Zach Sanford

Zach Sanford
Date of birth	November 9, 1994
place of birth	Salem , Massachusetts , USA
size	191 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	center
number	# 82
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2013 , 2nd round, 61st position Washington Capitals
Career stations
2012-2013	Islanders Hockey Club
2013-2014	Waterloo Black Hawks
2014-2016	Boston College
2016-2017	Washington Capitals
since 2017	St. Louis Blues San Antonio Rampage

Zachary Michael "Zach" Sanford (born November 9, 1994 in Salem , Massachusetts ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the St. Louis Blues from the National Hockey League since February 2017 and also for their farm team , the San Antonio Rampage , who plays in the American Hockey League on the position of the center .

Career

Sanford played after high school with the beginning of the 2012/13 season in the Eastern Junior Hockey League with the Islanders Hockey Club. After the season, the striker was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2013 in the second round in 61st place by the Washington Capitals from the National Hockey League . First, however, Sanford moved to the United States Hockey League , where he completed a year with the Waterloo Black Hawks. He then attended Boston College for two years from the summer of 2014 . There he played in parallel for the university's traditional ice hockey program in Hockey East , a division in the gaming operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association .

With the signing of his first contract with Washington Capitals, Sanford finally switched to professional life in July 2016. There he immediately received a place in the NHL squad of the capital club at the beginning of the 2016/17 season . Ultimately, the striker shuttled between the NHL squad and that of the Hershey Bears farm team from the American Hockey League . At the end of February 2017, Sanford was transferred to the St. Louis Blues together with Brad Malone , a first-round right to vote in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft and a conditional second-round right to vote in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft . In return, the Capitals received Kevin Shattenkirk and goalkeeper Pheonix Copley . With the Blues, Sanford won the Stanley Cup in 2019 .

Achievements and Awards

• 2019 Stanley Cup win with the St. Louis Blues

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
2012/13	Islanders Hockey Club	EJHL		37	12	24	36	22nd		7th	4th	4th	8th	8th
2013/14	Waterloo Black Hawks	USHL		52	17th	18th	35	60		12	5	7th	12	8th
2014/15	Boston College	NCAA		38	7th	17th	24	30th
2015/16	Boston College	NCAA		41	13	26th	39	44
2016/17	Hershey Bears	AHL		25th	11	5	16	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Washington Capitals	NHL		26th	2	1	3	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Chicago Wolves	AHL		-	-	-	-	-		2	0	0	0	0
2016/17	St. Louis Blues	NHL		13	2	3	5	4th		4th	0	0	0	0
2017/18	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		20th	4th	3	7th	18th		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		7th	4th	2	6th	2		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	St. Louis Blues	NHL		60	8th	12	20th	21st		8th	1	3	4th	0
USHL total				52	17th	18th	35	60		12	5	7th	12	8th
NCAA overall				79	20th	43	63	74
AHL total				52	19th	10	29	34		2	0	0	0	0
NHL overall				99	12	16	28	31		12	1	3	4th	0

( 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 St. Louis Blues website
• Zach Sanford at eliteprospects.com (English)