Frazer McLaren

Frazer McLaren
Date of birth	October 29, 1987
place of birth	Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada
size	193 cm
Weight	107 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2007 , 7th round, 203rd position San Jose Sharks
Career stations
2003-2007	Portland Winter Hawks
2007-2008	Moose Jaw Warriors
2008-2009	Worcester Sharks
2009-2013	San Jose Sharks
2013-2015	Toronto Maple Leafs Toronto Marlies
since 2015	San Jose Sharks San Jose Barracuda

Frazer McLaren (born October 29, 1987 in Winnipeg , Manitoba ) is a Canadian ice hockey player . Since August 2015 he has played for the San Jose Sharks in the National Hockey League in the position of the left winger , but is also used for the San Jose Barracuda in the American Hockey League .

Career

McLaren began his career during the 2003/04 season as a 16-year-old with the Portland Winter Hawks in the Western Hockey League . There the winger played into the early months of the 2007/08 season before he was given up in November 2007 in a transfer deal to league rivals Moose Jaw Warriors . Until his move, McLaren had been team captain Portlands and was also selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2007 in the seventh round in 203rd position by the San Jose Sharks . In each of his five seasons in the Winter Hawks jersey, the Enforcer had always been able to improve his offensive yield and had matured into a player with much more than just fighting qualities. Due to his size, he was often used in power play in front of the opposing goal. McLaren had already taken part in the rookie training camp of the San Jose Sharks during the summer break , where he had convinced in a storm series with Logan Couture and Devin Setoguchi . In Moose Jaw he finally ended his last WHL season with 33 points from 48 games, including the seven scorer points in Portland, his most successful season to date.

After the Warriors were eliminated from the playoffs of the Western Hockey League, the San Jose Sharks signed the striker in early April 2008 and used him for the remainder of the 2007/08 season in their farm team , the Worcester Sharks from the American Hockey League . In four games he managed one assist. The Canadian also spent the following season in Worcester. After initial adjustment difficulties in the first three quarters of the season, in which he could not get beyond the role of a striker of the fourth row, his performance improved towards the end of the regular season and in the playoffs. As a result, he played a key role in reaching the playoffs and advancing into the second round. In the summer training camp of the San Jose Sharks before the 2009/10 game year , he finally earned a place in the expanded NHL squad, but was initially sent to the AHL squad shortly before the start of the season. For the second game of the season he found himself back in the NHL squad and finally made his debut. He scored his first NHL goal on November 29, 2009 in the game against the Vancouver Canucks .

At the end of January 2013, the McLaren on the waiver list was selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs , where it was mainly used by the Toronto Marlies farm team . In total, the Canadian only played 62 games for Leafs and Marlies in two seasons before his expiring contract was not extended and he returned to the San Jose Sharks in August 2015.

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2014/15 season

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2003/04	Portland Winter Hawks	WHL		50	0	3	3	44		1	0	0	0	0
2004/05	Portland Winter Hawks	WHL		71	6th	5	11	124		7th	0	0	0	10
2005/06	Portland Winter Hawks	WHL		70	12	6th	18th	194		12	0	2	2	27
2006/07	Portland Winter Hawks	WHL		61	19th	12	31	186		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Portland Winter Hawks	WHL		18th	4th	3	7th	45		-	-	-	-	-
	Moose Jaw Warriors	WHL		48	15th	18th	33	119		6th	1	1	2	8th
	Worcester Sharks	AHL		4th	0	1	1	17th		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Worcester Sharks	AHL		75	7th	1	8th	181		12	1	4th	5	50
2009/10	San Jose Sharks	NHL		23	1	5	6th	54		-	-	-	-	-
	Worcester Sharks	AHL		52	4th	11	15th	148		11	0	0	0	37
2010/11	San Jose Sharks	NHL		9	0	0	0	22nd		-	-	-	-	-
	Worcester Sharks	AHL		40	2	2	4th	71		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	San Jose Sharks	NHL		7th	0	0	0	9		-	-	-	-	-
	Worchester Sharks	AHL		20th	0	1	1	73		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	San Jose Sharks	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
	Worchester Sharks	AHL		26th	0	1	1	87		-	-	-	-	-
	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		35	3	2	5	102		1	0	0	0	2
2013/14	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		27	0	0	0	77		-	-	-	-	-
	Toronto Marlies	AHL		6th	0	0	0	39		7th	1	1	2	16
2014/15	Toronto Marlies	NHL		22nd	0	1	1	62		-	-	-	-	-
WHL overall				318	56	47	103	712		26th	1	3	4th	45
AHL total				245	13	18th	31	678		30th	2	5	7th	103
NHL overall				102	4th	7th	11	264		1	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

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• Player biography on the San Jose Sharks website
• Frazer McLaren at hockeydb.com (English)