Nigel Dawes

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Nigel Dawes
Date of birth February 9, 1985
place of birth Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada
size 175 cm
Weight 86 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2003 , 5th lap, 149th position
New York Rangers
Career stations
2001-2005 Kootenay Ice
2005-2007 Hartford Wolf Pack
2007-2009 New York Rangers
2009 Phoenix Coyotes
2009-2010 Calgary Flames
2010-2011 Chicago Wolves
2011 Hamilton Bulldogs
2011-2018 Barys Astana
2018-2020 Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg
since 2020 Ak Bars Kazan

Nigel Alexander Dawes (born February 9, 1985 in Winnipeg , Manitoba ) is a Canadian ice hockey player with Kazakh citizenship, who has been under contract with Ak Bars Kazan from the Continental Hockey League (KHL) since July 2020, where he is in the position of left winger plays.

Career

Dawes in the New York Rangers jersey

Nigel Dawes began his professional career as a hockey player with Kootenay Ice , for which he was active in the Western Hockey League from 2001 to 2005 . With the team he won both the WHL championship and the traditional Memorial Cup in 2002 . During this time he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2003 in the fifth round as a total of 149th player by the New York Rangers . For the farm team of the Rangers from the American Hockey League , the Hartford Wolf Pack , Dawes played for the first time in the 2003/04 season . After he had spent the time of lockout in the 2004/05 NHL season in the WHL at Kootenay Ice, the Canadian played the entire season for Hartford in the AHL in the 2005/06 season.

The following season, Dawes made his National Hockey League debut for New York, scoring one goal in eight regular season games. He was also once on the ice in the playoffs for the Rangers. Although Dawes received significantly more ice time in the following two seasons, he was handed over to the Phoenix Coyotes shortly before the end of the trade deadline in the 2008/09 season , for which he scored two assists in twelve games by the end of the season.

In September 2010, Dawes signed as a free agent with the Atlanta Thrashers . The 2010/11 season he began in the farm team with the Chicago Wolves and was appointed to the NHL squad of the Thrashers after strong performances in the American Hockey League during the season. In February 2011, he was given to the Montréal Canadiens together with Brent Sopel in exchange for Ben Maxwell and a four-round vote in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft . For this, the left-handed shooter played four encounters and spent the rest of the season in the farm team with the Hamilton Bulldogs and reached the Conference Finals with them. In the playoffs, the striker contributed 22 scorer points to the Bulldogs' successful performance. At the end of May 2011, he moved with Dustin Boyd to the Continental Hockey League at Barys Astana , where he played until 2018. In 2015, 2016 and 2017 he was nominated for the KHL All-Star Game .

In 2018, after seven years in Astana, including two seasons as team captain, he moved to Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg . There he stayed for two seasons before finally switching again to Ak Bars Kazan within the KHL .

International

For Canada , Dawes took part in the U20 World Junior Championships in 2004 and 2005 . He won a silver and a gold medal. At the Deutschland Cup 2012 he was fourth and last with the Canadian national team . After his naturalization in Kazakhstan, he played with the local national team at the 2016 World Cup in the top division and at the 2017 World Cup , when he became the top scorer and top scorer (together with the Austrian Konstantin Komarek ) as the best striker and the All-Star -Team of the tournament was chosen in Division I. He also represented Kazakhstan in the Olympic qualification for the Winter Games in Pyeongchang 2018 .

Achievements and Awards

  • 2016 participation in the KHL All-Star Game
  • 2017 participation in the KHL All-Star Game
  • 2017 KHL Player of the Month for September
  • 2017 KHL Player of the Month for October
  • 2018 participation in the KHL All-Star Game
  • 2018 KHL Player of the Month for October
  • 2018 KHL Player of the Month for November
  • 2019 participation in the KHL All-Star Game
  • 2020 participation in the KHL All-Star Game

International

  • 2017 Best Forward World Championship Division I, Group A.
  • 2017 Topscorer of the World Championship Division I, Group A.
  • 2017 World Cup Division I, Group A top scorer
  • 2017 All-Star Team of the World Championship Division I, Group A.

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
2001/02 Kootenay Ice WHL 54 15th 19th 34 14th 22nd 9 6th 15th 8th
2002 Kootenay Ice Memorial Cup 4th 1 1 2 4th
2002/03 Kootenay Ice WHL 72 47 45 92 54 11 4th 8th 12 6th
2003/04 Kootenay Ice WHL 56 47 23 70 31 4th 1 2 3 10
2003/04 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 4th 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2004/05 Kootenay Ice WHL 63 50 26th 76 30th 12 5 10 15th 5
2005/06 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 77 35 32 67 21st 13 6th 6th 12 9
2006/07 New York Rangers NHL 8th 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
2006/07 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 65 27 33 60 29 7th 5 6th 11 9
2007/08 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 20th 14th 20th 34 2 - - - - -
2007/08 New York Rangers NHL 61 14th 15th 29 10 10 2 2 4th 0
2008/09 New York Rangers NHL 52 10 9 19th 15th - - - - -
2008/09 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 12 0 2 2 0 - - - - -
2009/10 Calgary Flames NHL 66 14th 18th 32 18th - - - - -
2010/11 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 9 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
2010/11 Chicago Wolves AHL 47 27 17th 44 17th - - - - -
2010/11 Hamilton Bulldogs AHL 19th 14th 14th 28 7th 20th 14th 8th 22nd 8th
2010/11 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 4th 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2011/12 Barys Astana KHL 52 16 16 32 34 - - - - -
2012/13 Barys Astana KHL 51 20th 14th 34 28 7th 7th 2 9 4th
2013/14 Barys Astana KHL 54 26th 23 49 18th 7th 2 2 4th 4th
2014/15 Barys Astana KHL 60 32 24 56 48 7th 4th 3 7th 10
2015/16 Barys Astana KHL 55 31 22nd 53 16 - - - - -
2016/17 Barys Astana KHL 59 36 26th 62 31 10 7th 3 10 4th
2017/18 Barys Astana KHL 46 35 21st 56 26th - - - - -
2018/19 Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg KHL 60 28 41 69 12 8th 2 3 5 4th
2019/20 Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg KHL 59 20th 30th 50 13 5 0 1 1 2
WHL overall 245 159 113 272 129 49 19th 26th 45 29
AHL total 232 117 116 233 76 40 26th 19th 45 26th
NHL overall 212 39 45 84 43 11 2 2 4th 0
KHL total 508 249 225 474 228 51 23 16 39 26th

International

Represented Canada to:

Represented Kazakhstan at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2002 Canada Western U17-WHC 7th place 5 2 2 4th 4th
2004 Canada U20 World Cup 2nd place, silver 6th 6th 5 11 10
2005 Canada U20 World Cup 1st place, gold 6th 2 4th 6th 6th
2016 Kazakhstan WM 16th place 7th 4th 4th 8th 4th
2016 Kazakhstan Olympic qualification 3rd place 2 1 1 2 0
2017 Kazakhstan WM Div. IA 3rd place 5 5 4th 9 0
2019 Kazakhstan Olympic qualification 2nd place 2 0 2 2 0
Juniors overall 17th 10 11 21st 20th
Men overall 16 10 11 21st 4th

( 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. ^ Thrashers sign former Flames forward Dawes. In: espn.com.au. September 13, 2010, accessed April 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Alessandro Seren Rosso: Nigel Dawes Has Found Second Home in Kazakhstan. In: thehockeywriters.com. September 20, 2017, accessed April 11, 2018 .
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Squad of Ak Bars Kazan in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME Dawes, Nigel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dawes, Nigel Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-Kazakh ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada