Nate Schmidt

Nate Schmidt
Date of birth	July 16, 1991
place of birth	St. Cloud , Minnesota , USA
size	183 cm
Weight	87 kg
position	defender
number	# 88
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2008-2009	St. Cloud Cathedral
2009-2010	Fargo Force
2010-2013	University of Minnesota
2013-2015	Hershey Bears
2013-2017	Washington Capitals
since 2017	Vegas Golden Knights

Nate Schmidt (born July 16, 1991 in St. Cloud , Minnesota ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League since June 2017 . Before that he spent almost four years in the organization of the Washington Capitals .

Career

Schmidt began his career in the 2008-09 season with the ice hockey team of St. Cloud Cathedral High School in the Minnesota school league, before playing for the Fargo Force in the junior league United States Hockey League the following year . Between 2010 and 2013, the defender was on the ice for the University of Minnesota college team in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association , which is part of the NCAA's gaming operations .

In April 2012, Schmidt was on the National Hockey League - Organization of the Washington Capitals contracted and ended the 2012/13 season in their farm team Hershey Bears in the American Hockey League . In October 2013 he was appointed to the squad of the Capitals for the first time and made his debut in the top division of North America in the game against the Colorado Avalanche . Overall, he completed 29 games in the NHL during the season, but spent a large part of the Bears in the AHL. In the following season 2014/15 he ran mainly in the NHL and made 39 missions for the Capitals , in which he was able to mark four points scorer. In the summer of 2015 Schmidt's contract was extended by two years and since the beginning of the 2015/16 season he has been part of the regular NHL squad in Washington.

In June 2017, he was selected by the Vegas Golden Knights in the 2017 NHL Expansion Draft . With the team, he surprisingly reached the final of the Stanley Cup in the 2018 playoffs , but lost there to his former employer, the Washington Capitals. In addition, he was one of the many Golden Knights players in the debut season who were able to significantly increase their personal statistics, so he recorded 36 points scorer and was the second best defender of the team behind Colin Miller .

In September 2018, Schmidt was suspended for 20 games for doping . He himself stated that he unknowingly ingested the unspecified substance. In addition, it was a low concentration that could not lead to an increase in performance and could instead be explained by contaminated food. A little later, the American signed a new six-year contract in Las Vegas, which should bring him an average annual salary of $ 5.95 million from the start of the 2019/20 season.

Achievements and Awards

• 2010 USHL All-Rookie Team
• 2012 WCHA Second All-Star Team
• 2013 WCHA First All-Star Team

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2009/10	Fargo Force	USHL		57	14th	23	37	–7	81		13	0	6th	6th	-8th	2
2010/11	University of Minnesota	NCAA		13	0	1	1	± 0	6th
2011/12	University of Minnesota	NCAA		43	3	38	41	+24	14th
2012/13	University of Minnesota	NCAA		40	9	23	32	+16	16
2012/13	Hershey Bears	AHL		8th	1	3	4th	-4	2		5	0	2	2	+1	0
2013/14	Hershey Bears	AHL		38	2	11	13	-5	12		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Washington Capitals	NHL		29	2	4th	6th	+4	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Hershey Bears	AHL		19th	3	6th	9	-2	6th		8th	4th	5	9	+3	0
2014/15	Washington Capitals	NHL		39	1	3	4th	-2	10		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Washington Capitals	NHL		72	2	14th	16	+12	16		10	0	1	1	-3	2
2016/17	Washington Capitals	NHL		60	3	14th	17th	+22	16		11	1	3	4th	+6	4th
2017/18	Vegas Golden Knights	NHL		76	5	31	36	+19	16		20th	3	4th	7th	+7	4th
2018/19	Vegas Golden Knights	NHL		61	9	21st	30th	+22	8th		7th	0	4th	4th	+2	2
NCAA overall				96	12	62	74	+40	36
AHL total				65	6th	20th	26th	–11	20th		13	4th	7th	11	+4	0
NHL overall				337	22nd	87	109	+77	72		48	4th	12	16	+12	12

( 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 : Nate Schmidt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the Vegas Golden Knights website
• Nate Schmidt at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ capitals.nhl.com Capitals Sign Nate Schmidt
2. ^ Washingtonpost.com Capitals re-sign defenseman Nate Schmidt
3. ↑ csnmidatlantic.com Despite still deciding between Orlov and Chorney  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ US professional banned for 20 games because of doping
5. ↑ Des Bieler: Nate Schmidt, Golden Knights 'strongly disagree' with his 20-game suspension for PEDs. washingtonpost.com, September 2, 2018, accessed September 25, 2018 . 
6. ^ Vegas Golden Knights Sign Defenseman Nate Schmidt To Six-Year Extension. nhl.com, October 24, 2018, accessed October 25, 2018 .