Dominic Turgeon

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Dominic Turgeon
Date of birth February 25, 1996
place of birth Pointe-Claire , Quebec , Canada
size 188 cm
Weight 91 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2014 , 3rd round, 63rd position
Detroit Red Wings
Career stations
2011-2016 Portland Winterhawks
since 2016 Grand Rapids Griffins

Dominic Turgeon (born February 25, 1996 in Pointe-Claire , Québec ) is a Canadian - American ice hockey player . He has been under contract with the Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League (NHL) since May 2015 and also works for their farm team , the Grand Rapids Griffins , in the American Hockey League (AHL). Turgeon's father Pierre and his uncle Sylvain were also professional ice hockey players.

Career

Dominic Turgeon was born in Pointe-Claire, Québec, Canada and grew up in Chesterfield , Missouri , Arlington , Texas , and Cherry Hills Village , Colorado . The family followed the career stages of his father Pierre , who ran up during this period for the Canadiens de Montréal , St. Louis Blues , Dallas Stars and Colorado Avalanche . In Colorado, Dominic Turgeon played for the Colorado Thunderbirds youth team in the Tier 1 Elite Hockey League , the highest regional league for the under-16s age group. When Bantam Draft of the Western Hockey League (WHL) in 2011 was Center as the 64th player of the Portland Winter Hawks selected. He made his debut for the Winterhawks in March 2012.

In 2012 Turgeon completed seven games for the USA Hockey National Development Team in the United States Hockey League , but without establishing himself there. At the same time he came in the WHL season 2012/13 on 54 games in which he scored eight points scorer. At the end of the season he won with the Winterhawks both the Scotty Munro Memorial Trophy as the best points team in regular time and the championship of the Western Hockey League in the form of the Ed Chynoweth Cup . In the subsequent Memorial Cup , the Winterhawks made it to the finals, where they were defeated by the Halifax Mooseheads . From the following season, Turgeon finally rose to become a regular in Portland, so he completed 65 games during regular time and a further 21 games in the playoffs, where the Winterhawks again made it to the finals, but this time lost to the Edmonton Oil Kings .

At the NHL Entry Draft 2014 Turgeon was selected in the third round as a total of 63 players by the Detroit Red Wings , before he signed a three-year entry contract there on May 9, 2015 . On September 25, 2015, the attacker was named team captain of the Portland Winterhawks . In the 2015/16 season he played all the regular season games and was the top scorer of his team with 70 points. In the playoffs, however, the Winterhawks were eliminated in the first round.

From 2016, Turgeon was used for the Grand Rapids Griffins , the Detroit Red Wings farm team , in the American Hockey League (AHL). In 72 games, the center came to six goals and twelve assists , before moving with the team in the playoffs to the finals and won the Calder Cup by beating the Syracuse Crunch . The following season Turgeon also started at the Grand Rapids Griffins. After playing 40 games there, Turgeon was named to the Detroit Red Wings squad on January 13, 2018, and made his NHL debut the following day in the game against the Chicago Blackhawks . On January 23, 2018, he was initially sent back to the Grand Rapids Griffins before being reassigned to the Detroit Red Wings roster just one day later. Turgeon played a total of five games for Detroit in the 2017/18 NHL season . Before the start of the 2018/19 season , however, he did not make it into the Red Wings squad for the time being.

International

As the son of a Canadian father and an American mother, Turgeon was eligible to play for the national teams of both countries. In 2013 he took part with the US national ice hockey team in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge , where he won the bronze medal with the team. In the same year he won the silver medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament with Team USA .

Achievements and Awards

International

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 Portland Winterhawks WHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2012/13 USA Hockey NTDP USHL 7th 0 3 3 0 - - - - -
2012/13 Portland Winterhawks WHL 54 3 5 8th 2 5 0 0 0 0
2013 Portland Winterhawks Memorial Cup 5 0 0 0 0
2013/14 Portland Winterhawks WHL 65 10 21st 31 31 21st 2 6th 8th 18th
2014/15 Portland Winterhawks WHL 67 18th 25th 43 36 17th 8th 1 9 0
2015/16 Portland Winterhawks WHL 72 36 34 70 22nd 2 0 1 1 0
2016/17 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 71 6th 12 18th 6th 19th 1 1 2 2
2017/18 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 69 14th 18th 32 23 - - - - -
2017/18 Detroit Red Wings NHL 5 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
2018/19 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 72 6th 14th 20th 41 3 1 2 3 0
2018/19 Detroit Red Wings NHL 4th 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2019/20 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 63 10 13 23 4th - - - - -
WHL overall 259 67 85 152 91 45 10 8th 18th 18th
AHL total 275 36 57 93 74 22nd 2 3 5 2
NHL overall 9 0 0 0 2 - - - - -

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2013 United States WHC Bronze medal 6th 0 3 3 0
2013 United States HIMT Silver medal 5 1 0 0 0
Juniors overall 11 1 3 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

Commons : Dominic Turgeon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wings sign Turgeon to entry-level deal. Detroit Red Wings, May 9, 2015, accessed December 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Turgeon, Dominic
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Pointe-Claire , Quebec , Canada