Miles Wood

Miles Wood
Date of birth	September 13, 1995
place of birth	Buffalo , New York , USA
size	185 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	Left wing
number	# 44
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2013 , 4th round, 100th position New Jersey Devils
Career stations
2015-2016	Boston College
since 2016	New Jersey Devils

Miles William Wood (born September 13, 1995 in Buffalo , New York ) is an American ice hockey player who has played for the New Jersey Devils in the National Hockey League since April 2016 in the position of left winger . His father Randy Wood was also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Wood played during his junior years exclusively in the lower class junior area. He was initially active between 2010 and 2012 for the Salem Ice Dogs in the Empire Junior Hockey League , before he was active from 2012 for the high school team at Noble & Greenough School in the US state of Massachusetts . During this time he was selected in the fourth round of the NHL Entry Draft 2013 in 100th place by the New Jersey Devils from the National Hockey League .

After graduating from high school, the striker enrolled at Boston College , where he worked parallel for the college's ice hockey team in Hockey East , a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . After his freshman year, in which he recorded 35 scorer points in 37 missions , Wood's college career ended early in April 2016 when he signed a three-year entry-level contract with the New Jersey Devils. He made his NHL debut there in the 2015/16 season . At the beginning of the 2016/17 season , the attacker was also part of the Devils' NHL squad, but was handed over to the Albany Devils farm team from the American Hockey League for a month at the end of October . He did not return to New Jersey until the end of November.

In the 2017/18 season, Wood increased his performance significantly to 32 scorer points from 76 games, so that he signed a new four-year contract with the Devils in September 2018, which should bring him an average annual salary of 2.75 million US dollars.

International

For his home country, Wood played in the junior division at the U20 World Junior Championships 2015 in Canada . The striker was used in five tournament games, but could not contribute a scorer point to fifth place for the Americans. A year later, Wood made his debut as a new NHL player for the US boys' national team at the 2016 World Cup in Russia . He completed all ten tournament games and scored a goal in the preliminary round game against Belarus . After losing in the semi-finals against Canada and in the game for third place against hosts Russia, however, it was not enough to win a medal .

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
2015/16	Boston College	Hockey East		37	10	25th	35	76
2015/16	New Jersey Devils	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Albany Devils	AHL		15th	4th	4th	8th	34		2	0	0	0	10
2016/17	New Jersey Devils	NHL		60	8th	9	17th	86		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	New Jersey Devils	NHL		76	19th	13	32	84		5	0	0	0	14th
2018/19	New Jersey Devils	NHL		63	10	14th	24	91		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	New Jersey Devils	NHL		68	11	12	23	57		-	-	-	-	-
NCAA overall				37	10	25th	35	76
NHL overall				268	48	48	96	318		5	0	0	0	14th

International

Represented the USA at:

• U20 World Junior Championship 2015
• World Championship 2016

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2015	United States	U20 World Cup	5th place		5	0	0	0	6th
2016	United States	WM	4th Place		10	1	0	1	8th
Juniors overall					5	0	0	0	6th
Men overall					10	1	0	1	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 )

Web links

• Player biography on the New Jersey Devils website
• Miles Wood at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Devils re-sign forward Miles Wood to a four-year contract. nhl.com, September 22, 2018, accessed on September 24, 2018 .