Tanner Kero

Tanner Kero
Date of birth	July 24, 1992
place of birth	Hancock , Michigan , USA
size	183 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	center
number	# 67
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2009-2010	Marquette Rangers
2010-2011	Fargo Force
2011-2015	Michigan Technological University
2015-2018	Chicago Blackhawks Rockford IceHogs
2018-2019	Utica Comets
since 2019	Texas Stars

Tanner James Kero (born July 24, 1992 in Hancock , Michigan ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League since July 2019 and for their farm team , the Texas Stars , in the American Hockey League plays on the position of the center .

Career

Kero spent his junior years between 2009 and 2011 with the Marquette Rangers in the North American Hockey League and the Fargo Force in the United States Hockey League . In the NAHL, the striker was the top scorer of the 2009/10 season and was therefore named Rookie of the Year . After his time with the juniors, the then 19-year-old enrolled at Michigan Technological University . There he spent the following four years until spring 2015. At the same time, he played for the university team in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association , a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . During this time, the attacker was appointed to numerous selection teams that recognized both his sporting and study-oriented achievements. In particular, the 2014/15 season, which he finished as top scorer and later also WCHA Player of the Year, was particularly successful. He was also one of ten finalists for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award .

After Kero was not considered in the previous NHL Entry Drafts , the Chicago Blackhawks from the National Hockey League secured the services of the free agent in April 2015 . The striker spent the remainder of the 2014-15 season with the Rockford IceHogs in the American Hockey League , where he scored five goals in six games. At the beginning of the 2015/16 season , Kero was also part of the IceHogs squad, before he was called to the Chicago NHL squad for the first time at the end of October 2015 and made his debut. After a little more than a month, he returned to the AHL for the rest of the game year, where he stayed until the following December 2016. Only then did he return to the NHL for a second time and assert himself in the Blackhawks lineup. In the following two seasons, the American also shuttled between the NHL and AHL squads, before being handed over to the Vancouver Canucks in June 2018 in exchange for Michael Chaput after three years in the organization of the Blackhawks .

After a season in which he was used exclusively for the Utica Comets in the AHL, Kero joined the Dallas Stars as a free agent in July 2019 .

Achievements and Awards

2010 NAHL All-North Division Team 2010 NAHL Rookie of the Year 2010 NAHL First All-Rookie Team 2011 USHL All-Star Game 2013 WCHA All-Academic Team

2015 WCHA First All-Star Team 2015 WCHA Outstanding Student-Athlete of the Year 2015 WCHA Player of the Year 2015 NCAA West First All-American Team

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
2009/10	Marquette Rangers	NEAR		57	32	19th	51	39		3	1	0	1	0
2010/11	Fargo Force	USHL		55	14th	23	37	22nd		5	1	0	1	2
2011/12	Michigan Technological University	NCAA		39	9	7th	16	14th
2012/13	Michigan Technological University	NCAA		33	11	13	24	27
2013/14	Michigan Technological University	NCAA		40	15th	10	25th	16
2014/15	Michigan Technological University	NCAA		41	20th	26th	46	10
2014/15	Rockford IceHogs	AHL		6th	5	0	5	0		6th	2	1	3	0
2015/16	Rockford IceHogs	AHL		60	20th	19th	39	23		3	0	2	2	0
2015/16	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		17th	1	2	3	2		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Rockford IceHogs	AHL		28	7th	13	20th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		47	6th	10	16	8th		4th	0	0	0	0
2017/18	Rockford IceHogs	AHL		36	8th	12	20th	8th		12	0	3	3	8th
2017/18	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		8th	1	2	3	0		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Utica Comets	AHL		67	24	33	57	37		-	-	-	-	-
NCAA overall				153	55	56	111	67
AHL total				197	64	77	141	82		21st	2	6th	8th	8th
NHL overall				72	8th	14th	22nd	10		4th	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

• Player biography on the Dallas Stars website
• Tanner Kero at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Canucks Acquire Tanner Kero. nhl.com, June 24, 2018, accessed June 24, 2018 .