Mason Appleton

United States Mason Appleton

Date of birth	January 15, 1996
place of birth	Green Bay , Wisconsin , USA
size	188 cm
Weight	88 kg

position	Center / right wing
Shot hand	Right

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2015 , 6th round, 168th position Winnipeg Jets

Career stations

2014-2015	Tri-City Storm
2015-2017	Michigan State University
since 2017	Manitoba mosses
since 2018	Winnipeg Jets

Mason Appleton (born January 15, 1996 in Green Bay , Wisconsin ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Winnipeg Jets in the National Hockey League since July 2017 and for their farm team, the Manitoba Moose , in the American Hockey League is used.

Career

Mason Appleton was born in Green Bay, where he attended Ashwaubenon High School and the Notre Dame Academy in his youth , for whose ice hockey teams he played in regional high school leagues. For the 2014/15 season, the attacker moved to the Tri-City Storm in the United States Hockey League (USHL), the highest-ranking junior league in the United States. In the Storm jersey, he recorded 40 points scorer in 54 games, so that he was considered in the subsequent NHL Entry Draft 2015 in 168th position by the Winnipeg Jets . As a result, the American enrolled at Michigan State University , for whose Spartans he then competed in the Big Ten Conference , a league of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . He also established himself as a regular scorer at college level, so that the Jets provided him with an entry-level contract in July 2017 .

At the start of the 2017/18 season, Appleton was used on the Jets farm team , the Manitoba Moose , in the American Hockey League (AHL). There he played an outstanding first professional season, so he became the fourth best scorer in the entire AHL with 22 goals and 44 assists, so that he was appointed as a right winger in the AHL First All-Star Team . In addition, he was honored with the Dudley "Red" Garrett Memorial Award as the best rookie in the league and elected to the AHL All-Rookie Team . After he had started the 2018/19 season with the Moose, the Jets called him for the first time in November 2018, so that he made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) a little later .

Achievements and Awards

2018 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic
2018 AHL First All-Star Team
2018 Dudley "Red" Garrett Memorial Award
2018 AHL 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
2014/15	Tri-City Storm	USHL	54	12	28	40	-3	84	7th	4th	4th	8th	-8th	12
2015/16	Michigan State University	NCAA	37	5	17th	22nd	-30	32
2016/17	Michigan State University	NCAA	35	12	19th	31	-15	37
2017/18	Manitoba mosses	AHL	76	22nd	44	66	+14	57	2	0	1	1	-1	2
2018/19	Manitoba mosses	AHL	40	15th	17th	32	−5	24	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Winnipeg Jets	NHL	36	3	7th	10	+9	4th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Manitoba mosses	AHL	4th	0	1	1	−4	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Winnipeg Jets	NHL	46	5	3	8th	–9	20th	1	0	0	0	+1	0
NCAA overall			72	17th	36	53	-45	69
AHL total			120	37	62	99	+5	81	2	0	1	1	-1	2
NHL overall			82	8th	10	18th	± 0	24	1	0	0	0	+1	0

Web links

Player biography on the Winnipeg Jets website
Mason Appleton at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

^ Jets sign Mason Appleton. nhl.com, July 13, 2017, accessed December 2, 2018 .

Squad of the Winnipeg Jets in the 2019/20 season

personal data
SURNAME	Appleton, Mason
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	January 15, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH	Green Bay , Wisconsin , United States

[1] Jets sign Mason Appleton. nhl.com, July 13, 2017, accessed December 2, 2018 .