Damon Severson

Damon Severson
Date of birth	August 7, 1994
place of birth	Brandon , Manitoba , Canada
size	188 cm
Weight	93 kg
position	defender
number	# 28
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2012 , 2nd round, 60th position New Jersey Devils
Career stations
2010-2014	Kelowna Rockets
since 2014	New Jersey Devils

Damon Severson (born August 7, 1994 in Brandon , Manitoba ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the New Jersey Devils in the National Hockey League since September 2012 . The defender previously spent four years with the Kelowna Rockets in the Western Hockey League .

Career

Damon Severson was born in Brandon, but moved with his family to Melville , Saskatchewan when he was two years old . At the age of six he began to play organized ice hockey and subsequently went through the youth department of the Melville Millionares from his hometown. In the WHL Bantam Draft 2009, the Kelowna Rockets selected him from the Western Hockey League in 192nd position, so that Severson from then on played in one of the top junior leagues in Canada . The subsequent 2009/10 season, however, he spent most of the time with the Yorkton Harvest from the Saskatchewan Midget AAA Hockey League and only played five games for the Kelowna Rockets.

With the beginning of the 2010/11 season Severson was firmly in the squad of the Rockets and completed 64 games with 17 points scored in his first season. He also took part in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2011 with the Canada Western team. The next year he became available for the NHL Entry Draft , he increased his stats in the WHL to 37 points from 56 games and was invited to the CHL Top Prospects Game , where the most promising talents compete against each other in one game. In April, he also drove with the Canadian U18 national team to the 2012 U18 World Cup in the Czech Republic , where he won the bronze medal. In the final report of Central Scouting Services , he was rated 48th of all North American outfield players before the New Jersey Devils finally selected him in 60th position. In September of the same year he signed a three-year entry contract with the Devils.

To give him game practice, the Devils left him for the time being with the Kelowna Rockets in the WHL and only called him at the end of the 2012/13 season for two games on their farm team , the Albany Devils from the American Hockey League . He even spent the following 2013/14 season in Kelowna, leading the team as assistant captain and posting 61 points in 64 games.

As part of the preparation for the 2014/15 season of the National Hockey League , Severson prevailed at the New Jersey Devils and has been in their NHL squad since then. In his first nine games he scored four goals and made three assists. In September 2017, he signed a new six-year contract in New Jersey for a total salary of $ 25 million.

As part of the 2019 World Cup , Severson made his debut for the Canadian senior team and won the silver medal there.

Achievements and Awards

• 2012 Participation in the CHL Top Prospects Game
• 2012 bronze medal at the U18 world championship
• 2014 WHL (West) Second All-Star Team
• 2019 silver medal at the world championship

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
2009/10	Kelowna Rockets	WHL		5	0	0	0	-4	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Kelowna Rockets	WHL		64	4th	13	17th	+11	53		10	2	0	2	13	1
2011/12	Kelowna Rockets	WHL		56	7th	30th	37	+5	80		4th	2	0	2	–9	2
2012/13	Kelowna Rockets	WHL		71	10	42	52	+43	74		11	1	9	10	+2	18th
2012/13	Albany Devils	AHL		2	0	2	2	+2	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Kelowna Rockets	WHL		64	15th	46	61	+47	63		14th	4th	14th	18th	+4	18th
2014/15	New Jersey Devils	NHL		51	5	12	17th	-13	22nd		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Albany Devils	AHL		3	0	1	1	+3	9		11	0	8th	8th	+2	14th
2015/16	New Jersey Devils	NHL		72	1	20th	21st	-8th	32		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	New Jersey Devils	NHL		80	3	28	31	-31	58		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	New Jersey Devils	NHL		76	9	15th	24	-8th	42		4th	0	0	0	-1	12
2018/19	New Jersey Devils	NHL		82	11	28	39	-27	58		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	New Jersey Devils	NHL		69	8th	23	31	-20	52		-	-	-	-	-	-
WHL overall				260	36	131	167	+102	270		39	9	23	32	-2	51
AHL total				5	0	3	3	+5	9		11	0	8th	8th	+2	14th
NHL overall				430	37	126	163	-107	264		4th	0	0	0	-1	12

International

Represented Canada to:

• World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2011
• U18 Junior World Championship 2012
• World Championship 2019

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2011	Canada Western	U17-WHC	6th place		5	0	2	2	4th
2012	Canada	U18 World Cup			7th	0	2	2	8th
2019	Canada	WM			10	1	5	6th	16
Juniors overall					12	0	4th	4th	12
Men overall					10	1	5	6th	16

( 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 New Jersey Devils website
• Damon Severson at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ nj.com: "Rapid reaction: Rookie Damon Severson sparks Devils' 5-1 rout of Florida Panthers" (English, October 11, 2014, accessed October 29, 2014)
2. ↑ islanderspointblank.com: "2012 DRAFT PROFILE - Damon Severson, D, Kelowna (WHL)" ( Memento of the original from August 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English, June 6, 2012, accessed October 29, 2014) 
3. ↑ devils.nhl.com: "Scarlett, Severson sign entry-level deals" (English, September 6, 2012, accessed on October 29, 2014)