Scott Laughton

Scott Laughton
Date of birth	May 30, 1994
place of birth	Oakville , Ontario , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	center
number	# 21
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2012 , 1st round, 20th position Philadelphia Flyers
Career stations
2010-2014	Oshawa Generals
since 2012	Philadelphia Flyers

Scott Glenn Laughton (born May 30, 1994 in Oakville , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League since August 2012 and plays there on the position of the center .

Career

Scott Laughton was born in Oakville and began playing ice hockey at the age of five. Up to the age of 14 he was trained by his father, who also played ice hockey and later lacrosse in his youth . Scott Laughton later played for the prestigious junior program of the Toronto Marlboros , with whom he won the 2010 championship of the Greater Toronto Hockey League as team captain, contributing 95 points in 76 games . In the subsequent Priority Selection of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), the attacker was selected in third position by the Oshawa Generals , for whom he ran up at the beginning of the 2010/11 season in the OHL. He also represented his home country at an international level for the first time during his rookie season, winning gold medals at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2011 and at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2011 .

In the 2011/12 season Laughton scored 53 points in 64 games for the Generals, was invited to the CHL Top Prospects Game and won the bronze medal at the subsequent U18 World Cup in 2012 . In the 2012 NHL Entry Draft , the Philadelphia Flyers selected him in 20th position and provided him with an entry contract in August of the same year . Due to the lockout of the 2012/13 season , Laughton spent the first half of the season in the OHL before making his debut for the Flyers in the National Hockey League (NHL) in January 2013 . There he came to five missions before the Flyers farm team , the Adirondack Phantoms from the American Hockey League (AHL), was given up and played another six games. The center forward then returned to Oshawa and not only ended the season there, but also spent the entire following 2013/14 season with the Generals. He achieved a personal best with 87 scorer points and was consequently appointed to the First All-Star Team of the OHL, having finished fourth at the U20 World Cup in 2014 with the U20 national team of Canada .

With the beginning of the 2014/15 season, Laughton finally joined the Philadelphia Flyers organization and spent the season in roughly equal shares with the Flyers in the NHL and their new AHL farm team, the Lehigh Valley Phantoms . The following year the center played for the first time completely in Philadelphia and came in 71 games to 21 scorer points. He lost this regular place in the 2016/17 season before his contract with the Flyers was extended by two years in the summer of 2017 and he then returned to the NHL squad in Philadelphia.

Achievements and Awards

• 2012 Participation in the CHL Top Prospects Game
• 2014 OHL First All-Star Team

International

• 2011 gold medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
• 2011 gold medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament
• 2012 bronze medal at the U18 Junior World Championship

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
2010/11	Oshawa Generals	OHL		63	12	11	23	+5	58		10	1	1	2	-2	11
2011/12	Oshawa Generals	OHL		64	21st	32	53	+8	101		6th	2	3	5	-5	17th
2012/13	Oshawa Generals	OHL		49	23	33	56	+22	72		7th	7th	6th	13	+8	11
2012/13	Adirondack Phantoms	AHL		6th	1	2	3	+2	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		5	0	0	0	± 0	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Oshawa Generals	OHL		54	40	47	87	+12	72		9	4th	7th	11	+2	17th
2014/15	Lehigh Valley Phantoms	AHL		39	14th	13	27	-16	31		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		31	2	4th	6th	-1	17th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		71	7th	14th	21st	-2	34		3	0	0	0	-1	0
2016/17	Lehigh Valley Phantoms	AHL		60	19th	20th	39	+17	40		5	2	1	3	-3	2
2016/17	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		2	0	0	0	± 0	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		81	10	10	20th	-10	42		6th	1	0	1	+1	6th
2018/19	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		82	12	20th	32	–11	53		-	-	-	-	-	-
OHL total				230	96	123	219	+47	303		32	14th	17th	31	+3	56
AHL total				105	34	35	69	+3	71		5	2	1	3	-3	2
NHL overall				272	31	48	79	-24	146		9	1	0	1	± 0	6th

International

Represented Canada to:

• World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2011
• Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2011
• U18 Junior World Championship 2012
• U20 Junior World Championship 2014

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2011	Canada Ontario	WHC			5	2	2	4th		4th
2011	Canada	Hlinka Memorial			5	2	1	3	+1	0
2012	Canada	U18 World Cup			7th	2	5	7th	+3	4th
2014	Canada	U20 World Cup	4th Place		7th	0	1	1	+2	6th
Juniors overall					24	6th	9	15th		14th

( 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
• Scott Laughton at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Randy Miller: Flyers' Scott Laughton gets tires changed by dad one day, treats his' inspiration 'to first goal on next. nj.com, December 13, 2014, accessed October 24, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Flyers re-sign (D) Marc-Andre Bourdon and sign 2012 first round draft pick (C) Scott Laughton. nhl.com, August 8, 2012, accessed October 24, 2016 .