Ben Hutton

Ben Hutton
Date of birth	April 20, 1993
place of birth	Brockville , Ontario , Canada
size	188 cm
Weight	83 kg
position	defender
number	# 15
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2012 , 5th round, 147th position Vancouver Canucks
Career stations
2012-2015	University of Maine
2015-2019	Vancouver Canucks
since 2019	Los Angeles Kings

Ben Hutton (born April 20, 1993 in Brockville , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League since September 2019 . Prior to that, he spent four years in the Vancouver Canucks organization . With the Canadian national team , the defender won the gold medal at the 2016 World Cup .

Career

Youth and University

Ben Hutton was born in Brockville and grew up in Prescott, a few miles away . In the youth field, he was active for the Kemptville 73s and for the Nepean Raiders , which are not located in the three highest Canadian junior leagues . In addition, he only switched from attacking to defending position at the age of 16 because the team in this position was short of staff. As a result, he was not considered in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft and only selected in the 2012 draft at 147th position by the Vancouver Canucks .

Hutton then enrolled at the University of Maine , began studying economics and then played for their ice hockey team, the Maine Black Bears , in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). His breakthrough came there as a sophomore when he scored 15 goals, the most of a defender in the entire NCAA and was subsequently elected to the First All-Star Team of Hockey East .

NHL

After the 2014-15 college season, Hutton signed an entry-level contract with the Vancouver Canucks. He made his debut a little later with the farm team of the Canucks, the Utica Comets , in the American Hockey League and came there by the end of the season on four missions and one goal. During the preparation for the 2015/16 season, the defender earned a regular place in the NHL line-up and completed 75 games in his rookie season in the National Hockey League (NHL). He led all defenders of the Canucks in assists (24) and scorer points (25).

After his first full season in the professional field, Hutton was appointed to the squad of the Canadian national team, which took part in the 2016 World Cup and won the gold medal with the team.

In November 2016, the Canucks extended his contract, which expired in the summer of 2017, by two years ahead of time, in which he will earn 2.8 million US dollars each - starting with the 2017/18 season. Hutton subsequently fulfilled this, but was unable to agree with the team on an extension in the summer of 2019, so he joined the Los Angeles Kings as a free agent in September 2019 .

Achievements and Awards

• 2014 Hockey East First All-Star Team
• 2016 gold medal at the world championship

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
2012/13	University of Maine	NCAA		34	4th	11	15th	+2	18th
2013/14	University of Maine	NCAA		35	15th	14th	29	+8	8th
2014/15	University of Maine	NCAA		39	9	12	21st	-15	14th
2014/15	Utica Comets	AHL		4th	1	0	1	+1	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		75	1	24	25th	-21	14th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		71	5	14th	19th	-22	31		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		61	0	6th	6th	–9	23		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		69	5	15th	20th	−23	43		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		65	4th	12	16	+5	14th		-	-	-	-	-	-
NCAA overall				108	28	37	65	-5	40
NHL overall				341	15th	71	86	-70	125		-	-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Canada to:

• World Championship 2016

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2016	Canada	WM			5	0	1	1	+3	0
Men overall					5	0	1	1	+3	0

( 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 : Ben Hutton  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the Los Angeles Kings website
• Ben Hutton at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Rob Williams: Canucks sign prospect defenceman Ben Hutton. vancitybuzz.com, March 15, 2015, accessed July 8, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Ben Hutton. goblackbears.com, accessed July 8, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Canucks sign defender Ben Hutton. canucks.nhl.com, March 16, 2015, accessed July 8, 2016 . 
4. ^ Canucks sign Hutton to Two-Year Contract Extension. nhl.com, November 24, 2016, accessed November 24, 2016 .