Nick Ritchie

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
CanadaCanada  Nick Ritchie Ice hockey player
Nick Ritchie
Date of birth 5th December 1995
place of birth Orangeville , Ontario , Canada
size 190 cm
Weight 107 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2014 , 1st round, 10th position
Anaheim Ducks
Career stations
2011-2015 Peterborough Petes
2015 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds
2015-2020 Anaheim Ducks
since 2020 Boston Bruins

Nicholas "Nick" Ritchie (born December 5, 1995 in Orangeville , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Boston Bruins from the National Hockey League since February 2020 . He was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2014 in 10th position by the Anaheim Ducks , for which he was active for four years.

Career

Nick Ritchie was born in Orangeville, a city where lacrosse is very important. Ritchie began playing lacrosse as a young child before he also devoted himself to ice hockey. He showed exceptional talent in both of Canada's national sports, so he was invited to a selection event for the lacrosse U19 national team. Ritchie, however, opted for ice hockey in the summer of 2011 by joining the Peterborough Petes in the Ontario Hockey League , who selected him second in the OHL Priority Selection . In his first year in one of Canada's three top junior leagues, Ritchie scored 39 points in 62 games and was elected to the OHL First All-Rookie Team after the season . With the Canada Ontario team , Ritchie then took part in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2012 , where he won the bronze medal with the team. He also won the gold medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2012 .

The first two months of the next season he was out due to a shoulder injury. In April 2013 he traveled to Sochi with the U18 national team and also won the gold medal at the Junior World Championships there . In the 2013/14 season he led the Peterborough Petes as assistant captain and increased his statistics to 74 scorer points in 61 games. With these services, several scouts were aware of him, he so at the upcoming 2014 NHL Entry Draft by the Central Scouting Services in seventh place of the most promising field players in North America will be listed. His strong physique is particularly emphasized at 1.90 m and 107 kg. In the actual draft, the Anaheim Ducks then selected him in 10th position and signed him in September 2014.

In 2015 he took part in the World Cup in his own country with the U20 national team and won the gold medal there with the team. A few days after the World Cup, the Peterborough Petes and Connor Boland gave him to Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds and received in return Kyle Jenkins and four voting rights in the OHL Priority Selection.

In the summer of 2015 Ritchie switched to the Anaheim Ducks organization and was subsequently used in roughly equal parts in the National Hockey League and American Hockey League , with the farm team , the San Diego Gulls . At the beginning of the 2016/17 season, the attacker established himself in the NHL lineup of the Ducks. After the 2017/18 season, his entry contract in Anaheim expired on July 1, 2018, so that he has been a restricted free agent since then . Until the beginning of the following season 2018/19, the players and team were unable to agree on a new contract, before Ritchie finally signed a new three-year contract in mid-October, which should bring him an average annual salary of approximately 1.5 million US dollars.

After more than four years in Anaheim, Ritchie was handed over to the Boston Bruins for the trade deadline in February 2020 , who in return transferred Danton Heinen to the Ducks.

Achievements and Awards

International

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
2011/12 Peterborough Petes OHL 62 16 23 39 -22 60 - - - - - -
2012/13 Peterborough Petes OHL 41 18th 17th 35 -10 50 - - - - - -
2013/14 Peterborough Petes OHL 61 39 35 74 +4 136 11 5 5 10 -5 24
2014/15 Peterborough Petes OHL 25th 14th 18th 32 -10 69 - - - - - -
2014/15 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds OHL 23 15th 15th 30th +11 44 14th 13 13 26th +7 28
2015/16 San Diego Gulls AHL 38 16 14th 30th -3 59 9 5 3 8th +4 20th
2015/16 Anaheim Ducks NHL 33 2 2 4th -2 37 - - - - - -
2016/17 Anaheim Ducks NHL 77 14th 14th 28 +4 62 15th 4th 0 4th -1 46
2017/18 Anaheim Ducks NHL 76 10 17th 27 +3 72 4th 0 0 0 -2 8th
2018/19 Anaheim Ducks NHL 60 9 22nd 31 +6 82 - - - - - -
OHL total 212 102 108 210 -27 359 25th 18th 18th 36 +2 52
NHL overall 246 35 55 90 +11 253 19th 4th 0 4th -3 54

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2012 Canada Ontario U17-WHC 3rd place, bronze 3 1 2 3 2
2012 Canada Ivan Hlinka 1st place, gold 5 1 1 2 +2 31
2013 Canada U18 World Cup 1st place, gold 4th 1 3 4th +1 10
2015 Canada U20 World Cup 1st place, gold 7th 1 0 1 ± 0 6th
Juniors overall 19th 4th 6th 10 49

( 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 )

family

Nick's brother, Brett Ritchie , is also an ice hockey player and was selected 44th in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft by the Dallas Stars .

Web links

Commons : Nick Ritchie  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ thepeterboroughexaminer.com: "Nick Ritchie gives up lacrosse for hockey" ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English, February 16, 2012, accessed June 26, 2014) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com
  2. ↑ “Aaron Ekblad Named Rookie of the Year; OHL All-Rookie Teams Announced " (accessed June 26, 2014)
  3. ↑ Profile on hockeysfuture.com (accessed June 26, 2014)
  4. ↑ frozenfutures.com: "Nick Ritchie Top 30 NHL Draft Prospect" (accessed June 26, 2014)
  5. ^ Ritchie, Boland acquired from Petes. soogreyhounds.com, January 7, 2015, accessed March 21, 2015 .
Boston Bruins logo
Squad of the Boston Bruins in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME Ritchie, Nick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ritchie, Nicholas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th December 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Orangeville , Ontario , Canada