Torrey Mitchell

Torrey Mitchell
Date of birth	January 30, 1985
place of birth	Greenfield Park , Quebec , Canada
size	180 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	center
number	# 17
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2004 , 4th round, 126th position San Jose Sharks
Career stations
2002-2004	Hotchkiss School
2004-2007	University of Vermont
2007–2012	San Jose Sharks
2012-2014	Minnesota Wild
2014-2015	Buffalo Sabers
2015-2017	Canadiens de Montréal
2017-2018	Los Angeles Kings
2018-2019	Lausanne HC

Torrey Mitchell (born January 30, 1985 in Greenfield Park , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who has played for the San Jose Sharks , Minnesota Wild , Buffalo Sabers , Canadiens de Montréal and Los Angeles Kings in the course of his active career of the center has played.

Career

Mitchell began his career in 2002 at Hotchkiss School , one of the most prestigious high schools in the United States , where he played for two years before going to the University of Vermont . There he studied for three years and ran for the university team in the National Collegiate Athletic Association . In three seasons from 2004 to 2007, the Canadian collected a total of 105 points in 115 games. In the 2005/06 season, his best college year, he was the third-best assist and eighth-best points collector of Hockey East , a league of the NCAA. He was also elected to the All-Rookie Team of the Eastern College Athletic Conference in his 2004/05 rookie year . After completing his studies, he received a contract offer from the San Jose Sharks from the National Hockey League , who had selected him in the fourth round of the 2004 NHL Entry Draft in 126th position.

The Sharks put Mitchell at the end of the 2006/07 season first in their farm team , the Worcester Sharks from the American Hockey League . He reached seven points in eleven games of the regular season and two in the team's six playoff games. In the fall of 2007, the striker took part in the training camp of the NHL team and was part of the team at the start of the 2007/08 season . There he established himself despite the great competition with consistently good performances. Especially on the defensive and in the minority game , Mitchell set accents, which he put other defensive strikers like Patrick Rissmiller , Curtis Brown and Marcel Goc in the shade. The defensive specialist eventually completed all of the team's games, both in the regular season and in the playoffs, and came up with 23 points in 95 games. His achievements over the course of the season earned him the team's internal prize for the best rookie . Mitchell caused a stir in the course of the season when he accidentally collided with opponent Kurtis Foster of the Minnesota Wild in March 2008, so unfortunate that he was in the gang at high speed that Foster broke his thighbone . The NHL therefore changed the rules during the summer break in order to avoid such situations - body contact in the area behind the goal with unauthorized long-range shots with touch icing  - in the future.

The following season started badly for the striker when he broke his leg after a collision with opponent Brett Westgarth when he hit the goal post at the start of the training camp in September . He was only able to train with the team on the ice for the first time just before the Christmas holidays and was finally summoned to the Worcester Sharks in the AHL in mid-January 2009. There the Canadian should gather match practice before returning to the NHL roster. However, Mitchell suffered another leg injury on his second assignment in Worcester, which in turn forced him to take a three-month break. It was not until the third game of the first playoff round against the Anaheim Ducks that he finally made his season debut for San Jose in the NHL. In the following summer, the Canadian was unlucky with injuries and missed the first month and a half of the 2009/10 season because of a tendinitis in his knee . In November he was sent again in his career to the Worcester Sharks in the AHL to collect match practice.

On July 1, 2012, he signed a three-year contract with the Minnesota Wild as a free agent . On March 5, 2014, Torrey Mitchell was handed over to the Buffalo Sabers together with a second-round draft pick in 2014 and 2016 , in return the Wild received Matt Moulson and Cody McCormick .

After a year in Buffalo, the Sabers gave him to the Canadiens de Montréal in March 2015 and in return received Jack Nevins and a seven-round vote for the 2016 NHL Entry Draft . After about one and a half years, the Canadiens transferred him to the Los Angeles Kings in November 2017 and were given a success-based five-round vote for the 2018 NHL Entry Draft . This should be a vote for the fourth round, provided Los Angeles reaches the playoffs this year; this was later fulfilled.

His expiring contract was not extended in Los Angeles, so that in July 2018 he decided to move to Europe for the first time and signed a one-year contract with Lausanne HC from the Swiss National League . After the end of the 2018/19 season, he ended his active career.

Achievements and Awards

• 2005 ECAC All-Rookie Team

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2002/03	Hotchkiss School	USHS		26th	19th	30th	49	33
2003/04	Hotchkiss School	USHS		25th	25th	37	62	42
2004/05	University of Vermont	ECAC		38	11	19th	30th	74
2005/06	University of Vermont	ECAC		38	12	28	40	34
2006/07	University of Vermont	ECAC		39	12	23	35	46
2006/07	Worcester Sharks	AHL		11	2	5	7th	27		6th	1	1	2	15th
2007/08	San Jose Sharks	NHL		82	10	10	20th	50		13	1	2	3	10
2008/09	Worcester Sharks	AHL		2	1	0	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	San Jose Sharks	NHL		-	-	-	-	-		4th	0	0	0	2
2009/10	Worcester Sharks	AHL		5	1	2	3	10		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	San Jose Sharks	NHL		56	2	9	11	27		15th	0	2	2	2
2010/11	San Jose Sharks	NHL		66	9	14th	23	46		18th	1	4th	5	10
2011/12	San Jose Sharks	NHL		76	9	10	19th	29		5	0	1	1	6th
2012/13	San Francisco Bulls	ECHL		2	1	0	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Minnesota Wild	NHL		45	4th	4th	8th	21st		5	1	0	1	0
2013/14	Minnesota Wild	NHL		58	1	8th	9	21st		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		9	1	0	1	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		51	6th	7th	13	26th		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		14th	0	1	1	8th		12	1	4th	5	6th
2015/16	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		71	11	8th	19th	51		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		78	8th	9	17th	38		3	1	0	1	0
2017/18	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		11	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		49	6th	5	11	28		4th	0	0	0	0
2018/19	Lausanne HC	NL		28	7th	5	12	8th		-	-	-	-	-
US high school total				51	44	67	111	75
NCAA overall				115	35	70	105	154
AHL total				18th	4th	7th	11	37		6th	1	1	2	15th
NHL overall				666	67	85	152	351		79	5	13	18th	36

( 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

Commons : Torrey Mitchell  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Torrey Mitchell at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Torrey Mitchell at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mike Doyle: Wild Signs Mitchell, Konopka. Minnesota Wild , July 1, 2012, accessed August 9, 2012 . 
2. ^ Wild acquire Moulson, McCormick in dealing Mitchell, 2 draft picks to Sabers. (No longer available online.) The Hockey News, March 5, 2014, archived from the original on March 7, 2014 ; accessed on March 7, 2014 . 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.  
3. ↑ Torrey Mitchell traded to Los Angeles Kings. nhl.com, November 23, 2017, accessed November 24, 2017 .