Anthony Duclair

Anthony Duclair
Date of birth	August 26, 1995
place of birth	Montréal , Québec , Canada
Nickname	The Duke
size	180 cm
Weight	83 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2013 , 3rd round, 80th position New York Rangers
Career stations
2011-2015	Remparts de Quebec
2014-2015	New York Rangers
2015-2018	Arizona Coyotes
2018	Chicago Blackhawks
2018-2019	Columbus Blue Jackets
since 2019	Ottawa Senators

Anthony Duclair (born August 26, 1995 in Montréal , Québec ) is a Canadian ice hockey player of Haitian descent who has been under contract with the Ottawa Senators from the National Hockey League since February 2019 and plays for them on the position of the left winger .

Career

Family and youth

Anthony Duclair was born in Montréal and grew up in the suburb of Pointe-Claire . His family is of Haitian origin and came to Montréal in 1973. His father and brother, Farell Duclair , both played soccer and Canadian football in their youth , with Farell leading a professional football career and winning the 1998 Gray Cup with the Calgary Stampeders . Anthony's father works as a project manager at IBM .

Anthony began to play organized ice hockey at the age of four, but also played baseball (until 2000) and soccer (until 2006) as a junior. In his youth he played for the Association Hockey Mineur Saint-Léonard , the Conquérants des Basses- Laurentides and in the 2010/11 season for the Lac St-Louis Lions in Dollard-Des Ormeaux . Already in this season he took part with the Canada Québec team in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2011 and in the Canada Games and won the silver medal with the team in the latter. At the end of the 2010/11 season, Duclair wanted to accept one of the numerous offers from universities or colleges to study with a scholarship and play in a university league. In the 2011 Entry Draft of the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ), Duclair was selected in 41st position by the Remparts de Québec , whose head coach at that time was Patrick Roy . As a result, Duclair and his family revised the decision they had already made to study at university and he joined the Remparts.

Remparts de Quebec

From then on, Duclair played in one of the three top Canadian junior leagues , the LHJMQ , and scored 66 scorer points in 63 games in his first season. Because of these achievements, he was elected to the LHJMQ All-Rookie Team . As in the previous year, he also took part in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2012 , where he came in sixth with the Canada Québec team . After being in August 2012 at Tournament Ivan Hlinka Memorial had taken and won with the Canadian team the gold medal, Duclair suffered a ligament injury in the ankle and fell to the start of the 2012/13 season, the year in which he for the NHL Entry Draft was available , for over a month. In addition, Duclair, like teammate Adam Erne , was suspended for a game in January 2013. The background was that seven Remparts team-mates complained to coach Patrick Roy about the two 17-year-olds' lack of teamwork, as a result of which Roy pronounced the suspensions. Just one day earlier, the team had lost 2:11 against the Halifax Mooseheads .

Finally, Duclair finished his draft year with 50 points from 55 games and was rated 57th among all North American outfielders by Central Scouting Services . Before the actual NHL Entry Draft 2013 , Roy moved to the NHL as head coach for the Colorado Avalanche , so he was instrumental in their selection in the draft. Although Duclair was once traded as a first-round candidate, the injury and the disciplinary incident already ensured that the scouts of the NHL franchises met him with more skepticism. After Roy used his first three draft picks for other players with the Avalanche, Duclair was even considered a red rag - before the New York Rangers finally selected him in 80th position.

Gordie Clark , who is responsible for player development at the Rangers, later admitted that they too had heard the reports of Duclair's attitude and idiosyncrasy, but they saw none of them confirmed in conversations with him. Rather, Clark saw Duclair as a humble player who admitted that he had just had a difficult year in drafting.

In the 2013/14 season Duclair led the Remparts as assistant captain, scored 50 goals and 49 assists in 59 games and was elected to the LHJMQ First All-Star Team . In January 2014, he signed an entry-level contract with the New York Rangers , which he then joined at the beginning of the 2014/15 season.

NHL

At the start of his rookie season, Duclair was a permanent fixture in the New York Rangers' squad and scored one goal and four assists in his first seven games. In total, he came to 18 NHL missions before the Rangers sent him back to the Remparts de Québec. Over the turn of the year 2014/15 he also took part in the U20 World Cup in his own country and won the gold medal there with the team.

