Owen Tippett

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Owen Tippett
Date of birth February 16, 1999
place of birth Peterborough , Ontario , Canada
size 188 cm
Weight 92 kg
position Right wing
number # 74
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2017 , 1st round, 10th position
Florida Panthers
Career stations
2015-2019 Mississauga Steelheads
since 2017 Florida Panthers
Springfield Thunderbirds
2019 Saginaw Spirit

Owen Tippett (born February 16, 1999 in Peterborough , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Florida Panthers in the National Hockey League since July 2017 and also for their farm team, the Springfield Thunderbirds , in the American Hockey League for Use comes. In the 2017 NHL Entry Draft , he was selected by the Panthers in tenth overall position.

Career

Owen Tippett was born in Peterborough and played for the Peterborough MHA in his youth and for the Toronto Red Wings in the 2013/14 and 2014/15 seasons . In 2015, the right winger was selected in fourth place in the Priority Selection of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) by the Mississauga Steelheads and played for the team at the start of the 2015/16 season. In his first OHL year, Tippett scored 15 goals in 48 games and was called to the OHL First All-Star Team as a result . In the 2016/17 season, his draft year, the Canadian significantly increased his personal statistics to 75 points from 60 games. As a result, he was considered one of the most promising talents and the best classic scorer in the upcoming NHL Entry Draft 2017 , so the International Scouting Services saw him in fourth place, while the NHL Central Scouting Services ranked him seventh among the North American outfield players. In the actual draft, the Florida Panthers then selected him from position ten and equipped the attacker with an entry-level contract a few weeks later .

In the subsequent pre-season season, Tippett earned a place in the Panthers squad and subsequently made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) in October 2017 . After seven NHL appearances, however, he was sent back to the Steelheads in the OHL in November to ensure him further game practice there. There he ended the season and was then sent for a few games to the Springfield Thunderbirds in the American Hockey League (AHL), the farm team of the Panthers. For the 2018/19 season, the attacker returned to the OHL, where he was transferred within the league from the Steelheads to the Saginaw Spirit in January 2019 . There he ended his junior career and switched permanently to the Panthers organization for the 2019/20 season.

International

With the selection of his home province of Ontario, Tippett won the gold medal at the Canada Games 2015. He then gained his first international experience at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2015 , where he also won the gold medal with Team Canada White and was elected to the all-star team of the tournament. He then represented his home country at the U18 World Cup in 2016 , the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament in 2016 and the U20 World Cup in 2019 , where the medal ranks were missed.

Achievements and Awards

International

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
2015/16 Mississauga Steelheads OHL 48 15th 5 20th -2 10 7th 1 2 3 ± 0 4th
2016/17 Mississauga Steelheads OHL 60 44 31 75 +24 36 20th 10 9 19th +11 14th
2017/18 Mississauga Steelheads OHL 51 36 39 75 +1 30th 6th 3 2 5 -2 4th
2017/18 Springfield Thunderbirds AHL 5 1 1 2 +2 2 - - - - - -
2017/18 Florida panthers NHL 7th 1 0 1 –6 0 - - - - - -
2018/19 Mississauga Steelheads OHL 23 19th 14th 33 +7 10 - - - - - -
2018/19 Saginaw Spirit OHL 31 14th 27 41 +21 8th 17th 11 11 22nd +4 0
2019/20 Springfield Thunderbirds AHL 46 19th 21st 40 +12 18th - - - - - -
OHL total 213 128 116 244 +51 94 50 25th 24 49 +13 22nd
AHL total 51 20th 22nd 42 +14 20th - - - - - -
NHL overall 7th 1 0 1 –6 0 - - - - - -

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2015 Team Ontario Canada Games gold medal 6th 2 6th 8th 0
2015 Canada White WHC gold medal 6th 5 3 8th 0
2016 Canada U18 World Cup 4th Place 7th 1 2 3 +2 12
2016 Canada Hlinka Memorial 5th place 4th 1 1 2 +1 0
2019 Canada U20 World Cup 6th place 5 2 2 4th +5 0
Juniors overall 28 11 14th 25th 12

( 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 )

family

His cousin Mitchell Stephens (* 1997) is also a professional ice hockey player and was selected in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft in the second round by the Tampa Bay Lightning .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Andrew Forbes: Owen Tippett - 2017 NHL Draft Prospect Profile. thehockeywriters.com, April 26, 2017, accessed May 30, 2017 .