Matt Taormina

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Matt Taormina
Date of birth October 20, 1986
place of birth Washington Township , Michigan , USA
size 178 cm
Weight 84 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Career stations
2004-2005 Texarkana bandits
2005-2009 Providence College
2009 Binghamton Senators
2009-2010 Lowell Devils
2010–2012 New Jersey Devils
2012-2014 Syracuse crunch
2014 Springfield Falcons
2014-2015 Worcester Sharks
2015-2017 Syracuse crunch
2017-2018 Rocket de Laval
2018-2019 Stockton Heat

Matthew Angelo "Matt" Taormina (born October 20, 1986 in Washington Township , Michigan ) is an American ice hockey player who was last under contract with the Calgary Flames in the National Hockey League until July 2019 and for their farm team , the Stockton Heat , in the American Hockey League on the position of the defender played.

Career

Matt Taormina began his career as a hockey player with the Texarkana Bandits , for which he was active in the North American Hockey League in the 2004/05 season . There he was able to convince with 17 goals and 33 assists in 61 games and was elected to the all-rookie team of the NAHL as well as to the rookie of the year . From 2005 to 2009 he attended Providence College and played parallel for its ice hockey team in the National Collegiate Athletic Association before making his professional ice hockey debut for the Binghamton Senators towards the end of the 2008/09 season .

For the 2009/10 season Taormina signed a contract with the New Jersey Devils , which was valid exclusively for the AHL and played throughout the season for New Jersey's AHL farm team Lowell Devils . After good performance in preparation, the American began the 2010/11 season with the New Jersey Devils in the National Hockey League . In July 2012, he signed a one-year contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning as a free agent .

At the beginning of the 2013/14 season, Taormina could not prevail in the NHL squad and was given to the AHL farm team Syracuse Crunch in September . During the season he moved to the Springfield Falcons , where he ended the 2013-14 season before joining the Worcester Sharks for the 2014-15 season. In July 2015 he returned to the Syracuse Crunch and the Tampa Bay Lightning. In the crunch jersey, Taormina was honored with the Eddie Shore Award as the best defender of the AHL after the 2016/17 season and was also appointed to the league's first all-star team .

Still, the Lightning did not extend the defender's contract after the end of the season, so he joined the Canadiens de Montréal in July 2017 . Taormina, without him having played for the Canadiens in the NHL, gave them to the Calgary Flames in October 2018, along with Rinat Valiyev , while Brett Kulak moved to Montréal. The defender was used throughout the 2018/19 season for Calgary's AHL cooperation partner, Stockton Heat , before his contract was not renewed in the summer of 2019.

Achievements and Awards

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 Texarkana bandits NEAR 52 14th 30th 44 44 - - - - -
2005/06 Providence College NCAA 36 1 10 11 16
2006/07 Providence College NCAA 35 5 2 7th 6th
2007/08 Providence College NCAA 39 9 18th 27 12
2008/09 Providence College NCAA 34 5 15th 20th 16
2008/09 Binghamton Senators AHL 11 2 3 5 4th - - - - -
2009/10 Lowell Devils AHL 75 10 40 50 45 5 1 3 4th 4th
2010/11 New Jersey Devils NHL 17th 3 2 5 2 - - - - -
2011/12 Albany Devils AHL 33 6th 10 16 12 - - - - -
2011/12 New Jersey Devils NHL 30th 1 6th 7th 4th - - - - -
2012/13 Syracuse crunch AHL 55 4th 20th 24 21st 18th 2 10 12 4th
2012/13 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2013/14 Syracuse crunch AHL 41 6th 12 18th 20th - - - - -
2013/14 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 7th 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2013/14 Springfield Falcons AHL 17th 3 5 8th 2 4th 0 1 1 0
2014/15 Worcester Sharks AHL 76 11 27 38 24 4th 1 0 1 0
2015/16 Syracuse crunch AHL 61 13 28 41 10 - - - - -
2015/16 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 3 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0
2016/17 Syracuse crunch AHL 70 15th 45 60 22nd 22nd 5 15th 20th 11
2017/18 Rocket de Laval AHL 63 4th 48 52 18th - - - - -
2018/19 Stockton Heat AHL 31 0 7th 7th 14th - - - - -
NCAA overall 144 20th 45 65 50
AHL total 533 74 245 319 192 53 9 29 38 19th
NHL overall 59 4th 8th 12 6th 3 0 0 0 0

( 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

Commons : Matt Taormina  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ lowelldevilshockey.com, Devils Sign Five Players to AHL Contracts ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lowelldevilshockey.com
  2. ↑ nhl.com: "Lightning Announce Roster Cuts" (English, September 29, 2013, accessed December 3, 2013)
  3. ↑ Matt Cudzinowski: Canadiens acquire defenseman Brett Kulak from Calgary. nhl.com, October 1, 2018, accessed October 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Taormina, Matt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taormina, Matthew Angelo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington Township , Michigan