Stefan Matteau

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Stefan Matteau
Date of birth February 23, 1994
place of birth Chicago , Illinois , USA
size 188 cm
Weight 100 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2012 , 1st round, 29th position
New Jersey Devils
Career stations
2010–2012 US National Team Development Program
2012-2013 Armada de Blainville-Boisbriand
2013-2016 New Jersey Devils
2016-2017 Canadiens de Montréal
St. John's IceCaps
2017-2019 Vegas Golden Knights
Chicago Wolves
since 2019 Cleveland Monsters

Stefan Matteau (born February 23, 1994 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American ice hockey player of Canadian origin who has been under contract with the Columbus Blue Jackets since February 2020 and with their farm team, the Cleveland Monsters from American Hockey, since August 2019 League , playing in the position of the left winger . His father Stéphane Matteau was also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Matteau was born in the American metropolis of Chicago when his Canadian-born father Stéphane Matteau played for the Chicago Blackhawks in the National Hockey League . Furthermore, he lived in New York City , St. Louis , San José and in southern Florida during his childhood due to his father's professional career , before the family settled in Montreal , Canada after Stéphane's retirement.

He himself began his ice hockey career in the US National Team Development Program of the US ice hockey association USA Hockey , of which he was a member between 2010 and 2012. For the U18 team, he ran out of the United States Hockey League . After the end of the 2011/12 season, the power forward was selected in the first round in the NHL Entry Draft 2012 in 29th place by the New Jersey Devils from the National Hockey League. In August of the same year, the Devils Matteau signed, but initially sent him back to the junior division, where he ran up to January 2013 for the Armada de Blainville-Boisbriand in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec . These had received his rights in January 2012 from the Saguenéens de Chicoutimi .

In mid-January 2013, the attacker was finally summoned to the New Jersey NHL squad and soon made his debut. He played 17 games for the Devils by mid-March before returning to LHJMQ to support his junior team in the play-offs . For the 2013/14 season Matteau finally switched to the professional field, but came in the following two game years only to seven other NHL appearances for New Jersey, as he was mainly used in the farm team in the American Hockey League , the Albany Devils . It was only in the 2015/16 season that the attacker managed to collect more minutes in the NHL again. Nevertheless, the Devils were not convinced of the development of their former first-round suffrage and transferred him to the Canadiens de Montréal in his adopted home at the end of February 2016 in exchange for Devante Smith-Pelly . There the striker ended the season. In the 2016/17 season Matteau found himself again in the AHL, where he went on the ice for Montréal's cooperation partner St. John's IceCaps .

After the 2016/17 season, his expiring contract in Montréal was not extended, so he joined the newly founded Vegas Golden Knights as a free agent in July 2017 . There he came in the following two years - apart from eight games for the Golden Knights - exclusively with the Chicago Wolves in the AHL for use. In August 2019, he subsequently signed an AHL-limited contract with the Cleveland Monsters . However, their NHL cooperation partners, the Columbus Blue Jackets , equipped him with a contract until the end of the 2020/21 season after convincing performances in February 2020.

International

Matteau decided to play in the junior division for the United States and thus against his father's country of birth. His younger sister Alyson, on the other hand, played for Canada at the U18 World Junior Championship in 2015 .

He himself represented the US boys at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2011 , which the Americans finished by winning the silver medal, and the U20 World Junior Championship in 2014 . There the team did not get past fifth place. Matteau played five games in both tournaments.

Achievements and Awards

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
2010/11 US National Team Development Program USHL 28 4th 5 9 47 2 0 0 0 2
2011/12 US National Team Development Program USHL 18th 6th 4th 10 93 - - - - -
2012/13 Armada de Blainville-Boisbriand LHJMQ 35 18th 10 28 70 11 3 6th 9 16
2012/13 New Jersey Devils NHL 17th 1 2 3 6th - - - - -
2013/14 Albany Devils AHL 67 13 13 26th 66 4th 1 0 1 4th
2014/15 Albany Devils AHL 61 12 15th 27 40 - - - - -
2014/15 New Jersey Devils NHL 7th 1 0 1 4th - - - - -
2015/16 Albany Devils AHL 1 0 0 0 4th - - - - -
2015/16 New Jersey Devils NHL 20th 1 0 1 13 - - - - -
2015/16 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 12 0 1 1 4th - - - - -
2016/17 St. John's IceCaps AHL 67 12 13 25th 122 4th 3 1 4th 2
2017/18 Chicago Wolves AHL 60 15th 12 27 57 3 0 1 1 4th
2017/18 Vegas Golden Knights NHL 8th 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
2018/19 Chicago Wolves AHL 55 5 8th 13 78 21st 3 5 8th 22nd
USHL total 46 10 9 19th 140 2 0 0 0 2
AHL total 311 57 61 118 367 32 7th 7th 14th 32
NHL overall 64 3 4th 7th 27 - - - - -

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2011 United States U17-WHC 2nd place, silver 5 2 3 5 2
2014 United States U20 World Cup 5th place 5 3 1 4th 10
Juniors overall 10 5 4th 9 12

( 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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personal data
SURNAME Matteau, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois