Alexander Texier ( fr. Alexandre Texier ; September 13, 1999, Grenoble , France ) - French professional hockey player , a forward in the NHL club Columbus Blue Jackets .
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| Position | Attack | |||||||||||||
| Growth | 184 cm | |||||||||||||
| Weight | 88 kg | |||||||||||||
| Grab | left | |||||||||||||
| Citizenship |  France | |||||||||||||
| Was born | September 13, 1999 (19 years) | |||||||||||||
| NHL draft | in 2017 selected in the 2nd round under the general 45th number by the Columbus Blue Jackets club | |||||||||||||
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Career
Texier began his professional career as a hockey player in the 2016/17 season as a team from his hometown HC Grenoble and, following the results of the championship, received the Jean-Pierre Graff Trophy prize, which is awarded to the best newcomer of the league.
In the 2017/18 season, Texier has signed a contract with the club of the Finnish Hockey League KalPa . In the first season for the new club, Alexander scored 22 points in 53 matches, while he was the youngest player in the team. His successes in Calpe did not go unnoticed, and on May 23, 2018, he signed a three-year novice contract with the NHL club Columbus Blue Jackets , who chose him in the 2017 draft in the 2nd round under the general 45th number [1] .
Texier was called to the French national team at the 2018 World Cup and became the third most youth player in the tournament [2] .
After the end of the regular championship in the Finnish league, Texier traveled overseas to the Cleveland Monsters club, where the AHL regular championship was just about to end. In the AHL, he scored 7 points in 7 matches, while scoring 5 goals. His game in the AHL he impressed the coach and management of the Columbus Blue Jackets and was called to the team from the farm club [3] . The debut of Texier in the NHL took place on April 5, 2019 in a match against the New York Rangers [4] . In the second match in the NHL, Alexander scored the first goal in his career, it happened in the last match of the regular season against the Ottawa Senators [5] . In the same season, Texier made his NHL playoff debut in the first-round match against Tampa Bay Lightning . In the third game of the series against Lightning, he scored his first point in the NHL playoffs, giving an assist. In the fourth game of the series against the “lightning”, Texier scored his first goal in the NHL playoff career, hitting Andrei Vasilevsky's goal, and then scored the second goal into an empty net, making a double [6] .
After departing from the playoffs of the Stanley Cup 2019 in the second round in a six-game series against the club “ Boston Bruins ” Texier received his second career challenge to the French team at the 2019 World Cup [7] . On May 17, 2019 in a match against the national team of Slovakia, he scored his first goal in his career at the world championships for the national team of his country [8] .
Statistics
Club career
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
| Season | Team | League | AND | R | P | ABOUT | Shtr | AND | R | P | ABOUT | Shtr | ||
| 2015–16 | Grenoble | U22 | eleven | 9 | eight | 17 | 14 | 6 | 7 | four | eleven | eight | ||
| 2016–17 | Grenoble | League magnus | 40 | ten | 9 | nineteen | 69 | 12 | five | five | ten | 12 | ||
| 2017–18 | CalPa | Liiga | 53 | 13 | 9 | 22 | 38 | 6 | one | one | 2 | 25 | ||
| 2018–19 | CalPa | Liiga | 55 | 14 | 27 | 41 | 36 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2018–19 | Columbus Blue Jackets | NHL | 2 | one | 0 | one | 0 | eight | 2 | one | 3 | 2 | ||
| Liiga total | 108 | 27 | 36 | 63 | 74 | 6 | one | one | 2 | 25 | ||||
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| NHL total | 2 | one | 0 | one | 0 | eight | 2 | one | 3 | 2 | ||||
International
| Year | Team | Tournament | A place | AND | R | P | ABOUT | Shtr | |
| 2015 | France (youn.) | YuChM-D1 | 13th | five | 2 | 0 | 2 | 12 | |
| 2016 | France (youn.) | YuChM-D1 | 14th | five | 2 | four | 6 | 6 | |
| 2017 | France (youn.) | YuChM-D1 | 11th | five | 2 | 3 | five | 6 | |
| 2017 | France (they say) | MCM-D1 | 13th | five | one | 7 | eight | four | |
| 2018 | France (they say) | MCM-D1 | 14th | five | 0 | four | four | eight | |
| 2018 | France | World Cup | 12th | 7 | 0 | 3 | 3 | ten | |
| 2019 | France | World Cup | 15th | 7 | one | 2 | 3 | 6 | |
| In total for junior and youth national team | 25 | 7 | 18 | 25 | 36 | ||||
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| Total for the main team | 14 | one | five | 6 | sixteen | ||||
Notes
- ↑ Columbus Blue Jackets sign year Alexandre Texier-three-year ELC . Columbus Blue Jackets (May 23, 2018). The appeal date is May 23, 2018.
- Ier Texier using the World Championship . NHL.com (10 May 2018). The appeal date is May 12, 2018.
- ↑ BlueJackets.com Staff. Blue Jackets recall Clendening, Texier from Monsters . NHL.com (4 April 2019). The appeal date is April 5, 2019.
- ↑ Rosen, Dan Blue Jackets clinch playoff berth, recover against Rangers . NHL.com (April 5, 2019). The appeal date is April 6, 2019.
- ↑ Fraser, Callum Blue Jackets remain second wild card, top Senators . NHL.com (6 April 2019). The appeal date is April 7, 2019.
- ↑ 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs: No. 1 seed Lightning swept by Blue Jackets in the historic first-round upset (Eng.) . CBSSports.com . The appeal date is April 17, 2019.
- ↑ Columbus striker Alexander Texier will play for the French team at the 2019 World Cup
- ↑ Khozeyava World Cup 2019 Slovaks beat the French