Ryan Donato

Ryan Donato
Date of birth	April 9, 1996
place of birth	Boston , Massachusetts , USA
size	183 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2014 , 2nd round, 56th position Boston Bruins
Career stations
2011-2015	Dexter School
2015	Omaha Lancers
2015-2018	Harvard University
2018-2019	Boston Bruins
since 2019	Minnesota Wild

Ryan Donato (born April 9, 1996 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Minnesota Wild from the National Hockey League since February 2019 and plays for them on the position of the center . He also represented the United States national team at the 2018 Winter Olympics .

Career

Ryan Donato was born in Boston when his father Ted Donato was there for the Bruins in the National Hockey League (NHL). In his youth he attended the Dexter School , a private school in Brookline , for whose ice hockey team the attacker played in the regional high school league from 2011 to 2015 . In addition, he was occasionally used in the USA Hockey National Team Development Program , the central talent factory of the US ice hockey association USA Hockey , without being able to establish himself there permanently. In the 2014 NHL Entry Draft , the Boston Bruins selected him in 56th position, making him the highest-drafted high school player of that draft year. In the 2014/15 season he also played for the Omaha Lancers in the United States Hockey League (USHL), the country's highest junior league.

In the fall of 2015, Donato enrolled at Harvard University and began studying sociology there , while at the same time participating in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for the Harvard Crimson in ECAC Hockey . There he was trained by his father, who has been the team's head coach since 2004. The center also established itself as a regular scorer at Harvard, with 40 scorer points in 36 games in the 2016/17 season , won the ECAC championship with the Crimson and was appointed to the Second All-Star Team . In addition, the attacker was nominated as one of three finalists for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award , which honors the best college player in the country; this was won by Adam Gaudette . On March 19, 2018 it was announced that Donato had signed an entry-level contract with the Bruins for two years. On the same day he made his NHL debut in the game against the Columbus Blue Jackets , where he got one goal and two assists.

In the end, Donato only spent eleven months in the Bruins franchise and played several games for the Providence Bruins farm team in the American Hockey League during the 2018/19 season . In February 2019, the organization transferred him to the Minnesota Wild along with a conditional five-round suffrage in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft , which can become a four-round pick if Boston reaches the second round of the 2019 Stanley Cup playoffs . In return, they gave Charlie Coyle to Beantown .

International

Donato made his international debut at the U20 World Cup in 2016 , winning the bronze medal with the U20 national team . At the end of December 2017, it was announced that Donato would be part of the US squad at the 2018 Winter Olympics . He benefited from the decision of the National Hockey League not to interrupt the season for this Olympiad and thus ban their players from participating. He hadn't yet signed a contract with the Boston Bruins and was one of four college players on the team. In Pyeongchang, the team finally finished seventh, with Donato, together with Ilya Kovalchuk and Kirill Kaprisow, the top scorer of the tournament with five goals.

Achievements and Awards

• 2016 bronze medal at the U20 World Cup
• 2017 ECAC championship with Harvard University
• 2017 ECAC Second All-Star Team
• 2018 best goalscorer of the Olympic Winter Games (together with Ilja Kowaltschuk and Kirill Kaprisow )
• 2018 finalist for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award

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
2011/12	Dexter School	USHS		26th	14th	22nd	36				-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Dexter School	USHS		28	29	31	60				-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Dexter School	USHS		30th	37	41	78
2014/15	Dexter School	USHS		31	18th	35	53
2014/15	Omaha Lancers	USHL		8th	5	5	10	-3	4th		3	1	0	1	-1	15th
2015/16	Harvard University	NCAA		32	13	8th	21st	+4	26th
2016/17	Harvard University	NCAA		36	21st	19th	40	+19	25th
2017/18	Harvard University	NCAA		29	26th	17th	43	+15	10
2017/18	Boston Bruins	NHL		12	5	4th	9	+2	2		3	0	0	0	-3	0
2018/19	Providence Bruins	AHL		18th	7th	5	12	-1	7th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Boston Bruins	NHL		34	6th	3	9	–11	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Minnesota Wild	NHL		22nd	4th	12	16	-4	4th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Minnesota Wild	NHL		62	14th	9	25th	+5	12		2	0	0	0	+1	2
USHS total				115	98	129	227
NCAA overall				97	60	44	104	+38	61
NHL overall				130	29	28	57	-8th	20th		5	0	0	0	-2	2

International

Represented the USA at:

• U20 World Cup 2016
• Olympic Winter Games 2018

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2016	United States	U20 World Cup			7th	3	1	4th	+4	2
2018	United States	Olympia	7th place		5	5	1	6th	-1	2
Juniors overall					7th	3	1	4th	+4	2
Men overall					5	5	1	6th	-1	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 )

Personal

His father Ted Donato completed over 800 games in the NHL and also represented the USA at the Olympic Games. His brother Jack Donato (* 1997) is also an ice hockey player and has been playing for Harvard University since 2017.

Web links

• Player biography on the Minnesota Wild website
• Ryan Donato at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bruins Sign Ryan Donato To Entry-Level Contract. Accessed March 20, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Donato Dazzles in Debut. Retrieved March 20, 2018 (American English). 
3. ↑ Team USA announces rosters for Olympic hockey teams. sportsnet.ca, January 1, 2018, accessed January 2, 2018 .