Rob O'Gara

Rob O'Gara
Date of birth	July 6, 1993
place of birth	Nesconset , New York , USA
size	193 cm
Weight	94 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2011 , 5th round, 151st position Boston Bruins
Career stations
2012-2016	Yale University
2016-2018	Boston Bruins Providence Bruins
2018-2019	New York Rangers Hartford Wolf Pack
2019	San Antonio Rampage
since 2019	Springfield Thunderbirds

Robert Dominick "Rob" O'Gara (born July 6, 1993 in Nesconset , New York ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Springfield Thunderbirds from the American Hockey League since December 2019 and holds the position of Defender plays.

Career

O'Gara played for various teams on Long Island as a teenager before joining the Milton Academy high school ice hockey team for two years in 2010 . After graduating from high school, during which he was selected in the fifth round in the fifth round of the Boston Bruins from the National Hockey League in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft , the defender moved to the prestigious Yale University . There he ran parallel to his studies for the ice hockey program of the university in the ECAC Hockey , a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . With this he won the national championship in his freshman year, which was also the first in the history of the university. In the following three years O'Gara developed into one of the most defensive defensive players in the entire NCAA and was given numerous appointments to various selection teams in the ECAC Hockey and Ivy League .

As a result, at the end of March 2016 he was given a three-year NHL entry contract by the Boston Bruins and from then on he worked for Boston's farm team , the Providence Bruins , in the American Hockey League (AHL). For this O'Gara completed five games at the end of the 2015/16 season in which he scored a goal. By performing well in the pre-season training camp, he earned a place in the Boston Bruins squad at the beginning of the 2016/17 season and made his debut there in Boston's first game. After three NHL appearances, the defender returned to the AHL for the time being.

After about two years in the organization of the Bruins, O'Gara was handed over to the New York Rangers in February 2018, including a third-round vote for the 2018 NHL Entry Draft , who in return sent Nick Holden to Boston. There he ended the season, but from the 2018/19 season he was only used at the Hartford Wolf Pack in the AHL, so that his contract, which was about to expire, was not extended in the summer of 2019. He subsequently joined the San Antonio Rampage in August 2019 , where he signed a contract limited to the AHL. The defensive player stayed with the Rampage until the beginning of December 2019, before he was transferred to league rivals Springfield Thunderbirds .

Achievements and Awards

2013 NCAA Division I Championship with Yale University 2014 All- Ivy League Second Team 2015 NCAA East First All-American Team 2015 ECAC Best Defensive Defenseman 2015 ECAC First All-Star Team

2015 All-Ivy League First Team 2016 ECAC Best Defensive Defenseman 2016 All-Ivy League First Team 2016 NCAA East Second All-American Team

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
2012/13	Yale University	ECAC		37	0	7th	7th	32
2013/14	Yale University	ECAC		33	4th	7th	11	30th
2014/15	Yale University	ECAC		33	6th	15th	21st	31
2015/16	Yale University	ECAC		30th	4th	8th	12	41
2015/16	Providence Bruins	AHL		5	1	0	1	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Providence Bruins	AHL		59	4th	9	13	30th		3	0	0	0	4th
2016/17	Boston Bruins	NHL		3	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Providence Bruins	AHL		43	2	6th	8th	16		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Boston Bruins	NHL		8th	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	New York Rangers	NHL		22nd	0	3	3	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Hartford Wolf Pack	AHL		47	3	8th	11	64		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		5	0	0	0	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Springfield Thunderbirds	AHL		20th	3	3	6th	4th		-	-	-	-	-
ECAC total				133	14th	37	51	134
AHL total				179	13	26th	39	124		3	0	0	0	4th
NHL overall				33	0	3	3	6th		-	-	-	-	-

( 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

• Rob O'Gara in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Rob O'Gara at eliteprospects.com (English)