Mike Hoffman (ice hockey player, 1989)

Mike Hoffman
Date of birth	November 24, 1989
place of birth	Kitchener , Ontario , Canada
size	182 cm
Weight	80 kg
position	Left wing
number	# 68
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2009 , 5th round, 130th position Ottawa Senators
Career stations
2007	Kitchener Rangers
2007	Olympiques de Gatineau
2007-2009	Voltigeurs de Drummondville
2009-2010	Saint John Sea Dogs
2010-2014	Binghamton Senators
2011-2018	Ottawa Senators
since 2018	Florida panthers

Michael "Mike" Hoffman (born November 24, 1989 in Kitchener , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Florida Panthers in the National Hockey League since June 2018 . The left winger previously spent eight years in the Ottawa Senators organization .

Career

youth

Mike Hoffman played for the Kitchener Dutchmen in his hometown in his youth , but subsequently had great difficulties establishing himself in top-class Canadian junior ice hockey. Towards the end of the 2006/07 season he completed a total of six games for the Kitchener Rangers from the Ontario Hockey League , which, however, then deleted him from the team. As a result, Hoffman joined the Olympiques de Gatineau from the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ), which, however, also saw no future in him after 19 missions and he had to leave the team. Subsequently, the winger was committed by the Voltigeurs de Drummondville , who at that time ranked last in the LHJMQ and were trained by Guy Boucher . In Drummondville, the Canadian finally established himself at the highest junior level and had 36 scorer points from 42 games by the end of the 2007/08 season .

Hoffman's breakthrough came in the following 2008/09 season. With the team he won both the Trophée Jean Rougeau as the best team of the regular season and the Coupe du Président in the subsequent playoffs. He increased his personal statistics to 94 points from 62 regular season games and was also elected to the LHJMQ's First All-Star team . With these achievements, he was also interesting for the NHL Entry Draft , in which he had not played a role in 2008, although he was already available. In 2009 , the Ottawa Senators selected him in 130th position. However, Hoffman returned for the time being to the LHJMQ and spent the 2009/10 season with the Saint John Sea Dogs , where he was able to maintain his services. With the Sea Dogs he again reached the final of the Coupe du Président, but was defeated there by the Moncton Wildcats . The Canadian was awarded the Michel Brière trophy as the most valuable player and the Frank J. Selke trophy as the fairest player in the league, and was also elected to the LHJMQ Frst All-Star Team and the CHL Second All-Star Team . He also set a new season record for the Sea Dogs with 46 goals.

Ottawa Senators

After the 2009/10 season he signed an entry contract with the Ottawa Senators , who drafted him in 2009 . In order to give him match practice, he was initially given to the Binghamton Senators , the farm team from the American Hockey League (AHL), and spent the entire season there (except for four games for the Elmira Jackals in the ECHL ). In his debut season in professional gaming, he won the Calder Cup directly with the Senators . Hoffman spent most of the following two seasons in Binghamton, but made his debut for the Ottawa Senators in the National Hockey League (NHL) in December 2011 and had this use followed by three more in the 2012/13 season, in which, however, he played several games a broken collarbone . In the summer of 2013, the Senators extended his contract by one year and increasingly granted him more playing time in the NHL, so in 2013/14 he came to 25 games in which he contributed six scorer points. In the AHL he achieved an average of over one point per game for the first time (67 in 51 games), took part in the AHL All-Star Classic and was elected to the First All-Star Team .

After another contract extension in June 2014, the Canadian became an integral part of the NHL line-up, but was still considered a rookie because he had played 25 games in the previous season and thus exactly reached the specified limit, but did not exceed it. Therefore, he was allowed to participate as a rookie in the Skills Competition of the NHL All-Star Games and ended the season with 27 goals at the top of the rookie goalscorer list . He contributed a total of 48 scorer points, played almost all the regular season games and thus played a key role in ensuring that the Senators reached the playoffs.

