Austria
size 185 cm
Weight 85 kg
position Right wing
number # 40
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2006 , 1st round, 14th position
Vancouver Canucks
Career stations
until 2004 EC VSV
2004-2007 Spokane Chiefs
2007-2009 Manitoba mosses
2009-2010 Vancouver Canucks
2010-2015 New York Islanders
2015-2016 Toronto Maple Leafs
2016-2018 New York Rangers
2018 New Jersey Devils
since 2018 Arizona Coyotes

Michael René Grabner (born October 5, 1987 in Villach ) is an Austrian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Arizona Coyotes from the National Hockey League since July 2018 .

Career

Grabner began his career at EC VSV , where he made his debut in the fighting team in the 2003/04 season at the age of only 16. In the same season he played for Austria in the U18 World Cup . After this season he moved to the Spokane Chiefs in the Western Hockey League , who had drawn him in the 1st round of the CHL Import Draft .

Grabner in the jersey of the Vancouver Canucks

Although he missed the WHL playoffs with his team in two previous seasons, he was still able to attract NHL observers' attention, especially in the 2005/06 season, where he posted 36 goals and 14 assists in 67 games. With 15th place in the North America ranking, he was the most promising Austrian talent in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft and was drawn as number 14 by the Vancouver Canucks in the first round . In his first preparation game for the Canucks, he also scored a goal. After a season with the Spokane Chiefs, Grabner was back in the Vancouver Canucks training camp in 2007. In the 4-0 in a preparatory game against the Calgary Flames on September 19, 2007 Grabner contributed a hit and an assist and was voted the second best player of the evening.

After good performance with the farm team, Grabner was appointed to the Vancouver Canucks squad on October 14, 2009, where he should replace the injured Swedish winger Daniel Sedin . Exactly a week later, he scored his first goal in the NHL from a power play situation. The opposing goalkeeper Antti Niemi had no chance; the game ended in a 3-2 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks . In early November he suffered a broken ankle while warming up before the game against the Atlanta Thrashers , which forced him to take a break of several weeks. After the injury, he had to go back to the farm team in Manitoba until he was finally called back to the NHL squad in mid-March. The first NHL hat-trick of his career he scored in the 5-4 win of the Canucks after penalty shootout in Anaheim on April 2, 2010. His first playoff hit in the NHL, he scored on May 1, 2010 in a 5-1 win at the Chicago Blackhawks.

After the 2009/10 season , Grabner moved to the Florida Panthers as part of an exchange deal . After the preparatory games, however, he was put out of the NHL team and sent to Florida's farm team , the Rochester Americans , in the American Hockey League. Even before he was accepted into the contingent, General Manager Garth Snow took the opportunity to get the winger into the New York Islanders squad before the waiver period expired . In his rookie season he knew how to convince and was the top scorer among the rookies with 34 goals. In the course of the season he had scored six underpaid goals, these were the second most this season after Frans Nielsen (7). With 52 points, Grabner was the fourth best scorer of the Islanders, who again missed participation in the playoffs. After the end of the regular season, the Austrian was nominated for the Calder Memorial Trophy together with Logan Couture and Jeff Skinner .

In May 2011 Grabner extended his contract with the New York Islanders by five years until the end of June 2016. In September 2015, however, he was given to the Toronto Maple Leafs , which in return Taylor Beck , Carter Verhaeghe , Tom Nilsson , Matthew Finn and Christopher Gibson transferred to New York. His contract, which expired at the end of the 2015/16 season, was not renewed by the Maple Leafs, so he joined the New York Rangers as a free agent in July 2016 .

In the main round of 2016/17, Michael Grabner temporarily led the scorers list of the NHL and finished the basic round with 27 goals and 13 assists, which put him in 39th place in the league.

In February 2018, the Rangers handed him over to the New Jersey Devils shortly before the trade deadline and in return received Yegor Rykow and a second-round vote for the 2018 NHL Entry Draft . Grabner had scored 56 goals and 21 assists for the Rangers by this time and is one of only eleven players who were under contract with all three NHL clubs in the New York area. The Devils did not renew his contract, which expired in the summer of 2018, so he signed a three-year contract with the Arizona Coyotes in July 2018 .

