Joffrey Lupul
Joffrey Lupul ( born September 23, 1983 in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is since February 2011 the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League contract.
Career
The 1.85 m wide winger started his professional career with the Medicine Hat Tigers in the Canadian Junior Football League WHL before being selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2002 as seventh in the first round by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.
Already in the 2003/04 season, the Mighty Ducks put the right hand shooters regularly in the NHL one, as one of the best rookies Lupul was nominated for the NHL Young Stars Game 2004. The lockout in the following season spent at the Canadian Farm Team Cincinnati Mighty Ducks of the American Hockey League. In the Conference Semifinals of the Stanley Cup Play-offs 2006 against the Colorado Avalanche managed Lupul the first player in the history of the highest North American Hockey League, four goals in a play-off game, including the game-winning stores in the extension to achieve. However, the attacker was transferred after the season along with Ladislav Šmíd and several draft picks in exchange for Chris Pronger to the Edmonton Oilers. This gave him turn on 1 July 2007 with Jason Smith for Joni Pitkänen and Geoff Sanderson to the Philadelphia Flyers from. On 26 June 2009, the Anaheim Ducks have announced that they have Lupul, Luca Sbisa and transferred along with some draft picks, against Chris Pronger and Ryan Dingle from the Philadelphia Flyers. His second commitment in Anaheim took almost two seasons in which Lupul though performed well, but not even completed half of all games due to injury problems. In February 2011, the Californians gave him from the Toronto Maple Leafs to acquire the defender François Beauchemin in a barter transaction by the Leafs.
Due to the NHL lockout Lupul completed in the fall of 2012 for Awtomobilist Yekaterinburg some games in the Continental Hockey League.
Awards and achievements
- 2002 CHL Top Prospects Game
- 2002 CHL First All -Star Team
- 2002 WHL East First All-Star Team
- 2004 NHL Young Stars Game
- 2012 NHL All-Star Game
Internationally
- 2003 Silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championships
Career Stats
( 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 )