Nick Bailen

Nick Bailen
Date of birth	December 12, 1989
place of birth	Fredonia , New York , USA
size	175 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	defender
number	# 55
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2005-2008	Indiana Ice
2008-2009	Bowling Green State University
2009-2010	Indiana Ice
2010-2013	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2013	Rochester Americans
2013-2014	Tappara Tampere
2014-2016	HK Dinamo Minsk
2016-2017	Vaxjo Lakers
since 2017	HK tractor Chelyabinsk

Nick Bailen (born December 12, 1989 in Fredonia , New York ) is an American ice hockey player with Belarusian citizenship who has been under contract with HK Traktor Chelyabinsk in the Continental Hockey League since May 2017 .

Career

Nick Bailen began his career at St. Francis High School in his hometown before playing for Indiana Ice in the United States Hockey League from 2005 .

Between 2010 and 2013 he majored in Business and Management at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute . Parallel to his studies, he played for the RPI Engineers , the ice hockey team at the technical university, in ECAC Hockey , a first-class division of the NCAA . He was elected several times to the All-Star- Team of the ECAC.

In March 2013 he received a trial contract (amateur try-out) with the Rochester Americans from the American Hockey League and completed 12 AHL games for the franchise, in which he collected 3 scorer points. He then decided to move to Europe and was signed by Tappara Tampere from the Finnish Liiga at the end of May 2013 . In November 2013 he won the Germany Cup with the national ice hockey team of the United States . With Tappara he reached the playoff final of the Liiga for the Finnish championship, in which his team failed at Kärpät Oulu . With 12 scorer points, he was one of the best scorers in the playoffs, was also the defender with the highest points in the playoffs and was consequently elected to the Liiga All-Star team.

After the 2013/14 season he was courted by several KHL clubs due to the performances shown in the Liiga and, after consulting Andy Chiodo and Cory Murphy, decided for the HK Dinamo Minsk . In October 2014 he extended his contract with Dinamo for two more years and is thus under contract with the KHL club until 2017.

On December 1, 2014, Bailen was granted Belarusian citizenship. According to the regulations of the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF , Bailen will be eligible to play for the Belarusian national team from 2016 .

In December 2016 he left Belarus and HK Dinamo Minsk and was signed by Växjö Lakers Hockey .

Achievements and Awards

2011 ECAC First All-Star Team 2013 ECAC First All-Star Team 2014 Finnish runner-up with tappara

2014 Liiga All-Star Team 2014 KHL Defender of the Month for December 2015 participation in the KHL All-Star Game

International

• 2019 Promotion to the top division at the World Championship of Division I, Group A.

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2005/06	Indiana Ice	USHL		52	1	7th	8th	73		5	0	0	0	12
2006/07	Indiana Ice	USHL		53	4th	9	13	93		7th	0	0	0	14th
2007/08	Indiana Ice	USHL		58	8th	13	21st	157		4th	1	1	2	0
2008/09	Bowling Green State University	NCAA		37	6th	10	16	56
2009/10	Indiana Ice	USHL		58	14th	27	41	97		9	0	4th	4th	6th
2010/11	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	NCAA		38	8th	28	36	34
2011/12	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	NCAA		39	7th	15th	22nd	24
2012/13	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	NCAA		35	12	19th	31	18th
2012/13	Rochester Americans	AHL		8th	0	3	3	0		3	0	0	0	0
2013/14	Lempäälän Kisa	Mestis		1	0	1	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Tappara	Liiga		54	11	21st	32	26th		17th	4th	8th	12	49
2014/15	HK Dinamo Minsk	KHL		60	11	25th	36	49		5	1	2	3	10
2015/16	HK Dinamo Minsk	KHL		40	6th	25th	31	34		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	HK Dinamo Minsk	KHL		13	4th	5	9	2		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Vaxjo Lakers	SHL		20th	4th	10	14th	12		6th	0	2	2	2
2017/18	HK tractor Chelyabinsk	KHL		56	11	19th	30th	41		16	3	7th	10	38
2018/19	HK tractor Chelyabinsk	KHL		62	7th	17th	24	39		4th	0	0	0	6th
USHL total				221	27	56	83	420		25th	1	5	6th	32
NCAA overall				149	33	72	105	132
KHL total				231	39	92	131	165		25th	4th	9	13	54

International

Represented Belarus at:

• Qualifying tournament for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games
• Division IA World Championship 2019

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2016	Belarus	Olympic qualification	2nd place		3	1	2	3	0
2019	Belarus	WM Div. IA	2nd place		5	0	2	2	4th
Men overall					8th	1	4th	5	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

• Nick Bailen at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ rpiathletics.com, RPI Engineers - Nick Bailen # 29
2. ↑ amerks.com, Amerks sign Defenseman Nick Bailen To ATO , March 26, 2013
3. ↑ ecachockey.com, Nick Bailen Helps US to Deutschland Cup , November 12, 2013
4. ↑ Minsk Herald , Nick Bailen joins IHC Dynamo Minsk , June 11, 2014
5. ↑ BelTA - Belarusian Telegraph Agency, Dinamo Minsk signs Nick Bailen to two-year extension ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , October 9, 2014 
6. ↑ Ник Бэйлен стал гражданином Республики Беларусь и сможет сыграть за сборную уже на ЧМ-2016. hcdinamo.by, December 1, 2014, accessed December 2, 2014 (Russian). 
7. ↑ Nick Bailen till Växjö Lakers. In: aftonbladet.se. December 21, 2016. Retrieved January 9, 2017 .