Logan Couture

Logan Couture
Date of birth	March 28, 1989
place of birth	Guelph , Ontario , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	87 kg
position	center
number	# 39
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2007 , 1st round, 9th position San Jose Sharks
Career stations
2004-2005	St. Thomas Stars
2005-2009	Ottawa 67's
2009-2010	Worcester Sharks
2012	Genève-Servette HC
since 2010	San Jose Sharks

Logan Couture (born March 28, 1989 in Guelph , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the San Jose Sharks from the National Hockey League since 2010 and plays for them on the position of the center . He has been captain of the team since September 2019 .

Career

Couture began his career with the St. Thomas Stars in one of Ontario's sub-division junior leagues . After a year there, in which he scored 46 points in 48 games, he was selected by the Ottawa 67’s in twelfth place in the first round of the 2005 Priority Selection Draft of the Ontario Hockey League . The Canadian has long been considered a promising candidate to be drawn in first place by the Oshawa Generals , but they decided on the then 14-year-old John Tavares . Right at the beginning of the 2005/06 season , Couture moved to the OHL for the 67's and played two consistently good seasons there, in each of which he managed to qualify for the playoffs with the team of head coach Brian Kilrea . Before he went into his second OHL season, however, Couture injured his knee seriously during a training camp for the Canadian U-18 national team . The cut caused by an ice skate had to be sewn with 29 stitches. Nevertheless, the defensive striker impressed with 78 points in 54 games and thus another significant increase compared to the previous season. In the NHL Entry Draft 2007 he was therefore selected in the first round in ninth position by the San Jose Sharks . In order for San Jose to be able to pull the striker in the draft, the management had entered into several swap deals in advance in order to get to the top places in the draft ranking. In July, a month after the draft, Couture signed its first professional contract in San Jose. However, he could not prevail in the Sharks training camp and was initially sent back to his junior team.

Couture in the jersey of the San Jose Sharks

The 2007/08 season that followed the draft was less successful for the Canadian, as he was often injured as in the previous season and only made 51 appearances in the regular season. As a result, his point yield suffered, which fell significantly with a similar number of games. Nevertheless, he was together with Jamie McGinn , another draft pick of the San Jose Sharks, with 58 points the most successful scorer of the team. At the beginning of the 2008/09 season , Couture found himself again in the squad of the Ottawa 67's after he had again not been able to earn a regular place in the training camp of the NHL team. Compared to the two previous years, the striker remained largely injury-free and completed his best season with 87 points scorer. After the elimination of his team in the first playoff round, the management of the San Jose Sharks ordered him on April 3, 2009 to the Worcester Sharks , their farm team in the American Hockey League , where Couture played against the Albany River on the same day Rats made his professional debut. In the following season, the appearances of the striker split between the San Jose Sharks in the National Hockey League and the Worcester Sharks in the AHL. There he was so impressive that he took part in the AHL All-Star Classic and was appointed to the AHL All-Rookie Team at the end of the season . For the 2010/11 season he made the final leap into the NHL. In December 2010 he was named NHL Rookie of the Month and took part in the SuperSkills Competition of the NHL rookies as part of the 2011 NHL All-Star Game . After completing the regular season, he was nominated for the Calder Memorial Trophy together with Michael Grabner and Jeff Skinner .

For the duration of the NHL lockout in the 2012/13 season, the striker was signed by the Swiss club Genève-Servette HC in September 2012 .

In the 2015/16 season, Couture reached the final of the Stanley Cup with the Sharks and was the best scorer in the playoffs with 30 points, but failed there because of the Pittsburgh Penguins . He then made his debut for the Canadian national team at the World Cup of Hockey 2016 , where he won the gold medal with the team.

In July 2018, Couture signed a new eight-year contract with the Sharks, which should earn him an average annual salary of eight million US dollars as of the start of the 2019/20 season. Before starting up this season Couture was founded in September 2019 as the new team captain named the Sharks and entered this succession of by Dallas exchanged Joe Pavelski on.

Achievements and Awards

2006 OHL Second All-Rookie Team 2007 Participation in the CHL Top Prospects Game 2007 participation in the OHL All-Star Game 2008 Participation in the OHL All-Star Game (cancellation due to injury) 2009 participation in the OHL All-Star Game 2009 AHL Rookie of the Month December (together with Benn Ferriero ) 2010 Participation in the AHL All-Star Classic

2010 AHL All-Rookie Team 2010 NHL Rookie of the Month for December 2011 Participation in the NHL All-Star Game SuperSkills Competition 2011 NHL All-Rookie Team 2012 Participation in the NHL All-Star Game 2016 best scorer in the NHL playoffs 2020 participation in the NHL All-Star Game (cancellation due to injury)

International

• 2016 gold medal at the World Cup of Hockey

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
2004/05	St. Thomas Stars	WELL		48	24	22nd	46
2005/06	Ottawa 67's	OHL		65	25th	39	64	52		6th	3	4th	7th	0
2006/07	Ottawa 67's	OHL		54	26th	52	78	24		5	1	7th	8th	4th
2007/08	Ottawa 67's	OHL		51	21st	37	58	37		4th	2	1	3	0
2008/09	Ottawa 67's	OHL		62	39	48	87	46		7th	3	7th	10	8th
2008/09	Worcester Sharks	AHL		4th	0	0	0	7th		12	2	1	3	11
2009/10	Worcester Sharks	AHL		42	20th	33	53	12		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	San Jose Sharks	NHL		25th	5	4th	9	6th		15th	4th	0	4th	4th
2010/11	San Jose Sharks	NHL		79	32	24	56	41		18th	7th	7th	14th	2
2011/12	San Jose Sharks	NHL		80	31	34	65	16		5	1	3	4th	0
2012/13	Genève-Servette HC	NLA		22nd	7th	16	23	10		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	San Jose Sharks	NHL		48	21st	16	37	4th		11	5	6th	11	0
2013/14	San Jose Sharks	NHL		65	23	31	54	20th		7th	1	2	3	7th
2014/15	San Jose Sharks	NHL		82	27	40	67	12		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	San Jose Sharks	NHL		52	15th	21st	36	20th		24	10	20th	30th	8th
2016/17	San Jose Sharks	NHL		73	25th	27	52	12		6th	2	1	3	0
2017/18	San Jose Sharks	NHL		78	34	27	61	18th		10	4th	8th	12	4th
2018/19	San Jose Sharks	NHL		81	27	43	70	22nd		20th	14th	6th	20th	6th
2019/20	San Jose Sharks	NHL		52	16	23	39	18th		-	-	-	-	-
PROBABLY total				48	24	22nd	46
OHL total				232	111	176	287	159		22nd	9	19th	28	12
AHL total				46	20th	33	53	19th		12	2	1	3	11
NHL overall				715	256	290	546	189		116	48	53	101	31

International

Represented Canada to:

• U18 Junior World Championship 2007
• World Cup of Hockey 2016

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2007	Canada	U18 World Cup	4th Place		6th	2	2	4th	2
2016	Canada	World cup			6th	1	3	4th	0
Juniors overall					6th	2	2	4th	2
Men overall					6th	1	3	4th	0

( 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 )

Personal

He is the grandson of the Canadian musician Bob Couture and son of the National Lacrosse League referee Chet Couture.

Web links

Commons : Logan Couture  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the San Jose Sharks website
• Logan Couture at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Logan Couture at legendsofhockey.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bill Marx: Sharks, Logan Couture agree to 8-year, $ 64 million extension. sportingnews.com, July 1, 2018, accessed July 2, 2018 .