MacKenzie Weegar

MacKenzie Weegar
Date of birth	January 7, 1994
place of birth	Ottawa , Ontario , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	96 kg
position	defender
number	# 52
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2013 , 7th round, 206th position Florida Panthers
Career stations
2011–2012	Nepean Raiders
2012-2014	Halifax Mooseheads
2014-2015	San Antonio Rampage Cincinnati Cyclones
2015-2016	Portland Pirates
2016-2017	Springfield Thunderbirds
since 2017	Florida panthers

MacKenzie Weegar (born January 7, 1994 in Ottawa , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Florida Panthers from the National Hockey League since May 2014 and plays for them on the position of defender .

Career

MacKenzie Weegar played in his youth, among other things, for the Winchester Hawks and the Nepean Raiders in lower-class junior leagues in his home province of Ontario, without being considered by teams of the Ontario Hockey League . As a result, he joined the Halifax Mooseheads from the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ) in the summer of 2012 , in order to still be able to be active at the highest junior level from now on. As a rookie , the defender had 44 scorer points in the LHJMQ as well as the league-wide best plus / minus statistic of +55, so that he was elected to the LHJMQ All-Rookie Team . Meanwhile, he won the playoffs for the Coupe du Président with the Mooseheads and a little later the prestigious Memorial Cup before he was selected in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft in 206th position by the Florida Panthers . For now, however, the Canadian returned to Halifax for another year, in which he increased his personal statistics again and was appointed to the LHJMQ Second All-Star Team .

Weegar then signed an entry-level contract with the Florida Panthers in May 2014 . These put the defender in the 2014/15 season for the time being with their farm teams , the San Antonio Rampage from the American Hockey League (AHL) and the Cincinnati Cyclones from the third-rate ECHL . As a result, he increased his performance from year to year, while the Panthers changed their AHL farm team, so that he ran in 2015/16 for the Portland Pirates and 2016/17 for the Springfield Thunderbirds . Weegar finally made his Florida National Hockey League (NHL) debut in April 2017, before extending his contract with the Panthers for a year in August 2017. At the beginning of the 2017/18 season, the Canadian established himself in the Florida NHL squad and has been there regularly since then.

Achievements and Awards

• 2013 Coupe du Président win with the Halifax Mooseheads
• 2013 LHJMQ All-Rookie Team
• 2013 Memorial Cup win with the Halifax Mooseheads
• 2014 LHJMQ Second All-Star Team

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
2011/12	Nepean Raiders	CCHL		53	13	37	50		61		18th	2	4th	6th		24
2012/13	Halifax Mooseheads	LHJMQ		62	8th	36	44	+55	58		17th	0	5	5	+13	10
2013	Halifax Mooseheads	Memorial Cup									4th	0	4th	4th	+2	4th
2013/14	Halifax Mooseheads	LHJMQ		61	12	47	59	+56	97		16	5	17th	22nd	+3	14th
2014/15	Cincinnati Cyclones	ECHL		21st	1	12	13	+4	13		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		31	2	8th	10	+2	40		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Portland Pirates	AHL		62	7th	17th	24	-8th	60		1	0	0	0	-1	0
2016/17	Springfield Thunderbirds	AHL		60	14th	22nd	36	+7	70		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Florida panthers	NHL		3	0	0	0	± 0	4th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Florida panthers	NHL		60	2	6th	8th	+5	32		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Florida panthers	NHL		64	4th	11	15th	-3	64		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Florida panthers	NHL		45	7th	11	18th	+6	33		4th	0	1	1	+1	4th
LHJMQ total				123	20th	83	103	+111	155		33	5	22nd	27	+16	24
AHL total				153	23	47	70	+1	170		1	0	0	0	-1	0
NHL overall				172	13	28	41	+8	133		4th	0	1	1	+1	4th

( 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

His uncle Craig Rivet was also a hockey player and played almost 1,000 games in the NHL.

Web links

• Player biography on the Florida Panthers website
• MacKenzie Weegar at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ D MacKenzie Weegar Agrees To Entry-level Contract With Panthers. nhl.com, May 29, 2014, accessed December 26, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Panthers Agree to Terms with Defenseman MacKenzie Weegar. nhl.com, August 3, 2017, accessed December 26, 2017 .