Mirco Müller (ice hockey player)

Switzerland Mirco Müller


Date of birth	March 21, 1995
place of birth	Winterthur , Switzerland
Size	194 cm
Weight	95 kg

position	defender
number	# 41
Shot hand	Left

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2013 , 1st round, 18th position San Jose Sharks

Career stations

2007-2010	EHC Winterthur
2010–2012	Kloten Flyers
2012-2014	Everett Silvertips
2014-2017	San Jose Sharks
since 2017	New Jersey Devils

Mirco Müller (born March 21, 1995 in Winterthur ) is a Swiss ice hockey player who has been under contract with the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League since June 2017 and plays for them in the position of defender. His younger sister Alina Müller is also an ice hockey player and is a member of the Swiss women's national team .

Career

After his youth at his home club, the EHC Winterthur , Müller played between 2010 and 2012. for various teams in the Kloten Flyers , including seven games in the 2011/12 season the National League A . At the 2012 CHL Import Draft , Müller was elected eleventh by the Everett Silvertips , where he was the second best defender of his team with 31 points in his first season in the Western Hockey League . After the season he took part in the CHL Top Prospects Game .

At the NHL Entry Draft 2013 he was selected by the San Jose Sharks in 18th place and in September of the same year equipped with a three-year contract. After he made the jump to the AHL farm team , the Worcester Sharks , in January 2014 , he has been part of the San Jose Sharks roster since his ninth NHL game. By the end of the season he was on the ice 39 times for the Sharks, but he lost his regular place during the preparation for the 2015/16 season, so that he was given to the new farm team, the San Jose Barracuda . The Swiss also spent most of the 2016/17 season there , before handing over a five-round vote in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft in exchange for a second and fourth-round vote in the same draft to the New Jersey Devils in mid-June 2017 . On July 22, 2019, Müller signed a $ 1.4 million one-year contract for the 2019/20 season with the New Jersey Devils and thus retained the Newark franchise for another season.

International

In the junior division, Müller was on the ice at numerous tournaments for the Swiss youth national teams. He played the ice hockey tournament of the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival 2011 , where he won the bronze medal, as well as the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2011 , the U18 Junior World Championship in 2013 and the U20 Junior World Championship in 2013 , 2014 and 2015 .

The defender made his debut for the senior national team at the 2018 World Cup , in which the Swiss won the silver medal. In ten tournament games he contributed six points scorer.

Achievements and Awards

2011 bronze medal at the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival
2013 Participation in the CHL Top Prospects Game
2018 silver medal at the world championship

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
2010/11	Kloten Flyers	Elite A Juniors	1	0	0	0		0	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Kloten Flyers	Elite A Juniors	26th	3	3	6th		8th	4th	1	2	3		2
2011/12	Kloten Flyers	NLA	7th	1	0	1	+3	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Everett Silvertips	WHL	63	6th	25th	31	-10	57	6th	0	1	1	+3	6th
2013/14	Everett Silvertips	WHL	60	5	22nd	27	+1	31	5	1	1	2	-1	4th
2013/14	Worcester Sharks	AHL	9	0	2	2	-5	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Worcester Sharks	AHL	3	1	0	1	-2	4th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	San Jose Sharks	NHL	39	1	3	4th	-8th	10	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	San Jose Barracuda	AHL	50	1	10	11	+7	35	4th	0	0	0	± 0	4th
2015/16	San Jose Sharks	NHL	11	0	0	0	-4	7th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	San Jose Barracuda	AHL	62	2	18th	20th	-3	22nd	15th	0	5	5	+2	6th
2016/17	San Jose Sharks	NHL	4th	1	1	2	+2	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Binghamton Devils	AHL	2	0	0	0	-3	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	New Jersey Devils	NHL	28	0	4th	4th	+1	4th	3	0	0	0	-2	0
2018/19	New Jersey Devils	NHL	53	1	10	11	-3	17th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	New Jersey Devils	NHL	50	2	5	7th	-13	23	-	-	-	-	-	-
Elite A Juniors total			27	3	3	6th		8th	4th	1	2	3		2
WHL overall			123	11	47	58	–9	88	11	1	2	3	+2	10
AHL total			126	4th	30th	34	–6	65	19th	0	5	5	+2	10
NHL overall			185	5	23	27	-25	61	3	0	0	0	-2	0

International

Represented Switzerland at:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2011	Switzerland	EOWYF		3	0	0	0	4th
2011	Switzerland	HIMT	7th place	4th	0	2	2	0
2013	Switzerland	U20 World Cup	6th place	6th	0	2	2	6th
2013	Switzerland	U18 World Cup	6th place	5	1	2	3	2
2014	Switzerland	U20 World Cup	7th place	5	1	1	2	14th
2015	Switzerland	U20 World Cup	9th place	6th	0	1	1	6th
2018	Switzerland	WM		10	1	5	6th	8th
Juniors overall				29	2	8th	10	32
Men overall				10	1	5	6th	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
Mirco Müller at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

↑ 2012–13 Everett Silvertips roster and statistics

Squad of the New Jersey Devils in the season 2020/21

personal data
SURNAME	Müller, Mirco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mueller, Mirco; Muller, Mirco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	March 21, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH	Winterthur , Switzerland

[1] 2012–13 Everett Silvertips roster and statistics