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PLAYER PROFILE
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Forward |
| Jersey No.: |
87 |
| Height: |
5' 11 /1.8 m | | Weight: |
200 lbs /90 kg | | Shoots: | Left | | Hometown: | Cole Harbour, N.S., CAN | | Born: | August 7, 1987 |
| NHL Draft: |
PIT '05 (1, 1) |
| Team: |
Pittsburgh Penguins |
| League: |
NHL |
| MHA: |
Cole Harbour MHA |
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Preliminary round action at the 2008 World Jr. A Challenge |
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# |
Season |
Event |
Team: |
GP |
G |
A |
PTS |
+/- |
PIM |
PP |
SH |
FG |
GW |
GT |
IG |
MGG |
3GG |
| 1 |
2003-06 |
INTL TOTAL |
CAN |
26 |
20 |
16 |
36 |
0/0 |
34 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Totals: |
26 |
20 |
16 |
36 |
0/0 |
34 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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2008-09: His fourth season in the NHL, all with Pittsburgh … Recorded his third 100-point season …
Finished third in NHL scoring with 103 points, while ranking second in assists with 70… Had points in 16
consecutive games from February 16 to April 1, registering 20 points … 2007-08: Named team captain, becoming
the youngest captain in NHL history … Missed 29 games with a high ankle sprain … At the time of his injury,
he shared the NHL scoring lead with Vincent Lecavalier … Had 24 multiple point games … Appeared in 200th
career NHL game on January 3 vs. Toronto … Led all players with 20 assists in the NHL playoffs … 2006-07: An
alternate captain with Pittsburgh … Led the NHL in scoring, with 120 points (36g, 84a) … Only the third
player in NHL history to reach 100 points in his second season after scoring 100 or more in his rookie season
(Mario Lemieux, Peter Stastny) … Scored a goal against the Carolina Hurricanes on March 2nd, making him the
youngest player in NHL history to record 200 career points (19 years and 207 days) … Led all vote-getters in
the NHL All-Star game balloting (825,783) and started for the Eastern Conference on Jan. 24th in Dallas. He
is the youngest player (19 yrs. 5 months) to start in an All-Star game since fan balloting began in 1986…
2005-06: Youngest player ever to reach 100 points in a season, which he did in his rookie season … Led the
Penguins in goals (39), assists (63) and points (102) … Led all NHL rookies in assists (63) and finished
second in points (102) … Set a Pittsburgh rookie scoring record with 102 points, breaking Mario Lemieux’s
mark of 1000 (1984-85) … Named the NHL’s Rookie of the Month in October … Amateur: Played with the QMJHL’s
Rimouski Oceanic from 1993-95… Set a QMJHL record for most points (135) by a 16 year old rookie in 2003-04 …
Played for Team QMJHL in the CHL’s Canada-Russia Challenge in November 2003 … Minor hockey: Won the 2003 USA
National Midget Championship with Shattuck St. Mary’s (MN) … Was the top scorer and MVP of the 2002 Air
Canada Cup |
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Played for Canada at the 2006 IIHF World Championship in Riga, Latvia, finishing fourth … Led the 2006
World Championship in scoring and was named Top Forward … Won a gold medal with Team Canada at the 2005 IIHF
World Junior Championships (North Dakota) and a silver medal in 2004 (Finland) … Fifth ever 16-year-old
player to be part of Team Canada at the World Junior Championship and was the youngest player to ever score a
goal at a WJC … Top scorer (six points) with Canada’s Under-18 Team at the 2003 Junior World Cup in the Czech
Republic … Team Nova Scotia’s captain at the 2003 Canada Winter Games in Bathurst, N.B., finishing sixth …
Top scorer overall (16 points) at the 2003 Canada Winter Games, as one of the youngest players in the
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Nickname: Sid … Skated and practiced with Mario Lemieux in the summer of 2004 … Won the Atlantic Baseball
Championship with the Cole Harbour Cardinals in 1998 …… His father Troy, a goaltender, was drafted by the
Montreal Canadiens in 1984 … Favourite NHL Player: Steve Yzerman |
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For more information:
Brad Pascall Vice-President, Hockey Operations
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