Torey pitcher

Torey pitcher
Date of birth	April 12, 1991
place of birth	Livonia , Michigan , USA
size	175 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	Defense
number	# 47
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2008-2009	Indiana Ice
2009–2012	Michigan State University
2012-2013	Providence Bruins
since 2012	Boston Bruins

Torey Krug (born April 12, 1991 in Livonia , Michigan ) is an American ice hockey player . The defender has been under contract with the Boston Bruins since 2012 and was not selected via the NHL Entry Draft . Until then he played for the Michigan State University team in the CCHA .

Career

youth

Torey Krug played in his youth in Detroit, 13 miles from his hometown of Livonia , with Belle Tire . From there he moved to Indiana Ice in the United States Hockey League in 2008 , where he also attended Cathedral High School . In his first and only season he and his team won the play-offs for the Clark Cup . In the regular season, Krug led the defender's statistics with 37 assists and a total of 47 points and held this position with six assists and seven points in the play-offs. Following the 2008/09 season, he went to Michigan State University to be on the ice for their team, the Spartans . Again he led the statistics of all freshmen defenders in the points category and was elected to the All Rookie Team of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA). In the second season at Michigan State, he led the team as the chosen captain and reached 28 points in 38 games. In addition, he was elected to the All-CCHA First Team and received the All-CCHA Best Offensive Defenseman and the team's internal MVP . With the team he won the league championship in 2011. The following year, his last in Michigan, he won the CCHA Player of the Year Award in addition to the two CCHA awards from the previous year. He led the statistics at the end of the regular season together with TJ Tynan with 29 points, making it only the fifth Michigan State player (previously Lou Nanne and Mike Crowley ) and the first defender to do so.

Boston Bruins

On March 25, 2012, Krug signed an entry level contract with the Boston Bruins . Although he trained initially in the squad of the AHL - Farm Team Providence Bruins , but was already a week later for the game against the Pittsburgh Penguins nominated as with Adam McQuaid failed one-budgetary defenders. Two days later, in a 3-1 win against the Ottawa Senators , Krug was on the ice and made his first assist in the NHL. In the subsequent play-offs, Krug no longer played; Boston failed in the first round 3-4 at the Washington Capitals .

The regular season 2012/13 he spent almost exclusively with the Providence Bruins . In the first half of the season Krug prevented a protracted ankle injury from convincing performances; It was only after a break of several weeks that he was fully regenerated from mid-January 2013 and thus still got 45 points in 63 games in the AHL. In the NHL he came only to one use in the regular season, where he succeeded again a goal assist. After 2012/13 seemed to be over for Krug , three regular defenders from the NHL squad with Dennis Seidenberg , Wade Redden and Andrew Ference were injured , so Krug was nominated for the Conference semifinals of the play-offs against the New York Rangers . As a result, he scored four times in the five games against Rangers, making him the first rookie defender in NHL history to score four goals in the first five play-off games of his career. He was also the second rookie defender after Andy Delmore to score four goals in a play-off series. Krug made a total of 15 play-offs and reached the Stanley Cup final with the team , but where they failed at the Chicago Blackhawks 2-4.

Since the 2013/14 season , Krug has been an integral part of the NHL squad and scored his first NHL goal of a regular season on October 5, 2013 in the game against the Detroit Red Wings . At the end of regular time, Boston made it into the play-offs as division winners, while Krug was the best rookie defender with 40 points . In the play-offs, the Bruins failed in the Conference semifinals to the Canadiens de Montréal . After the end of the season, Krug was elected to the NHL All-Rookie Team .

At the 2015 World Cup , where he represented his home country on an international level for the first time, he and the team won the bronze medal. After the season 2015/16 Krug received a new four-year contract in Boston, who gave him a total content of 21 million US dollars will bring.

Achievements and Awards

2010 All- CCHA Rookie Team 2011 All-CCHA First Team 2011 All-CCHA Best Offensive Defenseman 2012 All-CCHA First Team

2012 All-CCHA Best Offensive Defenseman 2012 CCHA Player of the Year 2014 NHL All-Rookie Team

International

• 2015 bronze medal at the world championship

Career statistics

Pitcher in the jersey of the Boston Bruins (2013)

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2008/09	Indiana Ice	USHL		59	10	37	47	+3	50		13	1	6th	7th	+11	13
2009/10	Michigan State University	NCAA		38	3	18th	21st	-3	67		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Michigan State University	NCAA		38	11	17th	28	-5	59		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Michigan State University	NCAA		38	12	22nd	34	+17	51		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Boston Bruins	NHL		2	0	1	1	± 0	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Providence Bruins	AHL		63	13	32	45	± 0	37		7th	0	3	3	-1	2
2012/13	Boston Bruins	NHL		1	0	1	1	-1	0		15th	4th	2	6th	+5	0
2013/14	Boston Bruins	NHL		79	14th	26th	40	+18	28		12	2	8th	10	-2	6th
2014/15	Boston Bruins	NHL		78	12	27	39	+13	20th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Boston Bruins	NHL		81	4th	40	44	+9	33		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Boston Bruins	NHL		81	8th	43	51	-10	37		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Boston Bruins	NHL		76	14th	45	59	± 0	36		11	3	9	12	-5	8th
2018/19	Boston Bruins	NHL		64	6th	47	53	−2	33		24	2	16	18th	+4	10
NCAA overall				114	26th	57	83	+9	177		13	1	6th	7th	+11	13
NHL overall				462	58	230	288	+27	187		62	11	35	46	+2	24

International

Represented the USA at:

• World Championship 2015

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2015	United States	WM			10	2	3	5	+1	8th
Men overall					10	2	3	5	+1	8th

( 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 Boston Bruins website
• Torey Krug at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ indianaice.com: Alumni: Torey Krug ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English, accessed October 14, 2013) 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} msuspartans.com: Torey Krug Bio (accessed October 14, 2013)
3. ↑ boston.com: "Torey Krug to make NHL debut" (English, April 3, 2012, accessed October 14, 2013)
4. ↑ heraldnews.com: "Rookie Torey Krug benefited from mid-season break" (English, May 25, 2013, accessed on October 14, 2013)
5. ↑ bostonglobe.com: "Another big game for Bruins' Torey Krug" (English, May 20, 2013, accessed October 14, 2013)
6. ↑ ^{a b} sportstalkflorida.com: "2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs News And Notes" (English, May 26, 2013, accessed on October 14, 2013)
7. ↑ Bruins Sign Defenseman Torey Krug To Four-Year Contract Worth $ 5.25 Million Annually. bruins.nhl.com, June 30, 2016, accessed June 30, 2016 (English).