In March 2015, the Rangers including John Moore and two entry-draft voting rights (second round 2015 and first round 2016 ) gave him to the Arizona Coyotes and received in return Keith Yandle , Chris Summers and a four-round vote for the 2015 draft. Duclair also stayed with the Remparts for the time being as a coyote, with whom he took part in the 2015 Memorial Cup as the host team . At the beginning of the 2015/16 season, in which he was no longer allowed to play in the LHJMQ due to age, he was able to establish himself in the NHL squad of the Coyotes. There he scored 44 scorer points in his first full NHL season, but was subsequently unable to confirm these achievements and was handed over to the Chicago Blackhawks in January 2018 together with Adam Clendening . Richard Pánik and Laurent Dauphin received the coyotes for this . In Chicago, he ended the 2017/18 season, but did not receive a further contract from the Blackhawks.

In July 2018, Duclair signed a one-year contract with the Columbus Blue Jackets and had a solid playing year there until February 2019, before being handed over to the Ottawa Senators with two second-round voting rights in the 2020 and 2021 NHL Entry Drafts . In return, Ryan Dzingel and a seven-round suffrage in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft moved to Columbus.

Achievements and Awards

2011 silver medal at the Canada Games (Team Canada Québec) 2012 LHJMQ All-Rookie Team 2012 gold medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament

2014 LHJMQ First All-Star Team 2015 gold medal at the U20 World Cup 2020 participation in the NHL All-Star Game

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2011/12	Remparts de Quebec	LHJMQ		63	31	35	66	+38	50		11	3	5	8th	-5	8th
2012/13	Remparts de Quebec	LHJMQ		55	20th	30th	50	+23	22nd		11	3	5	8th	± 0	12
2013/14	Remparts de Quebec	LHJMQ		59	50	49	99	+19	56		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Remparts de Quebec	LHJMQ		26th	15th	19th	34	+3	24		22nd	8th	18th	26th	+17	18th
2015	Remparts de Quebec	Memorial Cup									5	2	2	4th	+4	6th
2014/15	New York Rangers	NHL		18th	1	6th	7th	+4	4th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Arizona Coyotes	NHL		81	20th	24	44	+12	49		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Tucson Roadrunners	AHL		16	1	7th	8th	–11	4th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Arizona Coyotes	NHL		58	5	10	15th	–7	14th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Arizona Coyotes	NHL		33	9	4th	13	-5	10		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		23	2	6th	8th	± 0	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		53	11	8th	19th	-3	12		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Ottawa Senators	NHL		21st	8th	6th	14th	+1	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Ottawa Senators	NHL		66	23	17th	40	-5	18th		-	-	-	-	-	-
LHJMQ total				177	101	114	215	+80	128		22nd	6th	10	15th	-5	20th
NHL overall				353	79	83	162	-3	115		-	-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Canada to:

Canada Games 2011 World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2011 World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2012

Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2012 U20 World Cup 2015

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2011	Canada Québec	Canada Games			6th	2	8th	10	0
2011	Canada Québec	WHC	4th Place		6th	0	4th	4th	4th
2012	Canada Québec	WHC	6th place		4th	0	1	1	8th
2012	Canada	Hlinka Memorial			5	1	1	2	8th
2015	Canada	U20 World Cup			7th	4th	4th	8th	16
Juniors overall					28	7th	18th	25th	36

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Commons : Anthony Duclair  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the Ottawa Senators website
• Anthony Duclair at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} tsn.ca: "McKenzie: The fascinating story of Rangers forward Duclair" (English, October 13, 2014, accessed October 16, 2014)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} lapresse.ca: "Anthony Duclair: program pour la LNH" (French, March 1, 2014, accessed October 25, 2014)
3. ↑ Profile at the Canada Games 2011 (English / French, accessed October 25, 2014)
4. ↑ thechronicleherald.ca: "PALOV: Remparts need to regroup in a hurry after player revolt" (English, January 25, 2013, accessed October 25, 2014)
5. ↑ nhl.com: "CSS Final 2013 North American Skater Rankings" (accessed October 25, 2014)
6. ^ Coyotes Acquire Panik, Dauphin from Chicago for Duclair, Clendening. nhl.com, January 10, 2018, accessed on January 11, 2018 .