Riley Nash

Canada Riley Nash


Date of birth	May 9, 1989
place of birth	Consort , Alberta , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	87 kg

position	center
number	# 20
Shot hand	Right

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2007 , 1st lap, 21st position Edmonton Oilers

Career stations

2007-2010	Cornell University
2010-2013	Charlotte Checkers
2011-2016	Carolina Hurricanes
2016-2018	Boston Bruins
since 2018	Columbus Blue Jackets

Riley Nash (born May 9, 1989 in Consort , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Columbus Blue Jackets in the National Hockey League since July 2018 . Previously, he spent six years in the Carolina Hurricanes organization and appeared for the Boston Bruins .

Career

youth

Riley Nash was born in Consort, but before he was even one year old, his family moved to Kamloops , British Columbia . In the junior division, he played for the Kamloops-based Thompson Blazers . During his last season with the Blazers (2005/06) he took part in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2006 with the Canada Pacific team and reached fourth place. Before the end of the 2005/06 season, Nash joined the Salmon Arm SilverBacks from the British Columbia Hockey League and took part with the team in the subsequent play-offs. In the following season 2006/07 he scored 84 points in 55 games, whereupon he was voted the most valuable player of the team and rookie of the year of the Interior Conference . With these achievements he also attracted attention among the scouts, so that he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2007 , although only rated at position 64 by the Central Scouting Service , by the Edmonton Oilers in 21st position.

Cornell University

Nash decided, however, not to switch directly to the Oilers organization, but to attend Cornell University in New York State for the time being . He succeeded his brother Brendon , with whom he had already played at the SilverBacks and who had enrolled at Cornell University a year earlier. With the Big Red , the university's ice hockey team, Nash was able to assert himself straight away and was named rookie of the year by both ECAC Hockey and the Ivy League after his first season . After he was elected to the ECAC First All-Star Team after the second season, he managed to win the ECAC play-offs and thus the Whitelaw Cup with the team in the 2009/10 season . In addition, you qualified for the regional elimination for the championship of the NCAA , in which you failed in the first game at the University of New Hampshire .

In June 2010, the Edmonton Oilers surrendered their contract rights to Nash to the Carolina Hurricanes and received the 46th right to vote for the 2010 NHL Entry Draft . Just a few weeks later, he signed a three-year contract with the Hurricanes, giving up the fourth and final year that would have awaited him at Cornell University.

Carolina Hurricanes

The Hurricanes gave Nash to their farm team in the American Hockey League , the Charlotte Checkers , to give him game practice. He spent there the entire 2010/11 season and penetrated with the team in the Calder Cup play-offs to the conference final, where they were eliminated by the Binghamton Senators with a sweep . The next season he made his debut in the NHL on December 21, 2011 , but only came to five appearances for the Hurricanes and spent the rest of the time again in the AHL. He increased this rate significantly in 2012/13 when he booked 32 appearances in the NHL before he finally found himself in the NHL squad with the 2013/14 season, came to 73 games and was no longer sent back to the AHL.

Boston and Columbus

After six years in the organization of the Hurricanes, his contract, which expired after the 2015/16 season, was not renewed, so Nash joined the Boston Bruins as a free agent in July 2016 . In the same way, he switched to the Columbus Blue Jackets in July 2018 .

Achievements and Awards

2007 BCHL Interior Conference Rookie of the Year
2008 ECAC Rookie of the Year
2008 Ivy League Rookie of the Year

2009 ECAC championship with Cornell University
2009 ECAC First All-Star Team

Career statistics

Nash at a Carolina Hurricanes fundraiser (2014)

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

			Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2007/08	Cornell University	ECAC	36	12	20th	32	+6	28
2008/09	Cornell University	ECAC	36	13	22nd	35	+6	34
2009/10	Cornell University	ECAC	30th	12	23	35	+10	39
2010/11	Charlotte Checkers	AHL	79	14th	18th	32	+5	26th	16	1	3	4th	-2	16
2011/12	Charlotte Checkers	AHL	58	8th	12	20th	-15	26th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL	5	0	1	1	+1	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Charlotte Checkers	AHL	51	13	24	37	+14	20th	5	1	2	3	-4	0
2012/13	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL	32	4th	5	9	-4	8th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL	73	10	14th	24	± 0	29	-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL	68	8th	17th	25th	-10	12	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL	64	9	13	22nd	-5	18th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Boston Bruins	NHL	81	7th	10	17th	-1	14th	6th	0	2	2	± 0	2
2017/18	Boston Bruins	NHL	76	15th	26th	41	+16	18th	9	0	1	1	-3	4th
2018/19	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL	78	3	9	12	-8th	19th	7th	1	2	3	+2	4th
NCAA overall			102	37	65	102	+22	101
AHL total			188	35	54	89	+4	72	21st	2	5	7th	–6	16
NHL overall			477	56	95	151	–11	120	22nd	1	5	6th	-1	10

( 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 )