Christian Del Bianco
Christian Del Bianco (born August 31, 1997) is a Canadian professional lacrosse goaltender for the Vancouver Warriors of the National Lacrosse League (NLL).[1][2] Drafted 15th overall in the second round in the 2015 NLL Entry Draft, he has played most of his career in Calgary.
Del Bianco announced via social media on July 23, 2024 that he chose not to re-sign with Calgary to focus on off-floor endeavors.[3] Calgary retained his rights under the CBA by using their "Franchise Tag" on him before they traded him to the Vancouver Warriors at the trade deadline of the 2025 season on March 10, 2025.[4]
Del Bianco was named to the NLL All-League 2nd Team in 2019.[5] Heading into the 2023 NLL season, Inside Lacrosse named Del Bianco the #5 best goalie in the NLL.[6]
Del Bianco was named the 2023 NLL Goalie of the Year and MVP, having set a league record for most minutes played by a goalie in a season, and leading the Roughnecks to their highest win total in club history.[7] Del Bianco is just the second goalie to win NLL MVP, after Steve Dietrich in 2006, and the third non-forward to win the award, following Dietrich and transition player Jeff Shattler in 2011.[8]
Career statistics
Reference: [9]
| Regular Season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | GP | Min | W | L | GA | GAA | Sv | Sv % | GP | Min | W | L | GA | GAA | Sv | Sv % | |||||
| 2016 | Calgary | 1 | 0:19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.000 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| 2017 | Calgary | 18 | 192:21 | 0 | 3 | 45 | 14.04 | 110 | 0.710 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| 2018 | Calgary | 18 | 788:34 | 7 | 6 | 138 | 10.50 | 530 | 0.793 | 2 | 119:59 | 1 | 1 | 26 | 13.00 | 83 | 0.761 | |||||
| 2019 | Calgary | 18 | 1,074:44 | 10 | 8 | 200 | 11.17 | 716 | 0.782 | 4 | 241:12 | 4 | 0 | 35 | 8.71 | 181 | 0.838 | |||||
| 2020 | Calgary | 10 | 608:51 | 5 | 5 | 111 | 10.94 | 458 | 0.805 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| 2022 | Calgary | 18 | 1,070:28 | 10 | 8 | 197 | 11.04 | 666 | 0.772 | 1 | 59:59 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 15.00 | 37 | 0.712 | |||||
| 2023 | Calgary | 18 | 1,080:19 | 13 | 5 | 167 | 9.28 | 712 | 0.810 | 4 | 239:59 | 2 | 2 | 37 | 9.25 | 139 | 0.790 | |||||
| 2024 | Calgary | 18 | 1,081:56 | 8 | 10 | 192 | 10.65 | 748 | 0.796 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| 119 | 5,897:32 | 53 | 45 | 1,050 | 10.68 | 3,940 | 0.790 | 11 | 661:09 | 7 | 4 | 113 | 10.25 | 440 | 0.796 | |||||||
| Career Total: | 130 | 6,558:41 | 60 | 49 | 1,163 | 10.64 | 4,380 | 0.790 | ||||||||||||||
GP–Games played;Min–Minutes played;W–Wins;L–Losses;GA–Goals against;GAA–Goals against average;Sv–Number of saves;Sv %–Save percentage;
Awards and achievements
References
- ^ "Christian Del Bianco - National Lacrosse League - on Pointstreak Sports Technologies". Pointstreak Sports Technologies. Retrieved 2022-10-15.
- ^ "Christian Del Bianco". Roughnecks. Retrieved 2022-10-15.
- ^ "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 2024-10-10.
- ^ Lucchesi, Rob (2025-03-10). "Christian Del Bianco Traded to Vancouver at Deadline". nll.com. Retrieved 2025-04-16.
- ^ "Christian Del Bianco". NLL. Retrieved 2022-10-15.
- ^ "The IL Indoor Top 50 is Back, with a Twist: Top 7 Goalies". Inside Lacrosse. 2022-11-29. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
- ^ "@NLL". Twitter. Retrieved 2023-05-25.
- ^ "Calgary's Christian Del Bianco Named National Lacrosse League MVP". www.usalaxmagazine.com. Retrieved 2023-05-30.
- ^ "Christian Del Bianco lacrosse Statistics on StatsCrew.com". www.statscrew.com. Retrieved 2022-12-05.