Nolan Pratt

Nolan Pratt
Date of birth	August 14, 1975
place of birth	Fort McMurray , Alberta , Canada
size	191 cm
Weight	94 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1993 , 5th lap, 115th position Hartford Whalers
Career stations
1991-1995	Portland Winter Hawks
1995-1997	Springfield Falcons
1997-2000	Carolina Hurricanes
2000-2001	Colorado Avalanche
2001-2007	Tampa Bay Lightning
2007-2008	Buffalo Sabers
2008-2010	Amur Khabarovsk
2010-2011	Rauman Lukko

Nolan Pratt (born August 14, 1975 in Fort McMurray , Alberta ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach , who played 630 games for the Hartford Whalers , Carolina Hurricanes , Colorado Avalanche , Tampa, and others between 1991 and 2011 Bay Lightning and Buffalo Sabers has played in the National Hockey League on the position of defender . Pratt celebrated his greatest career success by winning theStanley Cups  - 2001 with the Colorado Avalanche and 2004 with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Since summer 2016, Pratt has been working as an assistant trainer for his ex-team Colorado Avalanche. His younger brother Harlan was also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Nolan Pratt began his career with the Portland Winter Hawks in the Western Hockey League . During the 1993 NHL Entry Draft , he was selected in the fifth round in 115th place by the Hartford Whalers , but played for the Winter Hawks until 1995. He then played for the Whalers' farm team , the Springfield Falcons in the AHL , before making his debut in the National Hockey League during the 1996/97 season . In 1997, the Whalers moved to South Carolina and were renamed Carolina Hurricanes . Pratt played for the Hurricanes until the end of the 1999/2000 season before he was given in an exchange deal to the Colorado Avalanche in June 2000 . In return, the Hurricanes received Sandis Ozoliņš and a second-round draft pick, while the Avalanche got a first-round pick and two second-round voting rights alongside Pratt.

After only one year in Colorado, he was transferred to the Tampa Bay Lightning in June 2001 against a six-round draft pick. With the Lightning he was able to win the Stanley Cup at the end of the 2003/04 season . During the lockout in the 2004/05 NHL season , Pratt was signed by EV Duisburg at the end of the season and was able to celebrate the championship of the 2nd Bundesliga with the Füchsen . After this success he returned to Tampa.

Two years later he was not given a new contract in Tampa and was only signed by the Sabers in November 2007 , as many regular defenders of the Sabers were injured at that time.

He spent the following two years with Amur Khabarovsk from the Continental Hockey League before he was committed in November 2010 by Rauman Lukko from the Finnish SM-liiga . In the summer of 2011, Pratt decided to end his playing career and was hired as assistant coach by the Springfield Falcons from the AHL. The Canadian worked there until the summer of 2015 before moving to the Lake Erie Monsters as an assistant coach within the league . Since summer 2016 he has been working in the same position with his ex-team Colorado Avalanche.

Achievements and Awards

• 2001 Stanley Cup win with the Colorado Avalanche
• 2004 Stanley Cup win with the Tampa Bay Lightning

Career statistics

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1991/92	Portland Winter Hawks	WHL		22nd	2	9	11	13		6th	1	3	4th	12
1992/93	Portland Winter Hawks	WHL		70	4th	19th	23	97		16	2	7th	9	31
1993/94	Portland Winter Hawks	WHL		72	4th	32	36	105		10	1	2	3	14th
1994/95	Portland Winter Hawks	WHL		72	6th	37	43	196		9	1	6th	7th	10
1995/96	Richmond Renegades	ECHL		4th	1	0	1	2		-	-	-	-	-
1995/96	Springfield Falcons	AHL		62	2	6th	8th	72		2	0	0	0	0
1996/97	Springfield Falcons	AHL		66	1	18th	19th	127		17th	0	3	3	18th
1996/97	Hartford Whalers	NHL		9	0	2	2	6th		-	-	-	-	-
1997/98	Beast of New Haven	AHL		54	3	15th	18th	135		-	-	-	-	-
1997/98	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL		23	0	2	2	44		-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL		61	1	14th	15th	95		3	0	0	0	2
1999/00	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL		64	3	1	4th	90		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		46	1	2	3	40		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		46	0	3	3	51		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		67	1	7th	8th	35		4th	0	1	1	0
2003/04	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		58	1	3	4th	42		20th	0	0	0	8th
2004/05	Foxes Duisburg	2nd Bundesliga		10	2	2	4th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		82	0	9	9	60		5	0	0	0	7th
2006/07	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		81	1	7th	8th	44		6th	0	0	0	5
2007/08	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		55	1	6th	7th	22nd		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Amur Khabarovsk	KHL		35	1	9	10	28		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Amur Khabarovsk	KHL		46	2	9	11	63		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Rauman Lukko	SM-liiga		27	1	1	2	20th		12	0	0	0	18th
WHL overall				236	16	97	113	411		41	5	18th	23	67
AHL total				182	6th	39	45	334		17th	0	3	3	18th
NHL overall				592	9	56	65	537		38	0	1	1	22nd
KHL total				81	3	17th	20th	91		-	-	-	-	-

( 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

• Nolan Pratt at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Nolan Pratt at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Nolan Pratt at hockeydb.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sabers agree to terms with Nolan Pratt
2. ↑ jatkoaika.com, Nolan Pratt on Lukon uusin vahvistus , November 8, 2010