Nathan MacKinnon

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Nathan MacKinnon
Date of birth September 1, 1995
place of birth Halifax , Nova Scotia , Canada
size 183 cm
Weight 93 kg
position center
number # 29
Shot hand Right
Draft
KHL Junior Draft 2012 , 4th round, 114th position
Vitjas Chekhov
NHL Entry Draft 2013 , 1st round, 1st position
Colorado Avalanche
Career stations
2007-2009 Cole Harbor Red Wings
2009-2011 Shattuck-Saint Mary's
2011-2013 Halifax Mooseheads
since 2013 Colorado Avalanche

Nathan MacKinnon (born September 1, 1995 in Halifax , Nova Scotia ) is a Canadian ice hockey player . The Center is at 2013 and Colorado Avalanche in the National Hockey League contract that made him the 2013 NHL Entry Draft to the first overall position was selected. After his first NHL season, he was honored with the Calder Memorial Trophy as the best rookie in the league. With the Canadian national team , he won the gold medal at the 2015 World Cup .

Career

MacKinnon in the Halifax Mooseheads jersey (2012)

MacKinnon grew up in Cole Harbor , a suburb of Halifax, in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia and was noticed early on in the local junior leagues with a very high point yield. For example, he scored 145 points in 35 games at AAA level in one season. Because of his good performance, MacKinnon attended Shattuck-Saint Mary's boarding school in Faribault , Minnesota , USA , where he was one of the best players on his ice hockey team with 101 points in 58 games.

Prior to the LHJMQ Midget Draft, which took place in June 2011, Nathan MacKinnon was ranked first in the Center de soutien au recrutement's list of most promising talents . Previously, a lottery had already decided that the Drakkar de Baie-Comeau from northern Québec would receive the first right to vote in the draft. Thereupon four clubs, including the Océanic de Rimouski and the Halifax Mooseheads , tried to obtain the right to vote from Baie-Comeau. However, the association decided not to give up the right to vote. On June 4, 2011, MacKinnon was expected to be selected as the overall first in the Baie-Comeau draft. However, he was not present at the event, but completed a training session with the Omaha Lancers from the United States Hockey League .

A move to Baie-Comeau was considered unlikely as MacKinnon does not speak French and there is no English school in the city. He also tended to pursue his career in the US college system rather than the Canadian LHJMQ. In July 2011, however, it became known that MacKinnon would not move to the USA, but within the league to the Halifax Mooseheads, the team in his hometown. In return, Baie-Comeau received the rights to the attackers Carl Gélinas and Francis Turbide, the Mooseheads' two first-round voting rights in 2012 and 2013, and another first-round voting right in 2013, which Halifax had previously acquired from the Remparts de Québec .

MacKinnon in the Jersey of the Colorado Avalanche (2013)

In the 2011/12 season Nathan MacKinnon completed his rookie season in the LHJMQ, where he finished the regular season with 78 points from 58 games as the second best rookie scorer in the league behind Mikhail Grigorenko . On December 3, 2011, he scored five goals in the 6-4 win against Remparts de Québec , setting the previous franchise record for Jason King , who had also scored five goals in one game in the 2001/02 season. In the playoffs, in which the Mooseheads turned the series against Québec after a 3-0 deficit, MacKinnon was the best rookies scorer with 28 points from 17 games. With six games in a row in which he was able to register as a goalscorer, he also set a league record.

During the 2012/13 season , MacKinnon missed 24 season games due to a deployment at the U20 World Junior Championship in 2013 and a knee injury. MacKinnon completed a total of 44 games, with 75 points scorer. In the LHJMQ play-offs 2013, the Halifax Mooseheads suffered only one defeat in 17 games and won their first Coupe du Président after beating Baie-Comeau Drakkar in the final round . Nathan MacKinnon was the second best point collector of the play-offs with 33 points behind teammate Jonathan Drouin (35). Due to the success in the LHJMQ final, the Mooseheads also earned a participation in the Memorial Cup 2013 , which they won after beating the Portland Winterhawks from the Western Hockey League in the final . MacKinnon scored 7 goals and a total of 13 scorer points in four games, which made him the best scorer with the Ed Chynoweth Trophy and the most valuable player in the Memorial Cup with the Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy .

At 2013 NHL Entry Draft Nathan MacKinnon was a total first by the Colorado Avalanche selected, a few days later, he signed a three-year entry-level contract with the franchise from Denver . In its first NHL season, the Avalanche won the first division title in eleven years and was the franchise with the highest points of the regular season. MacKinnon scored 63 points in 82 games, topping the list of the best rookie scorers . In addition, he was elected to the NHL All-Rookie Team and awarded the Calder Memorial Trophy as the best new professional. In 2017 he participated in the NHL All-Star Game for the first time and was named NHL Player of the Month for November.

In the 2017/18 season, MacKinnon increased his performance significantly to 97 points from 74 games, with the second highest point rate of all regularly used players behind Connor McDavid with 1.31 points per game. At the same time he placed himself in fifth place of the best scorers in the league and was nominated for both the Hart Memorial Trophy and the Ted Lindsay Award as the most valuable player in the league, although he had to admit defeat to Taylor Hall and Connor McDavid. However, he was included in the NHL Second All-Star Team . In the following year 2018/19 he confirmed the increase in performance with 99 points from 82 games.

