Tyler Spurgeon

Tyler Spurgeon
Date of birth	April 10, 1986
place of birth	Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
size	180 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	center
number	# 19
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2004 , 8th lap, 242nd position Edmonton Oilers
Career stations
2001-2006	Kelowna Rockets
2006-2007	Stockton Thunder Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins
2007-2009	Springfield Falcons
2009-2010	Idaho Steelheads Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins Abbotsford Heat
2010-2014	EC KAC
2014-2015	Ontario Reign Hockey Thurgau
2015-2020	HC Innsbruck
since 2020	ESV Kaufbeuren

Tyler Spurgeon (born April 10, 1986 in Edmonton , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been playing in the DEL2 at ESV Kaufbeuren since July 7, 2020 . His brother Jared is also a hockey player.

Career

Spurgeon began his career with the Kelowna Rockets in the Western Hockey League , one of Canada's three major junior leagues, where he spent five seasons, including the positions of assistant captain and later team captain. During this time he was drafted to a relatively late position by the Edmonton Oilers . In the summer of 2005 he had to undergo an operation on his shoulder, which, however, went without any further complications.

He had his first professional engagement in 2006, where he appeared in a total of 39 missions for the ECHL team Stockton Thunder and later in the same season also with the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins in the American Hockey League . For the following season he moved to the Springfield Falcons , but had bad luck when he injured his shoulder again and then suffered a concussion, which meant the end of the season for him after only twelve games. Spurgeon returned but in the 2008/09 season, but could not build on his good performance. He spent the 2009/10 season with a total of three different teams in the Minor Leagues of North America, becoming one of the Idaho Steelheads' most important points hunters .

Tyler Spurgeon (left) in the EC KAC jersey

In the summer of 2010, the Austrian first division club EC KAC invited him to a trial training session. Ultimately, he played for the KAC until 2014 and won the Austrian championship title in 2013 . After Tyler Spurgeon was initially signed by the ECHL club Ontario Reign in October 2014 , he moved to the Swiss NLB club Hockey Thurgau in December 2014 , where he signed a contract until the end of the season.

For the 2015/16 season, Spurgeon returned to Austria and joined HC Innsbruck . He has been captain of the club since the 2016/17 season .

Achievements and Awards

• 2003 President's Cup win with the Kelowna Rockets
• 2004 Memorial Cup win with the Kelowna Rockets
• 2005 President's Cup win with the Kelowna Rockets
• 2010 ECHL Second All-Star Team
• 2013 Austrian champion with the EC KAC

Career statistics

				Regular season							Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-
2001/02	Kelowna Rockets	WHL		2	0	1	1	0	−1		-	-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Kelowna Rockets	WHL		50	7th	6th	13	21st	+4		19th	2	5	7th	6th	−1
2003/04	Kelowna Rockets	WHL		49	8th	16	24	24	+7		17th	4th	5	9	9	+6
2004/05	Kelowna Rockets	WHL		72	21st	41	62	32	+20		24	11	6th	17th	12	−1
2005/06	Kelowna Rockets	WHL		39	7th	17th	24	22nd	+3		12	0	3	3	14th	+1
2006/07	Stockton Thunder	ECHL		39	12	17th	29	26th	+7		-	-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		35	5	10	15th	10	+2		6th	1	0	1	4th	−1
2007/08	Springfield Falcons	AHL		12	1	7th	8th	2	+7		-	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Springfield Falcons	AHL		73	6th	14th	20th	35	−4		-	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Idaho steelheads	ECHL		48	26th	39	65	14th	+32		-	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		20th	1	2	3	9	−5		-	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Abbotsford Heat	AHL		8th	1	4th	5	0	+2		9	0	2	2	17th	−3
2010/11	EC KAC	EBEL		34	11	10	21st	16	+14		12	3	8th	11	14th	+6
2011/12	EC KAC	EBEL		7th	2	7th	9	4th	+9		4th	1	2	3	2	± 0
2012/13	EC KAC	EBEL		30th	7th	5	12	27	+2		15th	2	6th	8th	8th	+4
2013/14	EC KAC	EBEL		34	11	11	22nd	8th	+12		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Ontario Reign	ECHL		12	2	8th	10	0	+2		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Adirondack Flames	AHL		1	0	0	0	0	± 0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Hockey Thurgau	NLB		16	8th	8th	16	2			2	0	2	2	2
2015/16	HC Innsbruck	EBEL		53	11	25th	36	20th	−4		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	HC Innsbruck	EBEL		52	14th	29	43	22nd	−1		4th	1	1	2	2	+1
2017/18	HC Innsbruck	EBEL		54	18th	31	49	12	+22		6th	1	1	2	0	−5
2018/19	HC Innsbruck	EBEL		52	16	17th	33	20th	−13		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	HC Innsbruck	EBEL
2020/21	ESV Kaufbeuren	DEL2
AHL total				148	14th	37	51	56	+2		15th	1	2	3	21st	-4
EBEL total				316	90	135	225	129	+41		41	8th	18th	26th	26th	+6
ECHL total				99	40	64	104	40	+41		-	-	-	-	-	-
WHL overall				212	43	81	124	99	+33		72	17th	19th	36	41	+5

( 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 )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information on www.hockeysfuture.com
2. ↑ KAC brings two strikers to try-out , report on hockeyfans.at from August 3, 2010
3. ↑ Hockey Thurgau takes Canadian Tyler Spurgeon. Retrieved February 17, 2015 . 
4. ↑ EBEL: Innsbruck brings Tyler Spurgeon and ex-NHL Crack Liffiton. (No longer available online.) In: Hockey-News Österreich. Archived from the original on February 19, 2016 ; accessed on February 19, 2016 (German). 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.  

Web links

• Tyler Spurgeon at hockeydb.com (English)
• Tyler Spurgeon at eliteprospects.com (English)