Yannick Weber

Yannick Weber
Date of birth	September 23, 1988
place of birth	Morges , Switzerland
Size	178 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	defender
number	# 7
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2007 , 3rd round, 73rd position Canadiens de Montréal
Career stations
2003-2005	SC Bern
2005-2006	SC Langenthal
2006-2008	Kitchener Rangers
2008-2009	Hamilton Bulldogs
2009-2013	Canadiens de Montréal
2012-2013	Genève-Servette HC
2013-2016	Vancouver Canucks
since 2016	Nashville Predators

Yannick Weber (born September 23, 1988 in Morges ) is a Swiss ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League since July 2016 . He was previously active in the NHL for the Canadiens de Montréal and the Vancouver Canucks .

Career

Yannick Weber comes from the youth of SC Bern , but spent his first professional season at the second division club SC Langenthal . After just one year, he decided to move to North America in 2006 and from then on played with the Kitchener Rangers in the Ontario Hockey League . In the 2007 NHL Entry Draft , the Canadiens de Montréal pulled him 73rd place and signed him a year later. After a few seasons mainly with missions for the farm team of the Canadiens in the AHL, the Hamilton Bulldogs , Weber came in the 2010/11 season to 41 missions in the Fanion team. At the end of the season, Weber signed a one-way contract until 2013.

For the duration of the NHL lockout in the 2012/13 season, the defender was signed by the Swiss club Genève-Servette HC in September 2012 . In July 2013, Weber signed a one-year contract with the Vancouver Canucks . There he could not prevail in the NHL squad for the time being and was handed over to the AHL farm team of the Canucks, the Utica Comets , in November 2013 . In the course of the season, however, Weber established himself in the NHL and came to 49 missions for the Canucks.

After three years in Vancouver, Weber did not get a new contract with the Canucks after the 2015/16 season, so he joined the Nashville Predators as a free agent in July 2016 . With these he reached the Stanley Cup final at the end of the 2016/17 season, but lost to the Pittsburgh Penguins there .

International

Yannick Weber has already been on the ice a few times for the Swiss junior national team . For example at the Junior World Championships in 2007 and 2008 . He also represented Switzerland with the men's national team at the 2010 and 2014 Olympic Games and at the 2009 , 2014 , 2016 and 2019 World Championships .

Achievements and Awards

2007 OHL Second All-Rookie Team 2008 OHL Second All-Star Team 2008 J. Ross Robertson Cup win with the Kitchener Rangers

2009 AHL All-Star Classic 2009 AHL First All-Star Team 2009 AHL All-Rookie Team

International

• 2006 Promotion to the top division at the U18 Junior World Championship

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
2005/06	SC Langenthal	NLB		28	3	0	3	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Kitchener Rangers	OHL		51	13	28	41	42		9	3	6th	9	8th
2007/08	Kitchener Rangers	OHL		59	20th	35	55	79		17th	4th	13	17th	24
2008/09	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		3	0	1	1	2		3	1	1	2	0
2008/09	Hamilton Bulldogs	AHL		68	16	28	44	42		2	0	1	1	10
2009/10	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		5	0	0	0	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Hamilton Bulldogs	AHL		65	7th	25th	32	58		3	0	0	0	2
2010/11	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		41	1	10	11	14th		3	2	0	2	0
2010/11	Hamilton Bulldogs	AHL		15th	8th	4th	12	10		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		60	4th	14th	18th	30th		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Genève-Servette HC	NLA		32	5	14th	19th	40		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		6th	2	2	2	2		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Utica Comets	AHL		7th	2	5	7th	0		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		49	6th	4th	10	16		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		65	11	10	21st	30th		6th	0	0	0	12
2015/16	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		45	0	7th	7th	24		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Nashville Predators	NHL		73	1	7th	8th	25th		22nd	0	1	1	5
2017/18	Nashville Predators	NHL		47	2	3	5	16		4th	1	0	1	2
2018/19	Nashville Predators	NHL		62	2	6th	8th	18th		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Nashville Predators	NHL		41	1	2	3	14th		4th	0	0	0	0
OHL total				110	33	63	99	121		26th	7th	19th	26th	32
AHL total				155	33	62	95	110		5	0	1	1	10
NHL overall				497	28	66	94	195		42	4th	2	6th	19th

International

Represented Switzerland at:

U18 Junior World Championship 2005 U20 Junior World Championship 2006 Division I U18 Junior World Championship 2006 U20 Junior World Championship 2007 U20 Junior World Championship 2008 World Championship 2009

2010 Winter Olympics 2014 Winter Olympics World Championship 2014 World Championship 2016 World Championship 2019

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-
2005	Switzerland	U18 World Cup	9th place		6th	1	0	1	6th	-5
2006	Switzerland	U20 World Cup	7th place		6th	1	0	1	4th	-1
2006	Switzerland	U18 World Championship Div. I.	1st place		5	0	2	2	22nd	+3
2007	Switzerland	U20 World Cup	7th place		6th	2	4th	6th	14th	± 0
2008	Switzerland	U20 World Cup	9th place		6th	2	4th	6th	14th	-2
2009	Switzerland	WM	9th place		3	0	0	0	8th	± 0
2010	Switzerland	Olympia	8th place		5	0	0	0	6th	-2
2014	Switzerland	Olympia	9th place		4th	0	0	0	2	± 0
2014	Switzerland	WM	10th place		7th	3	1	4th	4th	+1
2016	Switzerland	WM	11th place		7th	1	2	3	4th	-1
2019	Switzerland	WM	8th place		7th	0	1	1	18th	+4
Juniors overall					29	6th	10	16	60	−8
Men overall					33	4th	4th	8th	42	+2

( 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

Commons : Yannick Weber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the Nashville Predators website
• Yannick Weber at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SF Sport - Weber extended at Montreal
2. ↑ nhl.com: "Canucks assign Weber to Comets" (English, November 19, 2013, accessed December 3, 2013)