Sean Couturier

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Sean Couturier
Date of birth 7th December 1992
place of birth Phoenix , Arizona , USA
size 192 cm
Weight 90 kg
position center
number # 14
Shot hand Left
Draft
KHL Junior Draft 2011 , 6th round, 133rd position
Salawat Julajew Ufa
NHL Entry Draft 2011 , 1st round, 8th position
Philadelphia Flyers
Career stations
2008-2011 Voltigeurs de Drummondville
since 2011 Philadelphia Flyers

Sean Couturier (born December 7, 1992 in Phoenix , Arizona ) is a Canadian ice hockey player with US citizenship. Since 2011, the center has played for the Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League (NHL), who had selected him in eighth position in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft . With the Canadian national team , he won the gold medal at the 2015 World Cup .

Career

Sean Couturier played from 2008 to 2011 for the Voltigeurs de Drummondville , who had selected him in the LHJMQ Entry Draft 2008 in second overall position, in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec . In his first year in the LHJMQ, he and his team won the Coupe du Président . In the following season , the attacker scored 96 points in 68 games, for which he received the Trophée Jean Béliveau , which is awarded annually to the most successful scorer of the LHJMQ. In addition, he was appointed to the Second All-Star team. In the following play-offs, the Voltigeurs were eliminated in the semifinals against eventual champions Moncton Wildcats . Following the regular 2010/11 season , Couturier was awarded the Michel Brière Trophy as the most valuable player in the LHJMQ .

In the 2011 NHL Entry Draft , Couturier was selected in the first round in eighth position by the Philadelphia Flyers . Before the start of the 2011/12 season, he received a three-year entry-level contract with the Flyers, who immediately nominated the Canadian-US dual citizen to the NHL squad. In his rookie season , the player was invited to the NHL All-Star Game and took part in the SuperSkills Competition at this event . Overall, Couturier completed 77 games for the Philadelphia Flyers during the regular season this season, achieving 13 goals and 14 assists . In the following play-offs, he scored his first hat trick in the National Hockey League on April 13, 2012 when the Flyers played against the Pittsburgh Penguins .

In the 2017/18 season, Couturier significantly increased his personal statistics to 76 points from 82 games and was also the second best goalscorer of his team (behind Claude Giroux ) with 31 hits . As a result, he was nominated together with Anže Kopitar and Patrice Bergeron for the Frank J. Selke Trophy as the best defensive striker of the NHL, which Kopitar eventually won.

International

Sean Couturier represented the Canadian national team for the first time in an international tournament at the 2011 U20 World Youth Championship . The team won the silver medal at this tournament after a final defeat against the Russian selection .

For the first time in the senior sector, he represented the national team of Canada at the 2015 World Cup , with the team directly winning the gold medal. This was followed by participation in the World Cup of Hockey 2016 in the North America team and silver medals at the 2017 and 2019 World Championships .

Achievements and Awards

International

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
2008/09 Voltigeurs de Drummondville LHJMQ 58 9 22nd 31 +24 14th 19th 1 7th 8th -1 8th
2009/10 Voltigeurs de Drummondville LHJMQ 68 41 55 96 +62 47 14th 10 8th 18th +11 18th
2010/11 Voltigeurs de Drummondville LHJMQ 58 36 60 96 +55 36 10 6th 5 11 +3 14th
2011/12 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 77 13 14th 27 +18 14th 11 3 1 4th +2 2
2012/13 Adirondack Phantoms AHL 31 10 18th 28 -8th 16 - - - - - -
2012/13 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 46 4th 11 15th -8th 10 - - - - - -
2013/14 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 82 13 26th 39 +1 45 7th 0 0 0 -3 6th
2014/15 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 82 15th 22nd 37 +4 28 - - - - - -
2015/16 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 63 11 28 39 +8 30th 1 0 0 0 ± 0 0
2016/17 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 66 14th 20th 34 +12 33 - - - - - -
2017/18 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 82 31 45 76 +34 31 5 5 4th 9 +1 2
2018/19 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 80 33 43 76 +2 34 - - - - - -
LHJMQ total 184 86 137 223 +141 97 43 17th 20th 37 +13 40
NHL overall 578 134 209 343 +71 225 24 8th 5 13 ± 0 10

International

Represented Canada to:

Represented team North America at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2011 Canada U20 World Cup 2nd place, silver 7th 2 1 3 0
2015 Canada WM 1st place, gold 10 3 4th 7th 2
2016 North America team World cup 5th place 3 0 0 0 0
2017 Canada WM 2nd place, silver 8th 1 1 2 2
2019 Canada WM 2nd place, silver 10 1 3 4th 0
Juniors overall 7th 2 1 3 0
Men overall 31 5 8th 13 4th

( 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 )

Personal

His father Sylvain Couturier was also an ice hockey player and played in the NHL for the Los Angeles Kings .

Web links

Commons : Sean Couturier  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Photi Sotiropoulos: Sean Couturier wins the Michel-Brière Trophy. (No longer available online.) Québec Major Junior Hockey League , April 6, 2011, archived from the original on August 30, 2011 ; accessed on May 9, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / en.lhjmq.qc.ca
  2. ^ Rob Longley: High-flyin 'Philly wins wild one. Toronto Sun , April 13, 2012, accessed May 9, 2012 .
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personal data
SURNAME Couturier, Sean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player with US citizenship
DATE OF BIRTH 7th December 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Phoenix , Arizona