Landon Wilson (born March 13, 1975) is an American former professional
ice hockey
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right winger
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who last played for the
Texas Stars
The Texas Stars are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League (AHL) based in Cedar Park, Texas, near Austin, with home games at the H-E-B Center. They are owned by the National Hockey League's (NHL) Dallas Stars and are the ...
of the
AHL, where he served as team captain. He is the son of former NHL forward
Rick Wilson.
Early life
Landon Wilson was born on March 13, 1975 in
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the bi-state metropolitan area, which e ...
. At the time, his father Rick Wilson was in the first of his two seasons playing for the
St. Louis Blues
The St. Louis Blues are a professional ice hockey team based in St. Louis. The Blues compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division in the Western Conference. The franchise was founded in 1967 as one of the ...
. The Wilson family went on to move eight times over the next 18 years as a result of Rick's playing career and coaching career. As a youth, Wilson played in the 1989
Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament
The Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament (french: Tournoi international de hockey pee-wee de Québec) is an annual minor ice hockey event in Quebec City. The tournament was founded in 1960 to coincide with the Quebec Winter Carnival, ...
with a
minor ice hockey
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team from
Oyster Bay, New York
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.
By 1989, the Wilson family settled in the
Los Angeles, California
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area where Rick spent three seasons on the coaching staff of the
Los Angeles Kings
The Los Angeles Kings are a professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles. The team competes in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Pacific Division in the Western Conference and was founded on June 5, 1967, after Jack Kent ...
from 1989-1992. Landon spent his first three years of high school at
El Segundo High School
El Segundo High School, or ESHS, is a four-year public high school located in El Segundo, California. It is the only secondary school incorporated by El Segundo Unified School District.
First built in 1927, the school campus contains 5 main build ...
, where he played football quarterback and led the high school to league championships in 1990 and 1991. While living in the Los Angeles area, Landon also played hockey for the Junior Kings, who won the national 17-and-under championship in 1992.
London's father was hired as an assistant coach with the
Minnesota North Stars
The Minnesota North Stars were a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League (NHL) for 26 seasons, from 1967 to 1993. The North Stars played their home games at the Met Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, and the team's colors for ...
in 1992, and Landon gave up a promising senior year of football at El Segundo due to his family's move to Minnesota. As a result of the move, Landon decided to focus on hockey rather than football during his senior year of high school.
Instead of moving with his parents to
Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Landon moved to a boarding house in Iowa and joined the
Dubuque Fighting Saints
The Dubuque Fighting Saints are a Tier I junior ice hockey team playing in the United States Hockey League (USHL) and are based in the city of Dubuque, Iowa, on the banks of the Mississippi River at the border intersects of Iowa, Illinois, and W ...
of the junior
United States Hockey League
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. Wilson finished his senior year of high school at
Dubuque Senior High School while playing for the Fighting Saints.
Playing career
Wilson was drafted 19th overall in the
1993 NHL Entry Draft by the
Toronto Maple Leafs
The Toronto Maple Leafs (officially the Toronto Maple Leaf Hockey Club and often referred to as the Leafs) are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto. They compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Div ...
. Wilson made his NHL debut with the
Stanley Cup winning
Colorado Avalanche
The Colorado Avalanche (colloquially known as the Avs) are a professional ice hockey team based in Denver. They compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division in the Western Conference. The Avalanche play thei ...
in the 1995–96 season. However, he didn't play enough games to qualify for engraving his name into the Stanley Cup. Wilson has also played for the
Boston Bruins
The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston. The Bruins compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference. The team has been in existence since 1924, making t ...
,
Phoenix Coyotes and
Pittsburgh Penguins
The Pittsburgh Penguins (colloquially known as the Pens) are a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh. They compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division of the Eastern Conference, and have playe ...
. Wilson has played 375 career
NHL games, scoring 53 goals and 66 assists for 119 points.
While playing with the Coyotes in December 2002, Wilson received a partially blinding eye injury in one eye when a flying puck collided with his eye while he was not wearing a visor. He missed the rest of the season, but was able to return the next year with a visor which he wore for the rest of his career.
In 2004–05, he played for
Espoo Blues
The Espoo Blues were an ice hockey team in the SM-liiga. They played in Espoo, Finland, at the Espoo Metro Areena. The club went bankrupt at the end of the 2015–16 Liiga season.
History
The club was established in February 1984 as Kiekko-Espoo ...
in Finland. After that he moved to Switzerland to play with
HC Davos
Hockey Club Davos is a professional Swiss ice hockey club based in Davos, Switzerland. Davos plays in the National League (NL). The team is usually a strong force in the league and often bolster their roster with Swiss national team players and ...
. After one season in Davos he moved to
HC Lugano
Hockey Club Lugano, often abbreviated to HC Lugano or HCL, is a professional ice hockey club based in Lugano, Switzerland. The team competes in the National League (NL) and has won seven Swiss championships.
History
The founding of HC Lugano took ...
.
On July 3, 2008, Wilson returned to North America and signed with the
Dallas Stars
The Dallas Stars are a professional ice hockey team based in Dallas. They compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division in the Western Conference, and were founded during the 1967 NHL expansion as the Minne ...
.
He was then reassigned to
Grand Rapids Griffins
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of the
American Hockey League
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to start the
2008–09 season.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
Awards and honors
References
External links
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1975 births
Living people
American men's ice hockey right wingers
Boston Bruins players
Colorado Avalanche players
Cornwall Aces players
Dallas Stars players
Dubuque Fighting Saints players
Espoo Blues players
Grand Rapids Griffins players
HC Davos players
HC Lugano players
Ice hockey players from St. Louis
National Hockey League first-round draft picks
North Dakota Fighting Hawks men's ice hockey players
Phoenix Coyotes players
Pittsburgh Penguins players
Providence Bruins players
Springfield Falcons players
Texas Stars players
Toronto Maple Leafs draft picks