Stefan Elliott

Stefan Elliott
Date of birth	January 30, 1991
place of birth	Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	87 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2009 , 2nd round, 49th position Colorado Avalanche
Career stations
2006-2007	Vancouver Northwest Giants
2007-2011	Saskatoon Blades
2011-2015	Lake Erie Monsters Colorado Avalanche
2015-2016	Arizona Coyotes
2016	Nashville Predators Milwaukee Admirals
2016-2017	Ak Bars Kazan
2017-2018	HV71
2018	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins
2018-2019	Belleville Senators
since 2019	HK Dinamo Minsk

Stefan Elliott (born January 30, 1991 in Vancouver , British Columbia ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with HK Dinamo Minsk from the Continental Hockey League since June 2019 and plays there in the position of defender .

Career

Stefan Elliott started from the 2007/08 season regularly in the Western Hockey League for the Saskatoon Blades , after he had previously completed a season with the Vancouver NW Giants in a junior league in British Columbia . In his first full season for the Blades, Elliott was the team's most successful defender with 40 scorer points . In his second season , the Canadian was awarded the Daryl K. (Doc) Seaman Trophy by the WHL , which recognizes both athletic and academic achievements. A little later he received a similar, cross-league award with the Scholastic Player of the Year Award of the Canadian Hockey League .

On March 4, the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League transferred their second-round draft pick for the 2009 NHL Entry Draft , an annual event at which National Hockey League teams can secure the rights to promising young players, as well as defenders Lawrence Nycholat and Ryan Wilson in exchange for Jordan Leopold for the Colorado Avalanche . With this draft pick, Colorado selected Stefan Elliott in 49th position overall. The Canadian completed two more seasons in the Western Hockey League before signing his first professional contract with the Avalanche on March 21, 2011. Following the 2010/11 WHL season , Elliott was awarded the Bill Hunter Memorial Trophy as the best defensive player in the league and was elected to the WHL's First All-Star team. The player had his first professional appearances in the American Hockey League with Colorado's farm team , the Lake Erie Monsters , which he supported on the defensive in the play-offs of the 2010/11 AHL season . With the beginning of the following season , the defender was part of the regular roster of the Lake Erie Monsters.

A few weeks after the start of the season, Elliott was called to the squad of the Colorado Avalanche after an injury to Erik Johnson . On November 26, 2011, the defender completed his first National Hockey League game; in the 5-2 success of the Avalanche against the Edmonton Oilers , Elliott also immediately scored his first NHL goal. Overall, Stefan Elliott came in the 2011/12 NHL season on 39 missions for the Colorado Avalanche, he got four hits and nine assists . After 18 appearances in the 2012/13 season , he began the 2013/14 season again with the Lake Erie Monsters in the AHL.

After he had only five NHL appearances in the 2014/15 season, his expiring contract in Colorado was not extended. As a result, he was given to the Arizona Coyotes as a restricted free agent in exchange for Brandon Gormley , and a little later agreed on a one-year contract with the Coyotes. After the Canadian initially played 19 NHL games for the Coyotes at the beginning of the 2015/16 season , he was transferred to the Nashville Predators in January 2016 in exchange for Victor Bartley within the league . In the organization of the Predators he was mainly for the Milwaukee Admirals in the AHL before he received no new contract in Nashville after the season.

As a result, Elliott joined Ak Bars Kazan from the Continental Hockey League (KHL) in September 2016 , but could not convince there with 11 scorer points in 31 KHL games. Shortly after the start of the 2017/18 season, Kazan transferred his still valid KHL contract to HK Dinamo Minsk in exchange for Rob Klinkhammer . The defender left the league, however, in the direction of Sweden and there signed a contract with HV71 from the Svenska Hockeyligan . He made his return to the NHL in July 2018 when he was awarded a one-year contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins . However, they only used him on their AHL farm team in Wilkes-Barre / Scranton before he was handed over to the Ottawa Senators together with Tobias Lindberg in December 2018 . In return, Macoy Erkamps and Ben Sexton moved to Pittsburgh. During the rest of the season, the defender played mainly for Ottawa's farm team Belleville Senators in the AHL. In June 2019 he finally received a contract with the Belarusian club HK Dinamo Minsk from the Continental Hockey League, where he had already played in Kazan three years earlier.

