Rob Klinkhammer

Rob Klinkhammer
Date of birth	August 12, 1986
place of birth	Lethbridge , Alberta , Canada
Nickname	The Colonel
size	191 cm
Weight	95 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2010-2011	Chicago Blackhawks
2011–2012	Ottawa Senators
2012-2014	Arizona Coyotes
2014-2015	Pittsburgh Penguins
2015-2016	Edmonton Oilers
2016-2017	HK Dinamo Minsk
2017-2019	Ak Bars Kazan
2019-2020	HK Awangard Omsk
since 2020	HK Dinamo Minsk

Robert "Rob" Klinkhammer (* 12. August 1986 in Lethbridge , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who since July 2020 when HC Dinamo Minsk of the Continental Hockey League is (KHL) under contract and there on the position of left winger plays . Previously, Klinkhammer was with the Edmonton Oilers , Pittsburgh Penguins , Arizona Coyotes , Ottawa Senators and Chicago Blackhawks in the National Hockey League (NHL).

Career

In the 2006/07 season , his last in the Junior Western Hockey League , Klinkhammer first played a game with the Seattle Thunderbirds . He then moved to the Portland Winterhawks and finally to the Brandon Wheat Kings . In 66 games that the attacker played this season, he scored 33 goals and 40 assists. In the play-offs, he reached the semifinals of the Eastern Conference with Brandon, scoring four more goals and four assists.

For the 2007/08 season , the Canadian moved to the Norfolk Admirals and played his first professional season in the American Hockey League . On October 19, 2007 he succeeded in his professional debut against the Binghamton Senators an assist. His first goal as a professional he scored on November 23, 2007 against the Springfield Falcons . In March 2008, he scored a goal in six games in a row. He scored a total of twelve goals and twelve assists in 66 games. 8 June 2008 signed Klinkhammer a contract for two years as a free agent with the Rockford IceHogs , the farm team of the Chicago Blackhawks . Due to an injury to the right winger of the Blackhawks, Patrick Kane , he made his debut on December 10, 2010 in the home game against the Dallas Stars in the National Hockey League . It was his only game in the 2010-11 NHL season .

After more than three years with the Rockford IceHogs, where the striker scored 44 goals in 242 games and prepared another 65, Klinkhammer moved to the Ottawa Senators in December 2011 and initially played with their farm team Binghamton Senators in the AHL. On March 4, 2012, he played against the Florida Panthers for the first time with Ottawa in the NHL. After the game, Ottawa's coach Paul MacLean described Klinkhammer as one of his best players. In his 15 games of the NHL 2011/12 Klinkhammer got two assists.

On July 3, 2012, he signed a contract with the Phoenix Coyotes . Due to the 2012 NHL lockout , the winger first played with the Portland Pirates in the 2012/13 season . On October 23, 2012, he managed the first hat trick of his career. After the lockouts ended in January 2012, he played with Phoenix. He scored five goals and six assists in 22 games. In December 2014, he was transferred to league rivals Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for Philip Samuelsson , who reacted to their injury-related staff situation in the storm. After only 10 missions, the Penguins gave him in January 2015, including a first-round vote for the 2015 NHL Entry Draft, to the Edmonton Oilers , who in return transferred David Perron to Pittsburgh.

In June 2016, Klinkhammer left North America and joined HK Dinamo Minsk from the Continental Hockey League . After a year of play there, he was transferred to league competitor Ak Bars Kazan shortly after the start of the 2017/18 season in exchange for Stefan Elliott . With Kazan he won the Gagarin Cup in the same season . Ultimately he was active for two years for the club from Tatarstan before moving again within the league to HK Awangard Omsk . His engagement there ended after just one season in May 2020. Two months later, he was signed by league rival HK Dinamo Minsk, for whom he had already played in the 2016/17 season .

International

Klinkhammer made his international debut at the 2018 Winter Olympics , where he won the bronze medal with the Canadian team, which competed without NHL players.

Achievements and Awards

• 2018 Gagarin Cup win and Russian champion with Ak Bars Kazan

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
2003/04	Lethbridge Hurricanes	WHL		25th	2	3	5	12		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Lethbridge Hurricanes	WHL		72	14th	12	26th	81		5	0	1	1	4th
2005/06	Lethbridge Hurricanes	WHL		35	5	7th	12	15th		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Seattle Thunderbirds	WHL		32	3	5	8th	37		7th	0	1	1	6th
2006/07	Seattle Thunderbirds	WHL		1	0	0	0	9		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Portland Winterhawks	WHL		37	23	19th	42	70		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Brandon Wheat Kings	WHL		28	10	21st	31	29		11	4th	4th	8th	22nd
2007/08	Norfolk Admirals	AHL		66	12	12	24	41		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Rockford IceHogs	AHL		76	15th	18th	33	32		4th	0	1	1	0
2009/10	Rockford IceHogs	AHL		72	10	14th	24	38		4th	1	1	2	7th
2010/11	Rockford IceHogs	AHL		76	17th	29	46	63		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Rockford IceHogs	AHL		18th	2	4th	6th	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Binghamton Senators	AHL		35	12	23	35	30th		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Ottawa Senators	NHL		15th	0	2	2	2		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Portland Pirates	AHL		53	14th	30th	44	36		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Phoenix Coyotes	NHL		22nd	5	6th	11	10		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Phoenix Coyotes	NHL		72	11	9	20th	19th		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Arizona Coyotes	NHL		19th	3	0	3	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		10	1	2	3	0		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		40	1	2	3	23		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Bakersfield Condors	AHL		27	14th	10	24	36		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		14th	1	0	1	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	HK Dinamo Minsk	KHL		47	21st	21st	42	65		5	1	1	2	0
2017/18	HK Dinamo Minsk	KHL		7th	1	1	2	27		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Ak Bars Kazan	KHL		42	7th	13	20th	32		19th	3	5	8th	10
2018/19	Ak Bars Kazan	KHL		57	19th	5	24	79		4th	1	0	1	8th
2019/20	HK Awangard Omsk	KHL		44	12	15th	27	57		-	-	-	-	-
WHL overall				230	57	67	124	253		23	4th	6th	10	32
AHL total				423	96	140	236	282		8th	1	2	3	7th
NHL overall				193	22nd	21st	43	64		-	-	-	-	-
KHL total				197	60	55	115	260		28	5	6th	11	18th

International

Represented Canada to:

• Olympic Winter Games 2018

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2018	Canada	Olympia			6th	0	2	2	2
Men overall					6th	0	2	2	2

( 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

Commons : Rob Klinkhammer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rob Klinkhammer at legendsofhockey.net ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
• Rob Klinkhammer at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ nhl.com Penguins acquire Klinkhammer from Coyotes