Carter Ashton
Carter Ashton ( born April 1, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is since February 2012 with the Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League under contract and playing in parallel for their farm team Toronto Marlies in the American Hockey League. His father, Brent Ashton was also a professional hockey player.
Career
Carter Ashton began his career as a hockey player with the Saskatoon Contacts, for which he was active in the unterklassigen Canadian junior league SMHL in the season 2006/ 07 before it ran aground on the Lethbridge Hurricanes of the top junior Western Hockey League at the end of the season for the first time. In the following four years the winger in the WHL Lethbridge Hurricanes as well as for the Regina Pats and Tri -City Americans stood on the ice. During this period, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2009 in the first round than a total of 29 players from the Tampa Bay Lightning for their farm team Norfolk Admirals of the American Hockey League, he made his debut at senior level in parallel during the 2009/10 season. Also during the playoffs of the season 2010/11 he was appointed to the AHL team the Admirals in the short term.
Once again Ashton began the 2011/12 season with the Norfolk Admirals in the AHL, he was submitted in February 2012 by Tampa Bay in exchange for Keith Aulie to the Toronto Maple Leafs, where he then made his debut in the National Hockey League. By the end of the season he came in 15 NHL games available for use, where he remained but no points. He also ran parallel to the AHL farm team of the Maple Leafs, the Toronto Marlies on.
Internationally
For Canada, Ashton took part in the U20 World Youth Championship 2011, where he won the silver medal with his team.
Awards and achievements
- 2011 Silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championships
NHL stats
(End of season 2011 /12)