Marty Reasoner

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Marty Reasoner
Born (1977-02-26) February 26, 1977 (age 47)
Honeoye Falls NY, U.S.
Height 6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight 200 lb (91 kg; 14 st 4 lb)
Position Centre
Shoots Left
NHL team
Former teams
Edmonton Oilers
St. Louis Blues
Boston Bruins
NHL draft 14th overall, 1996
St. Louis Blues
Playing career 1998–present

Marty Reasoner (born 26 February, 1977 in Rochester, New York) is a professional ice hockey center currently playing for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League. He has also played for the St. Louis Blues and Boston Bruins.

Playing career

He was selected in the first round of the 1996 NHL Entry Draft, 14th overall, by the St. Louis Blues. This followed two years of high school hockey at McQuaid Jesuit High School, two years of high school at Deerfield Academy in Mass. and three years at Boston College, where he was named Rookie of the Year his freshmen year, and named All-American his junior season when he led the Eagles to the NCAA finals. Reasoner split 1998–2001 between the Blues and their top minor-league affiliate, the Worcester IceCats. In 2003, he was voted a starter on the IceCats' tenth-anniversary All-Time Team.

Reasoner was traded on July 1, 2001 to the Edmonton Oilers, along with Jochen Hecht and Jan Horacek in exchange for Oilers' captain Doug Weight and Michel Riesen. In November 2003, Reasoner suffered a severe knee injury when he crashed into the end boards. During the 2004–05 NHL lockout, Reasoner played 11 games for EC Red Bull Salzburg of the Austrian League. On August 9, 2005, Reasoner and the Oilers came to terms on a one-year deal. He was traded from Edmonton to the Boston Bruins on March 9, 2006, along with Yan Stastny and a second-round pick in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft (Milan Lucic) in exchange for Sergei Samsonov, thus missing the incredible playoff run of the Oilers that year.

In July 2006, Reasoner signed a two-year contract to return to Edmonton.

Reasoner has represented the United States internationally on five occasions, twice with the World Junior team and three times at the World Championships.

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