Sam Reinhart

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Sam Reinhart
Date of birth November 6, 1995
place of birth North Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 83 kg
position center
number # 23
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2014 , 1st round, 2nd position
Buffalo Sabers
Career stations
2009-2011 Vancouver Northwest Giants
2011-2015 Kootenay Ice
since 2014 Buffalo Sabers

Samson "Sam" Reinhart (born November 6, 1995 in North Vancouver , British Columbia ) is a Canadian ice hockey player . The center has been under contract with the Buffalo Sabers in the National Hockey League (NHL) since July 2014 , who had selected him in second position in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft . He is the son of former NHL professional Paul Reinhart , who played in the NHL for eleven seasons. His older brothers Max and Griffin are also ice hockey players.

Career

Reinhart began his career in his neighboring community, West Vancouver , where he went through various ages with the Hollyburn MHA youth club . He then played for two years for the Vancouver Northwest Giants in the BC Hockey Major Midget League and won the league title in its 2010/11 season. With 78 points from 34 games, he was also the second best scorer in the league. He was also appointed to the selection of his home province British Columbia for the Canada Games 2011, where he won the gold medal with the U16 team. In the tournament's scorer rating, he was tied with Nathan MacKinnon in fourth place with eleven points .

Sam Reinhart at the Top Prospect Game 2014

With the Giants, Reinhart qualified for the Telus Cup , in which the six best Canadian teams at midget level play for the national title every year . Reinhart scored three goals and six assists in the opening game. He finished the tournament with 20 points from seven games as the second best scorer of the tournament and received the award as the best striker.

Simultaneously, Sam Reinhart completed four games for the Kootenay Ice from the Western Hockey League , which had selected him at the beginning of the season in a total of 15th position in the WHL Bantam Draft . There he played in a team with his brother Max . On his WHL debut against the Edmonton Oil Kings , the team of his other brother Griffin , he scored the winning goal. In the play-offs 2011 he was back for seven appearances in the squad of Ice, with which he was finally able to win the Ed Chynoweth Cup by beating the Portland Winterhawks in the final series .

For the 2011/12 season he finally moved to the WHL and played in the team's second attack row. Occasionally he also stood on the ice at the side of his brother Max. He finished the season with 62 points from 67 games as the fourth-best rookie scorer in the league and was also the rookie with the highest points in the history of the Ice team. In addition, he was behind his brother in second place in the team's internal scorer rating. At the end of the season he prevailed in the election for the Jim Piggott Memorial Trophy as Rookie of the Year in the WHL against his future strike partner Tim Bozon .

In the following season Reinhart was able to significantly improve his point yield and with 85 points from 72 games exceeded the mark of one point per game for the first time. At the end of the season he led the scorer list of the Kootenay Ice and was elected to the Second All-Star Team of the Eastern Conference . He was then appointed team captain of the Ice at the age of 17.

In the CHL Top Prospects Game , in which the 40 most hopeful talents compete against each other for the NHL Entry Draft , Reinhart was named captain of Don Cherry's team and closed the game with a goal and an assist. In February 2014, he led the WHL with 22 assists and 32 points and set new team records for the Ice for the longest series of points and assists. He was then named WHL Player of the Month. Prior to the 2014 NHL Entry Draft , Reinhart was ranked second in the International Scouting Services . Eventually, the Buffalo Sabers picked him second and signed him in July 2014. In December 2014, the Sabers deleted him from the NHL squad, so he returned to the Kootenay Ice.

With the start of the 2015/16 season, Reinhart is firmly in the Sabers NHL squad.

International

Sam Reinhart represented the Canada Pacific team at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2012 and scored 10 points in five games over the course of the tournament. Behind the Swede Victor Öhman , he was the second best scorer of the tournament. In the same year, the striker was also appointed to the squad of the Canadian U18 national team and won the bronze medal at the U18 Junior World Cup in 2012 . As a 16-year-old he was the youngest player on his team and finished the tournament with six points from seven games.

In the 2012/13 season, Reinhart was named captain of the U18 team and led Canada to the gold medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2012 . With four points in the semifinals against the Czech Republic, he laid the foundation for the final. Overall, he finished the tournament with three goals and five assists. At the U18 Junior World Championship in Sochi in the same year, he also won the gold medal with the Canadian team.

At the U20 World Junior Championship in 2014 , he was the third youngest player in the Canadian squad behind Connor McDavid and Aaron Ekblad . He scored five points in seven games and finished the tournament with Canada in fourth place. A year later, at the U20 World Cup in 2015 , he won the gold medal with the team in his own country and was the tournament's top scorer with 11 points.

