MARTIN ST. LOUIS

'Martin St-Louis' (born June 18, 1975 in Laval, Quebec, Canada) is a professional ice hockey right winger

Contents

Playing career

Awards

Career statistics

International play

Notes

See also

External links

Playing career

A diminutive player by NHL standards at 5-foot-9, St-Louis has played six seasons as of the 2006-07 NHL season for the Tampa Bay Lightning, and had previously played for the Calgary Flames. As an amateur he played for the University of Vermont Catamounts along side former Lightning teammate Eric Perrin, where he was an NCAA all-star and three-time Hobey Baker Award finalist for college player of the year. He ranks first amongst all Vermont scorers in career points (267) and assists (176), and ranks third in career goals (91). Despite his impressive numbers with the Catamounts, he was not drafted. St-Louis was signed by Calgary in 1998. He spent the latter part of the 1997-98 season with the IHL's Cleveland Lumberjacks at the time of his signing with Calgary. He did put up impressive numbers with the Saint John Flames of the American Hockey League. When Craig Button was appointed general manager of the Flames, he released St-Louis and he signed with the Tampa Bay Lightning.
He was on pace to have a career year in the 2001-02 when his season ended prematurely due to a broken leg. In 2003-04 he led the NHL in scoring with 94 points. He scored an overtime goal in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals, helping the Tampa Bay Lightning defeat the Calgary Flames for the Stanley Cup. At season's end he won both the Hart Memorial Trophy as the most valuable player to his team and the Lester B. Pearson Award as league MVP voted by his peers. St-Louis became the first player since Wayne Gretzky in 1987, and only the eighth in NHL history, to win the Art Ross Trophy, the Stanley Cup, and the Hart Memorial Trophy all in one season.
In August of 2005, Martin St-Louis signed a six-year deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning worth $31.5 million. St-Louis was quoted as saying, "I'm just happy that the Lightning have found a way to keep me long-term. Tampa was always my first choice, I've had so many good things happen to me in Tampa."
He wears number 26 to pay tribute to his childhood hero, diminutive former Montreal Canadiens star Mats Näslund. During the 2004-05 NHL lockout he played for the Swiss team HC Lausanne.
St-Louis played for Team Canada at the 2004 World Cup of Hockey, where he was part of the team which won the World Cup, and the 2006 Winter Olympics which saw them eliminated by Russia in the quarterfinals after what was considered a disappointing tournament.
In the 2006-2007 NHL season, St-Louis recorded a personal high of 102 points (43 goals, 59 assists). The Tampa Bay Lightning lost in the first round of the playoffs to the New Jersey Devils.
Before the start of the 2007-08 season, St. Louis was named an alternate captain of the Lightning because of captain Tim Taylor's expected long-term absence due to injury.^[1]
He and his wife Heather have two boys, Ryan and Lucas.

Awards

★ ECAC All-Rookie Team - 1994

★ ECAC All-Conference Team - 1994

★ ECAC All-Star Team - 1995

★ ECAC Player of the Year - 1995

★ NCAA East First All-American Team - 1995

★ ECAC All-Star Team - 1996

★ NCAA East First All-American Team - 1996

★ NCAA Championship All-Tournament Team - 1996

★ ECAC All-Star Team - 1997

★ NCAA East First All-American Team - 1997

★ Played in 3 NHL All-Star Games - 2003, 2004, 2007

★ Bud Light Plus/Minus Award (Co-winner with Marek Malik) - 2004

★ NHL 1st All-Star RW — 2004

★ Art Ross Memorial Trophy — 2004

★ Lester B. Pearson Award — 2004

★ Hart Memorial Trophy — 2004

Career statistics

				Regular season							Playoffs
Season	Team	League		GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM		GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM
1993-94	University of Vermont	ECAC		33	15	36	51	-	24		-	-	-	-	-	-
1994-95	University of Vermont	ECAC		35	23	48	71	-	36		-	-	-	-	-	-
1995-96	University of Vermont	ECAC		35	29	56	85	-	38		-	-	-	-	-	-
1996-97	University of Vermont	ECAC		36	24	36	60	-	65		-	-	-	-	-	-
1997-98	Cleveland Lumberjacks	IHL		56	16	34	50	-1	24		-	-	-	-	-	-
1997-98	Saint John Flames	AHL		25	15	11	26	3	20		20	5	15	20	9	16
1998-99	Saint John Flames	AHL		53	28	34	62	-2	30		7	4	4	8	-6	2
1998-99	Calgary Flames	NHL		13	1	1	2	-2	10		-	-	-	-	-	-
1999-00	Saint John Flames	AHL		17	15	11	26	5	14		-	-	-	-		-
1999-00	Calgary Flames	NHL		56	3	15	18	-5	22		-	-	-	-	-	-
2000-01	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		78	18	22	40	-4	12		-	-	-	-	-	-
2001-02	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		53	16	19	35	4	20		-	-	-	-	-	-
2002-03	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		82	33	37	70	10	32		11	7	5	12	5	0
2003-04	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		82	38	56	94	35	24		23	9	15	24	6	14
2004-05	HC Lausanne	NLA		23	9	16	25	-	16		-	-	-	-	-	-
2005-06	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		80	31	30	61	-3	38		5	4	0	4	-2	2
2006-07	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		82	43	59	102	7	28		6	3	5	8	6	8
NHL Totals				522	183	239	422	42	186		45	23	25	48	15	24

International play

Played for Canada in:

★ 2004 World Cup of Hockey (gold medal)

★ 2006 Winter Olympics (failed to medal)
'International statistics'

Year	Comp		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
2004	WCH		6	2	2	4	0
2006	Oly		6	2	1	3	0
Senior Int'l Totals			12	4	3	7	0

Notes

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See also

★ List of NHL players

★ List of NHL seasons

External links

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