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Position
  
Left Wing

Role
  
Ice hockey player

Salary
  
6.75 million USD (2015)

Name
  
Joffrey Lupul

Career start
  
2003

Playing career
  
2003–present

Weight
  
93 kg

Shoots
  
Right

Height
  
1.85 m


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Born
  
September 23, 1983 (age 40) Fort Saskatchewan, AB, CAN (
1983-09-23
)

NHL team Former teams
  
Toronto Maple Leafs Anaheim Ducks Edmonton Oilers Philadelphia Flyers Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg

NHL Draft
  
7th overall, 2002 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim

Current team
  
Toronto Maple Leafs (#19 / Left wing)

Similar People
  
Dion Phaneuf, Nazem Kadri, Tyler Bozak, James Reimer, Jonathan Bernier

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Joffrey Lupul (born September 23, 1983) is a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger currently under contract to the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL), though he hasn't played a professional game since February, 2016. In his professional career, Lupul has also played in the NHL for the Anaheim Ducks, Edmonton Oilers and Philadelphia Flyers. He was originally selected seventh overall at the 2002 NHL Entry Draft by Anaheim, beginning his NHL career with the organization and later playing a second stint with the team prior to joining the Maple Leafs in 2011.

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A right hand-shooting natural right winger earlier in his career, Lupul has made the transition to become a left winger since joining Toronto.

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Amateur

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Two years into his three-year major junior career with the Western Hockey League (WHL)'s Medicine Hat Tigers, Lupul was drafted by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim as the team's first choice, seventh overall, at the 2002 NHL Entry Draft. London Knights' Rick Nash was chosen first and Lupul's Tigers teammate Jay Bouwmeester went third that year. The following season, Lupul made the final roster for Team Canada and played in the 2003 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and Edmonton Oilers

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Lupul made the jump directly to the Anaheim lineup his first season out of the WHL, but the following season, with the NHL locked-out, he was assigned to the team's American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks, for the entirety of the 2004–05 season. In his third professional season, however, Lupul was a regular with Anaheim and during the team's run in the 2006 Stanley Cup playoffs, he became the first player in NHL playoff history to cap a three-goal game with an overtime score, as he tallied all the Ducks goals in a 4–3 win over the Colorado Avalanche in Game 3 of the Western Conference Semifinals.

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After the 2005–06 season, Lupul was traded to the Western Conference champion Edmonton Oilers along with Ladislav Šmíd and draft picks in exchange for Chris Pronger on July 4, 2006.

Philadelphia Flyers

On July 1, 2007, after just one season with Edmonton in which he scored 16 goals, Lupul was traded, along with Oilers captain Jason Smith, to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for Joni Pitkänen, Geoff Sanderson and a third-round draft pick in 2007.

During the 2007–08 season, his first with the Flyers, Lupul was diagnosed with a spinal cord contusion after a collision with teammate Derian Hatcher in a game against the Toronto Maple Leafs on January 5, 2008. Lupul made his return to the lineup just over one month later, on February 9, in a game against the New York Rangers. On April 22, Lupul scored the series-winning goal in the first overtime of Game 7 in the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals between Philadelphia and the Washington Capitals. After helping the Flyers reach the Eastern Conference Finals, in which Philadelphia fell to rivals Pittsburgh, Lupul agreed to a four-year contract extension with the team on July 21.

Return to Anaheim

On June 26, 2009, following his second season with Philadelphia and just one year into his four-year contract, Lupul was traded by the Flyers to the Anaheim Ducks at the 2009 NHL Entry Draft along with Luca Sbisa and two first-round picks in exchange for Chris Pronger, the second time in Lupul's career that he had been part of a trade involving the Ducks with Pronger going the other way.

Back surgery in December 2009 and a subsequent blood infection limited him to just 23 games during the 2009–10 season. He ultimately missed a total of 12 months of playing time—the final 59 games of that season and carrying over into the first 28 games of the following 2010–11 season.

Toronto Maple Leafs

On February 9, 2011, nearing the end of his second season back with Anaheim, but having played only 49 games during his second stint, Lupul was traded, along with Jake Gardiner and a conditional draft pick in 2013, to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for François Beauchemin, marking the third time Lupul has been involved in a trade with the Ducks organization. Originally, the deal excluded Lupul, however he was included as a salary dump to keep the Ducks under the salary cap. After being dealt to Toronto, he made the transition from right to left wing and finished with 18 points in 28 games to close out the 2010–11 season.

The following year, 2011–12, Lupul began the year on the opposite wing of Phil Kessel, putting together a strong first half of the season that led to his invitation to the 2012 NHL All-Star Game in Ottawa as an alternate captain to Zdeno Chára. There, he scored two goals for Team Chara in a 12–9 win over Team Alfredsson. On March 2, 2012, Toronto fired Head Coach Ron Wilson and replaced him with Randy Carlyle, Lupul's former head coach in Anaheim. Lupul suffered a severe shoulder separation on March 6 that necessitated immediate season-ending surgery. Nonetheless, he finished with a career-high of 67 points on the year despite playing in just 66 games, marking the first time in his NHL career he scored at at least a point-per-game pace. At the end of the season, Lupul was nominated for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy—awarded annually to the NHL player best exemplifying qualities in perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey—which was ultimately awarded to Max Pacioretty of the Montreal Canadiens.

