| Nazem Kadri | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Kadri in 2012 | |||
| Born |
October 6, 1990 London, Ontario, Canada | ||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) | ||
| Weight | 195[1] lb (88 kg; 13 st 13 lb) | ||
| Position | Centre | ||
| Shoots | Left | ||
| NHL team Former teams |
Calgary Flames Toronto Maple Leafs Colorado Avalanche | ||
| National team |
 Canada | ||
| NHL draft |
7th overall, 2009 Toronto Maple Leafs | ||
| Playing career | 2010–present | ||
Nazem Kadri (born October 6, 1990) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player and alternate captain for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL). Kadri won the Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche in 2022, becoming the first Muslim player to hoist the Cup.[2][3]
Kadri was drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs seventh overall in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. He played his junior career in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), first with the Kitchener Rangers and then the London Knights. He won the J. Ross Robertson Cup with Kitchener and was part of the Rangers team that lost to the Spokane Chiefs in the final of the 2008 Memorial Cup. Kadri has also represented Canada internationally at the 2010 World Junior Championships, where the team received the silver medal after losing the final to the United States 6–5.
From the beginning of the 2012–13 season to March 21, 2016, Kadri led the NHL in the number of penalties drawn with 164, 46 more than the second-placed player, Dustin Brown of the Los Angeles Kings.[4]
- ^ "Nazem Kadri Stats and News".
- ^ Sachdeva, Sonny (June 29, 2022). "Back home, Muslim hockey community beaming after Kadri's historic moment". Sportsnet. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
- ^ Ahmed, Shireen (June 27, 2022). "When Nazem Kadri hoisted the Stanley Cup, he lifted a whole community along with it". CBC Sports. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
- ^ "Drawing penalties an 'underrated' skill in today's NHL". TSN. March 21, 2016. Retrieved December 9, 2018.