John Tavares

Canada John Tavares


Date of birth	20th September 1990
place of birth	Mississauga , Ontario , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	83 kg

position	center
number	# 91
Shot hand	Left

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2009 , 1st round, 1st position New York Islanders

Career stations

2004-2005	Milton Icehawks
2005-2009	Oshawa Generals
2009	London Knights
2009-2018	New York Islanders
2012	SC Bern
since 2018	Toronto Maple Leafs

John Tavares (born September 20, 1990 in Mississauga , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player of Portuguese origin. The center has been under contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League since July 2018 and has led them as team captain since October 2019 . He previously played for the New York Islanders that it in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft to the first overall position had chosen and where he served from 2013 to 2018 also as captain. With the Canadian national team , Tavares became Olympic champion in 2014 and won the gold medal at the World Cup of Hockey 2016 .

Career

Tavares in the jersey of the Oshawa Generals

Junior area (2004-2009)

Tavares is the youngest player ever to be elected in the OHL draft . In the OHL Priority Selection 2005 he was selected in the first position by the Oshawa Generals and, due to an exception, he was the first 15-year-old to be used in the OHL. Tavares is considered particularly talented, which he proved through his performances in the OHL. In his sophomore year in Oshawa, the then 16-year-old even broke some of the Canadian junior records held by Wayne Gretzky . At the end of the season he was voted the best player in the OHL and CHL .

New York Islanders (2009-2018)

Tavares in the jersey of the Islanders (2013)

In the fall of 2007, his agent tried to convince the National Hockey League and the players' union to allow him for the 2008 NHL Entry Draft with a special permit. All available players for the 2008 NHL Entry Draft must have been born before September 15, 1990, but Tavare's birthday is five days later on September 20. After the request had been rejected, the Toronto Maple Leafs tried to oblige the Canadian for their American Hockey League - farm team Toronto Marlies , but this also failed due to a league veto and Tavares thus returned to the OHL. At the NHL Entry Draft 2009 he was finally selected as the first overall by the New York Islanders and signed a three-year entry contract there. With the Islanders he was able to establish himself directly in the NHL squad and scored his first goal on his debut in the top division of North America. Tavares finished the 2009/10 season with a total of 54 points scorer as the player with the highest points in his team and was still the second best rookie in the NHL behind Matt Duchene of the Colorado Avalanche . In October 2010, the left-handed shooter scored the first hat trick of his NHL career in the game against the Florida Panthers , before scoring three goals in a third for the first time in January 2011 against the Buffalo Sabers .

In the run-up to the 2011/12 season, Tavares extended his contract with the Islanders by six years for a total reported salary of 33 million US dollars. Right at the start, in October 2011, he marked four scorer points in two consecutive games and was appointed assistant captain of the team later in the season . In January 2012, the Canadian ran for the first time in the league's all-star game and scored one goal and one assist each.

Due to the lockout at the beginning of the 2012/13 season , he played for SC Bern in the Swiss National League A from September 2012 . This engagement was initially limited to two months or until the restart of the NHL season. After the game was resumed in the NHL, Tavares returned to the Islanders and ended the shortened season with 47 scorer points from 48 games. In September 2013, the Canadian was appointed as the new team captain as the successor to the emigrated Mark Streit . After tearing an internal ligament and meniscus tear while participating in the 2014 Winter Olympics , he was out for the remainder of the remainder of the NHL season. The following year , Tavares played with 86 scorer points, the highest point season of his previous NHL career, but Jamie Benn had to admit defeat to win the Art Ross Trophy as the most attacking player in the league.

Toronto Maple Leafs (since 2018)

At the end of the 2017/18 season, the Canad’s contract with the Islanders expired after a previous agreement on an early extension was not reached. Subsequently, Tavares became one of the most sought-after free agents in NHL history, with a number of teams campaigning for the attacker's services, including the San Jose Sharks , Toronto Maple Leafs , Tampa Bay Lightning , Dallas Stars and Boston Bruins . In addition, the Islanders continued to negotiate with him to convince him to stay in New York. Finally, on July 1, 2018, the first day of the free-agent period, Tavares signed a seven-year contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs that should earn him an average annual salary of $ 11 million. He became one of the highest-paid players in the NHL, as well as the highest-paid player in the Maple Leafs. In this regard, he is said to have rejected even higher-endowed contracts, for example from the San Jose Sharks, in order to be able to play for the team of his childhood.

In his first season in the Maple Leafs jersey, Tavares achieved career highs in goals (47) and scorer points (88) before being named the 25th team captain in franchise history at the beginning of the 2019/20 season .

