Nico Sturm

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GermanyGermany  Nico Sturm Ice hockey player
Date of birth May 3, 1995
place of birth Augsburg , Germany
size 191 cm
Weight 94 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Career stations
until 2009 Augsburg EV
2009-2014 ESV Kaufbeuren
2014 Corpus Christi Ice Rays
2014-2015 Austin Bruins
2015-2016 Tri-City Storm
2016-2019 Clarkson University
since 2019 Minnesota Wild
Iowa Wild

Nico Sturm (born May 3, 1995 in Augsburg ) is a German ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Minnesota Wild in the National Hockey League (NHL) since April 2019 and at the same time for their farm team , the Iowa Wild , in the American Hockey League (AHL) plays on the position of the center .

Career

The Sturm, who comes from the Augsburg district of Neubergheim , played as a youth for the Augsburg EV and then for the ESV Kaufbeuren and in the 2011/12 season also for the HC Landsberg temporarily . In January 2014 he moved to the United States for the Corpus Christi Ice Rays  from the North American Hockey League (NAHL) and played in this second-highest junior division in the USA from the 2014/15 season for the Austin Bruins . In the 2015/16 season, the attacker moved to the higher-ranking United States Hockey League (USHL) and was active there for the Tri-City Storm , with which he won the USHL playoffs for the Clark Cup at the end of the year .

In autumn 2016 storm took a degree in Economics in the State of New York located Clarkson University and at the same time secured a regular place in the ice hockey team of the university, the Clarkson Golden Knights . For the Golden Knights, he ran in the following three years in the ECAC , a college league in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), which was marked by numerous successes and awards for him. As a freshman he was called to the ECAC All-Rookie Team , before being elected to the Third All-Star Team and the First All-Star Team in the following seasons . In addition, the Center was named the league's best defensive striker in 2018 and 2019, while captaining the ECAC championship in his third and final year of college . He was also nominated as one of ten finalists for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award , which honors the best college player in the United States.

Without previously being considered in an NHL Entry Draft , Sturm signed a contract with the Minnesota Wild from the National Hockey League (NHL) as a free agent in early April 2019 as a free agent until the end of the 2018/19 season . A little later he made his debut in the top division of North America. In July 2019, the Wild extended his contract by one year until the end of the 2019/20 season.

International

Sturm took part with the German U20 national team in the 2015 U20 World Junior Championship in the Canadian cities of Toronto and Montreal . He remained pointless in six tournament games, received twelve penalty minutes and rose with the team as tenth in the final classification in Group A of Division I.

The striker has not made any international appearances for the senior national team .

Achievements and Awards

  • 2016 Clark Cup win with the Tri-City Storm
  • 2017 ECAC All-Rookie Team
  • 2018 ECAC Best Defensive Forward
  • 2018 ECAC Third All-Star Team
  • 2019 ECAC Championship with Clarkson University

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 ESV Kaufbeuren U18 DNL 31 3 4th 7th 33 3 0 0 0 0
2012/13 ESV Kaufbeuren U18 DNL 33 11 22nd 33 22nd - - - - -
2013/14 ESV Kaufbeuren U18 DNL 24 13 21st 34 20th - - - - -
2013/14 Corpus Christi Ice Rays NEAR 21st 1 2 3 2 - - - - -
2014/15 Austin Bruins NEAR 53 11 30th 41 28 13 7th 6th 13 0
2015/16 Tri-City Storm USHL 57 14th 25th 39 47 5 3 3 6th 0
2016/17 Clarkson University NCAA 39 8th 13 21st 37
2017/18 Clarkson University NCAA 40 14th 23 37 14th
2018/19 Clarkson University NCAA 39 14th 31 45 29
2018/19 Minnesota Wild NHL 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2019/20 Iowa Wild AHL 55 12 20th 32 18th - - - - -
2019/20 Minnesota Wild NHL 6th 0 2 2 0 2 1 0 1 0
DNL total 88 27 47 74 75 3 0 0 0 0
NAHL total 74 12 32 44 30th 13 7th 6th 13 0
NCAA overall 118 36 67 103 80
NHL overall 8th 0 2 2 0 2 1 0 1 0

International

Represented Germany at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2015 Germany U20 World Cup 10th place 6th 0 0 0 12
Juniors overall 6th 0 0 0 12

( 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 older brother Dennis Sturm (* 1993) is also an ice hockey player and played a game for ESV Kaufbeuren in the DEL2 in the 2011/12 season . However , he is not related to Marco Sturm .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Augsburger Allgemeine: Nico Sturm from Augsburg takes off in the USA. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
  2. ^ Nico Sturm - Men's Hockey. In: Clarkson University. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Minnesota Wild brings striker Nico Sturm into the NHL - 23-year-old is set to make his debut this week. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Nico Sturm makes NHL debut for Minnesota. rp-online.de, April 5, 2019, accessed April 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Sturm, Nico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Augsburg , Germany