Logan Stankoven (born February 26, 2003) is a Canadian professional
ice hockey
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for the
Texas Stars
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of the
American Hockey League
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(AHL) as a prospect to the
Dallas Stars
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of the
National Hockey League
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(NHL). He was drafted in the second round, 47th overall, by the Stars in the
2021 NHL Entry Draft
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.
Playing career
In his first full major junior season in
2019–20, Stankoven scored 29 goals and 48 points in 59 games with the Kamloops Blazers of the WHL. He missed an opportunity to become the first 16 year old player to score 30 goals in a season since
Nolan Patrick
Nolan James Patrick (born September 19, 1998) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted second overall by the Philadelphia Flyers in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft.
Pl ...
in 2014–15 as a result of the league shutting down early with 5 games left on Kamloops' schedule due to the onset of the
COVID-19 pandemic
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.
Following his selection by the Dallas Stars in the second-round, 47th overall, of the
2021 NHL Entry Draft
The 2021 NHL Entry Draft was the 59th NHL Entry Draft. The draft was held on July 23–24, 2021, delayed by one month from its normally scheduled time of June due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the later-than-normal finish of the 2020–21 NHL se ...
, Stankoven was signed to a three-year, entry-level contract on September 29, 2021.
Stankoven won several awards for his performance in the
2021–22 season for Kamloops, in which he played 59 games, scoring 45 goals and recording 59 assists. He was third in points for the league that year, and fourth in goals. He was named a First Team All-Star in the BC Division and winning the
Four Broncos Memorial Trophy The Four Broncos Memorial Trophy is awarded each year to the Western Hockey League's Player of the Year.
The trophy is named in honour of four members of the Swift Current Broncos who were killed on December 30, 1986 in the Swift Current Broncos ...
as the WHL's best player and the
Brad Hornung Trophy The Brad Hornung Trophy is awarded annually to the most sportsmanlike player of the Western Hockey League. First presented in 1967, it was later renamed in honour of former Regina Pats player Brad Hornung who was paralyzed during a game on March 1, ...
as its most sportsmanlike player.
Stankoven later received the
CHL Player of the Year
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award from the
Canadian Hockey League
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, winning out over the
QMJHL
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and
OHL OHL or Ohl may refer to:
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*Latvian Hockey Higher League, known in Latvian as the ''Optibet hokeja līga''
*Oberste Heeresleitung, the Supreme Army Command of Germany in World War I
*Obrascón Huarte Lain, a Spanish construction company
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's
most valuable player
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candidates.
In the 2022 WHL playoffs, Stankoven led all players with 17 goals and 31 points.[ The Blazers reached the Western Conference Finals, where they were ultimately defeated by the ]Seattle Thunderbirds
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, bringing their postseason to an end.
In the 2022–23 season, Stankoven recorded 34 goals and 63 assists, coming fourth in WHL scoring despite playing in only 48 of 68 scheduled games. He was a finalist for the Four Broncos Memorial Trophy for the second consecutive season. In recognition of his efforts to raise over $50,000 for Canadian Blood Services
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and Kamloops' Royal Inland Hospital, Stankoven received the Doug Wickenheiser Memorial Trophy
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as the WHL's humanitarian of the year. He was subsequently also named to the CHL's First All-Star Team.
Entering the WHL playoffs as contenders, the Blazers were defeated by the Thunderbirds in the Western Conference Finals for the second consecutive postseason. However, as Kamloops was hosting the 2023 Memorial Cup
The 2023 Memorial Cup (branded as the 2023 Memorial Cup presented by Kia for sponsorship reasons) was a four-team round-robin format ice hockey tournament held at the Sandman Centre in Kamloops, British Columbia, from May 26 to June 4, 2023 ...
and thus automatically qualified to that nationwide tournament, this was not the end of their postseason. On the prospect of winning the Memorial Cup on home ice, Stankoven remarked "it would be a nice way to kind of cap things off." The Blazers were ultimately eliminated by the Peterborough Petes
The Peterborough Petes are a junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey League. The team has played at the Peterborough Memorial Centre in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, since 1956, and is the oldest continuously operating team in the league.
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in the quarterfinal. Despite only playing four games, Stankoven lead the entire tournament in scoring with nine points, earning the Ed Chynoweth Trophy
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. He incurred no penalties in the course of doing so, and was also honoured with the George Parsons Trophy
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as the tournament's most sportsmanlike player.
International play
Stankoven was a member of the Canadian national under-18 team for the 2021 IIHF World U18 Championships
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. He scored the game-winning goal in Canada's 5–3 victory over Russia
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in the gold medal game.
Initially named to Team Canada for the 2022 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
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that was scheduled to be played in December 2021 and January 2022, the tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
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after Stankoven had played only one game.[ However, he rejoined the team when the tournament was rescheduled for the following summer, winning gold. With four goals and six assists in the seven-game tournament, he was named one of the team's three best players.
On December 12, 2022, Stankoven was again named to Team Canada to compete at the 2023 IIHF World Junior Championship. After the team opened the tournament with a loss to ]Czechia
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, the forward lines were reorganized with Stankoven centering Connor Bedard
Connor Bedard (born July 17, 2005) is a Canadian junior ice hockey centre for the Regina Pats of the Western Hockey League (WHL). Bedard was selected by the Regina Pats first overall in the WHL Bantam Draft in 2020 as the first WHL player of exc ...
and Joshua Roy. The Bedard/Stankoven/Roy line became the backbone of the team through the rest of the tournament, and the three were named Team Canada's three best players following the semi-final victory over Team USA
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in which they scored four of Canada's six goals. In the final, Canada defeated Czechia in a rematch, winning their second consecutive gold medal.
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2003 births
Living people
Canadian ice hockey forwards
Dallas Stars draft picks
Kamloops Blazers players
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Texas Stars players
21st-century Canadian people