Jared Spurgeon

Jared Spurgeon
Date of birth	November 29, 1989
place of birth	Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
size	175 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	defender
number	# 46
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2008 , 6th round, 156th position New York Islanders
Career stations
2005-2010	Spokane Chiefs
since 2010	Minnesota Wild
2012	SCL Tigers

Jared Spurgeon (born November 29, 1989 in Edmonton , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been with the Minnesota Wild in the National Hockey League since 2010 . His brother Tyler is also a hockey player.

Career

Jared Spurgeon began his career as a hockey player with the Spokane Chiefs , for which he was active from 2005 to 2010 in the Canadian Junior League Western Hockey League . With his team he won the Ed Chynoweth Cup , the championship title of the WHL, and then the Memorial Cup in the 2007/08 season . He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2008 in the sixth round as a total of 156 players by the New York Islanders , for whom he never played. Instead, the defender signed a free agent contract with the Minnesota Wild in September 2010 . In the 2010-11 season he made his debut for the Minnesota Wild in the National Hockey League . In his rookie year , he scored four goals and eight assists in 53 games. At the same time he played for their farm team Houston Eros in the American Hockey League . With the Eros he failed only in the final of the Calder Cup against the Binghamton Senators . In the 2011/12 season , the Canadian was active for the first time exclusively for the Minnesota Wild in the NHL and subsequently established himself in their line-up.

For the duration of the NHL lockout in the 2012/13 season, the defender was signed by the Swiss club SCL Tigers in September 2012 .

In the 2018/19 season, Spurgeon recorded his best personal statistic to date with 43 scorer points and then signed a new seven-year contract in Minnesota in September 2019, which earned him an average annual salary of around 7.5 million US dollars from the start of the 2020/21 season should bring in.

Achievements and Awards

• 2008 Ed Chynoweth Cup win with the Spokane Chiefs
• 2008 Memorial Cup win with the Spokane Chiefs

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
2005/06	Spokane Chiefs	WHL		46	3	9	12	-10	28		-	-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Spokane Chiefs	WHL		38	4th	15th	19th	-2	16		-	-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Spokane Chiefs	WHL		69	12	31	43	+36	19th		21st	0	5	5	+7	16
2008	Spokane Chiefs	Memorial Cup									4th	0	1	1	+2	0
2008/09	Spokane Chiefs	WHL		59	10	35	45	+36	37		12	2	3	5	+3	10
2009/10	Spokane Chiefs	WHL		54	8th	43	41	+4	18th		7th	0	4th	4th	-2	2
2010/11	Houston Eros	AHL		23	2	7th	9	-5	10		23	1	10	11	+5	10
2010/11	Minnesota Wild	NHL		53	4th	8th	12	-1	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Minnesota Wild	NHL		70	3	20th	23	-4	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	SCL Tigers	NLA		12	3	4th	7th	–9	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Minnesota Wild	NHL		39	5	10	15th	+1	4th		5	0	0	0	-3	2
2013/14	Minnesota Wild	NHL		67	5	21st	26th	+15	16		13	3	3	6th	± 0	2
2014/15	Minnesota Wild	NHL		66	9	16	25th	+3	6th		10	1	3	4th	± 0	4th
2015/16	Minnesota Wild	NHL		77	11	18th	29	+11	14th		6th	2	3	5	+1	4th
2016/17	Minnesota Wild	NHL		76	10	28	38	+33	20th		5	0	1	1	-1	0
2017/18	Minnesota Wild	NHL		61	9	28	37	–6	8th		5	0	1	1	-4	0
2018/19	Minnesota Wild	NHL		82	14th	29	43	-1	20th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Minnesota Wild	NHL		62	12	20th	32	-1	18th		4th	2	2	4th	-1	4th
WHL overall				266	37	133	170	+64	118		40	2	12	14th	+8	28
NHL overall				653	82	198	280	+50	114		48	8th	13	21st	-8th	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 )

family

His brother Tyler Spurgeon is also a professional ice hockey player.

Web links

• Player biography on the Minnesota Wild website
• Jared Spurgeon at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Jared Spurgeon at legendsofhockey.net (English)