Carter Ashton

Carter Ashton
Date of birth	April 1, 1991
place of birth	Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada
size	191 cm
Weight	98 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2009 , 1st round, 29th position Tampa Bay Lightning
Career stations
2006-2007	Saskatoon Contacts
2007-2009	Lethbridge Hurricanes
2009-2010	Regina Pats
2010-2011	Tri-City Americans
2011–2012	Norfolk Admirals
2012-2015	Toronto Maple Leafs Toronto Marlies
2015	Syracuse crunch
2015-2017	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
2017-2018	HK Lada Tolyatti
2018-2019	Severstal Cherepovets
since 2019	Dinamo Riga

Carter Ashton (born April 1, 1991 in Winnipeg , Manitoba ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Dinamo Riga in the Continental Hockey League since May 2019 . His father, Brent Ashton, was also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Ashton in the Tampa Bay Lightning jersey

Carter Ashton began his career as a hockey player at the Saskatoon Contacts for which he in the 2006/07 season was active in the unterklassigen Canadian junior league SMHL before it towards the end of the season for the first time for the Lethbridge Hurricanes of the top juniors league Western Hockey League aground . In the following four years, the winger was on the ice in the WHL for the Lethbridge Hurricanes as well as the Regina Pats and Tri-City Americans . During this period he was selected in the first round of the 2009 NHL Entry Draft as the 29th player in total by the Tampa Bay Lightning , for whose farm team Norfolk Admirals from the American Hockey League he made his senior debut during the 2009/10 season . During the playoffs of the 2010/11 season , he was appointed to the Admirals' AHL team at short notice.

After Ashton began the 2011/12 season again with the Norfolk Admirals in the AHL, he was given in February 2012 from Tampa Bay in exchange for Keith Aulie to the Toronto Maple Leafs , where he then made his debut in the National Hockey League . By the end of the season he was used in 15 NHL games, in which, however, he remained pointless. In addition, he ran parallel for the AHL farm team of the Maple Leafs, the Toronto Marlies . In the following seasons, Ashton also switched regularly between AHL and NHL.

In February 2015, 3 years after his move to the Maple Leafs, the winger took the opposite path and was handed back to the Tampa Bay Lightning along with David Broll , who in return transferred a seven-round vote for the 2016 NHL Entry Draft to Toronto . Until the end of the season he was used exclusively in the Syracuse Crunch , before he joined Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod from the KHL in July 2015 . At Torpedo he scored 51 points in 119 KHL games before moving to HK Lada Tolyatti within the KHL in June 2017 .

In the 2018/19 season he was under contract with Severstal Tscherepowez , but only played 36 games for the club and left the club in February 2019. In May 2019 he was signed by Dinamo Riga .

International

For Canada , Ashton took part in the 2011 U20 World Youth Championship , where he won the silver medal with his team.

Achievements and Awards

• 2011 silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championship

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season	3	54	0	3	3	32
NHL playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
KHL regular season	4th	147	42	26th	68	139
KHL playoffs	2	14th	0	0	0	42

Web links

Commons : Carter Ashton  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Carter Ashton at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ lightning.nhl.com: "Lightning acquire forwards Carter Ashton, David Broll from Toronto" (English, February 6, 2015, accessed on February 7, 2015)
2. ↑ Transfer talk and retiring heroes: the week in review. In: en.khl.ru. June 6, 2017. Retrieved June 7, 2017 .