Michael Ferland

Michael Ferland
Date of birth	April 20, 1992
place of birth	Swan River , Manitoba , Canada
size	188 cm
Weight	100 kg
position	Left wing
number	# 79
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2010 , 5th lap, 133rd position Calgary Flames
Career stations
2009-2013	Brandon Wheat Kings
2013	Saskatoon Blades
2013	Utah grizzlies
2012-2015	Abbotsford Heat Adirondack Flames
2014-2018	Calgary Flames
2018-2019	Carolina Hurricanes
since 2019	Vancouver Canucks

Micheal Ferland (also: Michael Ferland ; born April 20, 1992 in Swan River , Manitoba ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Vancouver Canucks in the National Hockey League since July 2019 . The left winger previously spent almost six years in the organization of the Calgary Flames and ran one season for the Carolina Hurricanes .

Career

youth

Micheal Ferland was born in Swan River, but grew up in Brandon . His family belongs to the Cree people , one of the indigenous peoples of Canada ( First Nations ) . His mother raised him and his two siblings, an older sister and a younger brother, alone, although the family could not always raise the financial means to enable Micheal Ferland to play ice hockey; for example, he received his equipment from non-profit organizations. At the age of 17 he began playing for the Brandon Wheat Kings from his hometown in the Western Hockey League (WHL), one of Canada's top three junior leagues . Families who were friends or the trainer himself paid for Ferland's membership fee if the family couldn't pay it.

In his debut season 2009/10 in the WHL Ferland came in 61 games on 28 scorer points . He also took part with the Wheat Kings as the host team in the Memorial Cup and reached the final there, where the team was defeated by the Windsor Spitfires . After the season he chose the Calgary Flames in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft from at 133. position. In the following two years, the winger increased his personal statistics significantly to over 1.4 points per game in the 2011/12 season, in which he also led the team as assistant captain and was elected to the WHL (Eastern) Second All-Star Team . After signing an entry-level contract with the Calgary Flames in December 2011 , he switched to their organization at the beginning of the 2012/13 season.

Calgary Flames

For the time being, Ferland played for the Flames' farm teams , the Abbotsford Heat from the American Hockey League (AHL) and the Utah Grizzlies from the ECHL . In December 2012, however, the Canadian returned to the Wheat Kings in the WHL, but after only four missions to be released to the Saskatoon Blades (also WHL); the Wheat Kings received a first-round vote in the WHL Bantam Draft in return . As a result, Ferland spent the rest of the season with the Blades in the WHL and took part with them, again as a host, in the Memorial Cup. At the beginning of the 2013/14 season he established himself in the Abbotsford Heat squad in the AHL and scored 18 points in 25 games. In December 2013, however, he sustained a knee injury as a result of which he had to undergo an operation and was injured for the rest of the season.

The 2014/15 season he also began in the AHL, with the new farm team of the Calgary Flames, the Adirondack Flames . Ferland convinced there with nine points from the first nine games and was appointed to the Flames' NHL squad for the first time on October 31, 2014 due to an injury to Mikael Backlund . As a result, he made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL), but injured his head due to an irregular check by Anton Woltschenkow , for which these four games were suspended. Ferland had to pause eight games due to an injury before he completed nine more NHL missions (including a first assist) and was then sent back to Adirondack in the AHL.

In February 2015, the winger was reassigned to the NHL squad, was able to establish himself there and reached the Stanley Cup playoffs with the Flames. In the 2017/18 season he achieved his best performance so far in the NHL with 41 scorer points and also reached the mark of 20 goals for the first time.

Carolina and Vancouver

After almost six years in the organization of the Flames, Ferland was handed over to the Carolina Hurricanes in June 2018, along with Dougie Hamilton and Adam Fox . In return, Calgary received Noah Hanifin and Elias Lindholm . At the Hurricanes, he confirmed his performance from the previous year with 40 points from 71 games and then signed a new four-year contract as a free agent with the Vancouver Canucks in July 2019 , which should bring him an average annual salary of 3.5 million US dollars.

