Logan Pyett

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Logan Pyett
Date of birth May 25, 1988
place of birth Balgonie , Saskatchewan , Canada
size 178 cm
Weight 90 kg
position defender
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2006 , 7th lap, 212th position
Detroit Red Wings
Career stations
2002-2003 Balgonie Prairie Storm
2003-2004 Regina Pat Canadians
2004-2008 Regina Pats
2008–2012 Grand Rapids Griffins
2012-2013 Connecticut Whale
2013 Vitjas Podolsk
2013-2014 Admiral Vladivostok
2014-2015 Severstal Cherepovets
2015-2016 Lehigh Valley Phantoms
2017-2018 Tōhoku Free Blades
2018 Hershey Bears
since 2018 KooKoo Kouvola

Logan Pyett (born May 25, 1988 in Balgonie , Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with KooKoo Kouvola in the Finnish Liiga since December 2018 and plays there in the position of defender . Due to a cancer diagnosed in the fall of 2015, Pyett took a two-year break.

Career

Logan Pyett was born in Balgonie , a small town near Regina , in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan . At the beginning of his career he played for the local youth teams Balgonie Prairie Storm and Regina Pat Canadians , where he was already able to convince with his game as an attacking defender .

During the 2002/03 season he played his first two games for the Regina Pats in the high-class Canadian Junior League WHL and was part of the team's regular squad the following year. He played a solid first season and was the team's top defender with 24 points, which, however, finished last in the league.

In 2005/06 Pyett managed to establish himself among the best defenders in the league. With ten goals and 35 assists , he finished ninth in the defensive scorer list, but he had the second worst plus / minus value of his team. The Pats qualified this time for the playoffs , but failed in the first round. After the season he took part in the U18 World Championship with the Canadian junior national team. Canada had to go home without a medal after losing in the game for third place and Pyett was the fourth best scorer among defenders of the World Cup.

Despite good performance, Pyett was passed over by many teams because of his small body size for a defender in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft , before he was selected with the 212th and penultimate vote by the Detroit Red Wings in the seventh round.

In the 2006/07 season, Pyett continued to play for the Regina Pats and had his best season to date. With 62 points in 71 games, he was fourth-best WHL defender in this category and second-best assists among the defenders of the league with 48 assists. The Pats could safely qualify for the playoffs and moved through to the second round. In the summer of 2007 he was appointed to a Canadian U20 selection, which competed in the eight-game Super Series 2007 against a Russian national team of the same age. Canada won the series with seven wins in a draw and Pyett contributed two goals and two assists.

At the beginning of the 2007/08 season he was appointed team captain of the Pats, who reached the top spot in their division in the regular season, but failed in the first round of the playoffs. As in the previous season, Pyett was fourth-best scorer among the defenders and with a personal best of 20 goals second-best goalscorer. This gave him the appointment to the WHL East First All-Star Team and the CHL Second All-Star Team. During the season he also took part with the Canadian national team in the U20 World Cup and won the gold medal.

In the fall of 2008 Logan Pyett took part in the training camp of the Detroit Red Wings and completed the 2008/09 season in the American Hockey League with the Detroit farm team , the Grand Rapids Griffins . There he had problems with his offensive play, which was already his great strength with the juniors, and on the defensive he showed deficits in terms of speed and physical strength. In the second half of the season he was finally able to improve and also increased his yield on the offensive.

In July 2012, Pyett signed a one-year contract as a free agent with the New York Rangers , which, however, only used him with their farm team, the Connecticut Whale . The Canadian then left North America and spent two seasons in the Continental Hockey League , at HK Vitjas Podolsk , at Admiral Vladivostok and at Severstal Tscherepowez . After the 2014/15 season he returned and signed a one-year contract with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms in the AHL in August 2015 . A few months later, however, Pyett was diagnosed with sarcoma in his left leg, which caused him to be indefinitely absent.

After not being on the ice for two seasons due to the illness, he returned to play for the 2017/18 season. He spent the season in Japan with the Tōhoku Free Blades in the Asia League Ice Hockey . In the summer of 2018, the defender returned to North America and at the beginning of the 2018/19 game year played ten games for the Hershey Bears in the AHL. In December 2018 he moved to the Finnish club KooKoo Kouvola , which was based in the Liiga, for the rest of the season .

Logan Pyett's strengths are mainly on the offensive, where he can use his hard shot and precise passing game. However, he has weaknesses on the defensive, mainly because of his small height for a defender of 1.78 meters.

Achievements and Awards

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
2002/03 Balgonie Prairie Storm SSMHL 35 27 46 73 40 - - - - -
2003/04 Regina Pat Canadians SMHL 44 18th 27 45 34 - - - - -
2003/04 Regina Pats WHL 2 0 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 0
2004/05 Regina Pats WHL 67 5 19th 24 67 - - - - -
2005/06 Regina Pats WHL 71 10 35 45 89 6th 1 6th 7th 12
2006/07 Regina Pats WHL 71 14th 48 62 84 10 3 6th 9 4th
2007/08 Regina Pats WHL 62 20th 34 54 54 6th 1 3 4th 0
2008/09 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 61 3 11 14th 12 1 0 0 0 0
2009/10 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 80 9 21st 30th 41 - - - - -
2010/11 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 74 9 13 22nd 38 - - - - -
2011/12 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 73 2 25th 27 54 - - - - -
2012/13 Connecticut Whale AHL 74 7th 32 39 35 - - - - -
2013/14 Vitjas Podolsk KHL 33 5 6th 11 10 - - - - -
2013/14 Admiral Vladivostok KHL 17th 1 4th 5 4th 5 0 2 2 6th
2014/15 Admiral Vladivostok KHL 21st 4th 3 7th 14th - - - - -
2014/15 Severstal Cherepovets KHL 32 1 7th 8th 14th - - - - -
2015/16 Lehigh Valley Phantoms AHL not played because of cancer
2016/17 without a contract not played because of cancer
2017/18 Tōhoku Free Blades ALIH 26th 4th 11 15th 49 4th 1 1 2 12
2018/19 Hershey Bears AHL 10 0 1 1 8th - - - - -
2018/19 KooKoo Kouvola Liiga 21st 0 1 1 12 - - - - -
WHL overall 273 49 132 181 294 25th 5 15th 20th 16
AHL total 372 30th 103 133 188 1 0 0 0 0
KHL total 103 11 20th 31 42 5 0 2 2 6th

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2005 Canada West U17-WHC 1st place, gold 6th 2 4th 6th 8th
2006 Canada U18 World Cup 4th Place 7th 1 3 4th 12
2007 Canada Super Series 1st place 7th 2 2 4th 8th
2008 Canada U20 World Cup 1st place, gold 7th 0 1 1 4th
Juniors overall 27 5 10 15th 32

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Flyers defenseman Pyett diagnosed with sarcoma. nhl.com, October 9, 2015, accessed October 9, 2015 .
  2. ↑ redwingscentral.com, Profile and Scouting Report on Logan Pyett
personal data
SURNAME Pyett, Logan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Balgonie , Saskatchewan