Cam Talbot

Cam Talbot
Date of birth	5th July 1987
place of birth	Caledonia , Ontario , Canada
Nickname	GoalBuster
size	191 cm
Weight	93 kg
position	goalkeeper
number	# 39
Catch hand	Left
Career stations
2007-2010	University of Alabama at Huntsville
2010-2013	Hartford Wolf Pack Connecticut Whale
2013-2015	New York Rangers
2015-2019	Edmonton Oilers
2019	Philadelphia Flyers
since 2019	Calgary Flames

Cameron "Cam" Talbot (born July 5, 1987 in Caledonia , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper who has been under contract with the Calgary Flames in the National Hockey League since July 2019 . He took an unusual path for ice hockey players, which led him to the roster of the New York Rangers , where he spent two seasons, through a degree from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and without a completed NHL Entry Draft . He then rose to the goalkeeper at the Edmonton Oilers , for which he was active for almost three and a half years before he briefly ran up for the Philadelphia Flyers . With the Canadian national team , he won the gold medal at the 2016 World Cup .

Career

youth

Cam Talbot grew up in Caledonia and started in just a few kilometers away in Hamilton for local Hamilton Red Wings with ice hockey games. Until the 2006/07 season he played in the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League (OPJHL) before moving to the University of Alabama in Huntsville . This rather unusual choice for ice hockey players is due to the fact that no other university in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association had offered him a scholarship. This in turn was mainly due to the fact that the OPJHL is not given the same attention as Canada's three top junior leagues. It was only when he was about to begin his studies in Alabama that Talbot had several options to switch to one of these three; however, he decided to go to college.

Studied in Alabama

At the university, Talbot played for the Alabama-Huntsville Chargers in College Hockey America (CHA), which at that time was still a men's university league. The first two years turned out to be very difficult from a sporting point of view, as the Chargers were last in the league with only three other teams and the team only won six of a total of 37 games. Despite these results, Talbot achieved a respectable 90.7% catch quota in the second season. However, the goalkeeper only achieved his sporting breakthrough in the 2009/10 season. Although the Chargers only reached third place in the league, but won the subsequent Conference Tournament , which they qualified for the elimination round for the NCAA Frozen Four . Talbot was also voted Most Valuable Player and the All-Star Team of the tournament; as well as in the Second All-Star-Team of the regular season of the CHA. The Chargers lost 2-1 in the first game of the Miami University elimination round , but Talbot showed strong performances in the game against Miami as well as in the Conference Tournament .

In addition, his Alabama trainer, Danton Cole , had a longstanding NHL experience with Gordie Clark , the New York Rangers' director of scouting and player development . This in turn had Talbot observed by scouts during the 2009/10 season finals, whereupon the Rangers signed him on March 30, 2010, just one day after the lost game against Miami. This made Talbot the first player in the history of the University of Alabama-Huntsville to be hired directly from its roster by an NHL franchise . Additionally, the Canadians later confessed that he had not anticipated this development and actually planned to finish his studies and to look for a job - which Talbot studying despite the signing of the contract with a Major of Corporate Finance completed.

New York Rangers

Apart from two appearances with the Greenville Road Warriors in the ECHL , Talbot played for the farm team of the New York Rangers , Connecticut Whale , in the American Hockey League over the next few years . In the NHL squad at that time Henrik Lundqvist stood as a regular player and Martin Biron as a replacement in front of him. It was not until October 2013, after three seasons in the AHL, that the Canadian moved up as a substitute for Lundqvist in the Rangers' squad and made his NHL debut against the Philadelphia Flyers on October 24th . Overall, Talbot came to 21 regular season appearances in the 2013-14 season and was twice on the ice during the play-offs in which the Rangers reached the Stanley Cup final .

Edmonton, Philadelphia and Calgary

After a total of five years in the organization of the New York Rangers, he was handed over to the Edmonton Oilers as part of the 2015 NHL Entry Draft , which in turn sent a second and a third-round vote for that draft to New York. In addition, the franchises exchanged their seven-round voting rights in the same year. At the Oilers, Talbot promptly won a regular place and is the first goalkeeper to be used regularly. In January 2016, he extended his contract in Edmonton for three years. After the 2015/16 season, Talbot represented his home country on an international level for the first time when he won the gold medal with Team Canada at the World Cup and played eight out of ten games.

