Joffrey Lupul

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Joffrey Lupul
Born (1983-09-23) September 23, 1983 (age 29)
Fort Saskatchewan, AB, CAN
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight 206 lb (93 kg; 14 st 10 lb)
Position Right/left wing
Shoots Right
NHL team
Former teams		 Toronto Maple Leafs
Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
Edmonton Oilers
Philadelphia Flyers
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
NHL Draft 7th overall, 2002
Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
Playing career 2003–present

Joffrey Douglas Sheldon Lupul (born September 23, 1983) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player and an alternate captain for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL). A right hand-shooting natural right winger earlier in his career, Lupul has made the transition to become a left winger since joining Toronto.

Lupul wore jersey #15 throughout his early years in Medicine Hat, Cincinnati, Anaheim, Edmonton and Philadelphia. When he returned to Anaheim in 2009, #15 was in use so he wore #14 initially and then switched to #19, a number he continues to wear in Toronto.

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Playing career [edit]

Major Junior [edit]

Two years into his 3-year Junior career with the Western Hockey League (WHL) Medicine Hat Tigers, Lupul was drafted by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim as their first choice, seventh overall, during the 2002 NHL Entry Draft. London Knights' Rick Nash was chosen first and Lupul's Tigers teammate Jay Boumeester went third that year. The following season he made the final roster for Team Canada and played in the 2003 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships in Halifax, Nova Scotia.[1][2]

Lupul dueling for position with Roman Hamrlík during his time with Anaheim.

Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Edmonton Oilers, Philadelphia Flyers [edit]

Lupul made the jump directly to the Anaheim lineup his first season out of Junior, but the following season, with the NHL locked out, he was assigned to their AHL affiliate the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks. In his third pro season, he was back up with Anaheim and in the 2006 Stanley Cup Playoffs, Lupul became the first player in NHL playoff history to cap a three-goal game with an overtime score, as he tallied all the Ducks goals in a 4–3 win over the Colorado Avalanche in Game 3 of the Western Conference semi-finals.[3]

After the 2005–06 season, Lupul was traded to the Western Conference champion Edmonton Oilers along with Ladislav Šmíd and draft picks for Chris Pronger on July 4, 2006.[4]

After only one 16-goal season with Edmonton, on July 1, 2007, Lupul was traded along with captain Jason Smith to the Philadelphia Flyers for Joni Pitkänen, Geoff Sanderson, and a third round draft pick in 2007.[5]

During the 2007–08 season, his first with the Flyers, Lupul was diagnosed with a spinal cord contusion after a collision with teammate Derian Hatcher in a game against the Toronto Maple Leafs on January 5, 2008.[6] Lupul made his return playing for the team on February 9, 2008 against the New York Rangers. On April 22, 2008, Lupul scored the series-winning goal in the first overtime of Game 7 in the first-round playoff series between the Flyers and the Washington Capitals. After helping the Flyers to the Eastern Conference finals, Lupul agreed to a four-year contract extension with Philadelphia on July 21, 2008.[7]


Return to Anaheim [edit]

On June 26, 2009, after his second season with Philadelphia, and one year into a 4-year contract, Lupul was traded by the Flyers to the Anaheim Ducks at the 2009 NHL Entry Draft along with Luca Sbisa and two first round picks for Chris Pronger, the second time in his short career he has been part of a trade involving the Ducks with Pronger going the other way.[8]

December 2009 back surgery and a subsequent blood infection limited him to just 23 games during the 2009–10 season. He missed 12 months playing time: the final 59 games of that season and carrying over into the first 28 games of the next season.

Toronto Maple Leafs, Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg [edit]

On February 9, 2011, nearing the end of his second season back with Anaheim, but having played only 49 games during that time, Lupul was traded, along with Jake Gardiner and a conditional 2013 draft pick, to the Toronto Maple Leafs for François Beauchemin, marking the third time Lupul has been involved in a trade with the Ducks organization.[9] After being dealt to Toronto, he made the transition to left wing and finished with 18 points in 28 games to close out the season.

The following year, Lupol started the year on the opposite wing of Phil Kessel, he put together a strong first half of the season, resulting in his being invited to the 2012 National Hockey League All-Star Game as an alternate captain to Zdeno Chára. There, he scored two goals for "Team Chara" giving them a 12-9 win over "Team Alfredsson". On March 2, 2012, the Toronto Maple Leafs fired coach Ron Wilson and replaced him with Randy Carlyle, Lupul's former coach in Anaheim. Lupul suffered a severe shoulder separation on March 6, 2012 resulting in surgery which caused him to miss the remainder of the 2011–12 season. He finished with a career high of 67 points for the season while only playing a season total of 66 games. This pace of scoring over a point per game was the first time in his career.[10]

He played for Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg, a Russian team in the Kontinental Hockey League, during the 2012 NHL lockout.

