Zach Aston-Reese

Zach Aston-Reese
Date of birth	August 10, 1994
place of birth	Staten Island , New York , USA
size	183 cm
Weight	93 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2010	Des Moines Buccaneers
2011-2013	Lincoln Stars
2013-2017	Northeastern University
since 2017	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins
since 2018	Pittsburgh Penguins

Zachary Glenn "Zach" Aston-Reese (born August 10, 1994 in Staten Island , New York ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League since March 2017 and also for their farm team, the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins , used in the American Hockey League .

Career

Zach Aston-Reese played in his youth for the New Jersey Rockets , among others , before moving to the United States Hockey League (USHL), the highest junior league in the United States, for the 2010/11 season . There he was briefly active for the Des Moines Buccaneers before he played for the Lincoln Stars from January 2011 after a brief return to New Jersey . The attacker was active in Lincoln for almost two and a half years before retiring from the USHL for reasons of age and then enrolling at Northeastern University in Boston . For their ice hockey team, the Huskies , he took part in the game operation of Hockey East , a league of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

After two years at Northeastern University, Aston-Reese significantly increased his personal statistics for the 2015/16 season, he scored 43 points in 41 games and was therefore appointed to the Hockey East Second All-Star Team , while he won the championship with the Huskies Hockey East won. In the following year, the American scored 63 points in 38 games, so that he was honored as Player of the Year and voted into the Hockey East First All-Star Team . In addition, he was nominated with Will Butcher and Mike Vecchione as one of three finalists for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award , which recognizes the best college player in the USA. However, Will Butcher subsequently won it.

Nevertheless, Aston-Reese recommended himself with these achievements for the professional sector, so that he signed an entry contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins in March 2017 without having previously been considered in an NHL Entry Draft . The Penguins initially used him with their farm team , the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins , in the American Hockey League (AHL) before making his debut for Pittsburgh in the National Hockey League (NHL) in February 2018 .

Achievements and Awards

2016 Hockey East Championship with Northeastern University 2016 Hockey East Second All-Star Team 2017 Hockey East Player of the Year

2017 Hockey East First All-Star Team 2017 finalist for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award

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	Des Moines Buccaneers	USHL		2	0	0	0	+1	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Lincoln Stars	USHL		25th	2	3	5	+1	4th		1	0	0	0	± 0	5
2011/12	Lincoln Stars	USHL		53	5	10	15th	-4	69		8th	1	2	3	± 0	8th
2012/13	Lincoln Stars	USHL		60	9	21st	30th	+14	113		5	3	2	5	+3	4th
2013/14	Northeastern University	NCAA		35	8th	11	19th	+8	22nd
2014/15	Northeastern University	NCAA		31	13	10	23	+8	60
2015/16	Northeastern University	NCAA		41	14th	29	43	+19	28
2016/17	Northeastern University	NCAA		38	31	32	63	+13	72
2016/17	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		10	3	5	8th	+2	7th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		41	9	20th	29	+21	49		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		16	4th	2	6th	+2	2		9	0	1	1	-1	4th
2018/19	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		11	6th	3	9	+3	18th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		43	8th	9	17th	+12	26th		4th	0	0	0	-2	0
USHL total				140	16	34	50	+12	188		14th	4th	4th	8th	+3	17th
NCAA overall				145	66	82	148	+48	182
AHL total				62	18th	28	46	+26	74		-	-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				59	12	11	23	+14	28		13	0	1	1	-3	4th

( 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 Pittsburgh Penguins website
• Zach Aston-Reese at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Penguins Sign Forward Zach Aston-Reese. nhl.com, March 14, 2017, accessed April 29, 2018 .