Nathan Paetsch

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Nathan Paetsch
Date of birth March 30, 1983
place of birth LeRoy , Saskatchewan , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 88 kg
position defender
number # 38
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2001 , 2nd round, 58th position
Washington Capitals
NHL Entry Draft 2003 , 7th round, 202nd position
Buffalo Sabers
Career stations
1998-2003 Moose Jaw Warriors
2003-2006 Rochester Americans
2006-2010 Buffalo Sabers
2010 Columbus Blue Jackets
2010-2011 Rochester Americans
Syracuse Crunch
2011–2012 Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg
2012-2017 Grand Rapids Griffins
since 2017 Rochester Americans

Nathan Paetsch (born March 30, 1983 in LeRoy , Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Rochester Americans in the American Hockey League since September 2017 .

Career

Paetsch started his career in 1999 at the age of 16 in the Western Hockey League with the Moose Jaw Warriors . In the 2000/01 season he was named Defender of the Year in an internal team election and after the season he was named Playoff MVP by the WHL . He also played in the 2001 CHL Top Prospects Game. Nathan Paetsch was selected in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft by the Washington Capitals as 58th in the second round, but there was no contract between the Capitals and him. Therefore, he was entered again in the draft list for the NHL Entry Draft 2003 , in which he was selected in the seventh round as 202nd by the Sabers.

In the same year he ended his engagement in the WHL and started his professional career with the Sabers farm team , the Rochester Americans , in the American Hockey League . There he was able to improve his point yield from year to year and established himself within the team that named him the Most Valuable Player of the season in 2005/06. He played his first NHL game on January 7, 2006 for the Sabers, in which he reached his first NHL scorer point. Although he returned to Rochester after that one game, but was recalled to the Sabers squad due to a series of injuries to the Sabers defenders during the 2006 Stanley Cup Playoffs. He made his debut in the NHL playoffs in the seventh game of the Eastern Conference final against the Carolina Hurricanes . From the summer of 2006 Paetsch was permanently in the NHL squad, but he did not manage to earn a regular place. In March 2010 he was given to the Columbus Blue Jackets together with a draft pick in exchange for Raffi Torres . In July 2010, he signed a one-year contract with the Florida Panthers . In October 2010 he was traded from Florida to the Vancouver Canucks , which loaned him to the Rochester Americans. However , he spent the 2010/11 season mostly at the Syracuse Crunch in the AHL, before the defender received a contract with the Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg from the German Ice Hockey League in June 2011 . For the 2012/13 season , the Canadian was signed by the Grand Rapids Griffins of the American Hockey League.

Paetsch won the Calder Cup with the Griffins in 2013 and 2017 . He then returned to Rochester Americans in September 2017.

International

Nathan Paetsch represented his home country at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2000 and the U18 Four Nations Cup . He was also a member of the U20 national team of Canada at the Junior World Championships in 2002 and 2003 , with which he lost the final against Russia and won the silver medal.

Achievements and Awards

International

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
1998/99 Moose Jaw Warriors WHL 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
1999/00 Moose Jaw Warriors WHL 68 9 35 44 49 4th 0 1 1 0
2000/01 Moose Jaw Warriors WHL 70 8th 54 62 118 4th 1 2 3 6th
2001/02 Moose Jaw Warriors WHL 59 16 36 52 86 12 0 4th 4th 16
2002/03 Moose Jaw Warriors WHL 59 15th 39 54 81 13 3 10 13 6th
2003/04 Rochester Americans AHL 54 5 5 10 49 16 1 1 2 28
2004/05 Rochester Americans AHL 80 4th 19th 23 150 9 1 1 2 16
2005/06 Rochester Americans AHL 72 11 39 50 90 - - - - -
2005/06 Buffalo Sabers NHL 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
2006/07 Buffalo Sabers NHL 63 2 22nd 24 50 - - - - -
2007/08 Buffalo Sabers NHL 59 2 7th 9 27 - - - - -
2008/09 Buffalo Sabers NHL 23 2 4th 6th 25th - - - - -
2009/10 Buffalo Sabers NHL 11 1 1 2 6th - - - - -
2009/10 Columbus Blue Jackets NHL 10 0 0 0 6th - - - - -
2010/11 Rochester Americans AHL 9 1 2 3 2 - - - - -
2010/11 Syracuse crunch AHL 34 8th 9 17th 12 - - - - -
2011/12 Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg DEL 52 7th 18th 25th 46 2 0 0 0 0
2012/13 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 70 4th 27 31 32 24 0 11 11 21st
2013/14 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 68 4th 27 31 40 10 0 5 5 4th
2014/15 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 75 8th 30th 38 42 16 0 4th 4th 2
2015/16 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 73 4th 20th 24 26th 9 1 2 3 4th
2016/17 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 73 1 17th 18th 30th 19th 2 5 7th 8th
2017/18 Rochester Americans AHL 22nd 0 9 9 16 1 0 0 0 0
2018/19 Rochester Americans AHL 11 1 2 3 2 - - - - -
2019/20 Rochester Americans AHL 10 1 1 2 2 - - - - -
WHL overall 258 48 164 212 334 34 4th 17th 21st 28
DEL total 52 7th 18th 25th 46 2 0 0 0 0
AHL total 651 52 207 259 493 104 5 29 34 83
NHL overall 167 7th 35 42 114 1 0 0 0 0

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2000 Canada Western U17-WHC 5th place 5 0 1 1 4th
2002 Canada U20 World Cup 2nd place, silver 7th 0 1 1 0
2003 Canada U20 World Cup 2nd place, silver 6th 1 0 1 4th
Juniors overall 18th 1 2 3 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Paetsch, Nathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH LeRoy , Saskatchewan