Mathieu Joseph

Canada Mathieu Joseph

Date of birth	February 9, 1997
place of birth	Laval , Quebec , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	80 kg

position	wing
Shot hand	Left

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2015 , 4th round, 120th position Tampa Bay Lightning

Career stations

2013-2017	Saint John Sea Dogs
2017-2018	Syracuse crunch
since 2018	Tampa Bay Lightning

Mathieu Joseph (born February 9, 1997 in Laval , Québec ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning in the National Hockey League since December 2016 and plays for them on the position of winger .

Career

Mathieu Joseph attended the Collège Antoine-Girouard in Saint-Hyacinthe in his youth and played for the school's ice hockey team in a regional youth league . In the middle of the 2013/14 season he moved to the Saint John Sea Dogs in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ), the highest-ranking junior division in his home province. In the following year 2014/15, the winger developed into a regular scorer for the Sea Dogs, recording 21 goals and assists in 59 games before he was selected in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft in 120th position by the Tampa Bay Lightning . For the time being, however, he returned to the LHJMQ, where he significantly increased his personal statistics and recorded 73 and 80 scorer points in the two following seasons , so that he was elected to the LHJMQ Second All-Star Team in 2016/17 . In addition, the Canadian and his team won the LHJMQ playoffs for the Coupe du Président in 2017 , leading the entire league in points in the post-season (32).

After Joseph had already signed an entry-level contract with the Lightning in December 2016 , he switched permanently to their organization for the 2017/18 season. Initially, the attacker was used by the Lightning farm team , the Syracuse Crunch , in the American Hockey League (AHL), where he recorded 53 points in his first professional season, making him the team's best scorer. In the subsequent preparation for the 2018/19 season, he finally earned a place in Tampa's squad and thus made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) in October 2018 .

International

Joseph played his first international tournament with the Canadian U20 national team at the 2017 U20 World Cup in his own country. The Canadian team lost to Team USA in the final and thus won the silver medal. Joseph made his international debut in the jersey of the senior national team at the 2019 World Cup in Slovakia , where he won the silver medal with the team.

Achievements and Awards

2017 silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
2017 Coupe-du-Président win with the Saint John Sea Dogs
2017 LHJMQ Second All-Star Team
2019 silver medal at the world championship

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
2013/14	Saint John Sea Dogs	LHJMQ	30th	1	10	11	-3	10	-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Saint John Sea Dogs	LHJMQ	59	21st	21st	42	+18	46	5	1	2	3	-2	4th
2015/16	Saint John Sea Dogs	LHJMQ	58	33	40	73	+35	57	5	5	2	7th	+4	8th
2016/17	Saint John Sea Dogs	LHJMQ	54	36	44	80	+37	57	18th	13	19th	32	+20	14th
2017	Saint John Sea Dogs	Memorial Cup							4th	2	3	5	± 0	0
2017/18	Syracuse crunch	AHL	70	15th	38	53	+10	41	7th	3	4th	7th	-3	6th
2018/19	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL	70	13	13	26th	+5	26th	4th	0	0	0	−2	0
LHJMQ total			201	91	115	206	+87	170	28	19th	23	42	+22	26th

International

Represented Canada to:

year	team	event	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2017	Canada	U20 World Cup	7th	1	4th	5	+4	0
2019	Canada	WM	10	1	1	2	+3	2
Juniors overall			7th	1	4th	5	+4	0
Men overall			10	1	1	2	+3	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 )

Personal

His younger brother Pierre-Olivier Joseph (* 1999) is also an ice hockey player and was considered in the NHL Entry Draft 2017 in 23rd position by the Arizona Coyotes .

Web links

Player biography on the Tampa Bay Lightning website
Mathieu Joseph at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

^ Lightning sign Mathieu Joseph to entry-level contract. nhl.com, December 25, 2016, accessed November 11, 2018 .

Squad of the Tampa Bay Lightning in the season 2019/20

personal data
SURNAME	Joseph, Mathieu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	February 9, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH	Laval , Quebec , Canada

[1] Lightning sign Mathieu Joseph to entry-level contract. nhl.com, December 25, 2016, accessed November 11, 2018 .