International

Grabner took part with Austria in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. He scored a hat trick against Finland and two more goals in the last group game against Norway, where he also set up goals. In the end there were 5 goals and 1 assist, which earned him 5th place in the scorer ranking. He was also the tournament's top scorer , together with Phil Kessel from Team USA. This makes him the first Austrian to be at the top of the top scorer list in one of the two most important competitions, the World Cup and the Olympic Games.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2002/03 EC VSV U20 league 13 6th 4th 10 4th - - - - -
2003/04 EC VSV U20 league 23 32 5 37 58 - - - - -
2003/04 EC VSV EBEL 14th 1 1 2 0 4th 1 0 1 0
2004/05 Spokane Chiefs WHL 58 13 11 24 18th - - - - -
2005/06 Spokane Chiefs WHL 67 36 14th 50 28 - - - - -
2006/07 Spokane Chiefs WHL 55 39 16 55 34 6th 0 1 1 2
2007/08 Manitoba mosses AHL 74 22nd 22nd 44 8th 6th 3 0 3 2
2008/09 Manitoba mosses AHL 66 30th 18th 48 20th 20th 10 7th 17th 2
2009/10 Manitoba mosses AHL 38 15th 11 26th 6th - - - - -
2009/10 Vancouver Canucks NHL 20th 5 6th 11 8th 9 1 0 1 0
2010/11 New York Islanders NHL 76 34 18th 52 10 - - - - -
2011/12 New York Islanders NHL 78 20th 12 32 12 - - - - -
2012/13 EC VSV EBEL 17th 10 9 19th 2 - - - - -
2012/13 New York Islanders NHL 45 16 5 21st 12 6th 1 3 4th 0
2013/14 New York Islanders NHL 64 12 14th 26th 12 - - - - -
2014/15 New York Islanders NHL 34 8th 5 13 34 2 0 1 1 2
2015/16 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 80 9 9 18th 12 - - - - -
2016/17 New York Rangers NHL 76 27 13 40 10 12 4th 2 6th 0
2017/18 New York Rangers NHL 59 25th 6th 31 12 - - - - -
2017/18 New Jersey Devils NHL 21st 2 3 5 4th 2 0 0 0 0
2018/19 Arizona Coyotes NHL 41 9 7th 16 8th - - - - -
Austrian U20 league overall 36 38 9 47 62 - - - - -
EBEL total 31 16 14th 30th 2 4th 1 0 1 0
WHL overall 180 88 41 129 80 6th 0 1 1 2
AHL total 178 67 51 118 34 26th 13 7th 20th 4th
NHL overall 594 167 98 265 104 31 6th 6th 12 2

International

Represented Austria at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2004 Austria U18 World Championship Div. I. 3rd place 5 3 1 4th 4th
2005 Austria U20 World Cup Div. I. 3rd place 4th 1 2 3 2
2005 Austria U18 World Championship Div. I. 5th place 4th 4th 1 5 29
2009 Austria Olympic qualification 2nd place 3 5 0 5 0
2012 Austria WM Div. I. 2nd place 5 0 4th 4th 0
2014 Austria Olympia 10th place 4th 5 1 6th 0
2016 Austria Olympic qualification 3rd place 3 1 0 1 0
Juniors overall 13 8th 4th 12 35
Men overall 15th 11 5 16 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

Commons : Michael Grabner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grabner plays big ( Memento from May 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Canucks recall Grabner from AHL , accessed October 23, 2009
  3. ↑ Canucks recall Grabner from AHL - CBC Sports. In: cbc.ca. October 13, 2009, accessed January 24, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Michael Grabner in an interview ( Memento from September 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Match report on Grabner's first NHL hat trick ( memento of the original from April 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 2, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / canucks.nhl.com
  6. ↑ Grabner with first playoff hit ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed on May 2, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eishockey.at
  7. ↑ Grabner becomes an islander. In: sport.orf.at . October 6, 2010, accessed January 24, 2018 .
  8. ↑ islanders.nhl.com, Grabner excited to commit to the Islanders
  9. ^ Islanders trade Grabner to Maple Leafs for five players. nhl.com, September 17, 2015, accessed on September 17, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Michael Grabner at the top of the NHL scorers list
  11. ^ NHL goalscorer statistics
  12. ^ Grabner traded to Devils by Rangers, first made between rivals. .nhl.com, February 22, 2018, accessed on February 23, 2018 .
Squad of the Arizona Coyotes in the 2019-20 season
personal data
SURNAME Grabner, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grabner, Michael Rene; Grabner, Michael René (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Villach , Austria