Reinhart made his debut for the Canadian senior team at the 2016 World Cup and won the gold medal there with the team.

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
2009/10 Vancouver Northwest Giants BCMML 5 2 0 2 0 5 0 1 1 2
2010/11 Vancouver Northwest Giants BCMML 34 38 40 78 6th 5 5 4th 9 0
2011 Vancouver Northwest Giants Telus Cup 7th 7th 13 20th 0
2010/11 Kootenay Ice WHL 4th 2 0 2 0 7th 0 0 0 0
2011 Kootenay Ice Memorial Cup 1 0 0 0 0
2011/12 Kootenay Ice WHL 67 28 34 62 2 4th 1 1 2 0
2012/13 Kootenay Ice WHL 72 35 50 85 22nd 5 0 1 1 4th
2013/14 Kootenay Ice WHL 60 36 69 105 11 13 6th 17th 23 2
2014/15 Kootenay Ice WHL 47 19th 46 65 20th 7th 6th 3 9 8th
2014/15 Rochester Americans AHL 3 0 3 3 0 - - - - -
2014/15 Buffalo Sabers NHL 9 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
2015/16 Buffalo Sabers NHL 79 23 19th 42 8th - - - - -
2016/17 Buffalo Sabers NHL 79 17th 30th 47 8th - - - - -
2017/18 Buffalo Sabers NHL 82 25th 25th 50 26th - - - - -
2018/19 Buffalo Sabers NHL 82 22nd 43 65 16 - - - - -
2019/20 Buffalo Sabers NHL 69 22nd 28 50 20th - - - - -
WHL overall 250 120 199 319 55 36 13 22nd 35 14th
NHL overall 400 109 146 255 80 - - - - -

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2012 Canada Pacific U17-WHC 5th place 5 4th 6th 10 2
2012 Canada U18 World Cup 3rd place, bronze 7th 2 4th 6th 0
2012 Canada HIMT 1st place, gold 5 3 5 8th 0
2013 Canada U18 World Cup 1st place, gold 7th 3 4th 7th 2
2014 Canada U20 World Cup 4th Place 7th 2 3 5 0
2015 Canada U20 World Cup 1st place, gold 7th 5 6th 11 6th
2016 Canada WM 1st place, gold 10 0 4th 4th 0
2019 Canada WM 2nd place, silver 10 3 2 5 0
Juniors overall 38 19th 28 47 10
Men overall 20th 3 6th 9 0

( 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 )

Play style

Reinhart is considered a very intelligent playmaker with good positional play and an overview of the field and his teammates. His creative style of play, his goal instinct and his forward-looking game are also positively highlighted by scouts . His shot has been compared to that of James Neal . In addition, Reinhart has good leadership skills and a high degree of adaptability.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ Men's Ice Hockey Tournament , Canada Games 2011
  2. ^ 3 Stars of The Day , Hockey Canada, April 2011
  3. ↑ Match report Edmonton Oil Kings - Kootenay Ice ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , WHL Network, October 19, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / whl.ca
  4. ^ Trevor Crawley: All in the Reinhart Family , WHL Network, April 18, 2012
  5. ^ WHL Announces 2011–2012 Award Winners , Island Sports News
  6. ↑ Kelly Friesen: Kootenay Ice's Sam Reinhart, barely 16, already making case for NHL draft , Yahoo Sports, March 30, 2012
  7. ↑ KOOTENAY ICE: Name Reinhart Captain , WHL Network, April 2, 2013
  8. ↑ Mike G. Morreale: Reinhart, Ekblad named captains of Top Prospects , NHL.com, Jan. 9, 2014
  9. ↑ Ice's Reinhart WHL Player of the Month , WHL Network, March 4, 2014
  10. ^ ISS Draft Rankings (February 2014) , The Sports Network , February 14, 2014
  11. ↑ Canadian Press: Canada Advances To Ivan Hlinka Final With 5-2 Win Over Czech Republic , Hockey Canada
  12. ↑ Mike G. Morreale: Kingston's Bennett rises to top of midterm rankings , NHL.com, Jan. 13, 2014
  13. ↑ Sam Reinhart at eliteprospects.com (English)
  14. ↑ Reinhart Tied For 1st in Mckenzie's Top Prospects , Kootenay Ice, September 18, 2013
  15. ↑ Franklin Steele: Sam Reinhart scouting report: Getting to know possible No. 1 selection for the 2014 NHL draft , FanSided, October 20, 2013
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personal data
SURNAME Reinhart, Sam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reinhart, Samson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH North Vancouver , British Columbia