Roope Hintz

Roope Hintz
Date of birth	November 17, 1996
place of birth	Tampere , Finland
size	191 cm
Weight	93 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2015 , 2nd round, 49th position Dallas Stars
KHL Junior Draft	2015 , 3rd round, 72nd position Yaroslavl locomotive
Career stations
until 2015	Tampereen Ilves
2015-2017	Helsingfors IFK
2017-2018	Texas Stars
since 2018	Dallas Stars

Roope Hintz (* 17th November 1996 in Tampere ) is a Finnish ice hockey player , who since May 2017 the Dallas Stars in the National Hockey League is under contract and in parallel for their farm team , the Texas Stars in the American Hockey League is used .

Career

Hintz in Ilves' jersey (2013)

Roope Hintz was born in Tampere and went through Ilves' junior department there . He already spent parts of the 2012/13 season in North America and ran there for the Tampa Bay Juniors and for the Bismarck Bobcats in the North American Hockey League , but returned to Finland for the time being. There the left winger was on the ice at the beginning of the 2013/14 season for Ilves' U20 in the A-Junioren-SM-liiga , the highest-ranking junior league in his home country. At the same time, he made his debut for the club's professional team in the Liiga . Hintz established himself there the following year, so that after 17 scorer points from 42 games in the highest professional league in Finland he was selected by the Dallas Stars in 49th position in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft ; as well as the 72nd place by Lokomotive Yaroslavl in the KHL Junior Draft 2015 .

For the time being, Hintz stayed in Finland and moved in the summer of 2015 within the Liiga to Helsingfors IFK (HIFK), with which he reached the playoff final in the following season 2015/16, but failed there because of Tappara . After a further increase in performance to 30 points in the 2016/17 season, the Finn finally signed an entry-level contract with the Dallas Stars in May 2017 . They then used him on their farm team , the Texas Stars , in the American Hockey League (AHL), with which he reached the playoff final for the Calder Cup in 2018 , but was defeated by the Toronto Marlies . In October 2018, Hintz made his debut for Dallas in the National Hockey League (NHL) and has been playing there regularly ever since.

International

Hintz gained his first international experience with the Finnish U20 national team , with which he took part in the U20 World Championships in 2015 and 2016 . There the team only finished seventh before the world championship title was won the following year. As part of the Euro Hockey Tour 2016/17, the attacker also made his debut for the senior national team in his home country.

Achievements and Awards

• 2016 gold medal at the U20 World Cup
• 2017 top scorer of the Liiga play-offs

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2013/14	Tampereen Ilves U20	Jr. A SM liiga		29	18th	20th	38	+4	16		5	0	0	0	-1	0
2013/14	Tampereen Ilves	Liiga		7th	0	0	0	-1	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Tampereen Ilves U20	Jr. A SM liiga		-	-	-	-	-	-		6th	1	1	2	-2	0
2014/15	Tampereen Ilves	Liiga		42	5	12	17th	+8	10		2	0	0	0	± 0	0
2015/16	Helsingfors IFK	Liiga		33	8th	12	20th	+15	4th		18th	2	4th	6th	+2	2
2016/17	Helsingfors IFK	Liiga		44	19th	11	30th	+10	18th		14th	3	11	14th	+5	4th
2017/18	Texas Stars	AHL		70	20th	15th	35	+2	27		22nd	4th	8th	12	± 0	4th
2018/19	Texas Stars	AHL		21st	9	13	22nd	± 0	10		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Dallas Stars	NHL		58	9	13	22nd	–11	24		13	5	3	8th	-1	2
Jr. A SM-liiga overall				29	18th	20th	38	+4	16		11	1	1	2	-3	0
Liiga overall				126	32	35	67	+32	34		34	5	15th	20th	+7	6th
AHL total				91	29	28	57	+2	37		22nd	4th	8th	12	± 0	4th
NHL overall				58	9	13	22nd	–11	24		13	5	3	8th	-1	2

International

Represented Finland at:

• U20 World Cup 2015
• U20 World Cup 2016

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2015	Finland	U20 World Cup	7th place		5	0	2	2	+3	2
2016	Finland	U20 World Cup			7th	3	1	4th	-4	2
Juniors overall					12	3	3	6th	-1	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 )

Personal

His brother Miiko Hintz (* 1992) was also an ice hockey player and also played for Ilves in the Liiga.

Web links

• Player biography on the Dallas Stars website
• Roope Hintz at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dallas Stars sign forward Roope Hintz to three-year entry level contract. nhl.com, May 4, 2017, accessed November 27, 2018 .