Nick Spaling

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Nick Spaling
Date of birth September 19, 1988
place of birth Palmerston , Ontario , Canada
size 183 cm
Weight 82 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2007 , 2nd round, 58th position
Nashville Predators
Career stations
2005-2008 Kitchener Rangers
2008-2010 Milwaukee Admirals
2010-2014 Nashville Predators
2014-2015 Pittsburgh Penguins
2015-2016 Toronto Maple Leafs
2016 San Jose Sharks
2016-2018 Genève-Servette HC

Nicholas "Nick" Spaling (born September 19, 1988 in Palmerston , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player who played 494 games for the Nashville Predators , Pittsburgh Penguins , Toronto Maple Leafs and San Jose between 2005 and 2018 Sharks has contested in the National Hockey League on the position of the center . Spaling celebrated his greatest career success wearing the Team Canada jersey by winning the prestigious Spengler Cup in 2016 .

Career

Nick Spaling began his career as a hockey player with the Kitchener Rangers , for which he was active from 2005 to 2008 in the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League . In the 2007/08 season , the center and his team won the J. Ross Robertson Cup , the OHL championship. He also received the William Hanley Trophy as the league's Most Sportsmanlike Player this season . During his junior years he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2007 in the second round as the 58th player in total by the Nashville Predators , for whose farm team Milwaukee Admirals from the American Hockey League he played predominantly from 2008 to 2010. In the 2009/10 season , the Canadian also made his debut in the National Hockey League for the Nashville Predators, preparing three goals in a total of 34 games.

Spaling in the jersey of the San Jose Sharks

In the 2010/11 season Spaling was able to work out a regular place with the Nashville Predators and was on the ice in a total of 86 games. He scored ten goals and ten assists. He also ran in another four games for Nashville's AHL farm team Milwaukee Admirals, scoring one goal and one assist.

On June 27, 2014, the Nashville Predators announced that Spaling and Patric Hörnqvist would be transferred to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for James Neal . After a year with the Penguins, he was handed over to the Toronto Maple Leafs together with Kasperi Kapanen , Scott Harrington and a first and a third round vote for the 2016 NHL Entry Draft . In return, Phil Kessel , Tim Erixon , Tyler Biggs and a second-round vote for the same draft moved to Pittsburgh.

In February 2016, Spaling and Roman Polák were handed over to the San Jose Sharks , who in return each sent a second-round vote for the Entry Drafts 2017 and 2018 and Raffi Torres to Toronto.

After the 2015/16 season, his contract in San Jose was not extended, so Spaling joined Genève-Servette HC from the Swiss National League A in August 2016 . There he signed a one-year contract with an additional year as an option. After fulfilling this at the end of the 2017/18 season, the Canadian ended his active career at the age of 29. During his time in Switzerland, he won the prestigious Spengler Cup with Team Canada in 2016 .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2005/06 Kitchener Rangers OHL 62 10 15th 25th 22nd 5 0 3 3 0
2006/07 Kitchener Rangers OHL 61 23 36 59 41 9 2 3 5 4th
2007/08 Kitchener Rangers OHL 56 38 34 72 18th 25th 16 22nd 38 11
2008 Kitchener Rangers Memorial Cup 5 2 6th 8th 2
2008/09 Milwaukee Admirals AHL 79 12 23 35 28 11 0 3 3 8th
2009/10 Milwaukee Admirals AHL 48 7th 10 17th 21st - - - - -
2009/10 Nashville Predators NHL 28 0 3 3 0 6th 0 0 0 0
2010/11 Nashville Predators NHL 74 8th 6th 14th 20th 12 2 4th 6th 0
2011/12 Nashville Predators NHL 77 10 12 22nd 18th 10 0 3 3 0
2012/13 Nashville Predators NHL 47 9 4th 13 18th - - - - -
2013/14 Nashville Predators NHL 71 13 19th 32 14th - - - - -
2014/15 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 82 9 18th 27 26th 5 1 1 2 4th
2015/16 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 35 1 6th 7th 18th - - - - -
2015/16 San Jose Sharks NHL 23 2 4th 6th 6th 24 0 1 1 6th
2016/17 Genève-Servette HC NLA 41 14th 24 38 14th 4th 2 2 4th 0
2017/18 Genève-Servette HC NL 34 9 9 18th 8th 1 0 0 0 0
OHL total 179 71 85 156 81 34 16 22nd 38 13
AHL total 131 20th 34 54 51 11 0 3 3 8th
NHL overall 437 52 72 124 120 57 3 9 12 10
NL (A) total 75 23 33 56 22nd 5 2 2 4th 0

( 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 Spaling  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Maple Leafs complete trade with San Jose. mapleleafs.nhl.com, February 22, 2016, accessed February 22, 2016 (English).
  2. ^ Nick Spaling est le quatrième étranger. gshc.ch, August 10, 2016, accessed on August 10, 2016 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Spaling, Nick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spaling, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Palmerston , Ontario , Canada