During the 2012–13 NHL lockout, Lupul played for the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL)'s Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg in Yekaterinburg, Russia. After the lockout was resolved and just prior to the start of the truncated 2012–13 season, Lupul, along with teammate Clarke MacArthur, was named an alternate captain of the Maple Leafs under captain Dion Phaneuf. Days later, on January 20, 2013, Lupul signed a five-year, US$26.25 million contract extension with Toronto. Only three games into the season, Lupul fractured his right forearm when he was hit by a Phaneuf slapshot whilst screening opposing goaltender Marc-André Fleury in a game against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Lupul subsequently missed 25 games. In his return to the ice on March 16, he scored on his first shift of the night and once again in the second period of the game. The Maple Leafs, however, went on to lose the game in a ten-round shootout to the Winnipeg Jets. Rejuvenated in his return after a long absence, Lupul scored goals in six consecutive games and recorded points in a prolific rate—eight goals and six assists in six games—before he suffered another injury in a game against his former club, the Flyers. While chasing the puck deep in his own zone, Lupul was hit by two Flyers simultaneously, one of which accidentally contacted his head resulting in a concussion. He would miss an additional two weeks before making his return on April 16 against Washington. Lupul finished the season with totals of 18 points in 16 games, including a goals per game rate of .69, which would put him amongst NHL leaders Alexander Ovechkin (.67), Steven Stamkos (.60) and John Tavares (.58).

With 57 points gained in 48 games, the Maple Leafs qualified for the playoffs for the first time since 2004. During Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals against the Boston Bruins, Lupul scored two goals to help propel the Leafs to a 4–2 win and even the series at one game apiece. He would score again in Game 4 at the Air Canada Centre when he scored the game's opener, though Toronto would eventually lose in overtime, 4–3. Lupul ended his first playoff series with Toronto with three goals and one assist in seven games as the team fell 5–4 in overtime of Game 7.

On November 14, 2015, Lupul scored his 200th career goal during a 4-2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks. On December 1, 2015, Lupul was placed on injured reserve after suffering a lower body injury. Lupul would return but was again injured in February , and was shut down for the season to have surgery. Facing a decline in offensive production and a growing reputation as an injury prone player (having missed 40% of the Maple Leaf's games over the past four seasons due to injury), rumors began to circulate as early as February 2016 that there was concern if Lupul could continue to play at the NHL level anymore. With two more years on his contract paying him $5.25 million annually, there was speculation Toronto management was planning to sideline the winger under the Injury Reserve for the duration of his contract, similarly to what was happening with teammate Stéphane Robidas following the 2014–15 season. At the end of the season, Lupul was not seen at the year-end locker room clean out or media briefings.

Despite comments from Lupul earlier in the season and teammate Nazem Kadri in the summer implying Lupul wanted to and had the ability to play the following season, he did not participate in pre-season action, and he announced on September 22, 2016 that he would sit out the upcoming season due to injury. He was subsequently placed on the long-term injury reserve, with the team stating he had failed his pre-season physical. By mid February, 2017, media reports indicated Lupul had played his final professional hockey game, and that he had been out of contact with the media and one of his agents for months. Interesting, Lupul was left unprotected by the Maple Leafs in the 2017 Expansion Draft and thus is eligible to be selected by the expansion Vegas Golden Knights, despite the fact players who were injured for more than one year and are not expected to play again are exempt in the draft under league rules, signalling that Lupul may not be injured in the traditional sense. In September 2017, the Leafs declared Lupul had failed his physicals at training camp before the 2017–18 season. Lupul then made several posts on his Instagram account saying that he was healthy and accused the Leafs of cheating by designating him injured so his salary could not count against the salary cap.

International play

Lupul was selected by Hockey Canada to play for the nation's junior team in the 2003 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. He posted two goals and one assist for a total of three points in six games as Canada finished with the silver medal, falling 3–2 to Russia in the tournament final.

Records

  • First player to score a playoff hat-trick in Anaheim franchise history;
  • First player to score four playoff goals in one game, including an overtime winner;
  • First player to score all four of his team's goals in a playoff game.
  • Personal

    As featured during an NHL Network Online video, Lupul enjoys playing guitar. He is a Ukrainian-Canadian. However, his father's family comes from the Romanian minority in Ukraine. Lupul's maternal grandfather, Tom Mayson, was a former member of the Edmonton Investors Group, the limited partnership that owned the Edmonton Oilers. In Romanian, Lupul's surname literally means "wolf".

    References

    Joffrey Lupul Wikipedia