Tyler Johnson (ice hockey)
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Tyler Johnson | |||
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Born | Spokane, WA, USA |
July 29, 1990 ||
Height | 5 ft 8[1][2] in (173 cm) | ||
Weight | 185[3][4] lb (84 kg; 13 st 3 lb) | ||
Position | Center | ||
Shoots | Right | ||
NHL team | Tampa Bay Lightning | ||
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NHL Draft | Undrafted | ||
Playing career | 2011–present |
Tyler Johnson (born July 29, 1990) is an American professional ice hockey player. He is currently a member of the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League (NHL).
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Playing career
Junior
Johnson was selected by the Spokane Chiefs with their 11th-round pick in the 2005 WHL Bantam Draft.[5] In his first season with this team, in 2007–08, he appeared in 69 regular season games, scoring 13 goals and 29 assists. The Chiefs won the Ed Chynoweth Cup that season as the league's champions. The Chiefs subsequently earned a berth in the 2008 Memorial Cup, where they defeated the Kitchener Rangers by a score of 4–1. Johnson played in all 21 playoff games, scoring five goals and adding three assists. He was named the WHL playoffs' Most Valuable Player[6] as a 17-year-old rookie.
In the 2008–09 season, he played in 62 games, scoring 26 goals and 35 assists for 61 points and adding another five goals and three assists in 12 playoff games. The 2009–10 season saw Johnson's numbers improve, as he tallied 36 goals and 35 assists in 64 games. He also added three goals and five assists in seven playoff games.
Johnson's 2010–11 season proved to be his best yet as he became the 15th Chiefs' member of all-time to hit the century mark (100 points), with 53 goals and 62 assists, making him the leading goal scorer and second-leading points scorer in the WHL. He ultimately finished the season with career highs in goals (53), assists (62) and points (115), while also leading the team in power play and shorthanded goals and ranking third with a plus-27 ranking.[7] He was named Player of the Month for the WHL for December 2010. He was also voted as the Best Overage Player, Top Defensive Forward, Best Skater, and Top Faceoff Man, second in Most Valuable to Team, and third in Most Accurate Shot in the Best of the West 2011 poll.[8]
Professional
Johnson signed a three-year entry-level contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning in March 2011.[9] Johnson's smaller size is known to be the reason he went undrafted.[10]
Johnson played the 2011–12 season with the Norfolk Admirals, the Lightning's top American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate. In March, he went on a 13-game scoring streak, including back-to-back two goal games, the longest streak by an AHL rookie in more than six years. This streak helped him earn the Reebok/AHL Player of the Month award for March 2012.[11] Tyler Johnson was a key player in the Norfolk Admirals record winning streak of 28 games, which is a professional hockey league record.[12] He was also a key player in Norfolk's first ever Calder Cup that Season.[13]
In the 2012–13 season, Johnson would play the majority his time with Lightning's new AHL affiliate, the Syracuse Crunch. He would go on to lead the AHL in goals scored and named the regular season MVP. At the end of the season he was awarded the President's Award for outstanding accomplishments on the ice.[14] On March 14, 2013, he was called up by the Lightning and made his NHL debut against the New York Islanders. He would score his first NHL goal in his second game on March 16 against the Carolina Hurricanes.[15]
In his rookie NHL season with the Lightning in 2013–14, Johnson established himself on Tampa Bay's top offensive line and finished the season with 24 goals and 26 assists for 50 points in 82 games. He was selected as a NHL Calder Memorial Trophy nominee for the league's top rookie. The trophy, however, eventually went to Nathan MacKinnon of the Colorado Avalanche,[16] though Johnson was named to the NHL All-Rookie Team.[17]
