Samuel Morin

Samuel Morin
Date of birth	July 12, 1995
place of birth	Lac-Beauport , Quebec , Canada
size	201 cm
Weight	102 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2013 , 1st round, 11th position Philadelphia Flyers
Career stations
2010-2011	Lévis commanders
2011-2015	Oceanic de Rimouski
since 2015	Lehigh Valley Phantoms

Samuel Morin (born July 12, 1995 in Lac-Beauport , Québec ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League since 2013 and for their farm team , the Lehigh Valley Phantoms , in the American Hockey League is used in the position of the defender .

Career

Samuel Morin began his career with the Commandeurs de Lévis in the province of Québec . In the 2010/11 season he recorded twelve assists and 40 penalty minutes in 36 games. In three play-off games he scored an assist. He also represented his home province at the Canada Games 2011. At the end of the season he was selected in seventh place in the entry draft of the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec by the Rimouski Océanic .

The following season, the defender moved to the Océanic in the Québec Major Junior Hockey League and played 62 games in which he scored eight assists. In ten play-off games, the rest of which Morin missed due to an injury, he prepared a goal. In his first season with the Rimouski Océanic, he was elected to the LHJMQ All-Rookie Team.

In the 2012/13 season , Morin was used in 46 games, scored four goals and prepared twelve more. He missed the start of the season due to an upper body injury. In the 2013 NHL Entry Draft , he was selected by the Philadelphia Flyers in eleventh place. In his third season in Rimouski he came in 54 missions to 31 scorer points.

In 2015 he won the Coupe du Président with the Océanic de Rimouski before he switched to the Philadelphia Flyers organization at the beginning of the 2015/16 season. After two full seasons in the American Hockey League (AHL) with the Flyers' farm team , the Lehigh Valley Phantoms , Morin made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) in April 2017 . After missing large parts of the 2017/18 season due to a ruptured cruciate ligament , he signed a new three-year contract in Philadelphia in June 2018.

International

Morin represented his home country at the 2013 U18 Junior Ice Hockey World Championship . There he won the gold medal with the Canadian team. In the same year he took part in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2012 with the Province of Québec .

In 2015 he took part in the U20 World Cup in his own country and won the gold medal there.

Achievements and Awards

• 2012 LHJMQ All-Rookie Team
• 2013 Participation in the CHL Top Prospects Game
• 2015 Coupe-du-Président -Win with the Océanic de Rimouski

International

• 2013 gold medal at the U18 World Junior Championship
• 2015 gold medal at the U20 World Junior Championship

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
2011/12	Oceanic de Rimouski	LHJMQ		62	0	8th	8th	57		10	0	1	1	8th
2012/13	Oceanic de Rimouski	LHJMQ		46	4th	12	16	117		6th	1	6th	7th	16
2013/14	Oceanic de Rimouski	LHJMQ		54	7th	24	31	121		11	4th	4th	8th	30th
2014/15	Oceanic de Rimouski	LHJMQ		38	5	27	32	168		19th	1	10	11	28
2015	Oceanic de Rimouski	Memorial Cup								4th	1	0	1	7th
2015/16	Lehigh Valley Phantoms	AHL		76	4th	15th	19th	118		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Lehigh Valley Phantoms	AHL		74	3	13	16	129		5	0	2	2	2
2016/17	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Lehigh Valley Phantoms	AHL		15th	1	6th	7th	26th		3	0	0	0	2
2017/18	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		2	0	0	0	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Lehigh Valley Phantoms	AHL		2	0	0	0	5		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		5	0	0	0	4th		-	-	-	-	-
LHJMQ total				200	16	71	87	363		46	6th	21st	27	82
AHL total				167	8th	34	42	278		8th	0	2	2	4th
NHL overall				8th	0	0	0	8th		-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Canada to:

• U18 Junior World Championship 2013
• U20 World Junior Championship 2015

year	team	event		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2013	Canada	U18 World Cup		7th	0	2	2	6th
2015	Canada	U20 World Cup		7th	0	0	0	6th
Juniors overall				14th	0	2	2	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 )

Web links

• Player biography on the Philadelphia Flyers website
• Samuel Morin at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dave Isaac: Flyers, Samuel Morin agree to three-year extension. courierpostonline.com, June 22, 2018, accessed June 24, 2018 .