Brian Boyle

Brian Boyle
Date of birth	18th December 1984
place of birth	Hingham , Massachusetts , USA
size	201 cm
Weight	113 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2003 , 1st round, 26th position Los Angeles Kings
Career stations
2003-2007	Boston College
2007-2009	Los Angeles Kings
2009-2014	New York Rangers
2014-2017	Tampa Bay Lightning
2017	Toronto Maple Leafs
2017-2019	New Jersey Devils
2019	Nashville Predators
since 2019	Florida panthers

Brian Paul Boyle (born December 18, 1984 in Hingham , Massachusetts ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League since October 2019 and plays for them on the position of the center . Boyle received the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy in 2018 after making a successful comeback after treatment for chronic myeloid leukemia the year before.

Career

Boyle in the jersey of the Rangers (2012)

Brian Boyle began his career as a hockey player in the Boston College team , for which he was active in Hockey East from 2003 to 2007 . He was previously selected as a high school player in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft in the first round as a total of 26th player by the Los Angeles Kings . For their farm team from the American Hockey League , the Manchester Monarchs , he made his professional ice hockey debut towards the end of the 2006/07 season . In the 2007/08 season , the attacker was on the ice for the first time in the National Hockey League when he scored a total of five scorer points in eight games for the Kings.

Although Boyle came in the following season on 28 NHL appearances, in which he again scored four goals and was a template, he was on June 27, 2009 by the Kings in exchange for a third-round suffrage in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft to the New York Rangers handed in. He stayed in New York for five years before his contract was not renewed at the end of the 2013/14 season. As a result, the attacker joined the Tampa Bay Lightning and reached the Stanley Cup final with the team in the 2014/15 season, but lost there as in the previous year with the Rangers.

After almost two and a half years in Tampa, the Lightning handed him over to the Toronto Maple Leafs in February 2017 and in return received Byron Froese and a second-round vote for the 2017 NHL Entry Draft . In Toronto, the Power Forward fulfilled its expiring contract until the end of the season. He then moved to the New Jersey Devils as a free agent in July 2017 , with whom he signed a two-year contract. In September 2017, it became known that the attacker was suffering from chronic myeloid leukemia . The disease was easily treatable with medication, so that he was able to return to the NHL in November 2017. In this regard, he was honored with the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy at the end of the year . He was also invited to the NHL All-Star Game . During his sophomore year in New Jersey, Boyle was sold to the Nashville Predators in February 2019 in exchange for a second-round vote in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft . There he ended the season, but did not receive a further contract, so that he had been looking for a new employer since July 2019. He found him in October 2019 when the Florida Panthers signed him for a year shortly after the start of the 2019/20 season.

Achievements and Awards

2005 Hockey East Championship with Boston College 2005 Hockey East Tournament MVP 2005 Hockey East All-Tournament Team 2006 Hockey East First All-Star Team 2006 NCAA East Second All-American Team 2007 Hockey East First All-Star Team

2007 NCAA East First All-American Team 2007 NCAA Championship All-Tournament Team 2008 AHL All-Rookie Team 2018 participation in the NHL All-Star Game 2018 Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy

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
2003/04	Boston College	Hockey East		35	5	3	8th	36
2004/05	Boston College	Hockey East		40	19th	8th	27	64
2005/06	Boston College	Hockey East		42	22nd	30th	52	90
2006/07	Boston College	Hockey East		42	19th	34	53	104
2006/07	Manchester monarchs	AHL		2	0	0	0	2		16	3	5	8th	13
2007/08	Manchester monarchs	AHL		70	31	31	62	87		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		8th	4th	1	5	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Manchester monarchs	AHL		42	10	11	21st	73		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		28	4th	1	5	42		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	New York Rangers	NHL		71	4th	2	6th	47		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	New York Rangers	NHL		82	21st	14th	35	74		5	0	0	0	6th
2011/12	New York Rangers	NHL		82	11	15th	26th	59		17th	3	3	6th	15th
2012/13	New York Rangers	NHL		38	2	3	5	29		11	3	2	5	2
2013/14	New York Rangers	NHL		82	6th	12	18th	56		25th	3	5	8th	19th
2014/15	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		82	15th	9	24	54		25th	1	1	2	10
2015/16	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		76	13	7th	20th	57		17th	5	0	5	20th
2016/17	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		54	13	9	22nd	48		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		21st	0	3	3	18th		6th	0	2	2	6th
2017/18	New Jersey Devils	NHL		69	13	10	23	45		5	0	0	0	14th
2018/19	New Jersey Devils	NHL		47	13	6th	19th	22nd		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Nashville Predators	NHL		26th	5	0	5	16		3	0	2	2	2
2019/20	Florida panthers	NHL		39	6th	9	15th	17th		4th	1	0	1	12
Hockey East overall				159	65	75	140	294
AHL total				114	41	42	83	162		16	3	5	8th	13
NHL overall				805	130	101	231	588		118	16	15th	31	106

( 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 : Brian Boyle  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Player biography on the Florida Panthers website
• Brian Boyle at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Brian Boyle at eliteprospects.com (English)