Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

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Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
Date of birth April 12, 1993
place of birth Burnaby , British Columbia , Canada
Nickname RNH
size 184 cm
Weight 78 kg
position center
number # 93
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2011 , 1st round, 1st position
Edmonton Oilers
Career stations
2008-2011 Red Deer Rebels
since 2011 Edmonton Oilers

Ryan Noel Jeremy Nugent-Hopkins (born April 12, 1993 in Burnaby , British Columbia ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract for the Edmonton Oilers in the National Hockey League since July 2011 . The center was selected by the Oilers as the first overall draft pick in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft .

Career

Nugent-Hopkins in the Red Deer Rebels jersey (2010).

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins played since the 2008/09 season for the Red Deer Rebels in the Western Hockey League (WHL), which selected him in the 2008 Bantam Draft in first overall position. The striker came on five missions late this season, in which he scored six points scorer. From the WHL season 2009/10 , the attacker became a regular for the Rebels and completed 67 games for the Rebels in his second year in the WHL, in which he scored 24 goals and a total of 65 points. Because of these achievements, he was awarded the Jim Piggott Memorial Trophy after the season , which is awarded annually to the best WHL rookie . The Rebels reached the play-offs this season , but were eliminated in the first round against the Saskatoon Blades .

In the 2010/11 season , Nugent-Hopkins was the third-best scorer in the Western Hockey League with 106 scorer points scored in 69 completed games. In the play-offs, the Rebels defeated the Edmonton Oil Kings in the first round and were eliminated in the second round, the Conference semifinals, against the Medicine Hat Tigers . Following this season, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins was appointed to the WHL All-Star Team and received the CHL Top Draft Prospect Award . In the 2011 NHL Entry Draft , Nugent-Hopkins was selected in the first round in first overall position by the Edmonton Oilers . For the first time since 1996, when the Ottawa Senators selected defender Chris Phillips as first overall, a WHL player was selected in first overall position.

On July 2, 2011, Nugent-Hopkins signed a three-year entry - level contract with the Edmonton Oilers. In his first NHL game on October 9, 2011, the attacker scored in the game against the Pittsburgh Penguins to equalize 1-1. Six days later, the Canadian managed a hat trick against the Vancouver Canucks . In early November 2011, the National Hockey League (NHL) named him NHL Rookie of the Month for October after the offensive player had scored as many points in eleven games. On November 19, 2011, he scored five assists in the Oilers' 9-2 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks , something that no 18-year-old player in NHL history had achieved before. The National Hockey League named Nugent-Hopkins NHL Rookie of the Month for November, making him the second player in history, after Yevgeny Malkin five years earlier, to be honored as the best NHL rookie in his first two months in the National Hockey League received.

In the course of the following seasons, Nugent-Hopkins established himself as a regular scorer in the Oilers' squad.

International

Nugent-Hopkins in the jersey of the Canadian national team (2012).

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins represented his home country with the Canadian national team for the first time in 2010 at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament , where he ran up as assistant captain of the Canadians and was the most successful Canadian scorer with seven points in five games together with Matt Puempel . In addition, he scored the decisive goal in the final game against the US national team . The attacker also received an invitation to Canada's training camp for the 2011 U20 World Junior Championship , but was removed from the squad shortly before the tournament began.

Achievements and Awards

International

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 +/-
2008/09 Red Deer Rebels WHL 5 2 4th 6th 0 –6 - - - - - -
2009/10 Red Deer Rebels WHL 67 24 41 65 28 -4 4th 0 2 2 0 -2
2010/11 Red Deer Rebels WHL 69 31 75 106 51 +30 9 4th 7th 11 6th -3
2011/12 Edmonton Oilers NHL 62 18th 34 52 16 -2 - - - - - -
2012/13 Oklahoma City Barons AHL 19th 8th 12 20th 6th +7 - - - - - -
2012/13 Edmonton Oilers NHL 40 4th 20th 24 8th +3 - - - - - -
2013/14 Edmonton Oilers NHL 80 19th 37 56 26th -12 - - - - - -
2014/15 Edmonton Oilers NHL 76 24 32 56 25th -12 - - - - - -
2015/16 Edmonton Oilers NHL 55 12 22nd 34 18th –9 - - - - - -
2016/17 Edmonton Oilers NHL 82 18th 25th 43 29 -10 13 0 4th 4th 2 -3
2017/18 Edmonton Oilers NHL 62 24 24 48 20th +10 - - - - - -
2018/19 Edmonton Oilers NHL 82 28 41 69 26th -13 - - - - - -
2019/20 Edmonton Oilers NHL 65 22nd 39 61 33 +1 4th 2 6th 8th -2 0
WHL overall 141 57 120 177 79 +20 13 4th 9 13 6th -5
NHL overall 604 169 274 443 201 -44 17th 2 10 12 2 -5

International

Represented Canada to:

 

Represented team North America at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2010 Canada Pacific U17-WHC 5th place 5 1 4th 5 6th
2010 Canada HIMT 1st place, gold 5 5 2 7th 6th
2012 Canada WM 5th place 8th 4th 2 6th 4th
2013 Canada U20 World Cup 4th Place 6th 4th 11 15th 4th
2016 North America team World cup 5th place 3 1 2 3 2
2018 Canada WM 4th Place 10 5 3 8th 2
Juniors overall 16 10 17th 27 16
Men overall 21st 10 7th 17th 8th

( 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 : Ryan Nugent-Hopkins  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nhl.com, Nugent-Hopkins repeats as Rookie of the Month
  2. ↑ hockeycanada.ca, Canada Statistics - 2010 Memorial of Ivan Hlinka
  3. ↑ tsn.ca, Nugent-Hopkins Pots Winner For Canada At Hlinka Final
  4. ↑ cbc.ca, Nugent-Hopkins among final world junior cuts
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Squad of the Edmonton Oilers in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME Nugent-Hopkins, Ryan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nugent-Hopkins, Ryan Noel Jeremy (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Burnaby , British Columbia