Slater Koekkoek

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Slater Koekkoek
Date of birth February 18, 1994
place of birth Winchester , Ontario , Canada
size 188 cm
Weight 90 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2012 , 1st round, 10th position
Tampa Bay Lightning
Career stations
2010-2013 Peterborough Petes
2013-2014 Windsor Spitfires
2014-2019 Tampa Bay Lightning
Syracuse Crunch
since 2019 Chicago Blackhawks

Slater Koekkoek (born February 18, 1994 in Winchester , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League since January 2019 and plays there in the position of defender .

Career

Koekkoek spent part of his junior years with the Peterborough Petes in the Ontario Hockey League , for which he was active from the beginning of the 2010/11 season until January 2013. He was canceled for large parts of the 2011/12 season due to a shoulder injury. Nevertheless, he was selected in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft in tenth overall position by the Tampa Bay Lightning from the National Hockey League . In January 2013, the defender left the Petes and switched to league rivals Windsor Spitfires , for whom he was only used twice during the rest of the season, as a renewed shoulder injury ended his season prematurely. But Koekkoek finished his last year in the junior division with 53 points in 62 games.

In autumn 2014, the defender finally switched to the professional field after the Lightning had signed him in March 2013. He spent most of the 2014/15 and 2015/16 playing years in the American Hockey League with Tampa's farm team , the Syracuse Crunch . Nevertheless, he made his NHL debut for the Lightning in the course of the 2014/15 season and came to twelve missions over the course of two years. With the beginning of the 2015/16 season Koekkoek was more often in the NHL squad of the Tampas.

After almost six years in the organization of the Lightning, the defender was handed over to the Chicago Blackhawks in January 2019, including a five-round vote for the 2019 NHL Entry Draft , who in return sent Jan Rutta and a seven-round vote for the same draft to Tampa.

International

For his home country Koekkoek competed in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2011 , the U18 Junior World Championship 2011 and the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2011 . With the exception of the world title fights, which the Canadians finished in fourth place, the defender won the gold medal with the teams.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2010/11 Peterborough Petes OHL 65 7th 16 23 67 - - - - -
2011/12 Peterborough Petes OHL 26th 5 13 18th 17th - - - - -
2012/13 Peterborough Petes OHL 40 6th 22nd 28 28 - - - - -
2012/13 Windsor Spitfires OHL 2 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
2013/14 Windsor Spitfires OHL 62 15th 38 53 51 - - - - -
2014/15 Syracuse crunch AHL 72 5 21st 26th 44 3 0 1 1 6th
2014/15 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 3 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
2015/16 Syracuse crunch AHL 60 5 10 15th 26th - - - - -
2015/16 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 9 0 1 1 2 10 0 1 1 2
2016/17 Syracuse crunch AHL 48 2 11 13 14th 22nd 1 6th 7th 4th
2016/17 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 29 0 4th 4th 8th - - - - -
2017/18 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 35 4th 4th 8th 18th - - - - -
2018/19 Syracuse crunch AHL 5 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
2018/19 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 9 1 0 1 4th - - - - -
2018/19 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 22nd 1 4th 5 10 - - - - -
OHL total 195 33 90 123 163 - - - - -
AHL total 185 12 43 55 86 25th 1 7th 8th 10
NHL overall 107 6th 13 19th 44 10 0 1 1 2

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2011 Canada Ontario U17-WHC 1st place, gold 5 1 2 3 8th
2011 Canada U18 World Cup 4th Place 7th 1 1 2 2
2011 Canada HIMT 1st place, gold 5 0 5 5 0
Juniors overall 17th 2 8th 10 10

( 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 )

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Squad of the Chicago Blackhawks in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME Koekkoek, Slater
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Winchester , Ontario