Nick Schmaltz

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United StatesUnited States  Nick Schmaltz Ice hockey player
Date of birth February 23, 1996
place of birth Madison , Wisconsin , USA
size 183 cm
Weight 80 kg
position center
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2014 , 1st round, 20th position
Chicago Blackhawks
Career stations
2012-2014 Green Bay Gamblers
2014-2016 University of North Dakota
2016-2018 Chicago Blackhawks
since 2018 Arizona Coyotes

Nicholas "Nick" Schmaltz (born February 23, 1996 in Madison , Wisconsin ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Arizona Coyotes from the National Hockey League since November 2018 and plays for them on the position of the center . His older brother Jordan is also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Nick Schmaltz was born in Madison and grew up in Verona, a few kilometers away, with his brother Jordan , who is also a professional ice hockey player and has been a member of the St. Louis Blues organization since 2015 . In his youth Nick Schmaltz played for the Chicago Mission and from 2012 for the Green Bay Gamblers in the United States Hockey League (USHL), the highest junior league in the United States. In the 2012/13 season, the attacker scored 52 points in 64 games and was therefore elected to the USHL's all-rookie team . After representing his home country at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games , he and Team USA won the silver medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament in summer 2013 . After another season with the Gamblers, during which he also briefly for two games in the squad of the USA Hockey National Team Development Program had heard him chose the Chicago Blackhawks in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft at 20th position.

Schmaltz then enrolled at the University of North Dakota, following his brother Jordan. The center spent two years at UND , where he was elected as a freshman to the all-rookie team of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference . He also took part in the U20 World Championships in 2015 and 2016 with the U20 national team and won the bronze medal in the latter.

In June 2016 Schmaltz signed an entry contract with the Chicago Blackhawks and made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) at the beginning of the 2016/17 season . After the season Schmaltz also made his debut in the senior national team of the USA , with which he finished fifth at the 2017 World Cup . Schmaltz cracked the 50 scorer point mark in his second NHL season before he was given to the Arizona Coyotes in exchange for Dylan Strome and Brendan Perlini after a good start to the 2018/19 game year .

Schmaltz signed a new seven-year contract with the Coyotes in March 2019, which should bring him an average annual salary of 5.85 million US dollars from the start of the 2019/20 season.

Achievements and Awards

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
2011/12 Green Bay Gamblers USHL 11 1 3 4th +7 2 - - - - - -
2012/13 Green Bay Gamblers USHL 64 18th 34 52 +2 15th 4th 1 1 2 -2 0
2013/14 Green Bay Gamblers USHL 55 18th 45 63 -3 16 4th 1 2 3 -1 17th
2014/15 University of North Dakota NCAA 38 5 21st 26th +3 12
2015/16 University of North Dakota NCAA 37 11 35 46 +44 6th
2016/17 Rockford IceHogs AHL 12 6th 3 9 -4 2
2016/17 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 61 6th 22nd 28 +10 6th 4th 0 0 0 -2 2
2017/18 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 78 21st 31 52 +1 18th - - - - - -
2018/19 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 23 2 9 11 -4 6th - - - - - -
2018/19 Arizona Coyotes NHL 17th 5 9 14th -8th 2 - - - - - -
2019/20 Arizona Coyotes NHL 70 11 34 45 +3 20th - - - - - -
USHL total 130 37 82 119 +6 33 8th 2 3 5 -3 17th
NCAA overall 75 16 56 72 +47 18th
NHL overall 249 45 105 150 +2 52 4th 0 0 0 -2 2

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2012 United States Youth Olympics 4th Place 6th 2 4th 6th +2 8th
2013 United States Hlinka Memorial Silver medal 5 5 3 8th ± 0 2
2015 United States U20 World Cup 5th place 5 0 1 1 +2 0
2016 United States U20 World Cup Bronze medal 7th 2 6th 8th +3 4th
2017 United States WM 5th place 7th 0 3 3 +4 2
Juniors overall 23 9 14th 23 +7 14th
Men overall 7th 0 3 3 +4 2

( 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. ^ Blackhawks agree to terms with Schmaltz. nhl.com, June 20, 2016, accessed October 18, 2016 .
Squad of the Arizona Coyotes in the 2019-20 season
personal data
SURNAME Schmaltz, Nick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmaltz, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Madison , Wisconsin , USA