Prior to the lockout-delayed start of the 2012-13 NHL season, Lupul, along with teammate Clarke MacArthur, was named as an alternate captain of the Maple Leafs under captain Dion Phaneuf. Days later, on January 20, 2013, Lupul signed a 5 year, US$26.25 million dollar contract extension with the Maple Leafs.[11]

Only three games into the lockout shortened season, Lupul fractured his right forearm when he was hit by a Dion Phaneuf slapshot while screening opposing goalie Marc-André Fleury of the Pittsburgh Penguins.[12] He missed 25 games. In his return to the ice on March 16, Lupul scored on his first shift of the night and once again in the second period of the game.[13] However, the Leafs went on to lose the game in a ten round shootout to the Winnipeg Jets.

Awards [edit]

Records [edit]

  • First player to score a playoff hat-trick in Anaheim franchise history
  • First player to score four playoff goals in one game, including an overtime winner
  • First player to score all four of his team's goals in a playoff game.

Personal [edit]

As featured during an NHL Network Online video, Lupul enjoys playing guitar.[14] He is a Ukrainian Canadian.[15]

Lupul was nominated for the Masterton Trophy in the 2012 NHL season. He put up 67 points in 66 games after recovering from back surgery and a blood infection.

Career statistics [edit]

Regular season and playoffs [edit]

Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1998–99 Fort Saskatchewan ABHL 36 40 50 90 40 — — — — —
1999–00 Fort Saskatchewan AMHL 34 43 30 73 47 16 17 19 36 26
2000–01 Medicine Hat Tigers WHL 69 30 26 56 39 — — — — —
2001–02 Medicine Hat Tigers WHL 72 56 50 106 95 — — — — —
2002–03 Medicine Hat Tigers WHL 50 41 37 78 82 11 4 11 15 20
2003–04 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 75 13 21 34 28 — — — — —
2003–04 Cincinnati Mighty Ducks AHL 3 3 2 5 2 — — — — —
2004–05 Cincinnati Mighty Ducks AHL 65 30 26 56 58 12 3 9 12 27
2005–06 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 81 28 25 53 48 16 9 2 11 31
2006–07 Edmonton Oilers NHL 81 16 12 28 45 — — — — —
2007–08 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 56 20 26 46 35 17 4 6 10 2
2008–09 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 79 25 25 50 58 6 1 1 2 2
2009–10 Anaheim Ducks NHL 23 10 4 14 18 — — — — —
2010–11 Anaheim Ducks NHL 26 5 8 13 14 — — — — —
2010–11 Syracuse Crunch AHL 3 1 3 4 0 — — — — —
2010–11 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 28 9 9 18 19 — — — — —
2011–12 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 66 25 42 67 48 — — — — —
2012–13 Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg KHL 9 1 3 4 4 — — — — —
2012–13 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 16 11 7 18 12 7 3 1 4 4
NHL totals 531 162 179 341 325 46 17 10 27 39

International [edit]

Year Team Event   GP G A Pts PIM
2003 Canada WJC 6 2 1 3 27
Junior int'l totals 6 2 1 3 27

References [edit]

  1. ^ "Canada's 2003 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship roster". Ice Hockey Wiki. Retrieved March 30, 2013. 
  2. ^ Karsten. "2003 IIHF World Junior U20 Championship". International Hockey Forum. Retrieved March 30, 2013. 
  3. ^ "Mighty Ducks of Anaheim 4, Colorado Avalanche 3". NHL.com. 2006-05-09. Retrieved 2008-11-10. 
  4. ^ "Pronger traded to Anaheim". CBC.ca. 2006-07-04. Retrieved 2009-06-29. 
  5. ^ "Oilers swing blockbuster deal, Leafs sign Blake". cbc.ca. 2007-07-01. Retrieved 2009-06-29. 
  6. ^ "Flyers 3, Maple Leafs 2". Associated Press. Retrieved March 30, 2013. 
  7. ^ "Lupul extends contract". flyers.nhl.com. 2008-07-21. Retrieved 2009-06-29. 
  8. ^ "Anaheim Ducks trade Chris Pronger to Philadelphia Flyers for Joffrey Lupul and Lucas Sbisa". ESPN.com. 2009-06-26. Retrieved 2009-06-29. 
  9. ^ "Ducks deal for Beauchemin; Leafs get Lupul". National Hockey League. 2011-02-09. Retrieved 2011-02-09. 
  10. ^ "Joffrey Lupul #19 Stats". NHL.com. Retrieved March 30, 2013. 
  11. ^ http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=414053
  12. ^ Greg Wyshynski. "Joffrey Lupul fractures forearm on Phaneuf shot; out indefinitely for Maple Leafs". Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved March 30, 2013. 
  13. ^ "Jets outlast Maple Leafs in 10-round shootout". NHL.com. Retrieved March 30, 2013. 
  14. ^ "Lupul enjoys his guitar". NHL.com. 2008-10-20. Retrieved April 13, 2013. 
  15. ^ Windsor Public Library (2006). "Famous Ukrainian-Canadians". Retrieved April 13, 2013. 

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Preceded by
Stanislav Chistov		 Anaheim Mighty Ducks first round draft pick
2002		 Succeeded by
Ryan Getzlaf
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