Mark Letestu

Mark Letestu
Date of birth	4th February 1985
place of birth	Elk Point , Alberta , Canada
size	180 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2002-2006	Bonnyville Pontiacs
2006-2007	Western Michigan University
2007-2010	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins
2010-2011	Pittsburgh Penguins
2011-2015	Columbus Blue Jackets
2015-2018	Edmonton Oilers
2018-2019	Columbus Blue Jackets Cleveland Monsters
since 2018	Winnipeg Jets

Mark Letestu (born February 4, 1985 in Elk Point , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Winnipeg Jets in the National Hockey League since July 2019 .

Career

Mark Letestu began his career as a hockey player with the Bonnyville Pontiacs, for which he was active from 2002 to 2006 in the Alberta Junior Hockey League . In the 2006/07 season, the attacker played for the Western Michigan University team .

On March 22, 2007, he was awarded a contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins as a free agent without ever having been drafted . For Pittsburgh's farm team , the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins , he made his professional ice hockey debut towards the end of the 2006/07 season , receiving two penalty minutes in five games. After he was used in the 2007/08 season in parallel for Wilkes-Barre in the AHL and the Wheeling Nailers in the ECHL , he played exclusively for Wilkes-Barre in the 2008/09 season . In the following season he was mainly in Wilkes-Barre in action, but also made his NHL debut for the Pittsburgh Penguins, before the center in the course of the 2010/11 season thanks to his good performance a regular place in the NHL squad of the Penguins he fought. On November 8, 2011, the Penguins transferred him to the Columbus Blue Jackets in exchange for a four-round vote in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft .

After almost three and a half years in Columbus, his expiring contract was not extended, as a result of which he joined the Edmonton Oilers in July 2015 .

In February 2018, the Oilers gave Letestu in exchange for Pontus Åberg to the Nashville Predators , who transferred him directly to the Columbus Blue Jackets for a four-round vote in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft . In Columbus, he ended the 2017/18 season and initially did not receive a continuing contract from the Blue Jackets. In September 2018, however, he rejoined his old employer, who then promptly handed him over to the AHL farm team, the Cleveland Monsters . He then moved to Winnipeg Jets as a free agent in July 2019 . However, he missed most of the following season 2019/20 due to myocarditis .

Achievements and Awards

• 2007 CCHA rookie of the year
• 2007 CCHA All-Rookie 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
2002/03	Bonnyville Pontiacs	AJHL		11	7th	1	8th		0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Bonnyville Pontiacs	AJHL		58	22nd	27	49		24		5	3	1	4th		6th
2004/05	Bonnyville Pontiacs	AJHL		63	39	47	86		32		4th	0	4th	4th		2
2005/06	Bonnyville Pontiacs	AJHL		58	50	55	105		59		-	-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Western Michigan University	NCAA		37	24	22nd	46	+8	14th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		3	0	0	0	-1	0		2	0	0	0	± 0	2
2007/08	Wheeling Nailers	ECHL		6th	1	2	3	± 0	4th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		52	6th	12	18th	-2	28		13	0	3	3	+1	0
2008/09	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		73	24	37	61	+12	6th		12	2	8th	10	+2	4th
2009/10	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		63	21st	34	55	+21	21st		4th	0	3	3	-2	0
2009/10	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		10	1	0	1	-2	2		4th	0	1	1	± 0	0
2010/11	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		64	14th	13	27	+4	13		7th	0	1	1	-3	0
2011/12	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		11	0	1	1	–6	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		51	11	13	24	-3	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Almtuna IS	Allsvenskan		7th	4th	0	4th	+2	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		46	13	14th	27	+7	10		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		82	12	22nd	34	+1	20th		6th	1	1	2	-2	0
2014/15	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		54	7th	6th	13	–9	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		82	10	15th	25th	-21	10		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		78	16	19th	35	-2	17th		13	5	6th	11	-4	2
2017/18	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		60	8th	11	19th	-17	10		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		20th	1	3	4th	± 0	0		6th	0	0	0	-1	0
2018/19	Cleveland Monsters	AHL		64	21st	29	50	+2	16		8th	3	2	5	+6	2
2018/19	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		2	0	0	0	-1	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		7th	0	0	0	± 0	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
AJHL total				190	118	130	248		115		9	3	5	8th		8th
AHL total				255	72	112	184	+32	71		39	5	16	21st	+7	8th
NHL overall				567	93	117	210	-49	90		36	6th	9	15th	-10	2

( 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

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• Player biography on the Winnipeg Jets website
• Mark Letestu at eliteprospects.com (English)