Nick Merkley

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Nick Merkley
Date of birth May 23, 1997
place of birth Calgary , Alberta , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 87 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2015 , 1st round, 30th position
Arizona Coyotes
Career stations
2012-2017 Kelowna Rockets
2017-2019 Arizona Coyotes
Tucson Roadrunners
since 2019 New Jersey Devils
Binghamton Devils

Nicholas "Nick" Merkley (born May 23, 1997 in Calgary , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player . He has been under contract with the New Jersey Devils in the National Hockey League (NHL) since December 2019 and also works for their farm team , the Binghamton Devils , in the American Hockey League (AHL).

Career

Nick Merkley played for the Calgary Bisons in his youth and was selected as the ninth player by the Kelowna Rockets in the Bantam Draft of the Western Hockey League (WHL) . In the following season he was initially still in the Alberta Midget Hockey League for the Calgary Buffaloes , before he was on the ice for the first time in December 2012 for the Kelowna Rockets. This was his only game in the 2012/13 regular season , but he was used again for the Rockets in the playoff games. After that, the attacker rose to become a regular in British Columbia. In the 2013/14 season Merkley scored 58 points and took first place with the Rockets in the Western Conference . As the team with the best points in regular time, the team won the Scotty Munro Memorial Trophy , in the playoffs, in which Merkley played all games, the Rockets fought their way to the conference final , where they were eliminated by the Portland Winterhawks .

Due to his good performance during the season, Merkley was awarded the Jim Piggott Memorial Trophy as Rookie of the Year in 2014. In 2014/15 the Kelowna Rockets won the championship in the Western Hockey League in the form of the Ed Chynoweth Cup . Merkley scored 90 points scorer in 72 games and thus took part in the CHL Top Prospects Game , and he was also elected to the WHL West Second All-Star Team . At the Memorial Cup 2015 , the Rockets made it through to the final, but were defeated by the Oshawa Generals 1: 4. In the end, Merkley was also elected to the Memorial Cup All-Star Team .

In the NHL Entry Draft 2015 , the attacking player was selected in the first round as the 30th player by the Arizona Coyotes , with which Merkley signed a three-year entry contract on September 3, 2015 . In the following two seasons Merkley was still used for the Kelowna Rockets, in both years the team was eliminated in the playoffs in the conference finals . From the 2017/18 season , Merkley worked for the Tucson Roadrunners , the Arizona Coyotes farm team , in the American Hockey League . Merkley made his NHL debut on December 19, 2017, losing to the Florida Panthers , but was sent back to Tucson just four days later. On January 4, 2018, Nick Merkley was selected for the AHL All-Star Classic .

To have denied without further NHL games for the Coyotes, Merkley was in December 2019 along with Nate Schnarr and Kevin Bahl , a conditional first-round voting rights for the NHL Entry Draft in 2020 Suffrage third rounds for and an equally conditional NHL Entry Draft in 2021 to surrendered to the New Jersey Devils . In return, Taylor Hall and Blake Speers moved to Arizona.

International

In January 2014 Nick Merkley took part in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge for Team Canada Pacific . In the group stage, the team won all games and then moved into the final, where the team lost 4-0 to the team from the United States and thus won the silver medal. In August of the same year Merkley was part of the Canadian U18 national team, which won the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament with a final victory over Sweden .

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 Kelowna Rockets WHL 1 0 0 0 0 7th 0 3 3 0
2013/14 Kelowna Rockets WHL 66 25th 33 58 46 14th 4th 13 17th 12
2014/15 Kelowna Rockets WHL 72 20th 70 90 79 19th 5 22nd 27 18th
2015 Kelowna Rockets Memorial Cup 5 3 2 5 14th
2015/16 Kelowna Rockets WHL 43 17th 31 48 44 - - - - -
2016/17 Kelowna Rockets WHL 63 23 40 63 73 17th 6th 13 19th 22nd
2017/18 Tucson Roadrunners AHL 38 18th 21st 39 22nd - - - - -
2017/18 Arizona Coyotes NHL 1 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
2018/19 Tucson Roadrunners AHL 45 10 23 33 26th - - - - -
2019/20 Tucson Roadrunners AHL 26th 3 13 16 10 - - - - -
2019/20 Binghamton Devils AHL 28 8th 11 19th 16 - - - - -
2019/20 New Jersey Devils NHL 4th 1 1 2 2 - - - - -
WHL overall 245 85 174 259 242 57 15th 51 66 52
AHL total 137 39 69 108 74 - - - - -
NHL overall 5 1 1 2 4th - - - - -

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2014 Canada Pacific WHC Silver medal 6th 2 3 5 14th
2014 Canada HIMT gold medal 5 0 4th 4th 8th
Juniors overall 11 2 7th 9 22nd

( 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. ^ Coyotes sign Merkley to entry-level contract. In: nhl.com. September 4, 2015, accessed December 22, 2018 .
  2. ^ Matt Layman: Coyotes prospects Dylan Strome, Nick Merkley make AHL All-Star team. In: arizonasports.com. January 4, 2018, accessed December 22, 2018 .
  3. ^ Coyotes Acquire Hall From New Jersey. nhl.com, December 16, 2019, accessed December 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Merkley, Nick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Merkley, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Calgary , Alberta , Canada