Mario Lamoureux

Mario Lamoureux (born June 18, 1988 in Grand Forks) is an American professional ice hockey forward. He is currently under contract with Dresdner Eislöwen of the DEL2

Mario Lamoureux
Born (1988-06-18) June 18, 1988
Grand Forks, North Dakota, U.S.
Height 5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
Weight 185 lb (84 kg; 13 st 3 lb)
Position Centre
Shoots Left
DEL2 team
Former teams		 Dresdner Eislöwen
Oklahoma City Barons
EC VSV
Bridgeport Sound Tigers
Charlotte Checkers
Esbjerg Energy
HC TWK Innsbruck
Frisk Asker
EHC Winterthur
Graz 99ers
NHL Draft Undrafted
Playing career 2012–present

Playing career

He spent four years with the Tri-City Storm of the USHL until 2008 and left as their all-time leading scorer (129 points in 236 games).[1] Lamoureux enrolled at the University of North Dakota in 2008. In his four-year college career, he helped UND win three WCHA Championships and served as team captain in his senior year. Along with his teammate Evan Trupp, he received the Cliff "Fido" Purpur Award for "hard work, determination and being a creator of excitement on the ice" in his sophomore year.[2] He was named Team Captain his senior year during the 2011-2012 season.

Upon graduation in 2012, he logged his first minutes as a professional player in the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL), playing for the Gwinnett Gladiators. In his first full ECHL season (2012–13) with the Ontario Reign, Lamoureux was named to the All-Rookie team,[3] after tallying 25 goals and 40 assists in 71 appearances. He re-signed with the Reign for the 2013-14 ECHL season and also spent time with the Oklahoma City Barons of the American Hockey League (AHL) that year.[4] In February 2014, he embarked on a short stint with EC VSV of the Austrian top-flight EBEL who signed Lamoureux shortly before the start of the EBEL playoffs.[5]

He was traded from the Reign to the Quad City Mallards in October 2014[6] and made 68 ECHL appearances for the team, scoring 20 goals and assisting on 51 others. Lamoureux signed a professional tryout agreement (PTO) with the Bridgeport Sound Tigers of the AHL in January 2015[7] and played two games for them.[8] In April 2015, he was given a PTO by another AHL side, the Charlotte Checkers, while keeping his eligibility to play for the Mallards in the ECHL playoffs.[9]

Lamoureux signed with Esbjerg Energy of the Danish Metal Ligaen for the 2015-16 season.[10] He was a key member of Esbjerg’s championship-winning campaign, recording 26 goals and 35 assists in 45 games of the regular season as well as two goals and eleven assists in 18 post-season contests. After his year in Denmark, Lamoureux took up an offer from Austria, penning a deal with EBEL outfit HC Innsbruck in May 2016.[11]

Personal

Lamoureux comes from a hockey family:[12] His father Pierre, a native of Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, was a goaltender at the University of North Dakota in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Mario's sisters Monique and Jocelyne were members of the silver-winning US women's ice hockey team at the 2010 Olympic Games, the 2014 Olympic games and won Gold at the 2018 Olympic games.[13] His brothers Jacques and Jean-Philippe are playing professionally, his brother Pierre-Paul was an assistant coach at UND and a scout for the Calgary Flames.

Career statistics
Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
2004–05 Tri-City Storm USHL 59 7 15 22 71 9 0 2 2 25
2005–06 Tri-City Storm USHL 57 13 19 32 131 5 0 0 0 8
2006–07 Tri-City Storm USHL 60 15 19 34 100 9 2 2 4 20
2007–08 Tri-City Storm USHL 60 9 32 41 152 — — — — —
2008–09 U. of North Dakota WCHA 24 3 3 6 18 — — — — —
2009–10 U. of North Dakota WCHA 42 7 5 12 85 — — — — —
2010–11 U. of North Dakota WCHA 43 3 14 17 65 — — — — —
2011–12 U. of North Dakota WCHA 39 4 7 11 60 — — — — —
2011–12 Gwinnett Gladiators ECHL 2 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 2
2012–13 Ontario Reign ECHL 71 25 40 65 69 10 3 2 5 14
2013–14 Ontario Reign ECHL 46 20 20 40 36 — — — — —
2013–14 Oklahoma City Barons AHL 3 0 1 1 4 — — — — —
2013–14 EC VSV EBEL 4 1 1 2 6 9 1 5 6 10
2014–15 Quad City Mallards ECHL 68 20 51 71 77 3 1 0 1 4
2014–15 Bridgeport Sound Tigers AHL 2 1 0 1 0 — — — — —
2014–15 Charlotte Checkers AHL 3 2 0 2 2 — — — — —
2015–16 Esbjerg Energy DEN 45 26 35 61 81 18 2 11 13 26
2016–17 HC TWK Innsbruck EBEL 54 20 27 47 70 2 2 0 2 6
2017–18 Frisk Asker GET 20 10 9 19 18 — — — — —
2017–18 EHC Winterthur SL 24 4 13 17 57 — — — — —
2017–18 Graz 99ers EBEL 6 7 3 10 4 — — — — —
2018–19 HC TWK Innsbruck EBEL 52 18 19 37 43 — — — — —
AHL totals 8 3 1 4 6 — — — — —

Awards and honors
Award Year
College
WCHA All-Academic Team 2010, 2011, 2012
WCHA All-Tournament Team 2012
ECHL
All-Rookie Team 2013 [3]

References
  1. "Storm Hockey: Records". www.stormhockey.com. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
  2. "Mario Lamoureux". undsports.com. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
  3. "David Pacan Named to 2012-13 ECHL All-Rookie Team". Cincinnati Cyclones. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
  4. "Mario Lamoureux gets call-up to Oklahoma City Barons". The Pink Puck. October 29, 2013. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
  5. "VSV verstärkt sich mit Lamoureux – Mario Lamoureux! - EC VSV - Der Adlerhorst im Internet". www.ecvsv.at. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
  6. "MALLARDS SEND FIDDLER TO ONTARIO TO COMPLETE LAMOUREUX TRADE". www.myqcmallards.net. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
  7. "SOUND TIGERS SIGN LAMOUREUX TO PTO". SoundTigers.com. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
  8. "TheAHL.com - The American Hockey League". theahl.com. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
  9. "LAMOUREUX SIGNS P.T.O. WITH CHARLOTTE, MALLARDS SET PLAYOFF ROSTER". myqcmallards.net. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
  10. "Esbjerg Energy henter amerikaner til offensiven". DR. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
  11. "Haifischbecken.at - Offizielle Homepage des HC TWK Innsbruck". www.haifischbecken.at. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
  12. Metcalf, Bobby. "For Mallards' Lamoureux, hockey success a family affair". The Quad-City Times. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
  13. "US women beat Canada for gold in a 3-2 shootout thriller". Boston Herald. Archived from the original on February 23, 2018.
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