Nino Niederreiter

Switzerland Nino Niederreiter


Date of birth	September 8, 1992
place of birth	Chur , Switzerland
Nickname	El Niño
Size	185 cm
Weight	92 kg

position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left

Draft

KHL Junior Draft	2010 , 4th round, 90th position HK Awangard Omsk
NHL Entry Draft	2010 , 1st round, 5th position New York Islanders

Career stations

until 2006	EHC Chur
2006-2009	HC Davos
2009-2011	Portland Winterhawks
2011-2013	New York Islanders
2013-2019	Minnesota Wild
since 2019	Carolina Hurricanes

Nino Niederreiter (born September 8, 1992 in Chur ) is a Swiss ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League since January 2019 . Previously, the left winger , who began his career in his home country with HC Davos , was active in the NHL with the New York Islanders , who selected him in fifth position in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft , and Minnesota Wild . With the Swiss national team , he won the silver medal at the 2013 World Cup and 2018 World Cup .

Career

Niederreiter comes from the offspring of the EHC Chur , before he moved to the junior division of HC Davos in the summer of 2006 . Niederreiter was considered one of the greatest talents in Swiss ice hockey. So he was used in the 2008/09 season at the age of 16 in three playoff games of the eventual Swiss champions HC Davos and provided a template.

Niederreiter in the Bridgeport Sound Tigers jersey

After he was selected in the 2009 CHL Import Draft in second overall position by the Portland Winterhawks from the Western Hockey League , he moved to North America in autumn 2009. In the 2010 NHL Entry Draft , Niederreiter was selected in fifth overall position by the New York Islanders and was thus the most highly elected Swiss player in the history of the NHL Entry Draft until Nico Hischier ( 2017 ) . In September 2010 he signed a three-year contract with the New York Islanders. On October 13, 2010 he scored his first goal in the National Hockey League with the 1-0 lead against the Washington Capitals . Thus, at 18 years and 35 days, Niederreiter became the youngest Islanders scorer of all time. On October 28, 2010, the New York Islanders club management decided to send Niederreiter back to the Portland Winterhawks after nine games this season. In the 2010/11 season he played in Portland together with his compatriot Sven Bärtschi and reached the final games of the Ed Chynoweth Cup with the team , in which the Winterhawks were defeated in five games by the Kootenay Ice .

Before the 2011/12 season, Niederreiter received a regular place in the Islanders' NHL squad, but injured himself in a preparatory game. After recovery, he was initially used in five games in the American Hockey League before he played his first NHL game of the season in mid-November. Finally, the young Swiss was transferred back to the AHL, where he completed the entire 2012/13 season as a regular player. In late June 2013, the attacker was transferred to the Minnesota Wild in exchange for Cal Clutterbuck and a third-round vote in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft . There he finally managed to establish himself in the NHL. Niederreiter scored his first goal for Minnesota on October 12, 2013, in a 5-1 home win over the Dallas Stars. At the end of the regular season, Niederreiter had 36 scorer points. The Minnesota Wild qualified for the playoffs, where they lost 4-2 to the Chicago Blackhawks in the second round after games. In 13 playoff games, the Chur driver contributed three goals and three assists.

In the course of the following three years the confederate steadily increased in his point yield. After his record year with 57 points at the end of the 2016/17 season , Niederreiten signed a new five-year contract in Minnesota in July 2017, which should earn him an average annual salary of 5.25 million US dollars. At the time it was signed, it was the best-value contract of a Swiss ice hockey player. However, he did not fulfill the contract with the Wild, as he was transferred to the Carolina Hurricanes in January 2019 in exchange for Victor Rask .

International

Internationally, Niederreiter played for Switzerland at the U18 Junior World Championships in 2008 and 2009 . In addition, at the age of 17, he surprisingly led his home country to the semi -finals of the 2010 U20 Junior World Cup . With the U20 selection of Switzerland he reached fourth place and was appointed to the all-star team of the tournament.

In spring 2010 Niederreiter was called up for the men's national team, for which he played a game at the 2010 World Cup . At the 2013 World Cup in Stockholm and Helsinki he was again part of the national team and won the silver medal with it. He repeated this success at the 2018 World Cup .

He also represented the Europe team at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey , where he finished second with the team.

Achievements and Awards

2009 Swiss champion with HC Davos
2010 Participation in the CHL Top Prospects Game
2010 WHL West Second All-Star Team

2013 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic
2016 honorary citizen of the city of Chur

International

2010 All-Star Team of the U20 Junior World Championship
2013 silver medal at the world championship
2016 second place at the World Cup of Hockey
2018 silver medal at the world championship

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

			Regular season					Play-offs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2006/07	HC Davos U18	Elite novices	32	43	19th	62	38	-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	HC Davos U18	Elite novices	32	39	26th	65	62	-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	HC Davos U20	Elite Jr. A	5	5	1	6th	4th	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	HC Davos U18	Elite novices	6th	6th	6th	12	6th	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	HC Davos U20	Elite Jr. A	30th	20th	14th	34	44	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	HC Davos	NLA	-	-	-	-	-	3	0	1	1	0
2009/10	Portland Winterhawks	WHL	65	36	24	60	68	13	8th	8th	16	16
2010/11	New York Islanders	NHL	9	1	1	2	8th	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Portland Winterhawks	WHL	55	41	29	70	67	21st	9	18th	27	30th
2011/12	New York Islanders	NHL	55	1	0	1	12	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Bridgeport Sound Tigers	AHL	6th	3	1	4th	4th	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Bridgeport Sound Tigers	AHL	74	28	22nd	50	38	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Minnesota Wild	NHL	81	14th	22nd	36	44	7th	2	2	4th	6th
2014/15	Minnesota Wild	NHL	80	24	13	37	28	10	4th	1	5	10
2015/16	Minnesota Wild	NHL	82	20th	23	43	36	6th	1	4th	5	4th
2016/17	Minnesota Wild	NHL	82	25th	32	57	53	5	0	1	1	2
2017/18	Minnesota Wild	NHL	63	18th	14th	32	36	5	0	0	0	0
2018/19	Minnesota Wild	NHL	46	9	14th	23	10	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL	36	14th	16	30th	20th	15th	1	3	4th	12
WHL overall			120	77	53	130	135	34	17th	26th	43	46
AHL total			80	31	23	54	42	-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall			534	126	135	261	247	54	9	13	22nd	36

International

Represented Switzerland at:

Represented Team Europe at:

World Cup of Hockey 2016

Niederreiter at an international match, April 2012

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2008	Switzerland	U18 World Cup	8th place	6th	1	1	2	2
2009	Switzerland	U18 World Cup	8th place	6th	3	3	6th	16
2010	Switzerland	U20 World Cup	4th Place	7th	6th	4th	10	10
2010	Switzerland	WM	5th place	4th	0	0	0	4th
2012	Switzerland	WM	11th place	6th	0	0	0	2
2013	Switzerland	WM		10	5	3	8th	2
2014	Switzerland	Olympia	9th place	4th	0	0	0	2
2016	Switzerland	WM	11th place	7th	3	3	6th	2
2016	Team Europe	World cup	2nd place	6th	0	1	1	2
2018	Switzerland	WM		10	4th	5	9	10
2019	Switzerland	WM	8th place	2	1	1	2	0
Juniors overall				19th	10	8th	18th	28
Men overall				49	13	13	26th	24

( 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 )