William Carrier

William Carrier
Date of birth	December 20, 1994
place of birth	LaSalle , Québec , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	93 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2013 , 2nd round, 57th position St. Louis Blues
Career stations
2010-2014	Cape Breton Screaming Eagles
2014	Voltigeurs de Drummondville
2014-2017	Rochester Americans
2016-2017	Buffalo Sabers
since 2017	Vegas Golden Knights

William Carrier (born December 20, 1994 in LaSalle , Québec ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League since June 2017 . Previously, the left winger spent three years with the Buffalo Sabers organization .

Career

Carrier spent his junior years between 2010 and 2014 in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec . There he played for the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles until January 2014 , before moving to the Voltigeurs de Drummondville within the league . During this time he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2013 in the second round in 57th position by the St. Louis Blues from the National Hockey League . They signed him up in August of the same year. However, his rights for the professional area became part of a transfer deal in February 2014. The Blues secured the services of Ryan Miller and Steve Ott from the Buffalo Sabers and in return gave up Carrier together with Jaroslav Halák , Chris Stewart and a first-round vote in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft .

After the striker ended the 2013-14 season in Drummondville, he moved to the Sabers organization. There he was used exclusively in the Rochester Americans farm team in the American Hockey League in the two game years between 2014 and 2016 . During the 2016/17 season , he finally made his NHL debut for Buffalo in early November and made 41 appearances for the Sabers by the end of the season.

In June 2017, Carrier was selected by the Vegas Golden Knights in the 2017 NHL Expansion Draft . Additionally, Buffalo sent a six- round suffrage for the 2017 NHL Entry Draft to Vegas to protect other players on their team from voting. With the team he surprisingly reached the final of the Stanley Cup in the 2018 playoffs , but lost to the Washington Capitals there .

International

For his home country, Carrier played at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2011 for Team Canada Québec and at the U18 Junior World Championship in 2012 in the Czech Republic . He won the bronze medal with the team, but remained pointless in seven tournament games.

Achievements and Awards

• 2012 bronze medal at the U18 Junior World Championship

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	Cape Breton Screaming Eagles	LHJMQ		61	8th	4th	12	54		4th	0	0	0	2
2011/12	Cape Breton Screaming Eagles	LHJMQ		66	27	43	70	65		4th	3	3	6th	4th
2012/13	Cape Breton Screaming Eagles	LHJMQ		34	16	26th	42	41		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Cape Breton Screaming Eagles	LHJMQ		39	12	29	41	42		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Voltigeurs de Drummondville	LHJMQ		27	10	14th	24	45		4th	1	3	4th	6th
2014/15	Rochester Americans	AHL		63	7th	14th	21st	38		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Rochester Americans	AHL		56	13	17th	30th	48		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Rochester Americans	AHL		8th	3	2	5	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		41	5	3	8th	21st		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Vegas Golden Knights	NHL		37	1	2	3	19th		10	0	0	0	8th
2018/19	Vegas Golden Knights	NHL		54	8th	1	9	29		7th	0	0	0	6th
LHJMQ total				227	73	116	189	247		12	4th	6th	10	12
AHL total				127	23	33	56	92		-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				132	14th	6th	20th	69		17th	0	0	0	14th

International

Represented Canada to:

• World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2011
• U18 Junior World Championship 2012

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2011	Canada Québec	U17-WHC	4th Place		6th	2	3	5	10
2012	Canada	U18 World Cup			7th	0	0	0	0
Juniors overall					13	2	3	5	10

( 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 Vegas Golden Knights website
• William Carrier at eliteprospects.com (English)