Logan Couture
Logan Couture ( born March 28, 1989 in Guelph, Ontario ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He currently plays for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League on the position of the center.
He is the grandson of Canadian musician Bob Couture and son of the National Lacrosse League referee Chet Couture.
Career
Couture began his career with the St. Thomas Stars in one of the junior leagues unterklassigen Ontario. After a year there, in which he scored 46 points in 48 games, he became the Ontario Hockey League in the first round selected in the Priority Selection Draft 2005 twelfth of the Ottawa 67 's. The Canadian was long regarded as a promising candidate of the Oshawa Generals pulled in the first place to be, but they opted for the then 14- year-old John Tavares. Right at the beginning of the season 2005/ 06 changed Couture in the OHL to the 67 's and played there for two consistently good seasons, in which he managed each qualifying for the playoffs with the team of head coach Brian Kilrea. However, before he went to his second OHL season, Couture is injured in the summer during a training camp of the Canadian U-18 national team hard at the knee. The gash caused by a skate had to be sewn with 29 stitches. Nevertheless, the Defensive Forward with 78 points in 54 games with a view to a further significant increase impressed with the previous season. In the NHL Entry Draft 2007, he was therefore selected in the first round at the ninth position of the San Jose Sharks. This San Jose was able to pull the striker in the draft, the management had entered into several swap transactions in advance in order to get into the Draft Ranking on the front seats. In July - a month after the draft - signed his first professional contract Couture in San Jose. However, he was in training camp Sharks not prevail and was initially sent back to his junior team.
The subsequent to the Draft 2007/ 08 was less successful for the Canadians, because he was as often injured in the previous game year and so came only on 51 season appearances in the regular season. Also suffered his punk yield, which decreased significantly with a similar number game. Nevertheless, he was together with Jamie McGinn, another draft pick of the San Jose Sharks, with 58 points the most successful scorer of the team. At the beginning of the season 2008 /09, Couture 67 's found again in the squad of Ottawa again after the training camp of the NHL teams again a regular place had been able to work out. Compared to the previous two years, the striker remained largely injury-free and completed his best season with 87 points scorer. Following the departure of his team in the first playoff round ordered him the management of the San Jose Sharks on April 3, 2009 on the Worcester Sharks, their farm team in the American Hockey League, where Couture on the same day in the game against the Albany River Council made his professional debut. In the following season, the performances of the striker between the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League and the Worcester Sharks in the AHL split up. He so impressed that he took part in the AHL All- Star Classic and All- Rookie Team was appointed at the end of season in the AHL. For the 2010/11 season he made the final jump to the NHL. He was appointed in December 2010 to the NHL rookie of the month and took part in the Super Skills Competition NHL rookies as part of the NHL All-Star Game in 2011. After finishing the regular season, he was nominated along with Michael Grabner and Jeff Skinner for the Calder Memorial Trophy.
For the duration of the NHL lockout in the 2012/13 season, the striker has been committed by the Swiss Club Genève -Servette HC in September 2012.
Awards and achievements
- 2006 OHL Second All- Rookie Team
- 2007 CHL Top Prospects Game
- 2007 OHL All-Star Game
- 2008 OHL All-Star Game ( injury-related cancellation )
- 2009 OHL All-Star Game
- 2009 AHL Rookie of the Month in December (together with Benn Ferriero )
- 2010 AHL All- Star Classic
- 2010 AHL All- Rookie Team
- 2010 NHL Rookie of the Month December
- 2011 NHL All-Star Game Super Skills Competition
- 2011 PlayStation " Sharks Rookie of the Year " Award
- 2011 NHL All- Rookie Team
- 2012 NHL All-Star Game
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Canada at:
- U18 World Junior Championships 2007
( 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 )