Steven Stamkos
Steven Stamkos ( born February 7, 1990 in Unionville, Ontario ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player Macedonian- Scottish descent. He currently plays for the Tampa Bay Lightning in the National Hockey League on the position of the center.
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Career
Stamkos began his career with the Markham Waxers who played in the highest junior class of Ontario, the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League. In the OHL Draft 2006, the Sarnia Sting selected him as a joint First, after which he joined the 2006/07 season with the team. DC in his rookie season, he was nominated for the OHL All-Star Game, where he obtained four points. In the championship, he scored 92 points in 63 games. At the end of the season he was appointed to the Canadian junior national team for the Under-18 World Youth Championship. There the Canadians could indeed achieve only the fourth place, but Stamkos was a ten-point fourth best so best scorer of the tournament and his team. In the following season he continued to operate on the Sting and received again by the end of 2007 an invitation for the junior national team at the U20 World Youth Championship to play in 2008. There he won the gold medal.
For the NHL Entry Draft 2008, he was regarded as a promising candidate to be pulled on one of the front seats, and was led by the NHL Central Scouting Service and the International Scouting Service on the first position. In fact, it chose the Tampa Bay Lightning as a joint first. Just over a month after the Draft, July 29, Stamkos signed a three year contract with the Lightning.
In the 2009/10 season he achieved a breakthrough in the NHL: He was charged with 51 goals scored, along with Sidney Crosby top scorer in the regular season and won the Maurice Rocket ' Richard Trophy. He also played all 82 season games of his team with 95 points and was the best scorer of his team.
In the season 2010/11 Stamkos started splendidly, after 19 games, he had already scored 19 goals and 14 assists and led the scorers list in the NHL before Sidney Crosby. In addition, Stamkos scored against the Atlanta Thrashers his first hat trick in the NHL and managed the 8:7 win over the Philadelphia Flyers to achieve first five points in a game.
The contract of the attacker ran out on 1 July 2011 and Stamkos became a restricted free agent. As a restricted free player was the possibility that an offer from another team he would be made the basis of a so-called Offer sheets. That did not happen, and on 19 July 2011, he agreed a new contract with the Bolts for five years worth about 37.5 million U.S. dollars.
On March 13, 2012 Stamkos scored his 50th goal of the season 2011 /12. He became the sixth player in the history of the NHL, who played more than one season with 50 goals before his 23rd birthday. At the end of the season made it the Lightnings not, despite his 60 goals and 97 points to reach the play-offs.
In the game on November 11, 2013 against the Boston Bruins to Stamkos broke his right shin, then fell several months, and thus missed the part in the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.
He announced on 07 March 2014 his comeback in the 1-3 defeat against the Buffalo Sabres. At the same time he was appointed that day to the 10th captain of the Tampa Bay Lightning after the former captain Martin St. Louis was transferred to the New York Rangers on 05 March in exchange for Ryan Callahan and draft picks.
Awards and achievements
- 2006 Jack Ferguson Award
- 2007 Bobby Smith Trophy
- 2007 OHL All-Star Game
- 2007 OHL Second All- Rookie Team
- 2007 OHL All- Academic Team
- 2008 CHL Top Prospects Game
- 2008 CHL Top Draft Prospect Award
- 2008 CHL First All -Star Team
- 2008 OHL Second All-Star Team
- 2009 NHL Young Stars Game
- 2010 Maurice Rocket ' Richard Trophy (together with Sidney Crosby )
- 2010 NHL Player of the Month October
- 2011 NHL All-Star Game
- 2011 NHL Second All- Star Team
- 2012 NHL All-Star Game
- 2012 Maurice Rocket ' Richard Trophy
- 2012 NHL Second All-Star Team
- 2013 NHL Player of the Month in February
Internationally
- 2007 Best original donor of the U18 World Youth Championship
- 2007 All -Star team the U18 World Youth Championship
- 2008 Gold medal at the U20 World Junior Championships
- 2009 Silver medal at the World Championships
- 2009 Top scorer of the World Cup (together with Niko Kapanen and Jason Spezza )
- 2009 All- Star Team of the World Cup
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Canada at:
- U18 World Junior Championships 2007
- U20 Junior World Championship 2008
- World Cup 2009
- World Cup 2010
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )