Seguin's sensational season capped with
'Most Outstanding' award
BY PETE KRUPSKY
April 28,
2010, 2:25 p.m.
The Ontario
Hockey League announced that Plymouth Whalers center Tyler Seguin has
been named the recipient of the Red Tilson Trophy as the league’s Most
Outstanding Player during the regular season.
Seguin is the top-rated North American prospect listed by the National Hockey League’s Central Scouting Bureau for the upcoming 2010 NHL Entry Draft, held June 25-26 in Los Angeles.
Seguin, 18, scored 48 goals with 58 assists 106 points in 63 games and shared the OHL’s scoring title with Windsor’s Taylor Hall. In Seguin’s 63 games played, he contributed directly to over 46 percent of the Whalers offense.
Seguin was named the Whalers' Regular Season Most Valuable Player and Regular Season Leading Scorer and was named Smartest Player, Best Playmaker, second best Stickhandler, and second (tie) Most Dangerous in the Goal Area in the OHL’s Western Conference Coaches Poll.
Seguin was named the OHL Player of the Month for both December and January. He also was named Canadian Hockey League Player of the Week and OHL Player of the Week for the period of January 18-24 and OHL Player of the Week for the period of October 5-11.
Seguin
participated in a number of all-star competitions for the Canadian
Hockey League during the season. He played for the OHL All-Stars in
November against Russia in the Canada/Russia Subway Super Series. He
was captain for Team Orr in the 2010 Home Hardware CHL-NHL Top Prospects Game in
Windsor in January and also represented the
Western Conference in the OHL All-Star game in Kingston in February.
Besides the CHL events, Seguin represented
Canada while leading the Memorial of Ivan Hlinka Tournament in scoring
with 4 goals and 6 assists in 4 games to capture a gold medal in
August. He also attended Canada's World Junior selection camp for the
World Junior Championships in December.
WHALERS PICK
15TH ON SATURDAY
The Ontario Hockey League’s Plymouth Whalers will be selecting fifteenth overall in the first round of Saturday’s 2010 Ontario Hockey Draft, formally known as the Ontario Hockey League Priority Selection.
The 20
OHL teams will be participating in the 15-round process via the
internet starting at 9am. The OHL Draft –
based at league headquarters in Scarborough, ON.
The Whalers will have details of their selections on Saturday on www.plymouthwhalers.com.
Plymouth has a history of drafting local players who have enjoyed success with the team, starting with their first-ever selection, Pat Peake, taken first overall in 1990. Some other notable local selections:
Current local Whalers:
2009: Matt Mahalak (second round), Stefan Noesen (fourth round).
2008: Austin Levi (sixth round).
2007: Beau Schmitz (first round), RJ Mahalak (fourth round).
2006: AJ Jenks (seventh round), Josh Bemis (14th round).
Notable local Whaler alums:
2005: Jeremy Smith (fourth round).
2003: Ryan McGinnis (fourth round).
2001: John Vigilante (11th round).
2000: James Wisniewski (first round), Jason Bacashihua (18th round).
1999: Nate Kiser (fifth round).
1998: Kris Vernarsky (first round), Jared Newman (third round), Damian Surma (ninth round).
1997: David Legwand (first round).
1996: Kevin Holdridge (third round), Shaun Fisher (21st round).
1994: Scott Blair (11th round).
1993: Dan Pawlaczyk (11th round).
1992: Bill McCauley (first round), Jason Saal (sixth round), Jeff Mitchell (18th round).
1990: Pat Peake (first round, first overall), Mark Donahue (11th round).
