Nick Holden

Nick Holden
Date of birth	May 15, 1987
place of birth	St. Albert , Alberta , Canada
size	193 cm
Weight	94 kg
position	defender
number	# 22
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2006-2008	Chilliwack Bruins
2008-2010	Syracuse crunch
2010-2013	Springfield Falcons
2013-2016	Colorado Avalanche
2016-2018	New York Rangers
2018	Boston Bruins
since 2018	Vegas Golden Knights

Nick Holden (born May 15, 1987 in St. Albert , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League since July 2018 and plays for them in the position of defender .

Career

Nick Holden began his junior career in the Alberta Junior Hockey League , where he was active for the Camrose Kodiaks and the Sherwood Park Crusaders . For the 2006/07 season he then moved to the Chilliwack Bruins in the Western Hockey League , where he was named captain of the team a year later . In the 2007/08 season he scored a total of 22 goals in 70 games and gave 38 assists, making him the top defender statistics for the Bruins. He was also the most successful goalscorer among defenders in the WHL.

However, he was not selected by any team in the NHL Entry Draft and signed a three-year entry contract with the Columbus Blue Jackets as a free agent in March 2008 . He was then initially included in the squad of the Syracuse Crunch , the farm team of the Blue Jackets, and played a league game in the American Hockey League in the 2007/08 season . In the following season he moved permanently to Syracuse and spent two seasons there, in which he scored 45 points and he had a plus / minus balance of −20.

For the 2010/11 season , the Blue Jackets changed their AHL partner, so Holden switched to the Springfield Falcons , the new farm team. Shortly after the start of the season, the defender was appointed to the squad of the NHL team for the first time and made his debut for Columbus on October 20, 2010. After five games in which Holden remained pointless and punished, he was back at the end of the month sent to Springfield in the AHL and completed the remaining 67 games there. After his contract expired after the season, he signed a new two-way contract for one year with the Blue Jackets as a restricted free agent . However, he was only used in 25 AHL games with the Falcons in the following season.

For the 2012/13 season he again signed a one-year contract with his team and started the season again in Springfield due to the lockout . After the NHL had resumed its gaming operations, however, he was appointed to the NHL roster of the Blue Jackets.

In July 2013, Holden signed a two-year contract with Colorado Avalanche . In June 2016, Holden was handed over to the New York Rangers , who in return sent a four-round vote for the 2017 NHL Entry Draft to Colorado. After almost a year and a half in New York, the Rangers transferred him to the Boston Bruins and received Rob O'Gara and a third-round vote for the 2018 NHL Entry Draft . There he ended the 2017/18 season, but received no further contract, so he joined the Vegas Golden Knights as a free agent .

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
2004/05	Camrose Kodiaks	AJHL		4th	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Sherwood Park Crusaders	AJHL		57	7th	23	30th	46		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Chilliwack Bruins	WHL		67	8th	23	31	62		5	1	1	2	6th
2007/08	Chilliwack Bruins	WHL		70	22nd	38	60	54		4th	1	3	4th	0
2007/08	Syracuse crunch	AHL		1	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Syracuse crunch	AHL		61	4th	18th	22nd	46		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Syracuse crunch	AHL		68	6th	17th	23	52		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Springfield Falcons	AHL		67	4th	21st	25th	63		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		5	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Springfield Falcons	AHL		25th	3	6th	9	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Springfield Falcons	AHL		73	9	30th	39	58		8th	0	3	3	6th
2012/13	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		2	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		54	10	15th	25th	22nd		7th	3	1	4th	8th
2014/15	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		78	5	9	14th	28		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		82	6th	16	22nd	24		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	New York Rangers	NHL		80	11	23	34	35		11	2	2	4th	4th
2017/18	New York Rangers	NHL		55	3	9	12	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Boston Bruins	NHL		18th	1	4th	5	0		2	0	1	1	0
2018/19	Vegas Golden Knights	NHL		61	3	12	15th	14th		1	0	0	0	2
AJHL total				61	7th	23	30th	46		-	-	-	-	-
WHL overall				137	30th	61	91	116		9	2	4th	6th	6th
AHL total				295	26th	92	118	235		8th	0	3	3	6th
NHL overall				435	39	88	127	137		21st	5	4th	9	14th

( 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

• Player biography on the Vegas Golden Knights website
• Nick Holden at eliteprospects.com (English)