Nic Kerdiles, a former NHL player for the Anaheim Ducks, died in a motorcycle accident in Nashville in the early hours of Saturday morning at 29.
Nashville Police Department said the professional ice hockey forward died at the age of 29 in the early hours of Saturday morning “as a result of injuries” he sustained following the accident. It’s believed he “ran through a stop sign” in a residential area north of central Nashville at around 3:30am.
Police also stated that Nic had hit the driver’s side of a BMW. Following the crash, Nic was immediately transferred to a local hospital. Nic had taken to his Instagram Story just hours before the incident to share a picture of himself sat on his motorbike. Captioning the post, he wrote: “Night rider.”
Who was Nic Kerdiles?
Nic Kerdiles was born and raised in Lewisville, Texas to a French father and a French-Canadian mother – moving to France before eventually settling in Irvine, California.
As a kid, he took part in the Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a team of children from Los Angeles.
He represented the United States in their hockey National Team Development Program in multiple prestigious youth tournaments.
Kerdiles won silver with the United Sates at the 2011 IIHF U-17 World Championships before winning gold in the U-18 World Championships later that year.
The United States won gold in the same tournament the next year, where Kerdiles scored the most points of any American.
In 2012, the Anaheim Ducks drafted Kerdiles in the second round with the 36th overall pick. He went on to attend the University of Wisconsin for two seasons, racking up 26 goals and 45 assists for 71 points in 60 collegiate games.
After those two seasons, he signed a three-year entry level contract with the Ducks in 2014. He debuted for Anaheim’s AHL minor league affiliate – the Norfolk Admirals – in the 2014 Calder Cup playoffs. He’d go on to play for the San Diego Gulls when they became the Ducks’ new affiliate.
Following three seasons of playing in the minors, Nic Kerdiles made his NHL debut on February 22, 2017 against the Boston Bruins.
Kerdiles went back to the Gulls and played eight games in their short-lived Calder Cup Playoff campaign.
But the Ducks called him back up for four exciting games in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. He was on the ice in Games 5 and 6 in the Western Conference second round against the Edmonton Oilers, a series Anaheim would eventually win.
Kerdiles’ next two games came in the Western Conference Finals against the Nashville Predators. After putting up a blank in that series’ Game 5, he tallied his first and only NHL point in Game 6.
His pass behind the net to teammate Chris Wagner cut Nashville’s lead down to 3-2. Unfortunately, Nashville would win that game which meant they eliminated Anaheim and advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals.
Kerdiles would return to play in the NHL the following season for two games after he signed a one-year extension.
Unfortunately, he failed to make an impact enough to stay in the team and he played his last game with Anaheim on October 15, 2017 against the Buffalo Sabres.
He was traded to the Winnipeg Jets on June 30, 2018. While he made three appearances for their AHL team – the Manitoba Moose – he never played in the NHL again.
His final game came on October 13, 2018 in a 6-2 loss against the Belleville Senators.
Kerdiles finished his NHL career with seven appearances in the regular season and the playoffs – managing one point.
In the AHL, he put up 47 goals and 60 assists for 107 regular season points in 181 regular season games.
He also had seven goals and five assists for 12 points in 18 AHL Playoff appearances.
Nic Kerdiles death
Nic Kerdiles died in a motorcycle accident in the early hours of September 23, 2023, in Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 29.
After the news first broke that Nic Kerdiles had died, many fans who had followed Kerdiles’s career had questions about what happened.
Some wanted to learn more about the Kerdiles’s cause of death, while others focused more on digging into the details of his personal life .
One of the big questions that many fans of Bray’s had following his death was whether he had ever been married.
All about Nic Kerdiles wife
Was Nic Kerdiles married?
Nic Kerdiles was engaged to Savannah Chrisley, a former pageant queen and a member of the family highlighted on the USA Network reality television show ‘Chrisley Knows Best’.
Kerdiles and Chrisley began dating in November of 2017, about three years into the reality TV show’s existence.
The two became engaged on Christmas Eve of 2018, but the pair never wed.
In September of 2020, Chrisley announced that the couple had split, saying in an Instagram post that ‘there’s no hatred between the two of us’.
‘We have nothing but love, respect, and admiration for one another but it’s time for us to move forward individually,’ she wrote.
Nic Kerdiles has not publicly dated anyone since his split from Savannah, instead focusing on his real estate career in Nashville.
Did Nic Kerdiles and Savannah Chrisley have any children?
Nic Kerdiles was never known to be a father, hence, he had no children.
There are no confirmed reports about him having a daughter or a son when he was alive and even in his longterm relationship with Savannah Chrisley.
Nic Kerdiles is survived by his parents, Nathalie De Larminat-Kerdiles and Michel Kerdiles, as well as his sister, Mailys Lassalas.
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