Chris Stewart (ice hockey)
Chris Stewart ( born October 30, 1987 in Scarborough, Ontario ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Since February 2014, he plays for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League for the position of right winger. His older brother Anthony Stewart is also a professional hockey player.
- 3.1 International
Career
Chris Stewart began his career with the Kingston Frontenacs in the Ontario Hockey League where his brother played. In his first season with the Frontenacs, he scored 30 points in 64 games. When his brother Anthony moved to the start of his second season in the NHL, he was appointed by then- coach Jim Hulton as assistant captain. He was able to expand his points from his rookie season mark and scored in a total of 62 games in the regular season 87 points.
On 24 June 2006, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in the first round at 18th overall position of the Colorado Avalanche. In his third season with the Kingston Frontenacs in the OHL, he was appointed in October 2006 to captain. After 82 points in 61 games in the regular season, he was following the OHL season made his professional debut with the Albany River Rats of the American Hockey League. In five games he contributed scored three points. The AHL season 2007/ 08 he spent the entire season on the farm team of the Colorado Avalanche, the Lake Erie Monsters, where he was the most successful player on the team with 25 goals. After 19 games in the following season, he was appointed by the Colorado Avalanche in the NHL squad in December 2008. His first NHL game he played against the Dallas Stars, two games later, he scored in a 6-1 success of the Avalanche against the Los Angeles Kings his first two points, while preparing one goal and one goal in a shorthanded situation even scored. The powerful winger completed 53 games in his rookie season, scoring 19 points.
In his second year in the top division, he was sent at the beginning of the 2009/10 season due to unsatisfactory performance after the first four games in which he was able to achieve an assist back to the farm team. After only two days and two games for the Lake Erie Monsters, who remained for Stewart point without success, the franchise from Denver brought him back due to an injury to Cody McLeod in the NHL team. The power forward was able to stabilize its services and to secure a regular place in Colorado's top series.
6 March 2010 the attacker succeeded in the game against the St. Louis Blues, his first hat-trick. Chris Stewart finished the regular season with 28 goals as Colorado's top scorer with 64 points as the second best scorer of the team behind Paul Stastny. Due to these benefits be expiring contract was extended in September 2010 before the start of NHL season 2010/11 by two years and multiplied his annual salary of $ 850,000 to $ 2.5 million, respectively, 3:25 million in the second year.
In the season 2010/11, Stewart was initially able to build on its strong performance from the previous season, the winger scored in the first 23 games 11 goals and a total of 25 score points before settling on 27 November 2010 a fist fight against Minnesota's Kyle Brodziak the left hand broke. Chris Stewart lacked the Avalanche for 21 games and was not able to share his points on his return to the team, as he scored after his injury in 13 games two goals and five points. On 19 February 2011, the attacker was transferred to a barter transaction by the Avalanche along with Kevin Shattenkirk and a second-round draft pick for the NHL Entry Draft in 2011 to the St. Louis Blues, Colorado received in return defender Erik Johnson, the attacker Jay McClement and a first-round draft pick for the NHL Entry Draft in 2011.
During the lockout before the start of the NHL season 2012/13 he played with compatriot Wayne Simmonds for Eispiraten Crimmitschau in the 2nd Hockey League. On October 22, 2012, he moved along with Wayne Simmonds in the Czech Extraliga for White Tigers Liberec. After five games for Liberec, he returned to Crimmitschau.
On February 28, 2014 Steart together with Jaroslav Halák, William Carrier, a first-round vote in 2015 and a performance-based first-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 2014 was delivered to the Buffalo Sabres, who transferred in return for Ryan Miller and Steve Ott to St. Louis.
Internationally
On the international stage, Stewart took the Canadian national team for the first time at the World Ice Hockey Championship 2011. Winger completed all seven games of the Canadians, scoring four points before he left with his team in the quarter-final against the Russian team from the tournament.
Awards and achievements
- 2006 CHL Top Prospects Game
Career Stats
Internationally
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )