Nick Bonino

Nick Bonino
Date of birth	April 20, 1988
place of birth	Hartford , Connecticut , USA
size	185 cm
Weight	90 kg
position	center
number	# 13
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2007 , 6th round, 173rd position San Jose Sharks
Career stations
2003-2005	Farmington High School
2005-2007	Avon Old Farms High School
2007-2010	Boston University
2010-2014	Anaheim Ducks
2012	HC Neumarkt
2014-2015	Vancouver Canucks
2015-2017	Pittsburgh Penguins
since 2017	Nashville Predators

Nicholas Lawrence "Nick" Bonino (born April 20, 1988 in Hartford , Connecticut ) is an American ice hockey player of Italian descent who has been under contract with the Nashville Predators from the National Hockey League since July 2017 and is in the position of the center for them plays. With the Pittsburgh Penguins he won the Stanley Cup in the 2016 and 2017 playoffs .

Career

Bonino in the jersey of the Vancouver Canucks

Nick Bonino began his career while junior on the Farmington High School ice hockey team , for which he was active from 2003 to 2005. He played from 2005 to 2007 on the ice hockey team at Avon Old Farms High School , for which he played 51 games and scored 122 points. The attacker then ran for three years in the Boston University team and collected a total of 117 scorer points in 116 games.

Bonino was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2007 in the sixth round at a total of 173rd position by the San Jose Sharks , but did not complete a single game for the Sharks and was given in March 2009 in an exchange deal to the Anaheim Ducks . With him, the German goalkeeper Timo Pielmeier moved to Anaheim, while Travis Moen and Kent Huskins were sent to San Jose. During the 2009-10 season , on March 21, 2010, he was signed by the Ducks franchise and signed a two-year entry - level contract . He played his first NHL game on March 26, 2010 against the Edmonton Oilers . His first goal for the Ducks came in his second NHL game when he scored the opening goal for the Southern Californians on March 29, 2010 in the home game against the Dallas Stars .

After spending the training camp in September 2010 at the Anaheim Ducks, Bonino was sent to the Syracuse Crunch in the American Hockey League at the first squad reduction . In mid-October 2012 he moved to Italy due to the lockout . There he ran for HC Neumarkt from the A2 series .

In June 2014 Bonino together with Luca Sbisa and the first and third round suffrage for the NHL Entry Draft 2014 was given by the Ducks to the Vancouver Canucks , who in return received Ryan Kesler and a third round suffrage for the 2015 draft. After his first season in Vancouver, he also made his international debut when he won the bronze medal with the United States national team at the 2015 World Cup .

In July 2015, the Canucks including Adam Clendening and a six- round vote for the NHL Entry Draft 2016 gave him to the Pittsburgh Penguins . In return, Brandon Sutter moved and a success-based third-round vote for the same draft to Vancouver. In the 2015/16 season he won the Stanley Cup with the Penguins and repeated this success the following year. Despite the successes with the pens in the two seasons, the attacker did not stay in Pittsburgh after his contract expired and switched to the Nashville Predators as a free agent on July 1, 2017 . There the 29-year-old signed a four-year contract.

International

At the international level, Bonino represented his home country at the 2015 World Cup in the Czech Republic . There he won the bronze medal with Team USA , to which he contributed four scorer points in ten tournament appearances. Another bronze medal followed three years later at the 2018 World Cup .

Achievements and Awards

2008 Beanpot Tournament winner with Boston University 2009 Hockey East Championship with Boston University 2009 NCAA Division I Championship with Boston University

2009 NCAA Championship All-Tournament Team 2016 Stanley Cup win with the Pittsburgh Penguins 2017 Stanley Cup win with the Pittsburgh Penguins

International

• 2015 bronze medal at the world championship
• 2018 bronze medal at the world championship

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
2003/04	Farmington High School	High CT		24	44	23	67	10
2004/05	Farmington High School	High CT		24	68	23	91	12
2005/06	Avon Old Farms	High CT		25th	26th	30th	56	10
2006/07	Avon Old Farms	High CT		26th	24	42	66	14th
2007/08	Boston University	NCAA		39	16	13	29	10		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Boston University	NCAA		44	18th	32	50	30th		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Boston University	NCAA		33	11	27	38	12		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		9	1	1	2	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Syracuse crunch	AHL		50	12	33	45	32		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		26th	0	0	0	4th		4th	0	0	0	2
2011/12	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		50	5	13	18th	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Syracuse crunch	AHL		19th	6th	16	22nd	2		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	HC Neumarkt	A2 series		19th	26th	26th	52	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		27	5	8th	13	8th		7th	3	1	4th	4th
2013/14	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		77	22nd	27	49	14th		13	4th	4th	8th	8th
2014/15	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		75	15th	24	39	22nd		6th	1	2	3	4th
2015/16	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		63	9	20th	29	31		24	4th	14th	18th	12
2016/17	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		80	18th	19th	37	16		21st	4th	3	7th	2
2017/18	Nashville Predators	NHL		71	12	13	25th	20th		13	2	3	5	9
2018/19	Nashville Predators	NHL		81	17th	18th	35	18th		6th	0	2	2	2
2019/20	Nashville Predators	NHL		67	18th	17th	35	16		4th	1	0	1	2
High CT overall				99	162	118	280	46
NCAA overall				116	45	72	117	52		-	-	-	-	-
AHL total				69	18th	49	67	34		-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				626	122	160	282	171		98	19th	29	48	45

International

Represented the USA at:

• World Championship 2015
• World Championship 2018

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2015	United States	WM			10	2	2	4th	10
2018	United States	WM			5	1	3	4th	0
Men overall					15th	3	5	8th	10

( 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 : Nick Bonino  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the Pittsburgh Penguins website
• Nick Bonino at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Nick Bonino at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ducks Sign Nick Bonino. Anaheim Ducks , accessed July 29, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Ducks Make Roster Moves. Anaheim Ducks, accessed July 29, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Hockey Club Neumarkt Riwega succeeds century transfer from the NHL. HC Neumarkt Riwega, accessed on October 10, 2012 . 
4. ↑ nhl.com: "Ducks get Kesler in trade from Canucks" (English, June 27, 2014, accessed June 28, 2014)