Phillip Danault

Phillip Danault
Date of birth	February 24, 1993
place of birth	Victoriaville , Quebec , Canada
size	182 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	Left wing
number	# 24
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2011 , 1st round, 26th position Chicago Blackhawks
Career stations
2009-2013	Tigres de Victoriaville
2013	Moncton Wildcats
2013-2015	Rockford IceHogs
2014-2016	Chicago Blackhawks
since 2016	Canadiens de Montréal

Phillip Danault (born February 24, 1993 in Victoriaville , Québec ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Canadiens de Montréal in the National Hockey League since February 2016 .

Career

youth

Phillip Danault was born in Victoriaville and selected in the entry draft of the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ) from the Tigres based there in ninth overall position. His father had previously been the stadium announcer for the franchise for almost 20 years . In his first season, the left winger scored 28 points in 61 games for the Tigres and also took part in the 2010 World U-17 Hockey Challenge with Team Canada Québec at the turn of the year . In the summer of 2010, Danault took over the captaincy of his team and increased his personal statistics to 23 goals and 44 assists. He was also invited to the CHL Top Prospects Game and was awarded the Guy Carbonneau trophy as the best defensive attacker, so that he was selected in the subsequent NHL Entry Draft 2011 in 26th position by the Chicago Blackhawks .

He then returned to the LHJMQ for another season, before the Blackhawks provided him with an entry-level contract in January 2012 . After the Tigres lost the first round in the playoffs, Danault first switched to the Blackhawks' system when he booked seven appearances for their farm team , the Rockford IceHogs , in the American Hockey League (AHL). In the subsequent preparation for the 2012/13 season, Danault could not establish himself in the AHL squad, so he was sent to the LHJMQ for another season. He only spent half of this in Victoriaville, as the Tigres gave him up in January 2013 in exchange for Gabriel Gagné and several draft voting rights to the Moncton Wildcats . He was also part of the Canadian U20 national team at the turn of the year , which finished fourth at the 2013 U20 World Cup . The Canadian ended the season with 31 appearances for the Wildcats and five more AHL games for the IceHogs.

National Hockey League

The 2013/14 season spent Danault, who had retired from the LHJMQ, completely with the IceHogs, for which he scored 26 points in 72 games. Except for his debut for the Blackhawks in the National Hockey League (NHL) in November 2014, which was followed by another assignment, it was the same in the 2014/15 season. It was only at the beginning of the 2015/16 season that Danault established himself in the Blackhawks' NHL squad and played 30 games in which he posted five points scorer. In February 2016, the attacker, including a second-round vote for the 2018 NHL Entry Draft, was handed over to the Canadiens de Montréal , who in return sent Dale Weise and Tomáš Fleischmann to Chicago. The Canadiens used him exclusively in the NHL until the end of the season and extended his expiring contract by two years in the summer of 2016. This turned into three more years in the summer of 2018 before the attacker achieved his best NHL statistic to date with 53 scorer points in the 2018/19 season.

Achievements and Awards

• 2010 gold medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament
• 2011 Participation in the CHL Top Prospects Game
• 2011 Trophée Guy Carbonneau

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
2009/10	Tigres de Victoriaville	LHJMQ		61	10	18th	28	+19	54		16	0	1	1	-2	8th
2010/11	Tigres de Victoriaville	LHJMQ		64	23	44	67	+17	59		9	5	10	15th	+4	6th
2011/12	Tigres de Victoriaville	LHJMQ		62	18th	53	71	+11	61		4th	0	3	3	-1	4th
2011/12	Rockford IceHogs	AHL		7th	0	2	2	-5	10		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Tigres de Victoriaville	LHJMQ		29	14th	30th	44	-1	28		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Moncton Wildcats	LHJMQ		27	9	32	41	+17	22nd		4th	1	3	4th	-1	0
2012/13	Rockford IceHogs	AHL		5	0	0	0	-1	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Rockford IceHogs	AHL		72	6th	20th	26th	+11	40		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Rockford IceHogs	AHL		70	13	25th	38	+20	38		8th	3	2	5	+8	20th
2014/15	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		2	0	0	0	± 0	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Rockford IceHogs	AHL		6th	1	1	2	-2	4th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		30th	1	4th	5	-3	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		21st	3	2	5	-2	8th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		82	13	27	40	+5	35		6th	0	2	2	+1	2
2017/18	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		52	8th	17th	25th	± 0	34		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		81	12	41	53	+17	39		-	-	-	-	-	-
LHJMQ total				243	74	177	251	+63	224		33	6th	17th	23	± 0	18th
AHL total				160	20th	48	68	+23	94		8th	2	3	5	+8	20th
NHL overall				268	37	91	128	+17	122		6th	0	2	2	+1	2

International

Represented Canada to:

• World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2010
• Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2010
• U20 World Cup 2013

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2010	Canada Québec	WHC	6th place		5	0	3	3		22nd
2010	Canada	Hlinka Memorial			5	0	3	3	+4	4th
2013	Canada	U20 World Cup	4th Place		6th	0	1	1	-2	2
Juniors overall					16	0	7th	7th		28

( 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
• Phillip Danault at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Emerald Gao: Danault doing it all for Victoriaville with blistering start. blackhawks.nhl.com, October 19, 2012, accessed September 10, 2016 . 
2. ^ Blackhawks sign 1st round picks McNeill, Danault. blackhawks.nhl.com, January 2, 2012, accessed September 10, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Cats aquire Phillip Danault. moncton-wildcats.com, January 8, 2013, accessed September 10, 2016 . 
4. ^ Trade between the Canadiens and Blackhawks. canadiens.nhl.com, February 26, 2016, accessed September 10, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Habs sign Danault to two-year extension. canadiens.nhl.com, July 5, 2016, accessed September 10, 2016 .