Tommy Wingels

Tommy Wingels
Date of birth	April 12, 1988
place of birth	Evanston , Illinois , USA
size	183 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	center
number	# 57
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2008 , 6th round, 177th position San Jose Sharks
Career stations
2006-2007	Cedar Rapids RoughRiders
2007-2010	Miami University
2010-2017	San Jose Sharks
2017	Ottawa Senators
2017-2018	Chicago Blackhawks
2018	Boston Bruins
since 2018	Genève-Servette HC

Tommy Wingels (born April 12, 1988 in Evanston , Illinois ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with Genève-Servette HC from the Swiss National League since August 2018 and plays for them in the position of the center .

Career

Wingels began his junior career in 2006 with the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders in the United States Hockey League . There he played a solid first season as an 18-year-old with 28 points in 47 games. For the following season, the American moved to college and began his studies at Miami University in Oxford , Ohio . At the same time he played at the university for the university team Miami RedHawks , who were based in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association , a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . In his very first season at college, Wingels recorded 29 points in 42 games. He followed similar numbers in the second year after he was selected in the sixth round in the summer of 2008 in 177th place by the San Jose Sharks in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft . Meanwhile, the team made it to the finals of the NCAA Division I championship for the first time ever, where Boston University was defeated by just 3: 4 in overtime . In his third and final year at Miami University, Wingels finally led the team as team captain on ice and was part of a quartet of four players who scored over 40 scorer points. At the end of the season, the team won the championship title of the CCHA for the first time since 2006. Wingels was also recognized as the best defensive striker and nominated for the CCHA Second All-Star Team, after he had been appointed to the NCAA's Frozen Four All-Tournament Team in spring 2009.

After the end of the season, the center received on June 1, 2010 a contract offer from the San Jose Sharks for two years, which he signed. His achievements in the pre -season training camp impressed the coaches so much that he was in the Sharks squad at the start of the 2010/11 NHL season and made his debut in the National Hockey League . He was also mainly used for the San Joses farm team , the Worcester Sharks from the American Hockey League . In the 2011/12 season , the striker gained further experience in the NHL. In the shortened season 2012/13 , which he initially spent between September 2012 and January 2013 at the Finnish ice hockey club KooKoo Kouvola in the second-rate Mestis due to the lockout , Wingels made the final jump into the NHL squad San Joses. He was a permanent member of this until January 2017, before he was given to the Ottawa Senators in exchange for Zack Stortini , Buddy Robinson and a seven-round vote in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft .

In the jersey of the Canadian capital city club, the striker fulfilled his expiring contract until the end of the season. He then joined the Chicago Blackhawks as a free agent in July 2017 . However, the Blackhawks gave it to the Boston Bruins as part of the trade deadline in February 2018 and in return received a five-round vote for the 2019 NHL Entry Draft , which should become one for the fourth round if Boston makes the second round of the playoffs 2018 or if Wingels signs a new contract with the Bruins by summer 2018. The former was fulfilled, but the latter was not, so Wingels had been looking for a new employer since July 2018. He found this in Europe when he joined Genève-Servette HC from the Swiss National League in August 2018 .

International

Wingels represented his home country at the 2014 World Cup in the Belarusian capital Minsk . There he played seven tournament games for the US team, in which he remained pointless. At the end of the tournament, the team finished sixth.

Achievements and Awards

• 2009 NCAA Frozen Four All-Tournament Team
• 2010 CCHA Championship with Miami University
• 2010 CCHA Best Defensive Forward
• 2010 CCHA Second All-Star Team

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2017/18 season

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2006/07	Cedar Rapids RoughRiders	USHL		47	10	18th	28	52		6th	3	0	3	6th
2007/08	Miami University	NCAA		42	15th	14th	29	22nd
2008/09	Miami University	NCAA		41	11	17th	28	66
2009/10	Miami University	NCAA		44	17th	25th	42	49
2010/11	San Jose Sharks	NHL		5	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Worcester Sharks	AHL		69	17th	16	33	69		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	San Jose Sharks	NHL		33	3	6th	9	18th		5	0	1	1	7th
2011/12	Worcester Sharks	AHL		29	13	8th	21st	28		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	KooKoo Kouvola	Mestis		18th	8th	14th	22nd	33		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	San Jose Sharks	NHL		42	5	8th	13	26th		11	0	2	2	6th
2013/14	San Jose Sharks	NHL		77	16	22nd	38	35		7th	0	3	3	4th
2014/15	San Jose Sharks	NHL		75	15th	21st	36	40		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	San Jose Sharks	NHL		68	7th	11	18th	63		22nd	2	0	2	21st
2016/17	San Jose Sharks	NHL		37	5	3	8th	15th		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Ottawa Senators	NHL		36	2	2	4th	12		9	0	0	0	4th
2017/18	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		57	7th	5	12	43		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Boston Bruins	NHL		18th	2	3	5	2		4th	0	0	0	0
NCAA overall				127	43	56	99	137
AHL total				98	30th	24	54	97		-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				448	62	81	143	254		58	2	6th	8th	42

International

Represented the USA at:

• World Championship 2014

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2014	United States	WM	6th place		7th	0	0	0	6th
Men overall					7th	0	0	0	6th

( 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

• Tommy Wingels in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Tommy Wingels at eliteprospects.com (English)