JC Lipon

JC Lipon
Date of birth	July 10, 1993
place of birth	Regina , Saskatchewan , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	83 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2013 , 3rd round, 91st position Winnipeg Jets
Career stations
2009-2013	Kamloops Blazers
2013-2015	St. John's IceCaps
2015-2020	Manitoba mosses
since 2020	Dinamo Riga

JC Lipon (born July 10, 1993 in Regina , Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Dinamo Riga from the Continental Hockey League (KHL) since August 2020 and plays there in the position of right winger .

Career

Lipon joined the Kamloops Blazers from the Western Hockey League (WHL) for the 2009/10 season . There the right winger was only rarely able to convince with 13 and 21 scorer points in his first two years of play. It was not until the 2011/12 season that he increased his point yield to 65. Nevertheless, for the second summer in a row he was ignored in the NHL Entry Draft by the Franchises of the National Hockey League (NHL) and remained undrafted. It was not until the 2012/13 game year that Lipon recommended himself for a professional career in the NHL due to his performance. His 89 scorer points ensured that the striker was selected in the third round of the 2013 NHL Entry Draft in 91st place by the Winnipeg Jets .

The Jets finally signed Lipon two months after the draft and started using him from the 2013/14 season at St. John's IceCaps in the American Hockey League (AHL). Lipon also spent the 2014/15 season there before he found himself in the same league with the Manitoba Moose after the Jets relocated their cooperation partner in the summer of 2015. During the 2015/16 season he made his NHL debut and appeared nine times for Winnipeg. Ultimately, the Canadian played for the Moose in the AHL until the end of the 2019/20 season , before joining the Latvian capital city club Dinamo Riga from the Continental Hockey League (KHL) in August 2020 .

International

Lipon played for Team Canada Western in the 2010 World U-17 Hockey Challenge . He was also a member of the Canadian team that competed at the U20 World Junior Championship in 2013 in Ufa, Russia, and finished fourth.

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	Kamloops Blazers	WHL		53	3	10	13	38		3	0	0	0	0
2010/11	Kamloops Blazers	WHL		65	3	18th	21st	111		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Kamloops Blazers	WHL		69	19th	46	65	111		10	2	7th	9	20th
2012/13	Kamloops Blazers	WHL		61	36	53	89	115		15th	6th	17th	23	20th
2013/14	St. John's IceCaps	AHL		72	9	32	41	136		14th	0	1	1	4th
2014/15	St. John's IceCaps	AHL		75	5	21st	26th	163		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Manitoba mosses	AHL		45	13	17th	30th	87		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		9	0	1	1	5		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Manitoba mosses	AHL		71	12	18th	30th	129		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Manitoba mosses	AHL		68	17th	21st	38	103		9	1	0	1	13
2018/19	Manitoba mosses	AHL		60	11	15th	26th	121		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Manitoba mosses	AHL		61	13	18th	31	100		-	-	-	-	-
WHL overall				248	61	127	188	375		28	8th	24	32	40
AHL total				452	80	142	222	839		23	1	1	2	17th
NHL overall				9	0	1	1	5		-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Canada to:

• World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2010
• U20 Junior World Championship 2013

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2010	Canada Western	U17-WHC	8th place		5	0	5	5	4th
2013	Canada	U20 World Cup	4th Place		5	0	0	0	27
Juniors overall					10	0	5	5	31

( 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

• JC Lipon in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• JC Lipon at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ JC Lipon Team Canada's underdog at world juniors. Unheralded 19-year-old passed over in last 2 NHL drafts. In: cbc.ca. The Canadian Press , December 25, 2012, accessed July 24, 2016 .