Achievements and Awards

• 2012 WHL East Second All-Star Team

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
2009/10	Brandon Wheat Kings	WHL		61	9	19th	28	+16	85		15th	3	1	4th	+1	8th
2010	Brandon Wheat Kings	Memorial Cup									5	0	0	0	-2	15th
2010/11	Brandon Wheat Kings	WHL		56	23	33	56	+3	110		6th	4th	2	6th	-1	4th
2011/12	Brandon Wheat Kings	WHL		68	47	49	96	+17	84		8th	3	3	6th	+3	6th
2012/13	Brandon Wheat Kings	WHL		4th	1	1	2	-1	4th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Saskatoon Blades	WHL		26th	8th	21st	29	+25	18th		4th	0	0	0	-2	2
2013	Saskatoon Blades	Memorial Cup									4th	0	2	2	+2	10
2012/13	Utah grizzlies	ECHL		3	0	1	1	-2	5		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Abbotsford Heat	AHL		7th	0	0	0	± 0	10		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Abbotsford Heat	AHL		25th	6th	12	18th	4th	31		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Adirondack Flames	AHL		32	7th	7th	15th	+2	30th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Calgary Flames	NHL		26th	2	3	5	+1	16		9	3	2	5	+3	23
2015/16	Calgary Flames	NHL		71	4th	14th	18th	-15	45		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Calgary Flames	NHL		76	15th	10	25th	-1	50		4th	0	0	0	-4	7th
2017/18	Calgary Flames	NHL		77	21st	20th	41	+5	24		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL		71	17th	23	40	+13	58		7th	0	1	1	−3	18th
WHL overall				215	88	123	211	+60	301		33	10	6th	16	+1	20th
AHL total				64	13	20th	33	-2	71		-	-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				321	59	70	129	+3	193		20th	3	3	6th	-4	48

( 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

In July 2012, Ferland was involved in a fight in a bar in Cochrane and subsequently faced a court case on charges of bodily harm . At the trial, which took place just under two years later, the jury found him not guilty. It was found that Ferland did not strike first and therefore only defended himself.

It was also revealed that Ferland had been an alcoholic for a while . During the 2012–13 season, he turned to Bob Hartley , then head coach of the Calgary Flames, for help. Hartley put him in touch with Gino Odjick , who was also an NHL professional, was descended from Native Canadians and had overcome his alcoholic illness. With the support of Odjick, his teammates and his partner, Ferland announced his one-year abstinence on March 27, 2015 - two days later he scored his first NHL goal.

Web links

• Player biography on the Vancouver Canucks website
• Micheal Ferland at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Donna Spencer: Michael Ferland's life, hockey career flourishing in NHL playoffs. globalnews.ca, April 21, 2015, accessed February 22, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Sam Laskaris: Wheat Kings' Tribe overcome their injuries. ammsa.com, accessed April 28, 2015 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Platt: Tough love brought Calgary Flames' Michael Ferland here. (No longer available online.) Calgary Sun, April 15, 2015, archived from the original on July 21, 2015 ; accessed on April 27, 2015 (English). 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. ^ Blades Acquire Flames Prospect Ferland. saskatoonblades.com, January 10, 2013, accessed April 28, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Torie Peterson: Ferland to miss the rest of the season due to injury. flames.nhl.com, January 19, 2014, accessed April 28, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Predators D Volchenkov suspended for four games. CBC , November 2, 2014, accessed April 28, 2015 . 
7. ↑ Hamilton, Ferland traded to Hurricanes by Flames for Hanifin, Lindholm. nhl.com, June 23, 2018, accessed June 23, 2018 . 
8. ^ Daryl Slade: Flames prospect cleared of assault charges by jury. Calgary Herald , June 16, 2014, accessed April 28, 2015 . 
9. ↑ Randy Sportak: Calgary Flames smash hit Michael Ferland gets life help from former Canucks enforcer Gino Odjick. (No longer available online.) Calgary Sun, April 20, 2015, archived from the original on July 23, 2015 ; accessed on April 28, 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.