OHL Draft: Plymouth Whalers, 6th Round, 102nd Overall, 1999 - Bantam Draft.
NHL Draft: Florida Panthers, 3rd Round, 67th Overall, 2002.

Career Notes... Scored first career shorthanded goal at Vancouver (1/7/07) ... Notched first career assist vs. Pittsburgh (11/25/05) … Scored his first career goal at Montreal (11/15/05) ... Made NHL debut at New York Islanders (10/18/03).

2002-03... With Kitchener… Appeared in 21 post-season games with Memorial Cup Champion Kitchener (OHL), recording a 15g-4a-19p line with 34 penalty minutes and appeared in 55 regular-season games, recording a 23g-33a-56p line with 116 penalty minutes … Led all players in scoring with 1-6-7 in four games, leading Kitchener to the 2003 Memorial Cup Championship with a 4-0 mark. Was named to the Memorial Cup All-Tournament Team, won the Ed Chynoweth Trophy as the tournament's leading scorer, and won the George Parsons Trophy (most sportsmanlike player) … Scored a power-play goal vs. Ottawa to help insure a J. Ross Robertson Cup victory as top team in the OHL (5/10) … Had 4-game point streak (4/26-5/4), including 3-game goal streak (4/26-5/2): Scored a goal, added 2 assists, and had a +4 plus/minus rating at Plymouth (4/26). Scored 2 goals vs. Plymouth (4/28) … Scored a shorthanded goal vs. Plymouth (4/20) … Signed an entry-level contract with the Florida Panthers (3/27) ... Started playoffs on a career-best 8-game goal and point streak (3/21-4/10): Scored the game-winner vs. the Soo (3/21). Scored back-to-back game-winners (3/25-26). Tallied a goal and an assist vs. Guelph (4/4). Notched 2 goals vs. Guelph (4/8) … Tallied a goal and an assist vs. Guelph (3/14) … Had 5-game point streak (2/21-3/2), including 3-game assist streak (2/22-3/1): Scored goals in back-to-back games (2/21-22), including a goal and 3 assists at Saginaw (2/22). Notched 2 assists vs. Mississauga (2/28) … Had points in back-to-back games with a goal at Erie (2/8) and an assist at Kingston (2/14) … Had 6-game assist and point streak (1/18-2/1), including scoring a shorthanded goal and adding an assist vs. Erie (1/24) and scoring the game-winner and adding an assist vs. London (2/1) … Won silver medal with Team Canada at 2003 World Junior Championships in Halifax, Nova Scotia, scoring a shorthanded goal and adding an assist in 6 games (12/26-1/5) … Scored goals in back-to-back games (12/6-7), including notching 2 vs. Oshawa (12/6) … Scored goals in back-to-back games vs. Belleville (11/29) and at Erie (11/30) … Assisted on game-winning goal for OHL Western Conference in 2-0 win over QMJHL Dilio Conference in the Hershey Cup All-Star Series at Kitchener (11/27) … Tallied a power-play goal and an assist vs. Owen Sound (11/22) … Tallied back-to-back power-play goal and an assist games (11/14-15), including the game-winner at Peterborough (11/14) … Had 8-game point streak (10/14-11/3), including 6-game assist streak (10/18-11/1) and 3-game goal streak (10/27-11/3) and multi-point streak (10/25-11/1): Scored his first career hat trick with 3 power-play goals vs. Guelph (10/14). Notched 2 assists vs. the Soo (10/25). Scored the game-winning goal in back-to-back games (10/27-11/1) and adding 3 assists and a +3 plus/minus rating vs. Erie (10/27) and adding an assist at Sudbury (11/1) … Had back-to-back multi-assist games with 2 assists at Erie (10/5) and 2 power-play goals and 2 assists vs. Erie (10/11).

2001-02... With Plymouth… Appeared in 6 post-season games with Plymouth (OHL), notching 2 assists with 13 penalty minutes and appeared in 65 regular-season games, recording a 17g-36a-53p line with 105 penalty minutes … Tallied assists in back-to-back games during the playoffs at London (3/28) and vs. London (3/30) … Had assists in back-to-back games at the Soo (3/13) and at Kitchener (3/15) … Had 3-game assist streak (3/1-7), including 2 assists at Kingston (3/1) … Had goals in back-to-back games (2/22-23), including scoring the game-winner and adding an assist vs. Owen Sound (2/22) … Notched assists in back-to-back games vs. Oshawa (2/8) and vs. Windsor (2/9) … Scored the game-winning goal at Oshawa (2/2) … Performed at the 2002 CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game in Saskatoon, scoring a goal for Team Hrudey (1/31) … Had 6-game assist and point streak (1/5-26), including 3-game multi-point streak (1/5-18): Notched a goal and an assist vs. London (1/5). Tallied 2 assists vs. Erie (1/16). Had a goal and an assist at Erie (1/18). Notched 2 assists vs. Peterborough (1/25) … Recorded a goal and an assist at Erie (12/15) … Tallied 2 assists vs. Sarnia (12/7) … Had 4-game point streak (11/18-24), including 3-game goal streak (11/18-23): Scored his first career shorthanded goal vs. Sarnia (11/21). Notched assists in back-to-back games (11/23-24), including a goal and 2 assists at Guelph (11/23) … Scored first career game-winning goal at Sudbury (11/16) … Notched 2 assists at Windsor (11/4) … Had 3-game assist and multi-point streak (10/26-28): Tallied a goal and an assist vs. Sudbury (10/26). Notched 2 assists and a +3 plus/minus rating vs. London (10/27). Recorded a power-play goal and an assist at Mississauga (10/28) … Had assists in back-to-back games (10/19-20), including 2 assists and a +3 plus/minus rating vs. Guelph (10/20) … Had 3-game point streak (9/30-10/5), including tallying goals in back-to-back games (9/30-10/3): Had assists in back-to-back games (10/3-5), including a power-play goal, an assist and a +3 plus/minus rating vs. Erie (10/3).

2000-01... With Plymouth… Appeared in 10 post-season games with Plymouth (OHL) as they reached the OHL Finals, with no points and 7 penalty minutes and appeared in 65 regular-season games, recording a 2g-12a-14p line with 40 penalty minutes … Named Plymouth's Scholastic Player of the Year ... Notched 2 assists vs. Barrie (2/9) … Tallied 2 assists vs. Mississauga (1/12) … Recorded a goal and an assist vs. Sarnia (1/3) … Scored his first career goal on the power-play vs. London (12/16) … Notched 2 assists and a +3 plus/minus rating at London (12/3) … Notched first 2 career assists at Peterborough (9/28) … Made OHL debut vs. Erie (9/23).

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