Taylor Chorney

Taylor Chorney (* 27 April 1987 in Thunder Bay, Ontario ) is an American- Canadian professional ice hockey player who is since July 2012 with the St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League under contract and in parallel for their AHL farm team, the Chicago Wolves, will be used. His father Marc was also a professional hockey player.

Career

Taylor Chorney first played from 2003 to 2005 for the ice hockey team of the St. Mary's Shattuck in the high school league system of the United States. His career as a hockey player, he continued in the team of the University of North Dakota, where he was active from 2005 to 2008. Previously, he had been in the second round than a total of 36 players selected as a junior player in the NHL Entry Draft in 2005 by the Edmonton Oilers, for whom he made ​​his debut in the National Hockey League in the season 2008/09 season, where he in two Play point and remained unpunished. The remaining playtime spent the defender at their farm team in the American Hockey League, the Springfield Falcons, for whom he scored five goals in 68 games and had 16 assists. After he came early in the season 2009/10, four times in the AHL Springfield used Chorney was appointed to the NHL squad the Oilers, for whom he regularly ran aground in the subsequent period. In October 2011, the Oilers him sat on the Waiverliste, from him the St. Louis Blues selected. About a month later, Chorney found again on the Waiverliste again, so back brought him the Edmonton Oilers in their squad.

In July 2012, signed as a free agent Chorney one-year contract with the St. Louis Blues, but he spent the 2012/13 season almost exclusively to the AHL farm team of the Blues, the Peoria Rivermen. At the beginning of the 2013/14 season Chorney was discharged from the extended squad in the AHL, now on the new farm team, the Chicago Wolves.

Internationally

For the U.S., Chorney participated in the U18 Junior World Championship 2005, as well as the U20 World Junior Championships in 2006 and 2007 in part.

Awards and achievements

  • 2005 Gold medal at the U18 World Youth Championship
  • 2007 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championships
  • 2007 WCHA Second All-Star Team
  • 2007 NCAA West Second All-American Team
  • 2008 WCHA First All -Star Team

Statistics

(End of season 2012/ 13)

April 27 2005 NHL Entry Draft 2008–09 NHL season Farmteam 2009–10 AHL season Waivers (NHL) Peoria Rivermen (AHL) 2005 IIHF World U18 Championships 2006 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships 2007 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
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