Julien Gauthier

Julien Gauthier
Date of birth	October 15, 1997
place of birth	Pointe-aux-Trembles , Quebec , Canada
size	193 cm
Weight	102 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2016 , 1st round, 21st position Carolina Hurricanes
Career stations
2013-2017	Foreurs de Val-d'Or
2017	Saint John Sea Dogs
2017-2020	Charlotte Checkers
2019-2020	Carolina Hurricanes
since 2020	New York Rangers

Julien Gauthier (born October 15, 1997 in Pointe-aux-Trembles , Québec ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the New York Rangers in the National Hockey League (NHL) since February 2020, where he is in the position of right winger plays.

Career

Julien Gauthier was born in Pointe-aux-Trembles, a district of Montréal , and played there in his youth for the youth program Montréal Royal . For the 2013/14 season he moved to the Foreurs de Val-d'Or in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ), the highest-ranking junior league in his home province. Previously, the Foreurs had selected him in the league's Entry Draft 2013 in sixth position. Even as a rookie , the winger and the team won the LHJMQ playoffs for the Coupe du Président , before he significantly increased his personal statistics to 73 points from 68 games the following year . These points section of more than 1.0 per game, he also confirmed in the season 2015/16, so it the Carolina Hurricanes in the NHL Entry Draft in 2016 into account at 21 position. The Canadian then returned to the LHJMQ for another year, ceding to the Saint John Sea Dogs in January 2017 . With this he won his second Coupe du Président at the end of the season, but missed the final in the subsequent Memorial Cup 2017 - as well as 2014 -.

In the 2017/18 season, Gauthier finally switched to the organization of the Carolina Hurricanes, which had already provided him with an entry-level contract in July 2016 . For the time being, however, he was used in their farm team , the Charlotte Checkers from the American Hockey League (AHL). There, too, the attacker established himself as a regular scorer, while he won the Calder Cup with the Checkers in the AHL playoffs 2019 . In October 2019 he finally made his debut for the Hurricanes in the National Hockey League (NHL), but was still mostly used in the Checkers. In February 2020, Gauthier was given to the New York Rangers in exchange for Joey Keane .

International

Gauthier gained his first international experience at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2014 in January , where he finished fourth with the Canada Québec team . With the Canadian U20 national team , a disappointing sixth place followed at the U20 World Cup in 2016 , before losing to the United States in the final the following year and thus winning the silver medal.

Achievements and Awards

• 2014 Coupe du Président win with the Foreurs de Val-d'Or
• 2016 Participation in the CHL Top Prospects Game
• 2017 Coupe du Président win with the Saint John Sea Dogs
• 2019 Calder Cup win with the Charlotte Checkers

International

• 2017 silver medal at the U20 World Cup

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
2013/14	Foreurs de Val-d'Or	LHJMQ		62	8th	21st	29	+9	19th		24	0	7th	7th	-1	2
2014	Foreurs de Val-d'Or	Memorial Cup									4th	0	0	0	-1	4th
2014/15	Foreurs de Val-d'Or	LHJMQ		68	38	35	73	+6	46		17th	5	5	10	-2	6th
2015/16	Foreurs de Val-d'Or	LHJMQ		54	41	16	57	+24	24		6th	2	3	5	+4	8th
2016/17	Foreurs de Val-d'Or	LHJMQ		23	7th	20th	27	+1	22nd		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Saint John Sea Dogs	LHJMQ		20th	10	14th	24	+11	18th		16	11	6th	17th	+13	13
2017	Saint John Sea Dogs	Memorial Cup									4th	2	4th	6th	+3	0
2017/18	Charlotte Checkers	AHL		65	16	9	25th	± 0	24		8th	1	1	2	-3	2
2018/19	Charlotte Checkers	AHL		75	27	14th	41	–6	57		17th	5	3	8th	+7	10
2019/20	Charlotte Checkers	AHL		44	26th	11	37	-5	34		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL		5	0	1	1	+2	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	New York Rangers	NHL		12	0	2	2	-1	2		3	0	0	0	-1	0
LHJMQ total				227	104	106	210	+51	129		63	18th	21st	39	+14	29
Memorial Cup overall											8th	2	4th	6th	+2	4th
AHL total				184	69	34	103	–11	115		25th	6th	4th	10	+4	12
NHL overall				17th	0	3	3	+1	8th		3	0	0	0	-1	0

International

Represented Canada to:

• World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2014 in January
• U20 World Cup 2016
• U20 World Cup 2017

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2014	Canada Québec	U17-WHC	4th Place		6th	0	0	0		4th
2016	Canada	U20 World Cup	6th place		5	0	2	2	± 0	0
2017	Canada	U20 World Cup			7th	5	2	7th	+2	2
Juniors overall					18th	5	4th	9		6th

( 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 uncle Denis Gauthier was also active as a hockey player in the NHL.

Web links

• Player biography on the New York Rangers website
• Julien Gauthier at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Terrell Williams: Julien Gauthier Signed to Entry-Level Contract. nhl.com, July 9, 2016, accessed August 2, 2020 . 
2. ^ Rangers Acquire Forward Julien Gauthier. nhl.com, February 18, 2020, accessed on August 2, 2020 .