Dominic Toninato

Dominic Toninato
Date of birth	March 9, 1994
place of birth	Duluth , Minnesota , USA
size	188 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2012 , 5th round, 126th position Toronto Maple Leafs
Career stations
2012-2013	Fargo Force
2013-2017	University of Minnesota Duluth
2017-2019	Colorado Avalanche Colorado Eagles
since 2019	Florida Panthers Springfield Thunderbirds

Dominic Toninato (born March 9, 1994 in Duluth , Minnesota ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Florida Panthers in the National Hockey League since June 2019 and for their farm team, the Springfield Thunderbirds , in American hockey League is used.

Career

Dominic Toninato played in regional high school leagues in his native Minnesota as a youth . At the end of the 2011/12 season he moved to the Fargo Force in the United States Hockey League (USHL), the highest junior league of the United States before a little later in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft at the 126th position from the Toronto Maple Leafs was considered . Then the center played its only full USHL season, in which he came to 70 scorer points in 64 games and was consequently elected to the USHL Second All-Star Team . In the fall of 2013 Toninato enrolled at the University of Minnesota Duluth in his hometown and ran from then on for their ice hockey team, the Bulldogs , in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) game. As a result, he also established himself as a regular scorer in higher education and won the NCHC playoffs with the Bulldogs in the 2016/17 season. In addition, he was named the league's best defensive attacker in the same year.

In the summer of 2017, the player rights of the Maple Leafs acquired through the draft expired, so that he decided against a commitment in Toronto and instead was able to negotiate as a free agent with all franchises of the National Hockey League (NHL). His choice finally fell on the Colorado Avalanche , for which he signed an entry level contract in August 2017 . She initially used him on her farm team , the San Antonio Rampage , in the American Hockey League (AHL) before he made his NHL debut in November 2017 and from then on regularly rotated between the NHL and AHL.

In June 2019, Toninato was given up by Colorado to the Florida Panthers in exchange for defenseman Jacob MacDonald .

Achievements and Awards

• 2013 USHL Second All-Star Team
• 2017 NCHC Championship with the University of Minnesota Duluth
• 2017 NCHC Best Defensive Attacker

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	Fargo Force	USHL		4th	1	0	1	-1	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Fargo Force	USHL		64	29	41	70	+29	50		13	3	3	6th	+1	6th
2013/14	University of Minnesota Duluth	NCAA		35	7th	8th	15th	+1	51
2014/15	University of Minnesota Duluth	NCAA		34	16	10	26th	+12	58
2015/16	University of Minnesota Duluth	NCAA		40	15th	6th	21st	+5	36
2016/17	University of Minnesota Duluth	NCAA		42	16	13	29	+25	30th
2017/18	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		31	7th	5	12	+2	24		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		37	0	2	2	± 0	12		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Colorado Eagles	AHL		57	14th	15th	29	+8	43		4th	0	2	2	-2	2
2018/19	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		2	1	0	1	± 0	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Springfield Thunderbirds	AHL		15th	5	3	8th	+3	18th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Florida panthers	NHL		46	4th	7th	11	+4	37		3	0	0	0	-3	0
USHL total				68	30th	41	71	+28	52		13	3	3	6th	+1	6th
NCAA overall				151	54	37	91	+43	175
AHL total				103	26th	23	49	+13	85		4th	0	2	2	-2	2
NHL overall				85	5	9	14th	+4	49		3	0	0	0	-3	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 Florida Panthers website
• Dominic Toninato at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Avalanche Signs Dominic Toni NATO. nhl.com, August 16, 2017, accessed March 24, 2018 .