International

Stefan Elliott represented the Canadian national team for the first time at an international tournament at the U18 World Junior Championship in 2009 . The team lost in this tournament their semi-final game against the US national team , as well as the following game for third place against the Finnish selection and finished the tournament in fourth place. Elliott completed six games and scored two assists.

Elliott made his senior team debut at the 2018 Winter Olympics , where he won the bronze medal with the team that competed without NHL players.

Achievements and Awards

2009 Participation in the CHL Top Prospects Game 2009 Daryl K. (Doc) Seaman Trophy 2009 CHL Scholastic Player of the Year 2011 WHL East First All-Star Team

2011 Bill Hunter Memorial Trophy 2011 WHL Plus-Minus Award 2015 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic

International

• 2018 bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games

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
2006/07	Vancouver Northwest Giants	Minor BC		36	12	19th	31		18th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Saskatoon Blades	WHL		1	0	0	0	-1	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Saskatoon Blades	WHL		67	9	31	40	-18	17th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Saskatoon Blades	WHL		71	16	39	55	+20	26th		7th	1	3	4th	+2	4th
2009/10	Saskatoon Blades	WHL		72	26th	39	65	+41	24		10	3	5	8th	+3	4th
2010/11	Saskatoon Blades	WHL		71	31	50	81	+62	14th		10	3	5	8th	± 0	0
2010/11	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		-	-	-	-	-	-		5	0	2	2	-3	0
2011/12	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		30th	5	9	14th	+5	5		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		30th	4th	9	13	+2	8th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		44	5	8th	13	-10	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		18th	1	3	4th	-3	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		61	14th	14th	28	-16	14th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		1	1	0	1	± 0	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		64	19th	21st	40	–9	22nd		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		5	0	0	0	-2	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Arizona Coyotes	NHL		19th	2	4th	6th	-2	4th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Milwaukee Admirals	AHL		35	8th	11	19th	+11	14th		3	0	1	1	-3	2
2015/16	Nashville Predators	NHL		2	0	0	0	-1	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Ak Bars Kazan	KHL		31	4th	7th	11	-2	12		1	0	0	0	-1	0
2017/18	HV71	SHL		34	4th	17th	21st	+16	14th		2	0	0	0	± 0	2
2018/19	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		20th	1	7th	8th	+4	4th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Belleville Senators	AHL		44	6th	14th	20th	-1	8th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Ottawa Senators	NHL		3	0	1	1	+1	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
WHL overall				282	82	159	241	+104	81		27	7th	13	20th	+5	8th
AHL total				298	58	84	142	-16	72		8th	0	3	3	–6	2
NHL overall				87	8th	17th	25th	-5	16		-	-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Canada to:

• World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2008
• U18 Junior World Championship 2009
• Olympic Winter Games 2018

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2008	Canada Pacific	U17-WHC	4th Place		6th	0	0	0	0
2009	Canada	U18 World Cup	4th Place		6th	0	2	2	0
2018	Canada	Olympia			2	0	0	0	0
Juniors overall					12	0	2	2	0
Men overall					2	0	0	0	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 )

Web links

• Stefan Elliott in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Stefan Elliott at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Avalanche Signs Stefan Elliott. Colorado Avalanche , March 21, 2011, accessed April 18, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Elliott Named WHL's Top Defenseman. Colorado Avalanche , April 5, 2011, accessed April 18, 2012 . 
3. ↑ avalanche.nhl.com: "Avalanche Reduces Roster to 27" (English, September 25, 2013, accessed on October 22, 2013)
4. ↑ predators.nhl.com Predators Acquire Stefan Elliott from Arizona
5. ↑ Senators acquire Stefan Elliott and Tobias Lindberg from Pittsburgh. nhl.com, December 5, 2018, accessed December 6, 2018 .