The following season, 2014–15, Johnson followed up his breakout season in the NHL by scoring 29 goals and 43 assists for a total of 72 points in 77 games with the Lightning, finishing 15th overall in points in the League. He also finished third in the NHL in plus-minus rating of +33 for the season, also being chosen for the 2014–15 NHL All-Star Game. On April 27, 2015, during the 2015 Stanley Cup playoffs, Johnson became the first player in Lightning history to record three multi-goal games in a single playoff series. He also tied Ruslan Fedotenko for the Lightning single series goals record, with six. On May 20, 2015, Johnson tied Ruslan Fedotenko for most post-season goals in Lightning history.[18] On May 18, Johnson became the first Lightning player to score a hat-trick in the playoffs, as well as the first to score a short-handed and power play goal in a single playoff period. He also set the Lightning multi-goal game record for the playoffs with his fourth of the 2015 playoffs.[19] On June 6, Johnson scored his 13th goal of the playoffs, the highest output in a single playoff year by a Tampa Bay player.[20] Early in the 2015 Stanley Cup Finals, Johnson suffered a broken wrist, but he continued to play through the injury. However, this prevented him from taking faceoffs, and limited his production to just one goal.[21]
International play
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Johnson has also excelled in international competition, helping the United States to the gold medal at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Canada, recording three goals and five points with a plus-4 rating in seven games. He was named player of the game in their first round game against Canada.[22]
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
2007–08 | Spokane Chiefs | WHL | 69 | 13 | 22 | 35 | 34 | 21 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 24 | ||
2008–09 | Spokane Chiefs | WHL | 62 | 26 | 35 | 61 | 52 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 8 | ||
2009–10 | Spokane Chiefs | WHL | 64 | 36 | 35 | 71 | 32 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 0 | ||
2010–11 | Spokane Chiefs | WHL | 71 | 53 | 62 | 115 | 48 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 9 | ||
2011–12 | Norfolk Admirals | AHL | 75 | 31 | 37 | 68 | 28 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 6 | ||
2012–13 | Syracuse Crunch | AHL | 62 | 37 | 28 | 65 | 34 | 18 | 10 | 11 | 21 | 18 | ||
2012–13 | Tampa Bay Lightning | NHL | 14 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
2013–14 | Tampa Bay Lightning | NHL | 82 | 24 | 26 | 50 | 26 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
2014–15 | Tampa Bay Lightning | NHL | 77 | 29 | 43 | 72 | 24 | 26 | 13 | 10 | 23 | 24 | ||
2015–16 | Tampa Bay Lightning | NHL | 69 | 14 | 24 | 38 | 20 | 17 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 12 | ||
NHL totals | 242 | 70 | 96 | 166 | 74 | 47 | 21 | 21 | 42 | 36 |
International
Year | Team | Event | Result | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |
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2009 | United States | WJC | 4th | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
2010 | United States | WJC | ![]() |
7 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 25 | |
2014 | United States | WC | 6th | 8 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 2 | |
Junior totals | 13 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 27 | ||||
Senior totals | 8 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 2 |
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Awards and honors
Award | Year | |
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WHL | ||
Playoff MVP | 2008 | |
WHL Champion | 2008 | |
Memorial Cup (Spokane Chiefs) | 2008 | |
West First All-Star Team | 2011 | |
Most Goals (53) | 2011 | |
Brad Hornung Trophy | 2011 | |
West Player of the Year | 2011 | [23] |
AHL | ||
All-Rookie Team | 2012 | |
Calder Cup (Norfolk Admirals) | 2012 | |
First All-Star Team | 2013 | |
All-Star Game | 2013 | |
Willie Marshall Award | 2013 | |
Les Cunningham Award | 2013 | |
President's Award | 2013 | [14] |
NHL | ||
All-Rookie Team | 2014 | [24] |
NHL All-Star Game | 2015 | [25] |
References
- ↑ http://www.nhl.com/ice/player.htm?id=8474870
- ↑ http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=107053
- ↑ http://www.nhl.com/ice/player.htm?id=8474870
- ↑ http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=107053
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External links
- Use mdy dates from October 2015
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- 1990 births
- Living people
- Ice hockey people from Washington (state)
- Memorial Cup winners
- Norfolk Admirals players
- Spokane Chiefs players
- Sportspeople from Spokane, Washington
- Syracuse Crunch players
- Tampa Bay Lightning players
- Undrafted National Hockey League players
- American ice hockey centers