International

MacKinnon first represented Canada at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2011 when he scored eight points in five games and finished fifth for Team Canada Atlantic , one of the five Canadian teams in the tournament. In the same year MacKinnon was also nominated for his home province Nova Scotia for the Canada Winter Games and was the second best goalscorer of the tournament with eight goals, also he was the fourth best scorer with eleven points. His team finished the tournament, which was held in the provincial capital Halifax, in seventh place. At the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2012 he appeared again for Canada Atlantic . He scored four points over the course of the tournament and the team came in seventh. The Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament, held in the same calendar year, was more successful . MacKinnon, who scored three points in the opening game against Switzerland, played a key role in the Canadians' tournament victory with a hat-trick in the confidently won final against Finland.

At the U20 World Junior Championship in 2013 , MacKinnon was mainly used in the fourth attack line by head coach Steve Spott . Due to the unfamiliar role for him compared to everyday life in the league with the Halifax Mooseheads and the resulting shorter ice age, he only managed one assist in six games . The Canadians finished fourth in the tournament after losing their third place match against the Russian selection .

After taking part in the 2014 World Cup in the senior category, he won the gold medal with the team at the 2015 World Cup . He then took part in the 2016 World Cup of Hockey with Team North America, a selection of U23 players from Canada and the USA , before winning the silver medal at the 2017 World Cup . He was also elected to the tournament's All-Star Team at the 2017 World Cup.

Achievements and Awards

International

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
2010/11 Shattuck-Saint Mary's High school 40 45 48 93 72 - - - - -
2011/12 Halifax Mooseheads LHJMQ 58 31 47 78 +11 45 17th 13 15th 28 +12 12
2012/13 Halifax Mooseheads LHJMQ 44 32 43 75 +40 45 17th 11 22nd 33 +17 12
2013 Halifax Mooseheads Memorial Cup 4th 7th 6th 13 +8 0
2013/14 Colorado Avalanche NHL 82 24 39 63 +20 26th 7th 2 8th 10 +2 4th
2014/15 Colorado Avalanche NHL 64 14th 24 38 –7 34 - - - - - -
2015/16 Colorado Avalanche NHL 72 21st 31 52 -4 20th - - - - - -
2016/17 Colorado Avalanche NHL 82 16 37 53 -14 16 - - - - - -
2017/18 Colorado Avalanche NHL 74 39 58 97 +11 55 6th 3 3 6th -2 4th
2018/19 Colorado Avalanche NHL 82 41 58 99 +20 34 12 6th 7th 13 -4 2
LHJMQ total 102 63 90 153 +51 90 34 24 37 61 +29 24
NHL overall 456 155 247 402 +26 185 25th 11 18th 29 -4 10

International

Represented Canada to:

 

Represented team North America at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2011 Canada Atlantic U17-WHC 5th place 5 5 3 8th 0
2012 Canada Atlantic U17-WHC 7th place 5 1 3 4th 2
2012 Canada HIMT 1st place, gold 5 5 6th 11 18th
2013 Canada U20 World Cup 4th Place 6th 0 1 1 4th
2014 Canada WM 5th place 8th 1 3 4th 8th
2015 Canada WM 1st place, gold 10 4th 5 9 6th
2016 North America team World cup 5th place 3 2 1 3 2
2017 Canada WM 2nd place, silver 10 6th 9 15th 6th
Juniors overall 21st 11 13 24 24
Seniors total 31 13 18th 31 22nd

( 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 : Nathan MacKinnon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kirk Penton: The next Next One? , Toronto Sun , Jan 2, 2011
  2. ^ Carl Tardif: MacKinnon confirmé le plus bel espoir , Le Soleil , May 2, 2011
  3. ↑ Steve Turcotte: Nathan MacKinnon, le premier choix , Le Nouvelliste , June 6, 2011
  4. ↑ Alex J. Walling: MacKinnon the seconds coming of Sid the Kid? , tsn.ca , July 24, 2011
  5. ↑ Les Mooseheads obtiennent les droits de Nathan MacKinnon , The Canadian Press , July 13, 2011
  6. ↑ League statistics of the LHJMQ ( Memento of the original from March 5, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lhjmq.leaguestat.com
  7. ↑ Willy Palov: 5-goal game for Moose rookie , The Chronicle Herald , December 4, 2011
  8. ↑ lhjmq-records.qc.ca, Livre des records de la LHJMQ
  9. ↑ League statistics of the LHJMQ ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2015 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lhjmq.leaguestat.com
  10. ↑ League statistics of the LHJMQ ( Memento of the original from February 22, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lhjmq.leaguestat.com
  11. ^ A b Damien Cox: Memorial Cup: Nathan MacKinnon rises to occasion. Toronto Star , May 18, 2013, accessed July 4, 2013 .
  12. ^ The Canadian Press : Avs sign first-overall pick MacKinnon to entry-level deal. The Sports Network , July 9, 2013, accessed August 21, 2013 .
  13. ^ Mark Masters: Rising star MacKinnon adjusting to fourth-line role. The Sports Network , December 28, 2012, accessed July 4, 2013 .
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personal data
SURNAME MacKinnon, Nathan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES MacKinnon, Nate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Halifax , Nova Scotia , Canada