Jordan Weal

Canada Jordan Weal


Date of birth	April 15, 1992
place of birth	North Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada
size	176 cm
Weight	75 kg

position	center
Shot hand	Right

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2010 , 3rd round, 70th position Los Angeles Kings
KHL Junior Draft	2015 , 3rd round, 69th position HK Sochi

Career stations

2007-2008	Vancouver North West Giants
2008–2012	Regina Pats
2012-2015	Manchester monarchs
2015-2016	Los Angeles Kings
2016-2019	Philadelphia Flyers
2019	Arizona Coyotes
since 2019	Canadiens de Montréal

Jordan Weal (born April 15, 1992 in North Vancouver , British Columbia ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Canadiens de Montréal from the National Hockey League since February 2019 and plays for them in the position of the center .

Career

Jordan Weal in the jersey of the Regina Pats (October 2010)

Jordan Weal was selected in May 2007 in the Bantam Draft of the Western Hockey League (WHL) in the fourth round at a total of 79th position by the Regina Pats . The center then completed one more season for the Vancouver North West Giants in the lower class junior league British Columbia Major Midget League , and played three regular season games for the Pats late in the 2007/08 WHL season . In addition, he came to four play-off appearances for Regina this season , before the Pats were subject to the Swift Current Broncos in the first play-off round after six games of the best-of-seven series .

In the following season , Weal was regularly used for the Regina Pats. The rookie played 65 games and scored 16 goals and a total of 70 points scorer . For this achievement he was nominated as WHL Rookie of the Year for the Jim Piggott Memorial Trophy , which, however, received Brett Connolly from the Prince George Cougars . In the 2009/10 season Weal was able to increase his points quota from the previous season and at the end of the season was the third best scorer in the entire Western Hockey League with 102 points, as well as second best point collector of the Pats behind Jordan Eberle . On March 10, 2010, the Canadian scored his 100th season scorer point; it was the first time since Pavel Brendl in the 1998/99 season that a 17-year-old WHL player reached the 100-point mark. Despite Eberles and Weal's achievements, the Pats missed the play-offs as in the previous year.

Before the upcoming NHL Entry Draft , an annual event at which National Hockey League teams can secure the rights to promising young players, the Canadian was rated as the 30th best young player. During the draft, Jordan Weal was finally selected in the third round in a total of 70th position by the Los Angeles Kings .

In the WHL season 2010/11 his point average remained at a high level. Weal set a new personal best with 43 goals in 72 completed games. He scored a total of 96 points, making him the Regina Pats' best scorer and the fifth-best point collector in the Western Hockey League. The Pats were still not very successful and the team missed the play-offs for the third time in a row. Following the last game of the Pats this season Jordan Weal was in the squad of Los Angeles' American Hockey League - Farm Team Manchester Monarchs appointed. The offensive player played seven games for the Monarchs, while he succeeded in an assist . In the subsequent Calder Cup play-offs, however, the right - handed shooter was no longer used.

On April 18, 2011, Jordan Weal signed an entry-level contract with the Los Angeles Kings. The center was invited to the Kings training camp before the start of the 2011/12 NHL season , but could not recommend itself for the final NHL squad and was sent back to the WHL to the Regina Pats. Weal was named Western Hockey League Player of the Month for January 2012 after scoring nine goals and a total of 25 points in twelve games for the Pats that month. Overall, Jordan Weal scored 116 points in 70 games in the 2011/12 WHL season ; he got more than twice as many points as the second best point collector of the Pats this season, Lane Scheidl (55). The Regina Pats qualified for the play-offs for the first time after three years and were eliminated there in the first round against the Moose Jaw Warriors . Weal contributed just as many points scorer in the five play-off games of the Pats.