In the summer of 2016, Hoffman signed a new four-year contract in Ottawa that should earn him an average annual salary of approximately $ 5.2 million. With the team he reached the conference final in the following playoffs in 2017 , but failed there because of the Pittsburgh Penguins . The subsequent 2017/18 season turned out to be sportingly disappointing, so that the Senators aimed for a personnel change and in June 2018, Hoffman together with Cody Donaghey and a five-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft 2020 to the San Jose Sharks . In return, Ottawa received Mikkel Bødker , Julius Bergman and a six-round vote in the same draft. The Sharks promptly sent Hoffman along with a seven-round vote for the 2018 NHL Entry Draft to the Florida Panthers , who transferred a second-round vote in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft as well as a fourth and a five-round vote in the 2018 draft to San Jose. In addition, a few days before the barter, it became known that the wife of Senator Captain Erik Karlsson had taken legal action against Hoffman's fiancée and applied for a peace bond (comparable to an injunction ). Hoffman's fiancée is said to have wished Karlsson's wife and their unborn child death in numerous comments on social networks ( cyber bullying ) . Hoffman and his fiancée denied the allegations, however, due to these internal team tensions, an imminent transfer was considered very likely by the media.

Achievements and Awards

2009 Coupe du Président and Trophée Jean Rougeau with the Voltigeurs de Drummondville 2009 LHJMQ First All-Star Team 2010 Michel Brière Trophy 2010 Trophée Frank J. Selke 2010 LHJMQ First All-Star Team 2010 CHL Second All-Star Team

2011 Calder Cup with the Binghamton Senators 2014 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic 2014 AHL First All-Star Team 2015 Participation in the skills competition of the NHL All-Star Games 2015 Most goals as a rookie (27) in the NHL

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		GP	G	A.	Pts	+/-	PIM		GP	G	A.	Pts	+/-	PIM
2006/07	Kitchener Rangers	OHL		2	0	0	0	± 0	2		4th	0	0	0	± 0	0
2007/08	Olympiques de Gatineau	LHJMQ		19th	5	7th	12	-2	16		-	-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Voltigeurs de Drummondville	LHJMQ		43	19th	17th	36	-19	77		-	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Voltigeurs de Drummondville	LHJMQ		62	52	42	94	+25	86		19th	21st	13	34	+2	26th
2009	Voltigeurs de Drummondville	Memorial Cup									4th	0	1	1	-3	4th
2009/10	Saint John Sea Dogs	LHJMQ		56	46	39	85	+38	38		21st	11	13	24	+2	23
2010/11	Elmira Jackals	ECHL		4th	0	3	3	-1	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Binghamton Senators	AHL		74	7th	18th	25th	-22	16		19th	1	8th	9	-2	16
2011/12	Binghamton Senators	AHL		76	21st	28	49	-18	44		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Ottawa Senators	NHL		1	0	0	0	-1	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Binghamton Senators	AHL		41	13	15th	28	+9	38		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Ottawa Senators	NHL		3	0	0	0	-1	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Binghamton Senators	AHL		51	30th	37	67	+11	32		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Ottawa Senators	NHL		25th	3	3	6th	-2	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Ottawa Senators	NHL		79	27	21st	48	+16	14th		6th	1	2	3	-3	2
2015/16	Ottawa Senators	NHL		78	29	30th	59	+1	18th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Ottawa Senators	NHL		74	26th	35	61	+17	51		19th	6th	5	11	+3	10
2017/18	Ottawa Senators	NHL		82	22nd	34	56	-20	32		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Florida panthers	NHL		82	36	34	70	-24	30th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Florida panthers	NHL		69	29	30th	59	-5	28		4th	3	2	5	-1	4th
LHJMQ total				180	122	105	227	+42	217		40	32	26th	58	4th	49
AHL total				242	71	98	169	-20	130		19th	1	8th	9	-2	16
NHL overall				493	172	187	359	-19	177		29	10	9	19th	-1	16

( 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 : Mike Hoffman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the Florida Panthers website
• Mike Hoffman at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Aedan Helmer: Through pain and adversity, Mike Hoffman prevails. Ottawa Sun, March 23, 2013, accessed June 16, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Mike Hoffman breaks Scott Howes' single-season Goal Scoring Record in Dramatic Road Victory. oursportscentral.com, February 27, 2010, accessed April 16, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Bulletin: Senators sign forward Mike Hoffman to entry-level contract. nhl.com, July 22, 2010, accessed April 16, 2015 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} SENATORS SIGN RFA HOFFMAN TO ONE-YEAR, TWO WAY CONTRACT. The Sports Network , July 17, 2013, accessed April 16, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Senators acquire Boedker, Bergman and a 6th-round pick from San Jose. nhl.com, June 19, 2018, accessed June 19, 2018 . 
6. ^ Florida Panthers Acquire Forward Mike Hoffman from San Jose. nhl.com, June 19, 2018, accessed June 19, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Josh K. Elliott: Senators trade Mike Hoffman after partner accused of harassing Karlssons. globalnews.ca, June 19, 2018, accessed June 19, 2018 .