Philippe Myers

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CanadaCanada  Philippe Myers Ice hockey player
Date of birth January 25, 1997
place of birth Moncton , New Brunswick , Canada
size 196 cm
Weight 95 kg
position defender
Shot hand Right
Career stations
2013-2017 Huskies de Rouyn-Noranda
2017-2019 Lehigh Valley Phantoms
since 2019 Philadelphia Flyers

Philippe Myers (born January 25, 1997 in Moncton , New Brunswick ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League since September 2015 and has been working for their farm team , the Lehigh Valley Phantoms , in of the American Hockey League plays on the position of defender .

Career

Myers spent his junior years between 2013 and 2017 with the Huskies de Rouyn-Noranda in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec . The defender, who was not included in the NHL Entry Draft , was signed as a free agent by the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League during this time in September 2015 . Nevertheless, he stayed in the LHJMQ for two more years and won the Coupe du Président , the league's championship trophy, with the Huskies at the end of the 2015/16 season . He was also elected to the First All-Star Team of the LHJMQ. In the subsequent Memorial Cup , the team reached the final. By the end of the 2016/17 season , Myers had completed 251 games for Rouyn-Noranda and had 122 points scorer .

For the 2017/18 game year , Myers finally switched to the professional field and was used by the Philadelphia Flyers in their farm team , the Lehigh Valley Phantoms , in the American Hockey League . After spending the entire season there and the first two thirds of the 2018/19 season, he was appointed to the Philadelphia's NHL squad for the first time in February 2019, where he played a total of 21 games by the end of the season in April.

International

For his home country, Myers played in the junior division with the provincial team Canada Atlantic at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge in January 2014 and for the Canadian U20 national team at the U20 World Junior Championship in 2017 . There he was able to contribute three assists in four tournament appearances to win the silver medal.

The defender made his senior national team debut at the 2019 World Cup in Slovakia when he was re-nominated during the tournament. Ultimately, he played seven of the ten tournament games and won the silver medal with the Canadians at the end of the tournament.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2013/14 Huskies de Rouyn-Noranda LHJMQ 46 0 4th 4th 11 9 0 3 3 2
2014/15 Huskies de Rouyn-Noranda LHJMQ 60 2 6th 8th 55 6th 0 2 2 15th
2015/16 Huskies de Rouyn-Noranda LHJMQ 63 17th 28 45 44 20th 4th 12 16 18th
2016 Huskies de Rouyn-Noranda Memorial Cup 5 1 1 2 4th
2016/17 Huskies de Rouyn-Noranda LHJMQ 34 10 25th 35 46 13 3 6th 9 14th
2017/18 Lehigh Valley Phantoms AHL 50 5 16 21st 54 13 3 4th 7th 12
2018/19 Lehigh Valley Phantoms AHL 53 9 24 33 78 - - - - -
2018/19 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 21st 1 1 2 2 - - - - -
LHJMQ total 203 29 63 92 156 48 7th 23 30th 49
AHL total 103 14th 40 54 132 13 3 4th 7th 12

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2014 Canada Atlantic U17-WHC 8th place 5 0 0 0 0
2017 Canada U20 World Cup 2nd place, silver 4th 0 3 3 4th
2019 Canada WM 2nd place, silver 7th 0 1 1 0
Juniors overall 9 0 3 3 4th
Men overall 7th 0 1 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Myers, Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Moncton , New Brunswick , Canada