Thomas Larkin

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Thomas Larkin
Date of birth December 31, 1990
place of birth London , UK
size 196 cm
Weight 100 kg
position defender
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2009 , 5th round, 137th position
Columbus Blue Jackets
Career stations
2007-2009 Phillips Exeter Academy
2009-2013 Colgate University
2013-2015 Springfield Falcons
2013-2014 Evansville IceMen
2015-2017 KHL Medveščak Zagreb
since 2017 Adler Mannheim

Thomas Larkin (born December 31, 1990 in London , United Kingdom ) is an Italian - American ice hockey player , on the position of defender , who has been under contract with the Adler Mannheim in the German Ice Hockey League since February 2017 .

Career

Thomas Larkin was born in London to an American and an Italian. When he was three years old, the family moved to Varese . He began his career as a hockey player at the renowned Phillips Exeter Academy , for which he was active from 2007 to 2009. In the NHL Entry Draft 2009 he was selected in the fifth round in a total of 137th position by the Columbus Blue Jackets . From 2009 to 2013 the defender attended Colgate University , for whose ice hockey team he played in ECAC hockey . In 2012 he was elected to the third All-Star Team of ECAC Hockey. In March 2013 he made his professional debut for the Springfield Falcons in the American Hockey League , for which he scored a goal in his second AHL game. In total, he came to seven appearances in the American Hockey League during the 2012/13 season . In July 2013, the Italian-American signed a two-year entry - level contract with Columbus Blue Jackets. While he commuted between the AHL team of the Springfield Falcons and the Evansville IceMen from the ECHL in the 2013/14 season , he was only on the ice with the Falcons the following year. He did not come to missions in the NHL.

In August 2015, Larkin left North America and joined Medveščak Zagreb from the KHL. There he played until mid-February 2017 and then moved to the German Ice Hockey League (DEL) for the Adler Mannheim . In November 2017, he made negative headlines when he executed a hard check against Brynäs striker Daniel Paille in the Champions Hockey League match against Swedish representative Brynäs IF . Larkin was suspended for four CHL games as a result of this foul. In a statement in the newspaper Aftonbladet he was also accused of attempted murder by Brynäs sports director Stefan Bengtzen . The Adler leadership firmly rejected this allegation with reference to the possible criminal offense of defamation . The foul had no further legal or sports court consequences. Due to the injuries, Paille ended his career in August 2018 and dissolved the professional contract.

In the 2018/19 season Larkin won the German championship with Mannheim, he scored the winning goal for the Adler in the extension of the fifth final against Munich.

International

Thomas Larkin in national jersey (2016)

For Italy , Larkin took part in the junior division of the U18 World Junior Championships in Division I in 2007 and 2008 . In the senior division, he was in his country's squad at the Division I World Championships in 2011 , 2016 , when he was voted the tournament's best defender, and 2018, and the top division in 2012 , 2014 and 2017 . He also represented his colors in qualifying for the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang 2018 .

Achievements and Awards

  • 2010 ECAC All-Academic Team
  • 2011 ECAC All-Academic Team
  • 2012 ECAC All-Academic Team
  • 2012 ECAC Third All-Star Team
  • 2013 ECAC All-Academic Team
  • 2019 German champion with the Adler Mannheim

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
2006/07 Phillips Exeter Academy USHS 28 1 7th 8th 5
2007/08 Phillips Exeter Academy USHS 29 6th 15th 21st 18th
2008/09 Phillips Exeter Academy USHS 35 14th 38 52 30th
2008/09 Boston Little Bruins Minor MA 18th 1 1 2 10
2009/10 Colgate University ECAC 33 3 16 19th 32
2010/11 Colgate University ECAC 41 5 6th 11 41
2011/12 Colgate University ECAC 37 4th 10 14th 48
2012/13 Colgate University ECAC 36 3 11 14th 55
2012/13 Springfield Falcons AHL 7th 1 0 1 2 - - - - -
2013/14 Springfield Falcons AHL 19th 0 2 2 48 1 0 0 0 0
2013/14 Evansville IceMen ECHL 33 3 17th 20th 60 - - - - -
2014/15 Springfield Falcons AHL 62 5 12 17th 89 - - - - -
2015/16 KHL Medveščak Zagreb KHL 34 2 3 5 56 - - - - -
2016/17 KHL Medveščak Zagreb KHL 58 2 3 5 78 - - - - -
2016/17 Adler Mannheim DEL 5 0 1 1 4th 7th 0 1 1 10
2017/18 Adler Mannheim DEL 51 5 13 18th 28 10 2 0 2 10
2018/19 Adler Mannheim DEL 33 6th 11 17th 30th 14th 1 2 3 22nd

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hockeysfuture.com, Profile Thomas Larkin
  2. ↑ Adler awards eleventh license to foreigners ( Memento from February 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ DIE WELT: Adler Mannheim: Opponent speaks of "attempted murder" after a brutal foul . In: THE WORLD . November 13, 2017 ( welt.de [accessed December 13, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Paille brutalt överfallen - Brynäs rasar: ”Var fan ett mordförsök” . In: Aftonbladet . ( aftonbladet.se [accessed December 13, 2017]).
  5. ^ Comment on the allegations by Brynäs and the media. Retrieved December 13, 2017 .
  6. ↑ https://www.sport1.de/eishockey/chl/2018/08/daniel-paille-beendet-karriere-nach-check-von-thomas-larkin
  7. ↑ Munich is doing its best, but Larkin shoots Mannheim to the title again in overtime for the first time since 2015 , Ice Hockey News , April 16, 2019, accessed on April 27, 2019
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Adler Mannheim's squad in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME Larkin, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH London , UK