Noah Welch

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Noah Welch
Date of birth August 26, 1982
place of birth Brighton , Massachusetts , USA
size 193 cm
Weight 96 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2001 , 2nd round, 54th position
Pittsburgh Penguins
Career stations
2001-2005 Harvard University
2005-2007 Pittsburgh Penguins
2007-2009 Florida panthers
2009 Tampa Bay Lightning
2009-2011 Chicago Wolves
2011–2012 HV71
2012-2015 Vaxjo Lakers
2015-2016 MODO hockey
since 2016 Malmo Redhawks

Noah Paul Welch (born August 26, 1982 in Brighton , Massachusetts ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Malmö Redhawks in the Svenska Hockeyligan since April 2016 .

Career

Noah Welch began his career as a hockey player on the Harvard University team , where he was active from 2001 to 2005. He had previously been selected as a high school player in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft in the second round as a total of 54 players by the Pittsburgh Penguins .

For the Penguins he made his debut in the National Hockey League in the 2005/06 season , scoring four points in five games. The rest of the season he spent with Pittsburgh's farm team from the American Hockey League , the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins . On February 27, 2007, the defender was given in exchange for Gary Roberts to the Florida Panthers , where he spent the following two years in the NHL, before ending the 2008/09 season with their league rivals Tampa Bay Lightning . On July 13, 2009, Welch received a one-year contract as a free agent with the Atlanta Thrashers . In his first season in the Thrashers organization, Welch went to the AHL for their farm team, the Chicago Wolves . At the end of June 2010 this extended his contract for another season, in which Welch was still mainly active for the Wolves and also completed two NHL games for the Thrashers.

In the summer of 2011 decided to become involved in Europe and joined the Swedish club HV71 from the Elitserien . For the 2012/13 season he moved within the league to the Växjö Lakers , where he served as the team's assistant captain for the next three years . In the 2014/15 season , the American won the Swedish championship with the Lakers and was awarded the Stefan Liv Memorial Trophy as the most valuable player in the play-offs. In June 2015 he moved to league competitor MODO Hockey and temporarily took over the captaincy of the team in the following 2015/16 season , representing the injured Byron Ritchie .

For the 2016/17 season he moved to the Malmö Redhawks within the SHL .

Internationally, he represented his home country at the 2018 Winter Olympics and finished seventh there with the team that competed without an NHL player.

Achievements and Awards

  • 2002 ECAC All-Rookie Team
  • 2002 ECAC Second All-Star Team
  • 2002 ECAC championship with Harvard University
  • 2003 ECAC Second All-Star Team
  • 2003 NCAA East Second All-American Team
  • 2004 ECAC championship with Harvard University

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2016/17 season

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2001/02 Harvard University ECAC 27 5 6th 11 56
2002/03 Harvard University ECAC 34 6th 22nd 28 70
2003/04 Harvard University ECAC 34 6th 13 19th 58
2004/05 Harvard University ECAC 34 6th 12 18th 86
2005/06 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins AHL 77 9 20th 29 99 11 1 0 1 18th
2005/06 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 5 1 3 4th 2 - - - - -
2006/07 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins AHL 27 5 16 21st 24 - - - - -
2006/07 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 22nd 1 1 2 22nd - - - - -
2006/07 Florida panthers NHL 2 1 0 1 2 - - - - -
2006/07 Rochester Americans AHL 11 2 4th 6th 21st 6th 0 2 2 12
2007/08 Florida panthers NHL 4th 0 0 0 7th - - - - -
2008/09 Florida panthers NHL 23 1 1 2 11 - - - - -
2008/09 Rochester Americans AHL 7th 0 3 3 10 - - - - -
2008/09 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 17th 0 0 0 14th - - - - -
2009/10 Chicago Wolves AHL 37 1 4th 5 33 14th 0 2 2 10
2010/11 Chicago Wolves AHL 50 2 11 13 65 - - - - -
2010/11 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2011/12 HV71 Elitserien 51 4th 6th 10 85 6th 1 1 2 0
2012/13 Vaxjo Lakers Elitserien 43 8th 9 17th 56 - - - - -
2013/14 Vaxjo Lakers SHL 43 2 17th 19th 82 12 2 2 4th 10
2014/15 Vaxjo Lakers SHL 52 5 23 28 100 17th 2 4th 6th 53
2015/16 Modo hockey SHL 32 3 13 16 56 7 1 0 3 3 10
2016/17 Malmo Redhawks SHL 51 2 9 11 79 13 1 1 2 18th
NHL overall 75 4th 5 9 58 - - - - -

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2018 United States Olympia 7th place 5 0 0 0 -2 4th
Men overall 5 0 0 0 -2 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 )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thrashers sign Anthony Stewart and Noah Welch. In: nhl.com. July 14, 2009, accessed April 18, 2018 .
  2. ↑ shl.se Noah Welch: "I'm playing a bigger role this year" (Swedish)
  3. ^ Stefan Liv Memorial Trophy-vinnare clear for Malmö Redhawks. In: Malmö Redhawks. Retrieved April 27, 2016 .

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personal data
SURNAME What, Noah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Which, Noah Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Brighton , Massachusetts , USA