Vinni Lettieri

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Vinni Lettieri
Date of birth February 6, 1995
place of birth Excelsior , Minnesota , USA
size 180 cm
Weight 88 kg
position center
number # 95
Shot hand Right
Career stations
2011-2013 Lincoln Stars
2013-2017 University of Minnesota
since 2017 New York Rangers
Hartford Wolf Pack

Vinni Lettieri (born February 6, 1995 in Excelsior , Minnesota ) is an American ice hockey player of Italian origin who has been under contract with the New York Rangers in the National Hockey League since March 2017 and also for their farm team, the Hartford Wolf Pack , in the American Hockey League is used.

Career

Vinni Lettieri attended Minnetonka High School in his youth and played for their ice hockey team in a regional high school league. In the middle of the 2011/12 season he moved to the Lincoln Stars in the United States Hockey League (USHL), the highest-ranking junior league in the United States, and established himself there the following year with 28 goals and assists as a regular scorer, so that he was in the USHL All -Rookie team was chosen. In addition, the attacker played two games for the USA Hockey National Team Development Program and took part with the US U18 national team in the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2012 , but subsequently did not earn a permanent place in the squad. The American then enrolled at the University of Minnesota for the 2013/14 season and was henceforth active for their team, the Golden Gophers , in the Big Ten Conference , a league played by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

With the Golden Gophers , Lettieri won the title of best team of the regular season in each of the following four years, while in 2014/15 he also won the playoffs for the championship of the Big Ten Conference. He achieved his best personal statistic in the 2016/17 season with 37 scorer points from 38 games, while he was honored with the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award for his fairness and exemplary sporting behavior . He then signed an entry-level contract with the New York Rangers from the National Hockey League (NHL) as a free agent in March 2017 , without having previously been considered in an NHL Entry Draft . The Rangers used the striker until the end of the season with their farm team , the Hartford Wolf Pack , in the American Hockey League (AHL), where Lettieri also spent most of the 2017/18 season and impressed there as a regular scorer. At the same time, he made his debut for the Rangers in the NHL in December 2017, made 19 appearances by the end of the season and temporarily established himself in their NHL line-up at the start of the 2018/19 season. In contrast, he was only on the ice in the AHL in the following season.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2011/12 Lincoln Stars USHL 15th 4th 4th 8th +2 14th 7th 0 1 1 -2 0
2012/13 Lincoln Stars USHL 61 28 28 56 +29 35 5 1 2 3 -5 0
2013/14 University of Minnesota NCAA 37 2 6th 8th +8 8th
2014/15 University of Minnesota NCAA 37 9 3 12 +6 14th
2015/16 University of Minnesota NCAA 37 7th 19th 26th -4 18th
2016/17 University of Minnesota NCAA 38 19th 18th 37 +7 36
2016/17 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 9 0 1 1 -4 4th - - - - - -
2017/18 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 55 23 13 36 ± 0 31 - - - - - -
2017/18 New York Rangers NHL 19th 1 4th 5 -12 0 - - - - - -
2018/19 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 48 23 25th 48 -10 22nd - - - - - -
2018/19 New York Rangers NHL 27 1 2 3 –7 14th - - - - - -
2019/20 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 61 25th 22nd 47 -4 46 - - - - - -
USHL total 76 32 32 64 +31 49 12 1 3 4th –7 0
NCAA overall 149 37 46 83 +17 76
AHL total 173 71 61 132 -18 103 - - - - - -
NHL overall 46 2 6th 8th -19 14th - - - - - -

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2012 United States Hlinka Memorial 7th place 4th 2 2 4th +3 6th
Juniors overall 4th 2 2 4th +3 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 )

Personal

His grandfather Lou Nanne was a player, coach and general manager of the Minnesota North Stars in the NHL and is a member of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame and the IIHF Hall of Fame . His father, Tino Lettieri , who was born in Bari in southern Italy , was active as a professional football goalkeeper , represented the Canadian national team at several international tournaments and was elected to the Canada Soccer Hall of Fame in 2001.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rangers Agree to Terms With Forward Vinni Lettieri. nhl.com, March 27, 2017, accessed on November 12, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Lettieri, Vinni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Excelsior , Minnesota , United States