John Marino

John Marino
Date of birth	May 21, 1997
place of birth	North Easton , Massachusetts , USA
size	185 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	defender
number	# 6
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2015 , 6th round, 154th position Edmonton Oilers
Career stations
2015-2016	Tri-City Storm
2016-2019	Harvard Crimson
since 2019	Pittsburgh Penguins

John Marino (born May 21, 1997 in North Easton , Massachusetts ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League since August 2019 and plays for them in the position of defender .

Career

John Marino was born in North Easton, Massachusetts, and played in his youth for the South Shore Kings in nearby Foxborough . Without playing in a well-known junior league, he was already considered in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft in 154th position by the Edmonton Oilers before moving to the United States Hockey League (USHL) for the 2015/16 season. In the highest ranking junior division in the United States, he spent a year with the Tri-City Storm and promptly won the USHL playoffs for the Clark Cup with them . He then enrolled at Harvard University and ran from then on for their ice hockey team, the Harvard Crimson , in the ECAC , a league in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The defender also celebrated winning the championship with the Crimson at the end of his first season, before leading his team the following year with a plus / minus rating of +21 and placing himself in the top 10 within the ECAC.

In July 2019, the Edmonton Oilers gave the rights to him in exchange for a six- round vote in the 2021 NHL Entry Draft to the Pittsburgh Penguins . A little later, Marino signed an entry-level contract with the Penguins and earned a place in their squad as part of the preparation for the 2019/20 season. As a result, he made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) at the beginning of October 2019 and has been there regularly since then.

Achievements and Awards

• 2016 Clark Cup win with the Tri-City Storm
• 2017 ECAC championship with the Harvard Crimson

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2015/16	Tri-City Storm	USHL		56	5	25th	30th	+5	43		11	0	2	2	+10	6th
2016/17	Harvard Crimson	NCAA		35	2	13	15th	+20	24
2017/18	Harvard Crimson	NCAA		33	2	14th	16	+21	10
2018/19	Harvard Crimson	NCAA		33	3	8th	11	-3	20th
NCAA overall				101	7th	35	42	+38	54

( 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 Pittsburgh Penguins website
• John Marino at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Penguins Acquire John Marino from Edmonton for Conditional Draft Pick. nhl.com, July 26, 2019, accessed January 1, 2020 . 
2. ^ Penguins Sign John Marino to a Two-Year, Entry-Level Contract. nhl.com, August 8, 2019, accessed January 1, 2020 .