Neal Pionk

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United StatesUnited States  Neal Pionk Ice hockey player
Date of birth July 29, 1995
place of birth Hermantown , Minnesota , USA
size 183 cm
Weight 86 kg
position defender
Shot hand Right
Career stations
2012-2015 Sioux City Musketeers
2015-2017 University of Minnesota Duluth
2017-2018 Hartford Wolf Pack
2018-2019 New York Rangers
since 2019 Winnipeg Jets

Neal Pionk (born July 29, 1995 in Hermantown , Minnesota ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League since June 2019 and plays there in the position of defender .

Career

Neal Pionk played in his youth for the Hermantown High ice hockey team in a regional high school league. During the 2012/13 season, the defender moved to the Sioux City Musketeers in the United States Hockey League (USHL), the highest junior league in the United States. In Sioux City, he significantly increased his personal statistics for the 2014/15 season, leading the defenders of the league in scorer points (48) and was therefore named Defender of the Year and voted into the USHL First All-Star Team . Then Pionk enrolled at the University of Minnesota Duluth and ran from then on for their Bulldogs in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC), a league in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). He also established himself as an attacking defender in Duluth and won the NCHC championship with the Bulldogs at the end of the 2016/17 season, while he was personally appointed to the NCHC Second All-Star Team .

Without previously being considered in an NHL Entry Draft , he signed an entry contract with the New York Rangers from the National Hockey League (NHL) in May 2017 . The Rangers initially used him on their farm team , the Hartford Wolf Pack , in the American Hockey League (AHL) before making his NHL debut in February 2018 and playing 28 games for New York by the end of the season. At the beginning of the 2018/19 season he established himself in the Rangers' squad, but was transferred to the Winnipeg Jets after the season together with a first-round right to vote in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft . In return, Jacob Trouba moved to New York. At the Jets, Pionk signed a new two-year deal in July 2019 that should earn him an average annual salary of $ 3 million. In his first season in Winnipeg he increased his personal statistics significantly, with 45 points scorer he became the strongest defensive player on his team.

International

At the international level, Pionk made his debut for the USA national team at the 2018 World Cup , where he won the bronze medal with the team.

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
2012/13 Sioux City Musketeers USHL 12 1 5 6th +3 2 - - - - - -
2013/14 Sioux City Musketeers USHL 54 2 21st 23 +18 93 7th 0 1 1 ± 0 10
2014/15 Sioux City Musketeers USHL 53 7th 41 48 +23 104 5 0 1 1 -4 10
2015/16 University of Minnesota Duluth NCAA 40 4th 13 17th +11 44
2016/17 University of Minnesota Duluth NCAA 42 7th 27 34 +24 25th
2017/18 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 48 1 16 17th –9 20th - - - - - -
2017/18 New York Rangers NHL 28 1 13 14th -1 12 - - - - - -
2018/19 New York Rangers NHL 73 6th 20th 26th -16 35 - - - - - -
2019/20 Winnipeg Jets NHL 71 6th 39 45 +10 32 4th 0 2 2 –6 0
USHL total 119 10 67 77 +44 199 12 0 2 2 -4 20th
NCAA overall 82 11 40 51 +35 69
NHL overall 172 13 72 85 –7 79 4th 0 2 2 –6 0

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2018 United States WM 3rd place, bronze 10 2 1 3 +7 4th
Men overall 10 2 1 3 +7 4th

( 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. ^ Rangers Agree To Terms With Free Agent Defenseman Neal Pionk. nhl.com, May 1, 2017, accessed May 6, 2018 .
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Squad of the Winnipeg Jets in the 2019/20 season
personal data
SURNAME Pionk, Neal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Hermantown , Minnesota , United States