Carson Soucy

Carson Soucy
Date of birth	July 24, 1994
place of birth	Viking , Alberta , Canada
size	196 cm
Weight	95 kg
position	defender
number	# 21
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2013 , 5th round, 137th position Minnesota Wild
Career stations
2012-2013	Spruce Grove Saints
2013-2017	University of Minnesota Duluth
2017-2019	Iowa Wild
since 2018	Minnesota Wild

Carson Soucy (born July 24, 1994 in Viking , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Minnesota Wild in the National Hockey League since April 2017 and plays for them in the position of defender .

Career

Carson Soucy was born in Viking and played in his youth for the Wainwright Polar Kings and the Lloydminster Bobcats, among others . He then ran for the Spruce Grove Saints in the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL), the second highest junior league in his home province after the Western Hockey League . After he had noticed there due to its above-average physique primarily by physically robust Hockey, which elected him Minnesota Wild in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft at the 137th position. The defender moved to Minnesota for the following season when he enrolled at the University of Minnesota Duluth and from then on played for their team, the Bulldogs , in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC), a league in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . With the Bulldogs he won the playoffs for the championship of the NCHC at the end of his four-year college career.

In April 2017, Soucy signed an entry contract with the Minnesota Wild, who used him until the end of the 2016/17 season with their farm team in the American Hockey League (AHL), the Iowa Wild . There he also spent most of the following season before making his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) in April 2018 , where he also played four games in the 2018 Stanley Cup playoffs . The defender then returned to Iowa and played for the entire 2018/19 season in the AHL before establishing himself in Minnesota's line-up at the start of the 2019/20 season and has since been used regularly in the NHL.

Achievements and Awards

• 2017 NCHC Championship with the University of Minnesota Duluth

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	Spruce Grove Saints	AJHL		7th	0	0	0		0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Spruce Grove Saints	AJHL		35	5	10	15th		71		16	1	1	2		30th
2013/14	University of Minnesota Duluth	NCAA		34	0	6th	6th	+7	60
2014/15	University of Minnesota Duluth	NCAA		40	6th	8th	14th	+13	40
2015/16	University of Minnesota Duluth	NCAA		38	3	9	12	+4	61
2016/17	University of Minnesota Duluth	NCAA		35	3	12	15th	+7	55
2016/17	Iowa Wild	AHL		3	0	0	0	+2	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Iowa Wild	AHL		67	1	14th	15th	+12	55		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Minnesota Wild	NHL		3	0	0	0	-2	2		4th	0	0	0	-3	0
2018/19	Iowa Wild	AHL		66	5	15th	20th	+6	71		11	0	2	2	-3	6th
2019/20	Minnesota Wild	NHL		55	7th	7th	14th	+16	18th		4th	0	0	0	-3	0
AJHL total				42	5	10	15th		71		16	1	1	2		30th
NCAA overall				147	12	35	47	+31	216
AHL total				136	6th	29	35	+20	128		11	0	2	2	-3	6th
NHL overall				58	7th	7th	14th	+14	20th		8th	0	0	0	–6	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

• Player biography on the Minnesota Wild website
• Carson Soucy at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wild Agrees to Terms with Defenseman Carson Soucy. nhl.com, April 11, 2017, accessed January 19, 2020 .