Nickolas Latta

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Nickolas Latta
Date of birth 5th October 1993
place of birth Schongau , Germany
size 185 cm
Weight 88 kg
position center
number # 19
Shot hand Right
Career stations
2008-2010 SC Riessersee
2010-2014 Sarnia Sting
2014 Hartford Wolf Pack
2014-2018 Cologne Sharks
2018 Wichita Thunder
since 2018 Grizzlies Wolfsburg

Nickolas "Nick" Latta (born October 5, 1993 in Schongau ) is a German - Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Grizzlys Wolfsburg in the German Ice Hockey League since the 2018/19 season .

Career

Nickolas Latta played from the 2008/09 season for SC Riessersee in the German Junior League (DNL). In his first season, the striker scored 10 goals and a total of 17 points in 35 games. With his team he was eliminated in the following play-offs in the first round against the Heilbronner Falken junior team . In the DNL season 2009/10 Latta was able to increase his points yield significantly and achieve 31 goals and 31 assists in 34 games. The SC Riessersee could not qualify for the play-offs.

Nick Latta was selected at the CHL Import Draft 2010 in the second round in 62nd position by the Sarnia Sting from the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). He decided to move to North America and completed 61 games in the 2010/11 OHL season for the Sting, in which he scored 15 points scorer. A total of 4 years he played for the Stings in the Canadian Junior League , where he was able to achieve 66 points (38 goals, 28 assists) last year.

After reaching the age limit for the Junior League at the age of 20, he was given the opportunity to play in the AHL for the New York Rangers' farm team - the Hartford Wolf Packs - in 2014 , where he earned 2 points (1 goal, 1 assist ) scored. When he was threatened with deportation to the ECHL to the Greenville Road Warriors for the 2014/15 season , he returned to the German Ice Hockey League and signed a contract with the Kölner Haien , which was extended for another year during the 2014/15 season .

On January 10, 2018, he terminated the contract with the Kölner Haien. On January 12, 2018, he signed a contract with Wichita Thunder until the end of the season. At the beginning of April 2018, Latta was announced as a new addition to the Wolfsburg Grizzlys .

International

Nick Latta represented the German national team for the first time in an international tournament at the U20 World Junior Championship in 2011 . The attacker played four games in this tournament in which he did not score any points.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league GP G A. Pts PIM GP G A. Pts PIM
2008-09 SC Riessersee DNL 35 10 7th 17th 56 3 1 0 1 2
2009-10 SC Riessersee DNL 34 31 31 62 74 - - - - -
2010-11 Sarnia Sting OHL 61 9 6th 15th 26th - - - - -
2011-12 Sarnia Sting OHL 53 4th 4th 8th 40 6th 0 0 0 0
2012–13 Sarnia Sting OHL 58 17th 14th 31 51 4th 3 0 3 4th
2013-14 Sarnia Sting OHL 65 38 28 66 87 - - - - -
2013-14 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 11 1 1 2 7th - - - - -
2014–15 Cologne Sharks DEL 43 8th 6th 14th 30th - - - - -
DNL total 69 41 38 79 130 3 1 0 1 2
OHL total 237 68 52 120 204 10 3 0 3 4th
AHL total 11 1 1 2 7th - - - - -
DEL total 43 8th 6th 14th 30th - - - - -

International

year team event result GP G A. Pts PIM
2011 Germany U20 World Cup 10th place 4th 0 0 0 0
2011 Germany U18 World Cup 6th place 6th 1 0 1 4th
2012 Germany U20 World Cup Div. IA 1st place 5 3 1 4th 2
Juniors overall 15th 4th 1 5 6th

( 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

His father Ken was also a professional ice hockey player and currently works as a coach . His uncle David was also a professional ice hockey player.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nickolas Latta celebrates Christmas with the family , In: Merkur, December 23, 2011, accessed on April 20, 2015.
  2. ↑ Nick Latta moves from the Sarnia Sting junior club to the Hartford Wolf Pack , In: Ice Hockey News, March 19, 2014, accessed on April 20, 2015.
  3. ↑ Nick Latta - DEL instead of NHL , In: Merkur, October 8, 2014, accessed April 20, 2015.
  4. ↑ Nick Latta Becomes a Shark , In: Merkur, October 8, 2014, accessed April 20, 2015.
  5. ↑ Krupp, Latta and Zerressen - Haie extend three players at once , In: Kölner Rundschau, November 28, 2014, accessed on April 20, 2015.
  6. ↑ https://www.ksta.de/sport/koelner-haie/eishockey-latta-verlaesst-koelner-haie-frustriert-29462186
  7. ↑ https://www.grizzlys.de/news_861.html
Squad of the Grizzlys Wolfsburg in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME Latta, Nickolas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Latta, Nick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Schongau , Germany