Mark Pysyk

Canada Mark Pysyk


Date of birth	January 11, 1992
place of birth	Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
size	186 cm
Weight	85 kg

position	defender
number	# 3
Shot hand	Right

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2010 , 1st round, 23rd position Buffalo Sabers

Career stations

2008–2012	Edmonton Oil Kings
2012-2016	Buffalo Sabers Rochester Americans
since 2016	Florida panthers

Mark Pysyk (born January 11, 1992 in Edmonton , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player on the position of defender who has been under contract with the Florida Panthers in the National Hockey League since June 2016 .

Career

Pysyk began his career in the youth leagues of the suburbs of his native Edmonton , where he stood on the ice with Joe Morrow, among others . In the Bantam Draft of the Western Hockey League (WHL), one of the three highest junior leagues in Canada, he was then selected in 2007 as the first player in the history of the newly formed Edmonton Oil Kings in third overall position. In his rookie season , as a 16-year-old, he already played more than 20 minutes per game.

In his second full season he was appointed assistant captain of the Oil Kings in 2009/10 and ended the season with 24 points from 48 games. Although he missed almost a third of the season with a foot injury, he was voted Most Valuable Player on his team. In the 2010 NHL Entry Draft , the Buffalo Sabers then selected him in the first round in 23rd position.

In the following two seasons Pysyk acted as captain of the Oil Kings and led them to win the title in the WHL in the 2011/12 season . With eight assists, he was the best assists among the defenders of his team in the play-offs .

For the 2012/13 season Mark Pysyk made his professional debut for the farm team of the Buffalo Sabers, the Rochester Americans , in the American Hockey League . In his rookie season, he was called up for the first time in the NHL squad of the Sabers and made his debut in March 2013 in the game against the Washington Capitals . By the end of the season, Pysyk played 19 games and scored five points scorer. He switched frequently between Buffalo and Rochester in the following two seasons before signing a new two-year deal with the Sabers in July 2015. At the beginning of the 2015/16 season he established himself alongside Jake McCabe . Both were praised for their high mobility and their overview of the game.

In June 2016, Pysyk was given two voting rights for the NHL Entry Draft 2016 to the Florida Panthers , who in return transferred Dmitri Kulikow to Buffalo.

International

Pysyk at the U20 World Junior Championship 2012

Mark Pysyk was appointed to the Canada Pacific squad for the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2009 and won the silver medal with it. At the same time he won the gold medal with the Canadian selection at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2009 . Three years later he won the bronze medal with the Canadian national team at the U20 World Junior Championships in 2012 , which took place in Edmonton and Calgary .

Achievements and Awards

2010 CHL Top Prospects Game
2012 WHL East Second All-Star Team
2012 Ed Chynoweth Cup win with the Edmonton Oil Kings

International

2009 silver medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
2009 gold medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament
2012 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championship

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
2007/08	Edmonton Oil Kings	WHL	14th	1	2	3	-8th	8th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Edmonton Oil Kings	WHL	61	5	15th	20th	-5	27	5	0	0	0	–9	2
2009/10	Edmonton Oil Kings	WHL	48	7th	17th	24	-19	47	-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Edmonton Oil Kings	WHL	63	6th	34	40	+29	88	4th	0	0	0	-1	6th
2011/12	Edmonton Oil Kings	WHL	57	6th	32	38	+15	83	20th	3	8th	11	+8	16
2012	Edmonton Oil Kings	Memorial Cup							4th	0	3	3	-3	12
2012/13	Rochester Americans	AHL	57	4th	14th	18th	+8	20th	3	0	0	0	+2	2
2012/13	Buffalo Sabers	NHL	19th	1	4th	5	–7	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Rochester Americans	AHL	31	1	10	11	+5	28	5	0	0	0	-3	14th
2013/14	Buffalo Sabers	NHL	44	1	6th	7th	–11	16	-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Rochester Americans	AHL	54	3	14th	17th	-2	32	-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Buffalo Sabers	NHL	7th	2	1	3	+4	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Rochester Americans	AHL	3	0	1	1	± 0	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Buffalo Sabers	NHL	55	1	10	11	-1	32	-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Florida panthers	NHL	82	4th	13	17th	± 0	10	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Florida panthers	NHL	82	3	13	16	-8th	20th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Florida panthers	NHL	70	1	10	11	-1	26th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Florida panthers	NHL	58	9	9	18th	+4	20th	4th	0	0	0	-1	0
WHL overall			243	25th	100	125	+12	253	29	3	8th	11	-1	24
AHL total			145	8th	39	47	+11	82	8th	0	0	0	-1	16
NHL overall			417	22nd	66	88	-20	126	4th	0	0	0	-1	0

International

Represented Canada to:

year	team	event	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2009	Canada Pacific	WHC	6th	1	3	4th		6th
2009	Canada	Hlinka Memorial	4th	0	2	2		2
2012	Canada	U20 World Cup	6th	0	0	0	+7	2
Juniors overall			16	1	5	6th		10

( 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 )