Phil Kessel

Philip Joseph " Phil" boiler ( born October 2, 1987 in Madison, Wisconsin ) is an American professional ice hockey player who plays for the Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League since 2009. Boiler is the brother of the American Hockey national player Amanda boiler.

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Career

Phil Kessel began his career in 2002 at the Madison Capitols in the Junior League Central State Hockey League. In 2003 he moved into the development program of the U.S. National Team. Within two years, he scored 88 goals to as much as no player in the program. In the U18 World Youth Championship 2004, he won the silver medal in the following year he was awarded the U.S. team U18 Junior World Champion.

From the summer of 2005 he went to the University of Minnesota where he played for the hockey team and even there he could convince a good points haul and was at the end of the season honored as rookie of the year the WCHA Division.

In 2006 NHL Entry Draft, he was selected by the Boston Bruins in the first round at position five. During the season 2005/ 06 he was in the meantime even at number one of the Draft rankings for North American field players, but in the meantime slipped from third place and ended just before the draft fifth.

On 17 August 2006, the Boston Bruins announced that they had reached an agreement with Phil Kessel on a long-term contract and he earns $ 850,000 a year, the maximum salary that can get a Neuprofi.

In his second NHL game on 7 October 2006 Kessel made ​​his first Assist Two weeks later against the Buffalo Sabres followed his first goal in the NHL. On 11 December 2006 told his family that he was hospitalized. In the following days it became known that the boiler has been diagnosed with testicular cancer. At a press conference on December 16, 2006, he announced that he was successfully operated on and the tumor was removed. The team physician of the Bruins said that the cancer was detected early and had not spread. On 6 January 2007, he made ​​his comeback at the farm team of Boston, the Providence Bruins in the AHL and the next day he scored his first goal for Providence. His first NHL game after the cancer diagnosis, he completed on January 9 and ended the season ended up with eleven goals and 18 assists. At the end of the season he was awarded the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy, which is replaced by the player, which is characterized by perseverance, dedication and fairness in and for hockey especially. He also participated with the U.S. National Team at the 2007 World Championships and was the third best scorer of his team.

In his second season improved boiler Although his points yield the expected progress of the Bruins, he did not reach, however. With 37 points, he performed well, but only in the playoffs he proved his abilities as a scorer with three goals in four games. At this he was able to build a little at the World Championships in 2008 and later was with ten points in seven games with Patrick Kane topscorer of the U.S. team, which was eliminated just like last year in the quarter- finals.

In the 2008 /09 season boiler finally succeeded in the final breakthrough and he developed into a leading player for the Boston Bruins. Thus he succeeded in the period from mid-November to just before Christmas a series of 18 games in which he scored at least one point each, and he came up with 14 goals and 14 assists in time. As part of the NHL Entry Draft 2009, the Toronto Maple Leafs it planned to acquire in exchange for Tomas Kaberle, but the barter trade with the Boston Bruins did not materialize. In September 2009, both franchises agreed on a transfer that brought Kessel to Toronto. The Bruins were compensated with a first-round and second-round vote for the NHL Entry Draft in 2010 and a first-round vote for the NHL Entry Draft in 2011 by the Leafs. With these voting rights, the Boston Bruins secured the rights to Tyler Seguin, Jared Knight and Dougie Hamilton. Immediately after bartering signed a new contract with the boiler Leafs for five years with a total value of around 27 million U.S. dollars. In early November 2011, he became the first Leafs player since the age of 18 ( Félix Potvin in October 1993 ) with the ceremony considered as a NHL player of the month.

Awards and achievements

  • 2006 WCHA Rookie of the Year
  • 2006 WCHA All- Rookie Team
  • 2007 NHL Young Stars Game
  • 2007 Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy
  • 2011 NHL All-Star Game
  • 2011 NHL Player of the Month October
  • 2012 NHL All-Star Game

Internationally

  • 2004 Silver medal at the U18 World Youth Championship
  • 2004 All- Star team the U18 World Youth Championship
  • 2004 Best scorer in the Under-18 World Youth Championship (together with Roman Tomanek )
  • 2005 Gold medal at the U18 World Youth Championship
  • 2005 Best striker in the Under-18 World Youth Championship
  • 2005 top scorer of the U18 World Youth Championship
  • 2005 Top scorer in the Under-18 World Youth Championship
  • 2005 Top assist provider the U18 World Youth Championship
  • 2005 All- Star team the U18 World Youth Championship
  • 2006 top scorer of the U20 World Junior Championships
  • 2010 Silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games
  • 2014 All- Star team for the Olympic Winter Games
  • 2014 top scorer of the Olympic Winter Games (together with Erik Karlsson )
  • 2014 Top Goalscorer of the Olympic Winter Games (along with Michael Grabner )

Career Stats

Internationally

Represented the U.S. at:

  • U18 Junior World Championship 2004
  • U20 World Junior Championships 2005
  • U18 World Junior Championships 2005
  • U20 Junior World Cup 2006
  • World Cup 2007
  • World Championship 2008
  • 2010 Winter Olympics

( 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 )

Family

Phil boiler brother Blake was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2007 by the New York Islanders in the sixth round at position 166. He currently plays for the Adirondack Phantoms and was active among other previously in the U.S. Junior League USHL, where he won as offensive defender. His sister Amanda boiler is also national player of the USA. Amanda and Phil took in February 2014 at the Olympic Winter Games 2014, where Amanda won the silver medal.

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