Nathan Walker

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Nathan Walker
Date of birth February 7, 1994
place of birth Cardiff , Wales , UK
size 176 cm
Weight 80 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2014 , 3rd round, 89th position
Washington Capitals
Career stations
until 2013 HC Vítkovice Steel
2013 Youngstown Phantoms
2013-2017 Hershey Bears
2017 Washington Capitals
2017 Edmonton Oilers
2017-2019 Washington Capitals
Hershey Bears
since 2019 St. Louis Blues
San Antonio Rampage

Nathan Walker (born February 7, 1994 in Cardiff , Wales ) is an Australian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the St. Louis Blues from the National Hockey League since July 2019 and also for their farm team, the San Antonio Rampage , on the position of the left winger plays.

Career

Nathan Walker, who emigrated to Australia with his family at the age of two, began his career as a hockey player in Australia at the age of six. In 2007 he moved to the youth department of HC Vítkovice Steel from the Czech Republic . In the 2007/08 season he played at the age of 14 for the first time for its U18 juniors in the top division of this age group. In the following year he was a regular player with the U18 juniors of HC Vítkovice national champions. In the 2009/10 season he played alternately for the U18 and the U20 juniors of the club, while the striker played during the summer break for the Sydney Ice Dogs in the Australian Ice Hockey League . He repeated this in the following season.

For the 2011/12 season Walker moved up to the professional squad of HC Vítkovice Steel. On October 9, 2011, he made his debut in the Extraliga against BK Mladá Boleslav , making history as he is the world's first Australian ice hockey player to play in the top professional league of a European country. He made one assist on his debut. A few days later he scored his first goal in the extra league. During the playoffs of the Czech youth leagues, he also played in the junior division again and won his second Czech title with the U18. The 2012/13 season he started again for Vitkovice in the Extraliga, but moved to the United States in January 2013, where he played with the Youngstown Phantoms in the United States Hockey League .

For the 2013/14 season, Walker moved to the AHL to the Hershey Bears , who act as the Washington Capitals farm team . As a result, the Capitals selected him in the NHL Entry Draft 2014 in 89th position and took him directly under contract in July 2014. At the beginning of the 2017/18 season , Walker was in the NHL lineup of the Capitals for the first time and thus became the first Australian in the history of the league. By the end of November 2017, he played seven games for the capital city club, in which he also scored his first goal, before joining the Edmonton Oilers via the waiver . After a little over two weeks and two NHL appearances in Edmonton, the Australian returned to the Washington Capitals via the same route.

With the Capitals, he won the Stanley Cup in the 2018 playoffs , although he was not immortalized on the trophy as he had only played one game in the playoffs. In July 2019, he subsequently joined the St. Louis Blues as a free agent .

International

For Australia , Walker first took part in the 2011 Division II World Cup. In this he reached with his team promotion to Division I. He scored four goals and two assists in four games and was voted the best player on his team. In addition, with +7 he had the best plus / minus balance in Group A and, together with New Zealander Chris Eaden and Belgian Bryan Kolodziejczyk, was the third best scorer of the tournament behind his compatriots Joey Hughes and Lliam Webster . At the Division I World Cup in 2012 , he was also part of Australia's squad.

Achievements and Awards

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
2007/08 HC Vítkovice Steel U18 extra league 1 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
2008/09 HC Vítkovice Steel U18 extra league 33 6th 9 15th 16 5 1 0 1 4th
2009/10 HC Vítkovice Steel U18 extra league 28 22nd 20th 42 47 2 2 2 4th 4th
2009/10 HC Vítkovice Steel U20 extra league 23 5 5 10 16 1 0 0 0 0
2010 Sydney Ice Dogs AIHL 4th 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
2010/11 HC Vítkovice Steel U18 extra league 10 4th 10 14th 22nd - - - - -
2010/11 HC Vítkovice Steel U20 extra league 35 20th 20th 40 20th - - - - -
2011 Sydney Ice Dogs AIHL 3 1 1 2 6th - - - - -
2011/12 HC Vítkovice Steel U18 extra league - - - - - 3 4th 1 5 14th
2011/12 HC Vítkovice Steel U20 extra league 14th 14th 6th 20th 16 3 0 1 1 0
2011/12 HC Vítkovice Steel Extra league 34 4th 5 9 8th 1 0 0 0 2
2011/12 HC Olomouc 1st League 2 0 1 1 4th 5 0 0 0 6th
2012/13 HC Vítkovice Steel U20 extra league 13 12 12 24 42 - - - - -
2012/13 HC Vítkovice Steel Extra league 20th 0 1 1 29 - - - - -
2012/13 Hokej Šumperk 2003 1st League 3 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
2012/13 Youngstown Phantoms USHL 29 7th 20th 27 63 - - - - -
2013/14 Hershey Bears AHL 43 5 6th 11 40 - - - - -
2014/15 Hershey Bears AHL 28 1 3 4th 30th - - - - -
2014/15 South Carolina Stingrays ECHL 6th 2 2 4th 0 - - - - -
2015/16 Hershey Bears AHL 73 17th 24 41 41 20th 2 3 5 11
2016/17 Hershey Bears AHL 58 11 12 23 33 12 2 4th 6th 0
2017/18 Washington Capitals NHL 7th 1 0 1 4th 1 0 1 1 0
2017/18 Edmonton Oilers NHL 2 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
2017/18 Hershey Bears AHL 40 9 13 22nd 36 - - - - -
2018/19 Washington Capitals NHL 3 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
2018/19 Hershey Bears AHL 58 17th 22nd 39 54 9 1 4th 5 24
U18 extra league overall 72 32 39 71 87 10 7th 3 10 22nd
U20 extra league overall 87 51 45 96 94 4th 0 1 1 0
1st league overall 5 0 2 2 6th 5 0 0 0 6th
Extraliga overall 54 4th 6th 10 37 1 0 0 0 2
AIHL overall 7th 1 2 3 6th - - - - -
AHL total 300 60 80 140 234 41 5 11 16 35
NHL overall 12 1 1 2 8th 1 0 1 1 0

International

Represented Australia at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2011 Australia WM Div. II 1st place 4th 4th 2 6th 4th
2012 Australia WM Div. IB 6th place 5 2 0 2 4th
Men overall 9 6th 2 8th 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ capitalstoday.monumentalnetwork.com: "Capitals Sign Nathan Walker" (English, July 25, 2014, accessed September 30, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Walker, Nathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Cardiff , Wales , United Kingdom