Tyler Seguin

At 32 years old, Tyler Seguin has this physical status:

Tyler Paul Seguin (born January 31, 1992) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre, currently an alternate captain for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Seguin was selected second overall in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft by the Boston Bruins and went on to win the 2011 Stanley Cup in his rookie season.

He finished the 2011–12 season in Boston with a plus-minus of +34, the second highest in the NHL. During the 2012–13 NHL lockout, Seguin played for EHC Biel of the Swiss National League A (NLA) and finished the season with 25 goals, the most on the team.

In 2013, Seguin played in his second Stanley Cup Finals in three seasons, ultimately losing the series to the Chicago Blackhawks.

On July 4, 2013, Seguin was traded by the Bruins to the Dallas Stars for a package of players including Loui Eriksson.

Early life

Seguin was born in Brampton, Ontario in 1992, but his family moved to Whitby when he was young to follow his father's career. His father Paul played college ice hockey for the University of Vermont, where he was roommates with future National Hockey League (NHL) star John LeClair, while his mother Jackie was a centre for the Brampton Canadettes Girls Hockey Association as a child. Tyler and his sisters Candace and Cassidy all played hockey growing up. All three played at centre like their mother, while Paul was a defenceman.

Seguin began playing hockey in a house league at the age of five or six, and developed a love for the sport from a young age. His minor ice hockey career began with the Wildcats of the Ontario Minor Hockey Association, and after moving back to Brampton at the age of 10, Seguin played three seasons with the Toronto Nationals of the Greater Toronto Hockey League (GTHL) alongside future Calder Trophy winner Jeff Skinner. Seguin also spent four years at St. Michael's College School in Toronto. He had his sights set on playing hockey at the University of Michigan, and believed that St. Michael's would be a good stepping stone towards that goal.

Personal life

After wearing a No. 9 jersey in his childhood, Seguin chose to wear No. 19 when he reached the NHL, as a tribute to his favorite player, Steve Yzerman. When he was traded to Dallas, where No. 19 was retired in honor of Bill Masterton, he flipped the numbers, and wears No. 91. He is the second player to wear No. 91 in franchise history, following Brad Richards.

Seguin is sponsored by Dunkin Donuts, Adidas, Bauer Hockey and BioSteel Sports Supplements. In 2014, Seguin bought Mike Modano's Dallas home.

In 2017, Seguin made a cameo appearance in the movie Goon: Last of the Enforcers.

As the result of one of his best friends suffering a severe spinal cord injury in December 2012, Seguin founded Seguin's Stars upon arriving in Dallas. At every Stars home game during the season, Seguin donated a luxury suite, along with food and beverage, for individuals with spinal cord injuries. Seguin's Stars, along with Dallas Stars Foundation also donated a luxury suite to the Big Brothers Big Sisters organization in 2015 and 2017. At the conclusion of every game, Seguin meets his special guests outside of the Stars' locker room for autographs and pictures, often with other members of the team.

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Playing career

In the first round, ninth overall, the Plymouth Whalers of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) drafted Seguin. He decided to skate on the fourth line rather than attending college as he had intended, rather than attend college, and began skating on the fourth line in the 2008–09 season. He had a rough start to his junior ice hockey season, scoring just one goal in the first 17 games of the season. Seguin scored well after Mike Vellucci returned to coach the Whalers and moved Seguin to the top of the top-two lines, and Seguin finished the season with 67 points in 61 games.

Seguin's 2009–2010 campaign was a breakthrough year for the team, who scored 14 goals and 25 points in the first ten games of the season. Eleven of those points came from the first four games of the season, including a hat trick against the London Knights. Seguin was the first member of the Whalers to win the Red Tilson Trophy for the first player in the OHL since David Legwand in 1998, finishing the season with 106 points (48 goals and 58 assists) in 63 games. He also tied for the Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy, which was awarded to the top scorer in the OHL, to Taylor Hall of the Windsor Spitfires. Seguin was named captain of Team Orr, which lost 4–2 to Team Cherry at the 2010 CHL Top Prospects Game.

Seguin and Hall were deemed the top two available players going into the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, with no agreement on which one would be the first overall draft pick. Both players were tied for points scoring in the OHL for the previous season, although draft reports tended to emphasize Seguin's speed and Hall's strength. Seguin was described by Danny Flynn of Bleacher Report as a "elite playmaker" who lacked "skill on the defensive end," while Hall had demonstrated his "greatness on the big stage" but had "shown a tendency to be selfish at times." Seguin was ranked as the top OHL prospect and Hall second in preliminary rankings from the NHL Central Scouting Bureau, with Hall ranked second. Seguin was ranked No. despite the fact that their positions in the midterm rankings changed, but they were nonetheless ranked No. 58. In the bureau's final April rankings, there is a potential 1 prospect. The Boston Bruins selected Seguin second overall, while the Edmonton Oilers took first place.

Seguin signed a three-year, $3.75 million entry-level deal with the Bruins, the highest ever allowed for a deal of this kind. In a 5–2 loss to the Phoenix Coyotes on October 9, 2010, he made his NHL debut with four shots on goal. In a 3–0 shutout of the Coyotes, he scored his first professional goal the next day after receiving the puck from teammates Michael Ryder in the third period and scoring on a breakaway goal against goaltender Ilya Bryzgalov.

