Paul LaDue

Paul LaDue
Date of birth	September 6, 1992
place of birth	Grand Forks , North Dakota , USA
size	185 cm
Weight	89 kg
position	defender
number	# 2
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2012 , 6th round, 181st position Los Angeles Kings
Career stations
2010-2011	Alexandria blizzard
2011-2013	Lincoln Stars
2013-2016	University of North Dakota
since 2016	Ontario Reign
since 2017	Los Angeles Kings

Paul LaDue (born September 6, 1992 in Grand Forks , North Dakota ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League since April 2016 and at the same time for their farm team , the Ontario Reign , in of the American Hockey League plays on the position of defender .

Career

LaDue spent his junior years among other things between 2010 and 2011 with the Alexandria Blizzard in the North American Hockey League and from 2011 to 2013 the Lincoln Stars in the United States Hockey League . During his time with the Stars, he was selected in the sixth round in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft in 181st place by the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League . Shortly before his 21st birthday, the defense attorney enrolled at the University of North Dakota, majoring in social science . For the university he ran for the next three years until spring 2016 for the ice hockey team in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference , a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association .

At the end of the season in April 2016, LaDue signed a professional contract with the Los Angeles Kings, which he ended his studies early. At the end of the 2015/16 season , he was in three play-off games for the Ontario Reign , Los Angeles' farm team in the American Hockey League . The defender also began the 2016/17 season with the Reign, before he was appointed to the Kings NHL squad for the first time in February 2017 and made his debut there a little later.

Achievements and Awards

• 2011 NAHL Second All-Rookie Team
• 2013 USHL First All-Star Team
• 2014 NCHC All-Rookie Team

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
2010/11	Alexandria blizzard	NEAR		56	3	19th	22nd	58		3	0	2	2	2
2011/12	Lincoln Stars	USHL		56	9	25th	34	27		8th	1	2	3	2
2012/13	Lincoln Stars	USHL		62	12	37	49	20th		5	1	1	2	0
2013/14	University of North Dakota	NCAA		41	6th	15th	21st	23
2014/15	University of North Dakota	NCAA		41	5	17th	22nd	31
2015/16	University of North Dakota	NCAA		41	5	14th	19th	14th
2015/16	Ontario Reign	AHL		-	-	-	-	-		3	0	0	0	2
2016/17	Ontario Reign	AHL		38	6th	12	18th	28		3	1	0	1	2
2016/17	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		22nd	0	8th	8th	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Ontario Reign	AHL		36	8th	10	18th	22nd		4th	0	0	0	6th
2017/18	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		12	3	1	4th	6th		2	1	0	1	0
2018/19	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		33	2	3	5	12		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Ontario Reign	AHL		48	9	18th	27	30th		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		2	0	1	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
NAHL total				56	3	19th	22nd	58		3	0	2	2	2
USHL total				118	21st	62	83	47		13	2	3	5	2
NCAA overall				123	16	46	62	68
AHL total				122	23	40	63	80		10	1	0	1	10
NHL overall				69	5	13	18th	22nd		2	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 Los Angeles Kings website
• Paul LaDue at eliteprospects.com (English)