Tyler Johnson

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Tyler Johnson
Date of birth July 29, 1990
place of birth Spokane , Washington , USA
size 175 cm
Weight 79 kg
position center
number # 9
Shot hand Right
Career stations
2007-2011 Spokane Chiefs
2011–2012 Norfolk Admirals
2012-2013 Syracuse crunch
since 2013 Tampa Bay Lightning

Tyler Johnson (born July 29, 1990 in Spokane , Washington ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning from the National Hockey League since 2011 and plays for them on the position of the center .

Career

Western Hockey League

Johnson began his career in the city of Coeur d'Alene in the third-rate US junior division Northern Pacific Hockey League . After he had been selected by the Spokane Chiefs in the eleventh round of the WHL Bantam Draft in 2005 , he only moved to the Western Hockey League two seasons later . There he was the Chiefs' most successful rookie in his 2007/08 debut season with 35 points . In the play-offs he was used in all 21 games and scored five goals and three assists. He finally led the team with a 4-0 win in the final series of the Ed Chynoweth Cup and, as a 17-year-old rookie, was named the most valuable player in the WHL play-offs . At the Memorial Cup 2008 , the team was also able to prevail and won the title by defeating hosts Kitchener Rangers .

In the following two seasons he was also able to increase his point yield in the regular season and was the Chiefs' third best scorer. For the 2010/11 season , Johnson was appointed assistant captain of the team. In the course of the season he became the first Chiefs player since 1994 to break the 100 point mark. He ended the season with 53 goals as the top scorer in the entire WHL and was second on the scorer list with 115 points. He was then voted the best player and the First All-Star Team of the Western Conference, and he was awarded the Brad Hornung Trophy as the fairest player in the league.

Professional debut in the American Hockey League

After he was not considered in the NHL Entry Draft by the teams of the National Hockey League , he was invited to the NHL training camps of the Minnesota Wild and the Phoenix Coyotes in the course of his junior career, but received no contract there. In March 2011, Johnson finally signed a three-year entry-level contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning as a free agent . The center was then initially sent to the Lightning farm team, the Norfolk Admirals , in the American Hockey League . He also scored his first goal in the AHL on his professional debut against the Charlotte Checkers . In March 2012 he was able to score several points in seven games in a row and was then voted AHL player of the month with 22 points from eleven games. At the end of the season Johnson was the second best rookie scorer in the league behind his teammate Cory Conacher and was elected to the AHL All-Rookie Team . After the Admirals had already completed the regular season as the best team, they also prevailed in the play-offs and won the Calder Cup . Johnson scored 14 points in as many games.

In the following season 2012/13 Johnson was able to increase his point yield in the AHL again and was the top scorer in the league with 37 goals the Willie Marshall Award . With a total of 65 points from 62 games, he was the best scorer of his team, the Syracuse Crunch . He also had the best plus / minus balance of any striker in the league. At the end of the season he was finally awarded the Les Cunningham Award as the most valuable player in the AHL and elected to the First All-Star Team . With Syracuse he moved back into the final series of the Calder Cup, but lost to the Grand Rapids Griffins there . In March 2013, he finally made his NHL debut for the Tampa Bay Lightning and scored two points in his second game against the Carolina Hurricanes .

In the 2014/15 season, Johnson made his breakthrough in the NHL. Together with Nikita Kutscherow and Ondřej Palát, he formed the triplet line (German triplet series) and scored 72 points in the regular season, placing him in first place within the team together with Steven Stamkos . In the subsequent playoffs Johnson was the top scorer with 23 points, but the team lost 4-2 to the Chicago Blackhawks in the final . After the 2016-17 season, the attacker signed a new seven-year contract in Tampa that is expected to earn him an average annual salary of $ 5 million.

International

Tyler Johnson represented the United States' selection at the 2009 and 2010 U20 World Junior Championships . After the team missed a medal in 2009, they won the gold medal in 2010 by beating Canada in the final.

Achievements and Awards

International

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
2007/08 Spokane Chiefs WHL 69 13 22nd 35 34 21st 5 3 8th 24
2008/09 Spokane Chiefs WHL 62 26th 35 61 52 12 5 3 8th 8th
2009/10 Spokane Chiefs WHL 64 36 35 71 32 7th 3 5 8th 0
2010/11 Spokane Chiefs WHL 71 53 62 115 48 14th 7th 7th 14th 9
2011/12 Norfolk Admirals AHL 75 31 37 68 28 14th 6th 8th 14th 6th
2012/13 Syracuse crunch AHL 62 37 28 65 34 18th 10 11 21st 18th
2012/13 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 14th 3 3 6th 4th - - - - -
2013/14 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 82 24 26th 50 26th 4th 1 1 2 0
2014/15 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 77 29 43 72 24 26th 13 10 23 24
2015/16 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 69 14th 24 38 20th 17th 7th 10 17th 12
2016/17 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 66 19th 26th 45 28 - - - - -
2017/18 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 81 21st 29 50 24 17th 3 5 8th 6th
2018/19 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 80 29 18th 47 28 4th 0 1 1 0
WHL overall 266 128 154 282 166 54 20th 18th 38 41
AHL total 137 68 65 133 62 32 16 19th 35 24
NHL overall 469 139 169 308 154 68 24 27 51 42

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2009 United States U20 World Cup 5th place 6th 1 0 1 2
2010 United States U20 World Cup 1st place, gold 7th 3 2 5 25th
2014 United States WM 6th place 8th 6th 3 9 2
Juniors overall 13 4th 2 6th 27
Men overall 8th 6th 3 9 2

( 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 Johnson  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lightning Sign Center Tyler Johnson From WHL , Tampa Bay Lightning, March 7, 2011
  2. ^ Johnson named Player of the Month , American Hockey League, April 2, 2012
  3. ↑ Crunch's Johnson named AHL MVP ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2013 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. , American Hockey League, April 19, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / theahl.com
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personal data
SURNAME Johnson, Tyler
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Spokane , Washington