Tyler Bozak

Tyler Bozak
Date of birth	March 19, 1986
place of birth	Regina , Saskatchewan , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	85 kg
position	center
number	# 21
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
2004-2006	Victoria Salsa
2006-2007	Victoria Grizzlies
2007-2009	University of Denver
2009-2018	Toronto Maple Leafs
since 2018	St. Louis Blues

Tyler Bozak (born March 19, 1986 in Regina , Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League since July 2018 . With the team, the center won the Stanley Cup in the 2019 playoffs . Before that, he spent nine years with the Toronto Maple Leafs .

Career

Tyler Bozak began his career as a hockey player in the junior league British Columbia Hockey League , in which he was active from 2004 to 2007 for the Victoria Salsa and Victoria Grizzlies. With the Grizzlies he developed into one of the best players in the league and was in the 2006/07 season with 83 assists and 128 scorer points in each case top submitters and top scorer of the league. From 2007 to 2009 the center attended the University of Denver and played for their ice hockey team in the National Collegiate Athletic Association . With this he won the championship of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association in the 2007/08 season .

On April 3, 2009 Bozak signed a two-year contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs without having been drafted beforehand . In his rookie year in the National Hockey League , the Canadian scored eight goals in 37 games in the 2009/10 season and prepared another 19 goals. At the same time he played for the Farm Team of the Maple Leafs, the Toronto Marlies from the American Hockey League , for which he contributed 20 scorer points in 32 games. With the beginning of the 2010/11 season Bozak established himself in the NHL squad of the Maple Leafs.

After a total of nine years with the Maple Leafs, his expiring contract was not renewed in summer 2018, so he signed a three-year contract with the St. Louis Blues in July 2018 as a free agent . This should bring him an average annual salary of five million US dollars. In his first year in St. Louis, he promptly won the Stanley Cup with the team in the 2019 playoffs .

Achievements and Awards

• 2007 BCHL top scorer
• 2008 Broadmoor Trophy win with the University of Denver
• 2009 WCHA All-Academic Team
• 2019 Stanley Cup win with the St. Louis Blues

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
2004/05	Victoria Salsa	BCHL		55	15th	16	31		24		5	0	2	2		2
2005/06	Victoria Salsa	BCHL		56	31	38	69		26th		16	8th	8th	16		14th
2006/07	Victoria Grizzlies	BCHL		59	45	83	128		45		11	4th	9	13		6th
2007/08	University of Denver	NCAA		41	18th	16	34	+8	22nd
2008/09	University of Denver	NCAA		19th	8th	15th	23	+14	10
2009/10	Toronto Marlies	AHL		32	4th	16	20th	-8th	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		37	8th	19th	27	-5	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		82	15th	17th	32	-29	14th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		73	18th	29	47	–7	22nd		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		46	12	16	28	-1	6th		5	1	1	2	± 0	4th
2013/14	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		58	19th	30th	49	+2	14th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		82	23	26th	49	-34	44		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		57	12	23	35	–9	18th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		78	18th	37	55	-1	30th		6th	2	2	4th	± 0	4th
2017/18	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		81	11	32	43	+6	28		7th	2	2	4th	-1	6th
2018/19	St. Louis Blues	NHL		72	13	25th	38	−3	20th		26th	5	8th	13	−2	8th
BCHL total				170	91	137	228		95		32	12	19th	31		22nd
NCAA overall				60	26th	31	57	+22	32
NHL overall				666	149	254	403	-81	202		44	10	13	23	-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

Commons : Tyler Bozak  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the St. Louis Blues website
• Tyler Bozak at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ sportsnet.ca, Bozak signs deal with Leafs ( Memento of the original from August 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
2. ^ Blues sign Bozak to three-year, $ 15 million deal. nhl.com, July 1, 2018, accessed July 2, 2018 .