Zack Mitchell

Zack Mitchell
Date of birth	January 7, 1993
place of birth	Orangeville , Ontario , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
2010-2014	Guelph Storm
2014-2018	Iowa Wild
2018-2019	Ontario Reign
2019-2020	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
since 2020	Dinamo Riga

Zachery "Zack" Mitchell (born January 7, 1993 in Orangeville , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Dinamo Riga from the Continental Hockey League (KHL) since August 2020 and plays there in the position of right winger .

Career

Mitchell spent his junior years with the Guelph Storm in the Ontario Hockey League from 2010 to 2014 , after they selected him in the OHL Priority Selection in 2009 . In total, he completed 374 OHL games during this period and posted 288 points scorer . At the end of the 2013/14 season he won the J. Ross Robertson Cup with the team .

Shortly before the end of his junior career, the undrafted free agent had been signed by the Minnesota Wild from the National Hockey League in March 2014 . They put him in their farm team , the Iowa Wild , in the American Hockey League at the beginning of the 2014/15 season . There the right winger spent the following two seasons. At the beginning of the 2016/17 season , Mitchell was initially part of Iowa's squad before he was called to the Minnesota NHL squad for the first time in November 2016 and made his debut.

After four years in the organization of the Wild, he did not get a new contract in Minnesota after the 2017/18 season, so he joined the Los Angeles Kings as a free agent in July 2018 . There he was used exclusively at the Ontario Reign in the AHL and then moved to Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk from the Continental Hockey League (KHL) in July 2019 . After a season in the service of Nizhnekamsk, the Canadian moved to league rivals Dinamo Riga from Latvia in August 2020 .

International

Mitchell played for Team Canada Ontario at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2010 and reached second place with the selection. He scored one goal in six gymnastics games.

Achievements and Awards

• 2010 silver medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
• 2014 J. Ross Robertson Cup win with the Guelph Storm

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
2010/11	Guelph Storm	OHL		61	9	10	19th	24		6th	1	6th	7th	2
2011/12	Guelph Storm	OHL		67	37	38	75	32		6th	2	2	4th	2
2012/13	Guelph Storm	OHL		68	22nd	34	56	34		5	1	1	2	4th
2013/14	Guelph Storm	OHL		67	31	52	83	40		20th	12	18th	30th	12
2014	Guelph Storm	Memorial Cup								4th	2	3	5	5
2014/15	Iowa Wild	AHL		76	17th	18th	35	12		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Iowa Wild	AHL		70	22nd	20th	42	26th		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Iowa Wild	AHL		62	11	11	22nd	10		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Minnesota Wild	NHL		11	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Iowa Wild	AHL		42	16	17th	33	10		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Minnesota Wild	NHL		23	3	2	5	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Ontario Reign	AHL		61	15th	16	31	33		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk	KHL		54	17th	9	26th	14th		4th	0	0	0	0
OHL total				322	102	141	243	155		42	18th	27	45	20th
AHL total				311	81	82	163	91		-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				34	3	2	5	4th		-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Canada to:

• World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2010

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2010	Canada Ontario	U17-WHC			6th	1	0	1	2
Juniors overall					6th	1	0	1	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

• Zack Mitchell in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Zack Mitchell at eliteprospects.com (English)