During the Rookie Skills Competition, Seguin competed in the 2011 All-Star Festival. Seguin was described as wanting to imitate his NHL playing style on that of teammate Patrice Bergeron late in the 2010–11 season.

Seguin was featured in the Boston lineup against the Tampa Bay Lightning after being a healthy scratch for the first two rounds of the 2011 Stanley Cup playoffs. Seguin played a goal and an assist in his first game played, before returning to his second game with two goals and two assists. He became the first teenager to score four points in a Stanley Cup playoff game since Trevor Linden did so for the Vancouver Canucks in 1989. Boston claimed the Stanley Cup in the Finals on June 15, 2011, defeating Vancouver in a 4–3 series victory.

Seguin's first career NHL hat trick against the Toronto Maple Leafs was earned on November 5, 2011. Seguin was named NHL First Star of the Week on November 14 for his four goals and two assists that helped the Bruins win by three games in the week. He appeared in his 100th appearance in the NHL against the Florida Panthers on December 8. Seguin scored in overtime of Game 6 of the Bruins' Eastern Conference Quarterfinals series against the Washington Capitals on April 22, 2012. Despite Seguin's second goal in Game 7, the Bruins would play in overtime and were therefore barred from the playoffs. He was the Bruins' top scorer during the 2011–12 season.

Seguin was one of many Bruins to sign European hockey contracts in the 2012-13 NHL lockout, signing an agreement with the Swiss National League A's EHC Biel hockey club on September 21, 2012. In a 6–3 loss to the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers on September 30, he made his Swiss League debut on September 30, centering Ahren Spylo and Eric Beaudoin on the second line and scoring an assist. Seguin's first goal with the team came three days later, defeating EV Zug in the first period of his second appearance. In a 5–4 shootout victory over HC Ambri-Piotta, Seguin earned his second professional hat trick and his first NLA hat trick in less than a month. He had 20 goals in 20 games by November 27, the most of any NHL lockout export to the NLA.

After representing Team Canada at the 2012 Spengler Cup, Seguin told NBC Sports Boston that he will leave EHC Biel and return to the Bruins on December 28, 2012. Seguin scored 25 goals and 15 assists in 29 NLA games this season. Patrick Kane, the Chicago Blackhawks' former teammate, was also befriended by him after the lockout ended.

Following the lockout, the 2012–13 NHL season began, with 48 intra-conference games available starting January 19, 2013. Seguin appeared in all 48 Bruins games, scoring 16 goals and 16 assists when playing on a line with Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand. Jaromir Jagr took his first role on the second row after his third season with Rich Peverley and Chris Kelly, but his results in his first 12 postseason games fell, with only one goal and three assists. The Bruins made it to the 2013 Stanley Cup finals, but they lost in six games to the Blackhawks.

Seguin, Peverley, and defenseman Ryan Button were sent by the Dallas Stars in exchange for forward Loui Eriksson and prospects Joe Morrow, Reilly Smith, and Matt Fraser, both 13 years old, shortly after the Stanley Cup finals. Bruins fans had been on the verge of dissatisfaction with Seguin's ostensible hard-partying lifestyle, particularly when his on-ice results began to fail during the playoffs. Peter Chiarelli, the company's president, spoke out in a press conference on July 4 to say that although the decision was "not a rigorous on-ice decision," Seguin's behavior was more about "focus, not necessarily about small things about how to play," but not so much about extracurricular activities."

Seguin, who became fast friends with captain Jamie Benn, had a breakout in the 2013-2014 NHL season. In a 7–3 win over the Calgary Flames on November 14, 2013, Seguin played his first four-point game, scoring two goals and two assists. Seguin suffered a fractured Achilles tendon on March 17, 2016, and was forecast to miss 3–4 weeks at the end of the season after scoring 30 goals in a row for the third straight season. With 34 goals and assists, he set career highs in goals, with 47, and 47, with 47, and his 84 season points were the fourth-highest in the NHL. Seguin came in sixth overall in voting for the Hart Memorial Trophy, which is given to the "player judged most valuable to his team" at the end of the season. He was also nominated for the King Clancy Memorial Trophy, which was based on leadership and humanitarianism; the award was ultimately presented to Edmonton Oilers Andrew Ference.

On January 10, 2018, Seguin was admitted to the NHL All-Star Game for the fifth time. He was previously selected for the 2012, 2015, 2016, and 2017 NHL All-Star games. Seguin was nominated for the King Clancy Memorial Trophy for the second time at the end of the 2017–18 season.

Seguin signed an eight-year, $78.8 million contract extension with the Stars on September 13, 2018.

Seguin suffered two tears in his right vastus lateralis muscle after blocking a shot on March 12, 2020, one of the final games before the season's suspension. During the league pause, he decided to avoid lower body workouts in the hopes that the injury would not recover itself. Seguin noticed a "pop" in his hip that also caused pain in his knee during the Stars' exhibition match against the Nashville Predators on July 29, during a workout session before the Stars' exhibition game against the Nashville Predators. Seguin had torn his acetabular labrum after being in the Stanley Cup playoffs, scoring only two goals in 26 games. Seguin's surgery was repeatedly postponed due to safety issues surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. On November 2, 2020, Seguin underwent a right hip arthroscopy and labral reconstruction. Due to the severity of the injury, the estimated timeline for his rehabilitation and recovery was later extended from four to five months.

In the Stars' 5–4 overtime loss to the Florida Panthers on May 3, 2021, Seguin returned to play, scoring a goal.

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