In his second season in Edmonton, Talbot set a new franchise record with 42 wins in the regular season . In the 2018/19 season, however, he was defeated by newcomer Mikko Koskinen in internal competition , so that he was given to the Philadelphia Flyers in February 2019 in exchange for Anthony Stolarz . There he ended the season and then joined the Calgary Flames as a free agent in July 2019 , with whom he signed a one-year contract.

Achievements and Awards

• 2010 CHA Second All-Star Team
• 2010 MVP of the Conference Tournament (CHA)
• 2010 All-Star-Team of the Conference Tournament
• 2016 gold medal at the world championship

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season										Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	S.	N	U / OT	Min.	GT	SO	GTS	Sv%		Sp	S.	N	Min.	GT	SO	GTS	Sv%
2007/08	University of Alabama at Huntsville	NCAA		13	1	10	0	583	45	0	4.63	86.0
2008/09	University of Alabama at Huntsville	NCAA		24	2	16	3	1320	65	1	2.95	90.7
2009/10	University of Alabama at Huntsville	NCAA		33	12	18th	3	1958	85	1	2.61	92.5
2009/10	Hartford Wolf Pack	AHL		1	0	0	0	19th	3	0	9.70	72.7		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Greenville Road Warriors	ECHL		2	1	0	1	122	5	0	2.46	92.1		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Hartford Wolf Pack / Connecticut Whale	AHL		22nd	11	9	2	1308	62	2	2.84	90.2		1	0	1	38	2	0	3.13	91.7
2011/12	Connecticut Whale	AHL		33	14th	15th	1	1865	81	4th	2.61	91.3		9	5	4th	571	20th	2	2.10	93.9
2012/13	Connecticut Whale	AHL		55	25th	28	1	3105	136	2	2.63	91.8		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Hartford Wolf Pack	AHL		5	4th	0	1	314	13	0	2.49	92.4		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	New York Rangers	NHL		21st	12	6th	1	1211	33	3	1.64	94.1		2	0	1	46	2	0	2.59	84.6
2014/15	New York Rangers	NHL		36	21st	9	4th	2095	77	5	2.21	92.6		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		56	21st	27	5	3223	137	3	2.55	91.7		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		73	42	22nd	8th	4294	171	7th	2.39	91.9		13	7th	6th	800	33	2	2.48	92.4
2017/18	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		67	31	31	3	3731	188	1	3.02	90.8		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		31	10	15th	3	1695	95	1	3.36	89.3		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		4th	1	2	0	211	13	0	3.70	88.1		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Calgary Flames	NHL		26th	12	10	1	1435	63	2	2.63	91.9		10	5	4th	596	24	2	2.42	92.4
NCAA overall				70	15th	44	6th	3861	195	2	3.03	90.9
AHL total				116	54	52	5	6611	295	8th	2.68	91.4		10	5	5	609	22nd	2	2.17	93.7
NHL overall				314	150	122	25th	17893	777	22nd	2.61	91.5		25th	12	11	1442	59	4th	2.46	92.3

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; ¹  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

International

Represented Canada to:

• World Championship 2016

year	team	event	result		Sp	S.	N	Min.	GT	SO	GTS	Sv%
2016	Canada	WM			8th	7th	1	480	10	4th	1.25	94.0
Men overall					8th	7th	1	480	10	4th	1.25	94.0

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; ¹  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

Trivia

Talbot is married and has two children.

Talbot is a big fan of the film Ghostbusters and wears a goalie mask painted with motifs from the film . Based on the title, he was given the nickname GoalBuster .

Web links

Commons : Cam Talbot  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the Calgary Flames website
• Cam Talbot at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Cam Talbot at hockeygoalies.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} The Hartford Wolf Pack franchise operated under the name Connecticut Whale from 2010 to 2013 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} nhl.com: "Talbot beat odds to get NHL contract" (English, June 18, 2010, accessed October 15, 2014)
3. ↑ nhl.com: "Blueshirts add goaltender Talbot" (English, March 30, 2010, accessed October 15, 2014)
4. ↑ Ryan Kennedy: Honest Effort. In: The Hockey News , No. 22, September 8, 2017.
5. ^ Oilers sign Talbot to three-year contract extension. nhl.com, January 17, 2016, accessed January 18, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Emily Mertz: Edmonton Oilers' goalie Cam Talbot and wife Kelly welcome twin babies. globalnews.ca, October 16, 2016, accessed November 24, 2016 . 
7. ↑ "Cam Talbot still loves Ghostbusters in new, Zuul-themed mask (Photo)" (English, July 19, 2014, accessed October 15, 2014)