Following the end of Regina's season, the offensive player was reappointed to the squad of the Manchester Monarchs. Weal quickly established himself with the Monarchs and was the team's top scorer with 70 points in the 2013/14 season. In the 2014/15 season he took part in the AHL All-Star Classic and was appointed to the AHL Second All-Star Team before winning the Calder Cup with the team in the playoffs . He and Michael Mersch became the top scorer of the playoffs and was also awarded the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy as MVP .

At the beginning of the 2015/16 season Weal was in the NHL squad of the Kings for the first time and completed ten missions there, in which he remained without points. In January 2016 he was given a third-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft 2016 in exchange for Vincent Lecavalier and Luke Schenn to the Philadelphia Flyers . In Philadelphia, he was regularly on the ice for the Flyers for the next three years before he was transferred to the Arizona Coyotes in January 2019 , who in turn gave Jacob Graves and a six- round vote for the 2019 NHL Entry Draft . For the Coyotes, the striker only played 19 games until the following month before he switched to the Canadiens de Montréal in exchange for Michael Chaput .

International

Jordan Weal represented his home country with the Canadian national team for the first time at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2009 . At this tournament he finished second with Team Canada Pacific after losing to Team Canada Ontario in the final . At the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2009 he won his team the gold medal after a 9-2 victory in the final against the Russian selection . Weal also played for Hockey Canada at the U18 World Junior Championship in 2010 . The Canadians could not qualify for the final round in this tournament and consequently remained without a medal. Jordan Weal scored nine points in six games and was the Canadian team's most successful points collector.

Achievements and Awards

2009 WHL East Rookie of the Year
2010 CHL Top Prospects Game
2012 WHL Player of the Month for January
2012 WHL East First All-Star Team
2015 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic

2015 AHL Second All-Star Team
2015 Calder Cup win with the Manchester Monarchs
2015 AHL playoff top scorer (22 points; together with Michael Mersch )
2015 Jack A. Butterfield Trophy
2017 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic

International

2009 silver medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
2009 gold medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

			Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2007/08	Vancouver North West Giants	BCMML	40	39	61	100		44	2	0	2	2		2
2007/08	Regina Pats	WHL	3	0	1	1	± 0	0	4th	0	0	0	-1	0
2008/09	Regina Pats	WHL	65	16	54	70	-10	26th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Regina Pats	WHL	72	35	67	102	+3	54	-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Regina Pats	WHL	72	43	53	96	+13	70	-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Manchester monarchs	AHL	7th	0	1	1	+1	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Regina Pats	WHL	70	41	75	116	+31	36	5	1	4th	5	+2	0
2011/12	Manchester monarchs	AHL	2	0	0	0	-1	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Manchester monarchs	AHL	63	15th	18th	33	+8	38	4th	0	2	2	-2	4th
2013/14	Manchester monarchs	AHL	76	23	47	70	+28	42	4th	0	3	3	± 0	2
2014/15	Manchester monarchs	AHL	73	20th	49	69	+11	56	17th	10	11	21st	+12	16
2015/16	Los Angeles Kings	NHL	10	0	0	0	± 0	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL	4th	0	0	0	+1	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Lehigh Valley Phantoms	AHL	43	15th	32	47	+11	30th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL	23	8th	4th	12	+5	10	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL	69	8th	13	21st	-10	12	1	0	0	0	-1	0
2018/19	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL	28	3	6th	9	-5	16	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Arizona Coyotes	NHL	19th	1	1	2	-3	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL	16	4th	6th	10	± 0	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
WHL overall			282	135	250	385	+37	186	9	1	4th	5	+1	0
AHL total			264	73	147	220	+58	166	25th	10	16	26th	+10	22nd
NHL overall			169	24	30th	54	-12	42	1	0	0	0	-1	0

International

Represented Canada to:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2009	Canada Pacific	U17-WHC		6th	1	5	6th	2
2009	Canada	HIMT		4th	1	4th	5	4th
2010	Canada	U18 World Cup	7th place	6th	3	6th	9	30th
Juniors overall				16	5	15th	20th	36

( 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 )