Mario Lamoureux

United States Mario Lamoureux


Date of birth	June 18, 1988
place of birth	Grand Forks , North Dakota , USA
size	175 cm
Weight	84 kg

position	center
Shot hand	Left

Career stations

2004-2008	Tri-City Storm
2008–2012	University of North Dakota
2012-2014	Ontario Reign
2014	EC VSV
2014-2015	Quad City Mallards
2015-2016	Esbjerg Energy
2016-2017	HC Innsbruck
2017	Frisk Asker
2017-2018	EHC Winterthur
2018-2019	HC Innsbruck
since 2019	Dresden Ice Lions

Mario Lamoureux (born June 18, 1988 in Grand Forks , North Dakota ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Dresdner Eislöwen in the DEL2 since 2019 .

Career

Lamoureux began his career with the Tri-City Storm in the North American junior league United States Hockey League and left it as a record player with 129 points , including 85 assists, in 236 games. Between 2008 and 2012 he played for the University of North Dakota in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA), with which he was WCHA Champion in 2010, 2011 and 2012 and won the Broadmoor Trophy . In his senior year, Lamoureux was the North Dakota Fighting Hawks team captain . In addition, he was elected several times to various WCHA All-Star teams.

Mario Lamoureux in the jersey of the EC VSV (2014)

Lamoureux had his first professional engagement at the end of the 2011/12 season with the Gwinnett Gladiators in the ECHL . In his first full ECHL season in the 2012/13 season with the Ontario Reign , Lamoureux was appointed to the all-rookie team after scoring 25 goals and 40 assists in 71 games. For the ECHL 2013/14 season he signed a new contract with the Reign and also spent some time with the Oklahoma City Barons in the American Hockey League (AHL) that year. In February 2014 he was signed by the EC VSV from the Austrian ice hockey league , where he met his brother Jean-Philippe .

In October 2014, the Ontario Reign gave his transfer rights to the Quad City Mallards , for whom he subsequently collected 20 goals and 51 assists in 68 ECHL appearances. In the course of the season Lamoureux also completed a Professional Tryout Agreement (PTO) with the Bridgeport Sound Tigers and the Charlotte Checkers , both teams from the AHL. Before the playoffs, he returned to the Mallards.

From 2015 the American was under contract with Esbjerg Energy from the Danish Metal Ligaen and won the Danish championship with them in 2016 . With 26 goals and 35 assists in 45 regular season games, as well as 2 goals and 11 assists in 18 playoff games, he was one of the key players in the championship squad. After a year in Denmark, Lamoureux accepted an offer from Austria and signed a contract with the EBEL team HC Innsbruck in May 2016 .

In February 2018 he returned to the EBEL after stints in Norway and Switzerland when he was signed by the EC Graz 99ers . He then played another season in Innsbruck. In May 2019 he was signed by the Dresdner Eislöwen from the DEL2 .

Achievements and Awards

2010 Broadmoor Trophy win with the University of North Dakota
2010 WCHA All-Academic Team
2011 Broadmoor Trophy win with the University of North Dakota
2011 WCHA All-Academic Team
2012 Broadmoor Trophy win with the University of North Dakota

2012 WCHA All-Tournament Team
2012 WCHA All-Academic Team
2013 ECHL All-Rookie Team
2016 Danish champion with Esbjerg Energy

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
2004/05	Tri-City Storm	USHL	59	7th	15th	22nd	71	9	0	2	2	25th
2005/06	Tri-City Storm	USHL	57	13	19th	32	131	5	0	0	0	8th
2006/07	Tri-City Storm	USHL	60	15th	19th	34	100	9	2	2	4th	20th
2007/08	Tri-City Storm	USHL	60	9	32	41	152	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	University of North Dakota	NCAA	24	3	3	6th	18th
2009/10	University of North Dakota	NCAA	42	7th	5	12	85
2010/11	University of North Dakota	NCAA	43	3	14th	17th	65
2011/12	University of North Dakota	NCAA	39	4th	7th	11	60
2011/12	Gwinnett Gladiators	ECHL	2	0	0	0	0	4th	0	0	0	2
2012/13	Ontario Reign	ECHL	71	25th	40	65	69	10	3	2	5	14th
2013/14	Ontario Reign	ECHL	46	20th	20th	40	36	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Oklahoma City Barons	AHL	3	0	1	1	4th	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	EC VSV	EBEL	4th	1	1	2	6th	9	1	5	6th	10
2014/15	Quad City Mallards	ECHL	68	20th	51	71	77	3	1	0	1	4th
2014/15	Bridgeport Sound Tigers	AHL	2	1	0	1	0	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Charlotte Checkers	AHL	3	2	0	2	2	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Esbjerg Energy	Metal leagues	45	26th	35	61	81	18th	2	11	13	26th
2016/17	HC TWK Innsbruck	EBEL	54	20th	27	47	70	2	2	0	2	6th
2017/18	Frisk Asker	GET leagues	20th	10	9	19th	18th	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	EHC Winterthur	Swiss League	24	4th	13	17th	57	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	EC Graz 99ers	EBEL	6th	7th	3	10	4th	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	HC TWK Innsbruck	EBEL	52	18th	19th	37	43	-	-	-	-	-
USHL total			236	44	85	129	454	18th	2	4th	6th	45
NCAA overall			148	17th	29	46	228
ECHL total			187	65	111	176	182	17th	4th	2	6th	20th
AHL total			8th	3	1	4th	6th	-	-	-	-	-
EBEL total			116	46	50	96	123	11	3	5	8th	16

( 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

Mario Lamoureux comes from a family who loves ice hockey. His father Jean-Pierre was a goalkeeper for the University of North Dakota in the early 1980s . He also has three brothers and two sisters who all play or have played ice hockey. His two twin sisters, Monique and Jocelyne , are both internationals for the United States and have won two Olympic silver medals and several world titles.

His brother Jacques studied at the United States Air Force Academy and played for their ice hockey team, where he was nominated for the Hobey Baker Award . Pierre-Paul played for the University of Manitoba and is now on the coaching staff of the ice hockey team. Jean-Philippe Lamoureux also played for the University of North Dakota in the past , was later active in the ECHL and was on the ice with Mario at EC VSV between February and April 2014.