Paul Byron

Paul Byron
Date of birth	April 27, 1989
place of birth	Ottawa , Ontario , Canada
size	175 cm
Weight	77 kg
position	center
number	# 41
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2007 , 6th round, 179th position Buffalo Sabers
Career stations
2006-2009	Olympiques de Gatineau
2009-2011	Portland Pirates
2011-2015	Calgary Flames
since 2015	Canadiens de Montréal

Paul Byron (born April 27, 1989 in Ottawa , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Canadiens de Montréal in the National Hockey League since October 2015 .

Career

Paul Byron began his career as an ice hockey player with the Olympiques de Gatineau , for which he was active from 2006 to 2009 in the Canadian junior league Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec . With his team he won the Coupe du Président , the championship title of the LHJMQ, in the 2007/08 season . A year later he was elected to the league's second All-Star Team. During his junior years, the center was selected in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft in the sixth round as a total of 179 players by the Buffalo Sabers . With their farm team Portland Pirates he was a regular player in the American Hockey League for two years . He was also in the 2010/11 season in eight games for the Buffalo Sabers on the ice, where he each scored a goal and an assist.

In June 2011 Byron was transferred from the Buffalo Sabers to the Calgary Flames , for whose AHL farm team Abbotsford Heat he will mainly be used. In November 2013, he was appointed to the NHL squad for the first time in the 2013-14 season .

After four years in the organization of the Flames Byron was established in October 2015 the Montreal Canadiens from the waiver obligation. There, the attacker increased his personal statistics significantly, recording more than 20 goals in the 2016/17 and 2017/18 seasons. He then signed a new four-year contract with the Canadiens in September 2018, which should bring him an average annual salary of 3.4 million US dollars from the start of the 2019/20 season.

Achievements and Awards

• 2008 Coupe du Président win with the Olympiques de Gatineau
• 2009 LHJMQ Second All-Star Team

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2006/07	Gatineau Olympiques	LHJMQ		68	21st	23	44	46		5	5	1	6th	2
2007/08	Gatineau Olympiques	LHJMQ		52	37	31	68	25th		19th	21st	11	32	12
2008/09	Gatineau Olympiques	LHJMQ		64	33	66	99	32		10	2	14th	16	4th
2009/10	Portland Pirates	AHL		57	14th	19th	33	59		4th	0	0	0	0
2010/11	Portland Pirates	AHL		67	26th	27	53	52		12	2	5	7th	6th
2010/11	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		8th	1	1	2	2		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Abbotsford Heat	AHL		39	7th	14th	21st	40		8th	1	3	4th	2
2011/12	Calgary Flames	NHL		22nd	3	2	5	2		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Abbotsford Heat	AHL		38	6th	9	15th	38		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Calgary Flames	NHL		4th	0	1	1	2		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Abbotsford Heat	AHL		23	5	13	18th	10		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Calgary Flames	NHL		47	7th	14th	21st	27		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Calgary Flames	NHL		57	6th	13	19th	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		62	11	7th	18th	11		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		81	22nd	21st	43	29		6th	1	0	1	0
2017/18	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		82	20th	15th	35	23		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		56	15th	16	31	17th		-	-	-	-	-
LHJMQ total				184	91	120	211	103		34	28	26th	54	18th
AHL total				224	58	82	140	193		24	3	8th	11	8th
NHL overall				419	85	90	175	121		6th	1	0	1	0

( 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 Canadiens de Montréal website
• Paul Byron at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ nhl.com: "Preview: Heat host Canucks AHL affiliate, the Utica Comets" (English, November 28, 2013, accessed on December 5, 2013)
2. ^ Canadiens sign Paul Byron to four-year contract extension. nhl.com, September 23, 2018, accessed on September 24, 2018 .