International

Tavares represented his home country for the first time at the U18 World Junior Championship in 2006 . During his junior years he also took part in the 2007 Super Series . The attacker also represented the Canadian selection at the 2008 and 2009 Junior World Championships . Tavares won gold medals twice in a row and was honored with several individual awards in 2009. In addition to being named the most valuable player in the tournament, he was also voted best striker and into the all-star team of the World Cup.

Tavares was named to the Canadian squad for the 2010 Ice Hockey World Championship . During the tournament he scored seven goals and was the top scorer in the World Cup, but the Canadian selection missed a medal rank and failed in the quarterfinals to Russia . In 2014 he became Olympic champion with the Canadian national team . He also represented his home country at the World Cup of Hockey 2016 and won the gold medal there with the team.

Achievements and Awards

2005 Jack Ferguson Award
2006 Emms Family Award
2006 CHL Rookie of the Year
2006 CHL All-Rookie Team
2006 OHL First All-Rookie Team
2007 participation in the OHL All-Star Game
2007 OHL First All-Star Team
2007 Red Tilson Trophy
2007 CHL Player of the Year
2007 CHL First All-Star Team
2008 participation in the OHL All-Star Game
2009 Participation in the CHL Top Prospects Game

2009 Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy
2009 OHL Second All-Star Team
2010 NHL All-Rookie Team
2012 Participation in the NHL All-Star Game
2012 NHL Player of the Month for January
2012 Spengler Cup win with Team Canada
2015 Participation in the NHL All-Star Game
2015 NHL First All-Star Team
2016 Participation in the NHL All-Star Game
2017 participation in the NHL All-Star Game
2018 participation in the NHL All-Star Game
2019 participation in the NHL All-Star Game

International

2008 gold medal at the U20 Junior World Championship
2009 gold medal at the U20 Junior World Championship
2009 Top scorer in the U20 World Junior Championship (together with Nikita Filatow )
2009 Most valuable player in the U20 World Junior Championship
2009 Best striker in the U20 World Junior Championship

2009 All-Star Team of the U20 Junior World Championship
2010 World Cup top scorer

2014 gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games

2016 gold medal at the World Cup of Hockey

Career statistics

Tavares in the national team jersey

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

			Regular season					Playoffs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2004/05	Toronto Marlboros	GTHL	72	91	67	158		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Milton Icehawks	OPJHL	20th	13	15th	28	10	-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Oshawa Generals	OHL	65	45	32	77	72	-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Oshawa Generals	OHL	67	72	62	134	60	9	7th	12	19th	6th
2007/08	Oshawa Generals	OHL	59	40	78	118	69	15th	3	13	16	20th
2008/09	Oshawa Generals	OHL	32	26th	28	54	32	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	London Knights	OHL	24	32	18th	50	22nd	14th	10	11	21st	8th
2009/10	New York Islanders	NHL	82	24	30th	54	22nd	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	New York Islanders	NHL	79	29	38	67	53	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	New York Islanders	NHL	82	31	50	81	26th	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	SC Bern	NLA	28	17th	25th	42	28	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	New York Islanders	NHL	48	28	19th	47	18th	6th	3	2	5	4th
2013/14	New York Islanders	NHL	59	24	42	66	40	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	New York Islanders	NHL	82	38	48	86	46	7th	2	4th	6th	2
2015/16	New York Islanders	NHL	78	33	37	70	38	11	6th	5	11	6th
2016/17	New York Islanders	NHL	77	28	38	66	38	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	New York Islanders	NHL	82	37	47	84	26th	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL	82	47	41	88	34	7th	2	3	5	0
2019/20	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL	63	26th	34	60	24	5	2	1	3	0
OHL total			247	215	218	433	255	38	20th	36	56	34
NHL overall			814	345	424	769	365	36	15th	15th	30th	12

International

Represented Canada to:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2006	Canada	U18 World Cup	4th Place	7th	2	3	5	4th
2007	Canada	Super Series	1st place	8th	1	8th	9	26th
2008	Canada	U20 World Cup		7th	4th	1	5	2
2009	Canada	U20 World Cup		6th	8th	7th	15th	0
2010	Canada	WM	7th place	7th	7th	0	7th	6th
2011	Canada	WM	5th place	7th	5	4th	9	12
2012	Canada	WM	5th place	8th	4th	5	9	12
2014	Canada	Olympia		4th	0	0	0	0
2016	Canada	World cup		6th	1	3	4th	0
Juniors overall				28	15th	19th	34	32
Men overall				32	17th	12	29	30th

( 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 )