Dalton Prout

Dalton Prout
Date of birth	March 13, 1990
place of birth	Kingsville , Ontario , Canada
size	191 cm
Weight	105 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2010 , 6th round, 154th position Columbus Blue Jackets
Career stations
2006-2007	Sarnia Sting
2007-2011	Barrie Colts
2011	Saginaw Spirit
2011-2014	Springfield Falcons
2012-2017	Columbus Blue Jackets
2017	New Jersey Devils
2017-2019	Calgary Flames Stockton Heat
since 2019	San Jose Sharks San Jose Barracuda

Dalton Prout (born March 13, 1990 in Kingsville , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League since July 2019 and for their farm team , the San Jose Barracuda , in American Hockey League is used.

Career

youth

Dalton Prout was born in Kingsville and began playing ice hockey at the age of seven. In his youth he played for the Windsor Junior Spitfires before the Sarnia Sting selected him in the Priority Selection of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) in 21st position. With the start of the 2006/07 season, the defender ran for the Sting, but stayed with the team for just over a year, as he was given in December 2007 in a multi-player and draft options comprehensive swap to the Barrie Colts . In the 2009/10 season he was promoted to assistant captain of the Colts and also had a personal best of 21 scorer points in 63 games. He was then selected in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft in 154th position by the Columbus Blue Jackets . However, Prout initially returned to the OHL for another year, which he spent with the Colts and, after another change, with the Saginaw Spirit .

Columbus Blue Jackets

After the 2010/11 season, Prout signed an entry contract with the Blue Jackets and was initially used with their farm team , the Springfield Falcons , in the American Hockey League (AHL). Towards the end of the season, the Canadian made his debut with the Blue Jackets in the National Hockey League (NHL) and came on five appearances as a result. These five were followed by a further 28 games in the 2012/13 season, with Prout having a plus / minus statistic of +15, so that his team led and at the same time took third place of all rookies in the NHL.

In the following years, his playing time in the NHL increased continuously until he was no longer used in the AHL or exclusively in the NHL in the 2014/15 season. In March 2016, the defender extended his contract in Columbus for a further two years until the end of the 2017/18 season.

New Jersey and Calgary

After almost five and a half years and over 200 NHL appearances in Columbus, the Blue Jackets gave him to the New Jersey Devils for the trade deadline on March 1, 2017 and received Kyle Quincey in return . There, the defender lost his regular place in the NHL line-up at the beginning of the 2017/18 season and was subsequently given up in December 2017 in exchange for Eddie Läck to the Calgary Flames . There he was again used exclusively in the AHL at the Stockton Heat until the end of the season . He then moved to the San Jose Sharks as a free agent in July 2019 .

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
2006/07	Sarnia Sting	OHL		49	1	2	3	+6	36		4th	0	0	0	± 0	0
2007/08	Sarnia Sting	OHL		32	0	2	2	-4	43		-	-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Barrie Colts	OHL		25th	0	3	3	+2	39		8th	0	2	2	± 0	16
2008/09	Barrie Colts	OHL		65	0	6th	6th	–11	98		5	0	1	1	± 0	10
2009/10	Barrie Colts	OHL		63	7th	14th	21st	+26	21st		17th	1	6th	7th	+11	20th
2010/11	Barrie Colts	OHL		23	7th	14th	21st	-8th	55		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Saginaw Spirit	OHL		29	2	8th	10	+5	44		12	2	0	2	+2	27
2011/12	Springfield Falcons	AHL		62	4th	9	13	-1	54		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		5	0	0	0	+1	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Springfield Falcons	AHL		40	1	8th	9	+4	73		6th	0	1	1	± 0	14th
2012/13	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		28	1	6th	7th	+15	25th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Springfield Falcons	AHL		15th	0	3	3	-2	11		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		49	2	4th	6th	–7	37		2	0	0	0	± 0	2
2014/15	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		63	0	8th	8th	-14	85		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		64	3	6th	9	–6	102		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Cleveland Monsters	AHL		7th	0	2	2	+4	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		15th	0	3	3	+4	14th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	New Jersey Devils	NHL		14th	0	3	3	-5	30th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	New Jersey Devils	NHL		4th	0	0	0	-2	13		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Stockton Heat	AHL		34	2	7th	9	+10	42		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Stockton Heat	AHL		4th	1	2	3	-2	8th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Calgary Flames	NHL		20th	1	1	2	+1	8th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	San Jose Barracuda	AHL		3	0	1	1	-3	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	San Jose Sharks	NHL		2	0	0	0	± 0	7th		-	-	-	-	-	-
OHL total				286	17th	49	66	+16	436		46	3	9	12	+13	73
AHL total				165	8th	32	40	+10	196		6th	0	1	1	± 0	14th
NHL overall				264	7th	31	38	-13	321		2	0	0	0	± 0	2

( 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 : Dalton Prout  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the San Jose Sharks website
• Dalton Prout at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Columbus Blue Jackets Media Guide 2015–2016. Columbus Blue Jackets Hockey Club, 2015, p. 76.
2. ↑ Sting Acquire All-Star Goalie And Sniper. sarniasting.com, December 31, 2007, accessed July 8, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Blue Jackets sign defenseman Dalton Prout to two-year contract extension. bluejackets.nhl.com, March 25, 2016, accessed July 8, 2016 .