Jake Allen (ice hockey)

Jake Allen ( born August 7, 1990 in Fredericton, New Brunswick ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goalkeeper. He stands in October 2008 with the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League under contract and plays since 2010 in the system of the franchise. He is parallel to the farm team of the Blues, the Peoria Rivermen in the American Hockey League active.

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Career

Jake Allen began the junior career in his hometown of Fredericton in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, before moving to the St. John's Fog Devils in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec in 2007. There he came in his debut season in 30 games used, but was able to record only nine wins. Although Allen with the team won two games in the play- offs, St. John's defeated in the first round of the Acadie - Bathurst Titan. In the NHL Entry Draft in 2008, he was finally selected by the St. Louis Blues in the second round at 34th overall position and signed a preliminary contract started in the same year.

As the Fog Devils were resettled in the following season to Montreal, also changed all the new team, the Junior de Montréal has been called. There he participated in the 2008/ 09 season the post of goalkeeper and set numerous franchise records. So he scored 28 wins and a 2.86 goals against Gegentorschnitt per game, the lowest in the history of the organization. He was also in the course of the season once honored as Defensive Player of the Week and invited to the All-Star Game the LHJMQ.

The following season, Allen also began in Montreal, but was released in January 2010 on the Trade Deadline on the Voltigeurs de Drummondville, which it received two first-round voting rights in the Entry Draft of LHJMQ. With his new team, he could win until the end of the season 15 of 18 games and recorded this a catch rate of 93 percent. In addition, Allen succeeded in February 2010 to stay a total of 188 minutes in a row without conceding a goal, which represented the second-longest streak in the history of the league. He was subsequently honored for his achievements as a Defensive Player of the Month. With a Gegentorschnitt of 2.20 he received at the end of the season as the best goalkeeper in the LHJMQ also the Trophée Jacques Plante and continued even in the election for the CHL Goaltender of the Year against its competitors from the OHL and WHL by. In addition, he was elected to the All-Star team LHJMQ. In the play-offs the Voltigeurs attracted one to the semi-finals, failed there but the eventual winners Moncton Wildcats.

For the 2010/11 season Jake Allen finally moved to the Peoria Rivermen, the farm team of the St. Louis Blues in the American Hockey League. He played as a rookie right away to goalkeeper and set with 24 wins and six shutouts new team records. In addition, he was awarded in November 2010 as goalkeeper of the month in the AHL and chosen as the starting goalkeeper of the Western Conference in the AHL All-Star Classic.

Jake Allen earned his first race for the St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League on April 30, 2012, when he came off the bench at the end of the play-off game against the Los Angeles Kings for a minute and seven seconds. After the lockout, which delayed the start of next season until January, 2013, Allen was elected to the cadre of blues again shortly after the season starts for the injured Jaroslav Halák. On 5 February 2013, against the Nashville Predators finally gave his debut in the regular season. Eight days later, he was first employed as starting goalkeeper, and scored against the Detroit Red Wings also his first NHL victory. He then won seven of its next eight inserts and recorded against the Phoenix Coyotes and his first shutout. At the end of the season Allen was named All- Rookie team for his performance in the NHL.

During the preparation of the 2013/14 season Allen was in the extended squad, but could not prevail against Halák and Brian Elliott and was in September at the new AHL farm team, the Chicago Wolves issued.

Internationally

His international debut Jake Allen at the U18 World Cup in 2008, when he won the gold medal with Team Canada. In the course of the tournament Allen stood in all seven games in goal for the Canadian team and led with a catch rate of nearly 95 %, a Gegentorschnitt of 1.43 and two shutouts in all goalies Statistics. After the end of the tournament Allen was so honored as Most Valuable Player of the tournament and the best goalkeeper of the World Cup. He also received a nomination to the All-Star team.

Two years later, the goalkeeper has been re-appointed to the Junior National Team and was also at the U20 World Cup 2010 goalkeeper of the selection. He played five games for the Canadians and in the end had the least Gegentorschnitt the tournament. In the final, but the team failed to the U.S. and so won the silver medal.

Awards and achievements

2009 QMJHL All-Star Game
2010 Trophée Jacques Plante
2010 CHL Goaltender of the Year
2010 QMJHL First All -Star Team
2011 AHL All- Star Classic
2013 NHL All- Rookie Team
2014 AHL All- Star Classic

Internationally

2008 Gold medal at the U18 World Cup
2008 Most Valuable Player of the U18 World Cup
2008 All- Star team of U18 World Cup
2010 Silver medal at the U20 World Cup

Career Stats

( Key to the goalkeeper stats: GP or Sp = Total Games; W or W = Wins, L = Losses, or N, T or D = Draw or shootout defeat, min = minutes; SOG or ZAT = Shots on goal, GA or GT = Goals against; SO = shutouts, GAA or GTS = Gegentorschnitt; Sv % or SVS % = quota, EN = Empty Net Goal; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )

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