Mike Matheson

Mike Matheson
Date of birth	February 27, 1994
place of birth	Pointe-Claire , Quebec , Canada
size	188 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	defender
number	# 19
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2012 , 1st round, 23rd position Florida Panthers
Career stations
2009-2011	Lac St-Louis Lions
2011–2012	Dubuque Fighting Saints
2012-2015	Boston College
2015	San Antonio Rampage
2015-2016	Portland Pirates
since 2016	Florida panthers

Michael Wallace "Mike" Matheson (born February 27, 1994 in Pointe-Claire , Québec ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Florida Panthers in the National Hockey League since April 2015 and plays in the position of defender . With the Canadian national team , he won the gold medal at the 2016 World Cup .

Career

Matheson played during his junior years between 2009 and 2011 for the Lac St-Louis Lions in the lower junior classes of the province of Québec . For the 2011/12 season, the defender joined the Dubuque Fighting Saints from the United States Hockey League . He remained loyal to them for a year, was elected to the All-Star Team at the end of the season as the best-scoring defender in the league and in the first round of the 2012 NHL Entry Draft in 23rd place was selected by the Florida Panthers from the National Hockey League .

The defense attorney then enrolled at Boston College in the summer of 2012 to pursue a degree. In parallel, he therefore ran for the following three seasons for their ice hockey program in Hockey East , a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . During this time, Matheson was named to numerous all-star teams for the Hockey East and NCAA. Before his fourth and final year of college, which he subsequently failed to enter, the Canadian finally signed a contract with the Florida Panthers in April 2015. They used him for the rest of the 2014/15 season on their farm team , the San Antonio Rampage , in the American Hockey League . In the 2015/16 season Matheson was in the squad of the new AHL cooperation partner, the Portland Pirates . Due to injury problems in the Panthers' main squad, the defensive player finally celebrated his NHL debut in February 2016 and played in a total of three games by the end of the regular season . Further injuries to his teammates helped him to five more missions during the play-offs .

In October 2017, Matheson signed a new contract in Florida that - starting with the 2018/19 season - is expected to earn him an average annual salary of $ 4.875 million over the next eight years.

International

Matheson played in the junior division at both the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2011 and the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2011 . While he finished fourth in the ranks of the Canada Québec team at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge, he won the gold medal with the all-Canadian team at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament.

In the senior sector, Matheson took part in the 2016 World Cup with just the experience of eight NHL games , where he made his international breakthrough. At the end of the competition, the defender had collected six scorer points - including two goals - in ten tournament games and celebrated the world championship title. In addition, Matheson was voted the tournament's best defender and was named to the All-Star Team. The following year, Matheson won the silver medal with Team Canada at the 2017 World Cup .

Achievements and Awards

• 2012 USHL All-Rookie Team
• 2013 Hockey East All-Rookie Team
• 2014 Hockey East First All-Star Team
• 2014 NCAA East Second All-American Team

International

2011 gold medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2016 gold medal at the world championship 2016 World Cup best defender

2016 World Championship All-Star Team 2017 silver medal at the world championship

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2009/10	Lac St-Louis Lions	QMAAA		30th	5	6th	11	33		17th	6th	7th	13	10
2010/11	Lac St-Louis Lions	QMAAA		35	14th	24	38	72		15th	7th	18th	25th	16
2011/12	Dubuque Fighting Saints	USHL		53	11	16	27	84		5	4th	1	5	4th
2012/13	Boston College	NCAA		36	8th	17th	25th	78
2013/14	Boston College	NCAA		38	3	18th	21st	49
2014/15	Boston College	NCAA		38	3	22nd	25th	26th
2014/15	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		5	0	2	2	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Portland Pirates	AHL		54	8th	12	20th	30th		3	0	1	1	2
2015/16	Florida panthers	NHL		3	0	0	0	2		5	0	1	1	0
2016/17	Florida panthers	NHL		81	7th	10	17th	36		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Florida panthers	NHL		81	10	17th	27	61		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Florida panthers	NHL		75	8th	19th	27	44		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Florida panthers	NHL		59	8th	12	20th	14th		2	0	0	0	8th
QMAAA total				65	19th	30th	49	105		32	13	25th	38	26th
NCAA overall				112	14th	57	71	153
AHL total				59	8th	14th	22nd	38		3	0	1	1	2
NHL overall				299	33	58	91	157		7th	0	1	1	8th

International

Represented Canada to:

• World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2011
• Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2011
• World Championship 2016
• World Championship 2017

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2011	Canada Québec	U17-WHC	4th Place		6th	2	6th	8th	10
2011	Canada	HIMT			5	0	0	0	2
2016	Canada	WM			10	2	4th	6th	0
2017	Canada	WM			10	1	6th	7th	10
Juniors overall					11	2	6th	8th	12
Men overall					20th	3	10	13	10

( 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

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