Michael Latta

Michael Latta
Date of birth	May 25, 1991
place of birth	Kitchener , Ontario , Canada
size	180 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	center
number	# 46
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2009 , 3rd round, 72nd position Nashville Predators
Career stations
2007-2008	Ottawa 67's
2008-2011	Guelph Storm
2010-2013	Milwaukee Admirals
2013-2014	Hershey Bears
2013-2016	Washington Capitals
2016-2017	Ontario Reign
2017	Rockford IceHogs
2017	Tucson Roadrunners
2017-2018	New Jersey Devils Binghamton Devils
2018-2019	Kunlun Red Star

Michael Latta (born May 25, 1991 in Kitchener , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who was most recently under contract with Kunlun Red Star in the Continental Hockey League .

Career

Michael Latta was born in Kitchener and grew up in nearby St. Clements . In his youth he played for the Waterloo Wolves in Waterloo before he was selected in the 2007 Priority Selection of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) in sixth position by the Ottawa 67’s . In its first year in one of Canada's top three junior leagues , the center scored 28 points in 50 games; he should also have participated in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2008, but missed the tournament due to illness. After completing only 23 games in his second season at the 67's, he was transferred to the Guelph Storm in November 2008 , who in return sent Anthony Nigro , Travis Gibbons and a second-round vote for the next year's Priority Selection to Ottawa. Latta pushed for this move to be closer to his family, so Ottawa is over a five-hour drive away, while Guelph is less than 50 kilometers away.

By the end of the season, the Canadian scored 36 points in Guelph and was selected in the subsequent NHL Entry Draft 2009 in 72nd position by the Nashville Predators . Previously, he was part of the squad for the 2009 CHL Top Prospects Game . He increased his performance significantly when he posted well over one point per game the following year (73 in 58 games). Because of this, the Milwaukee Admirals , the farm team of the Predators from the American Hockey League (AHL), appointed him to their playoff squad, so that he made his professional debut at the end of the season. For the time being, it stayed with this one mission, which should only follow a total of eleven in the following season 2011/12; the rest of the season he continued to spend in the OHL.

At the beginning of the 2012/13 season, Latta was an integral part of the Admirals' squad and completed 67 missions in the AHL. In April 2013 he was then transferred to the Washington Capitals together with Martin Erat , who in return gave Filip Forsberg to the Predators. As a result, the attacker spent the rest of the AHL season with the Hershey Bears , the Capitals' farm team.

He spent the 2013/14 season alternating between the NHL and AHL, with 17 appearances for the Capitals in the end. After his contract was extended by two years in the summer of 2014, Latta established himself in the squad of the Capitals and has since played exclusively in the National Hockey League. After the 2015/16 season, Latta did not get a new contract in Washington and subsequently joined the Los Angeles Kings as a free agent in July 2016 . There he was only used in the Ontario Reign in the AHL and finally handed over to the Chicago Blackhawks in January 2017 in exchange for Cameron Schilling . He ended the season with their farm team, the Rockford IceHogs , and received no further contract from the Blackhawks after the end of the season. As a result, Latta joined the Arizona Coyotes as a free agent in July 2017 . There it was used exclusively for the Tucson Roadrunners in the AHL, before being given to the New Jersey Devils in exchange for Ryan Kujawinski in December 2017 .

In the summer of 2018, Latta left North America for the first time and joined Kunlun Red Star from the Continental Hockey League (KHL). For Kunlun he scored 15 points scorer in 51 KHL games.

Achievements and Awards

• Participation in the CHL Top Prospects Game 2009

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2017/18 season

				Regular season							Play-offs
season	team	league		GP	G	A.	Pts	+/-	PIM		GP	G	A.	Pts	+/-	PIM
2007/08	Ottawa 67's	OHL		50	14th	14th	28	+1	78		4th	0	1	1	-5	2
2008/09	Ottawa 67's	OHL		23	8th	13	21st	-4	32		-	-	-	-	-	-
	Guelph Storm	OHL		42	14th	22nd	36	–6	60		4th	0	2	2	+1	12
2009/10	Guelph Storm	OHL		58	33	40	73	+18	157		5	2	7th	9	± 0	14th
2009/10	Milwaukee Admirals	AHL		-	-	-	-	-	-		1	0	0	0	± 0	0
2010/11	Guelph Storm	OHL		68	34	55	89	-4	158		6th	5	5	10	-3	11
2010/11	Milwaukee Admirals	AHL		4th	0	1	1	+1	2		7th	0	0	0	-1	12
2011/12	Milwaukee Admirals	AHL		51	14th	14th	28	+8	100		3	0	1	1	-1	2
2012/13	Milwaukee Admirals	AHL		67	9	26th	35	+9	184		-	-	-	-	-	-
	Hershey Bears	AHL		9	1	2	3	-3	14th		5	2	1	3	± 0	6th
2013/14	Hershey Bears	AHL		52	14th	20th	34	+14	134		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Washington Capitals	NHL		17th	1	4th	5	± 0	12		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Washington Capitals	NHL		53	0	6th	6th	+4	68		4th	0	0	0	-1	2
2015/16	Washington Capitals	NHL		43	3	4th	7th	± 0	50		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Ontario Reign	AHL		29	2	4th	6th	+4	67		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Rockford IceHogs	AHL		32	3	13	16	-8th	61		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Tucson Roadrunners	AHL		20th	2	6th	8th	+4	17th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Binghamton Devils	AHL		40	5	14th	19th	± 0	47		-	-	-	-	-	-
OHL total				241	103	144	247	+5	485		19th	7th	15th	22nd	–7	39
AHL total				304	50	100	150	+29	626		16	2	2	4th	-2	20th
NHL overall				113	3	13	17th	+4	130		4th	0	0	0	-1	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

• Michael Latta in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Michael Latta at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Washington Capitals Media Guide 2014–2015 . Washington Capitals Hockey Club, 2014, p. 74.
2. ↑ Michael Latta at hockeysfuture.com (accessed April 16, 2015)
3. ↑ Surprise 67's trade sends Latta to Guelph. (No longer available online.) Canada.com, November 26, 2008, archived from the original on August 16, 2015 ; accessed on April 16, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Capitals Acquire Martin Erat and Michael Latta from Nashville. nhl.com, April 3, 2013, accessed April 16, 2015 .