Zack Kassian

Canada Zack Kassian


Date of birth	January 24, 1991
place of birth	Windsor , Ontario , Canada
size	191 cm
Weight	95 kg

position	Right wing
number	# 44
Shot hand	Right

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2009 , 1st round, 13th position Buffalo Sabers

Career stations

2007-2010	Peterborough Petes
2010-2011	Windsor Spitfires
2011	Portland Pirates
2011	Rochester Americans
2011–2012	Buffalo Sabers
2012-2015	Vancouver Canucks
2015	Canadiens de Montréal
since 2015	Edmonton Oilers

Zack Kassian (born January 24, 1991 in Windsor , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Edmonton Oilers in the National Hockey League since December 2015 and plays in the position of right winger .

Career

Kassian was selected fourth in the 2007 OHL Priority Selection by the Peterborough Petes , for whom he then went on the ice in the Ontario Hockey League . In his second year in Peterborough, he was his team with 63 points second-best scorer and took the team Cherry at CHL Top Prospects Game in part. After he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2009 in 13th place by the Buffalo Sabers , he was named team captain for the Petes for the 2009/10 season . In January 2010 he left the Petes and moved to his hometown club, the Windsor Spitfires . On January 21, 2010 Kassian was suspended for 20 games after a check against the head of Matt Kennedy . After his suspension he won the J. Ross Robertson Cup and the Memorial Cup with the Spitfires .

On November 1, 2010, he signed a three-year contract with the Buffalo Sabers. At the end of the 2010/11 season , the attacker played three playoff games for the Sabers' farm team , the Portland Pirates , in the American Hockey League (AHL).

Kassian and his teammate Marc-André Gragnani came to the Vancouver Canucks through an exchange deal on February 27, 2012 . After three years with the Canucks, he was handed over to the Canadiens de Montréal in July 2015 , who in return sent Brandon Prust and a five-round vote for the 2016 NHL Entry Draft to Vancouver.

A few days before the 2015/16 season was due to start, Kassian was involved in a car accident in which he broke his left foot and nose. The Canadian did not drive the vehicle himself, but immediately after the incident he was included in the NHLPA 's substance abuse program (abuse of psychotropic substances ) and suspended from gaming operations without payment. The decision as to when he could play again was made by the program’s medical officer and was made on December 15, 2015. The Canadiens then put him directly on the waiver , but not to send him to the AHL, but to prepare a swap soon. They did this on December 28, 2015 with the Edmonton Oilers , who signed Kassian and sent Ben Scrivens to Montréal in return . The Canadiens responded to the ongoing injury to Carey Price and the unconvincing performances of Mike Condon and Dustin Tokarski .

International

With the Canada Ontario team , Kassian won the gold medal in the 2008 World U-17 Hockey Challenge . A year later he played for Canada in the 2009 U18 World Junior Championship . In 2011 he won the silver medal with the Canadian selection at the U20 World Junior Championship .

Achievements and Awards

2008 participation in the OHL All-Star Classic
2009 Participation in the CHL Top Prospects Game
2010 J. Ross Robertson Cup win with the Windsor Spitfires

2010 Memorial Cup win with the Windsor Spitfires
2012 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic

International

2008 gold medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
2011 silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championship

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

			Regular season					Playoffs
season	team	league	Sp	T	A.	Pt	SM	Sp	T	A.	Pt	SM
2007/08	Peterborough Petes	OHL	58	9	12	21st	74	5	1	0	1	2
2008/09	Peterborough Petes	OHL	61	24	39	63	136	4th	0	2	2	8th
2009/10	Peterborough Petes	OHL	33	8th	19th	27	58	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Windsor Spitfires	OHL	5	4th	0	4th	23	19th	7th	9	16	38
2010/11	Windsor Spitfires	OHL	56	26th	51	77	67	16	6th	10	16	37
2010/11	Portland Pirates	AHL	-	-	-	-	-	3	0	0	0	2
2011/12	Rochester Americans	AHL	30th	15th	11	26th	31	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Buffalo Sabers	NHL	27	3	4th	7th	20th	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Vancouver Canucks	NHL	17th	1	2	3	31	4th	0	0	0	2
2012/13	Chicago Wolves	AHL	29	8th	12	21st	61	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Vancouver Canucks	NHL	39	7th	4th	11	51	4th	0	0	0	4th
2013/14	Vancouver Canucks	NHL	73	14th	15th	29	124	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Vancouver Canucks	NHL	42	10	6th	16	81	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Bakersfield Condors	AHL	7th	2	1	3	16	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Edmonton Oilers	NHL	36	3	5	8th	114	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Edmonton Oilers	NHL	79	7th	17th	24	101	13	3	0	3	27
2017/18	Edmonton Oilers	NHL	74	7th	12	19th	92	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Edmonton Oilers	NHL	79	15th	11	26th	102	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Edmonton Oilers	NHL	59	15th	19th	34	69	4th	0	0	0	2
OHL total			213	71	121	192	358	44	14th	21st	35	85
AHL total			66	25th	25th	50	108	3	0	0	0	2
NHL overall			525	82	95	177	785	25th	3	0	3	35

International

Represented Canada to:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	A.	Pt	SM
2008	Canada Ontario	U17-WHC		6th	2	4th	6th	4th
2009	Canada	U18 World Cup	4th Place	6th	2	3	5	0
2011	Canada	U20 World Cup		5	2	1	3	27
Juniors overall				17th	6th	8th	14th	31

( 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 )