53 Facts About Sean Couturier

Sean Gerald Couturier is an American-born Canadian professional ice hockey player and alternate captain for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League.

Sean Couturier's contract stipulated that Couturier would play with the Flyers for a 10-game "trial period", during which he impressed enough to remain on the roster for the entire season.

Sean Couturier struggled offensively during his first few seasons in the NHL, but found his rhythm in 2013, when he was placed on an offensive line alongside Steve Downie.

Sean Couturier continued to skate for Canada at international tournaments even after joining the Flyers, with three appearances at the Ice Hockey World Championships, as well as a showing at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.

Sean Couturier was born on December 7,1992, in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Sean Couturier's family was Canadian, but lived in the area at the time because his father, Sylvain Couturier, was playing in the now-defunct International Hockey League for the Phoenix Roadrunners.

When Sean Couturier was 10 years old, an administrative mistake assigned him to the adolescent "Peewee" minor ice hockey team, rather than the "Atom" team made for players of his age.

Sean Couturier received permission to remain in the Peewee league, and he went on to lead his team in scoring for the year.

In 58 rookie games, Sean Couturier scored nine goals and 22 assists, for a total of 31 points.

Sean Couturier was honoured for his performance with the Jean Beliveau Trophy, given annually to the top scorer in the QMJHL.

Sean Couturier ultimately pushed through his delayed season start, putting up 20 goals in the final 21 regular-season games to tie his previous-season points number.

Drummondville went on to sweep the Chicoutimi Sagueneens in the first round of the 2011 President's Cup playoffs, with Sean Couturier scoring three goals and eight points in the series.

Sean Couturier impressed the Flyers at training camp, and after the Montreal Canadiens claimed Blair Betts off of waivers, a position opened on the 50-man roster in case they wanted to keep him through the end of the season.

Sean Couturier finished his rookie season with 27 points in 77 regular-season games, and an additional four playoff points.

Sean Couturier experienced a sophomore slump, dropping from third among the team in goals scored to ninth and winning only 43.

Sean Couturier dropped to four goals and 15 points in 46 games of the lockout-shortened season.

Sean Couturier saw an almost immediate improvement after being paired with Downie; the line scored a combined 25 points in a 10-game span, and Sean Couturier told The Philadelphia Inquirer that Downie was "a big part of the success of our line".

Sean Couturier played in all 82 games for the Flyers that season, building his iron man streak to 198 consecutive games, and finished the season with a career-high 15 goals and 22 assists, for a total of 37 points.

On July 28,2015, one year before Sean Couturier was set to become a restricted free agent, the Flyers signed him to a six-year, $26 million contract extension.

Still only 22 years old at the time of the extension, Sean Couturier was considered a central piece of the Flyers' rebuilding plan, complementing new captain Giroux.

In Game 1 of a 2016 Stanley Cup playoffs series against the Washington Capitals, Sean Couturier took a hit from Alex Ovechkin and left the game early.

Sean Couturier was later diagnosed with a sprained acromioclavicular joint that would bench him for two weeks, through the remainder of the Capitals playoff series.

On November 22,2016, during a game against the Florida Panthers, Sean Couturier became entangled with Vincent Trocheck, and suffered a sprained medial collateral ligament in his left knee.

When he did return, Sean Couturier believed that he was not performing as capably, and was frustrated with underproduction both defensively and offensively.

Sean Couturier finished the year with 14 goals and 20 assists in 66 games, and, although the Flyers did not make the playoffs in 2017, head coach Dave Hakstol was impressed with the Couturier—Schenn—Weise line, and intended to keep the trio together the following year.

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The new line helped Sean Couturier find the offensive ability that had eluded him in previous seasons.

On March 20,2018, while playing against the Detroit Red Wings, Sean Couturier scored his 100th career NHL goal, becoming the seventh skater in the 2011 draft class to reach that milestone.

Sean Couturier played in all 82 regular-season games for the Flyers, doubling his previous career-high point total with 31, and scoring a total of 76 points.

Sean Couturier was the first Flyer to be named as a Selke finalist since Mike Richards in 2009.

Sean Couturier revealed, after the elimination game, that the collision with Gudas had torn the MCL in his right knee, and that, if the injury had occurred during the regular season, he would have been sidelined for four weeks.

Sean Couturier took over the role from Valtteri Filppula, who joined the New York Islanders during the offseason.

Sean Couturier had a slow start to the season, putting up only three goals in his first nine games.

Sean Couturier finished the season with 33 goals and 43 assists in 80 games, and, at the end of the season, he took home the Bobby Clarke Trophy for the Flyers' most valuable player, as voted by sportswriters and sportscasters.

Sean Couturier won the Gene Hart Memorial Award for the second consecutive year.

Sean Couturier led the team with a +21 rating, and led the entire NHL with a 59.

Sean Couturier went scoreless in the first 10 playoff games, first against the Canadiens and then against the New York Islanders, before scoring against Semyon Varlamov in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Sean Couturier missed Game 6 after spraining his MCL during a collision with Mathew Barzal, but returned for the Flyers' Game 7 shutout loss and playoff elimination.

Sean Couturier was only the third Flyer in franchise history to receive the award, following Bobby Clarke in 1983 and Dave Poulin in 1987.

Sean Couturier took home the Bobby Clarke Trophy for the second year in a row.

Shortly after returning from his injury, Sean Couturier was asked to push the Flyers forward when six of their forwards were placed on COVID-19 protocols.

One player placed on protocols was Scott Laughton, and Sean Couturier took his place on the line, centering James van Riemsdyk and Joel Farabee.

Sean Couturier ultimately played in 45 out of the 56 games in the shortened season, putting up 18 goals and 41 points.

Fletcher told reporters that Sean Couturier's back had started to bother him towards the beginning of the season and that nonsurgical options had not resolved the issue.

At the time of the announcement, Sean Couturier had scored six goals and 17 points in 29 games for Philadelphia.

Sean Couturier's team finished eighth and ninth in the tournaments, respectively.

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Sean Couturier received his first Ice Hockey World Championships selection in 2015, where he posted three goals and four assists in 10 tournament games and helped take Canada to a gold medal.

The following year, while still rehabilitating the shoulder injury that he had sustained during the Stanley Cup playoffs, Sean Couturier represented Team North America at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.

Sean Couturier was one of five Flyers named to Team Canada for the 2017 IIHF World Championship, alongside Giroux, Simmonds, Schenn, and Konecny.

Sean Couturier scored one goal and three assists while serving on the defensively-minded second line, centreing Anthony Cirelli of the Tampa Bay Lightning and Sam Reinhart of the Buffalo Sabres.

Sean Couturier was an alternate captain for Team Canada that year, assisting captain Kyle Turris alongside Las Vegas Knights forward Mark Stone.

Sean Couturier was named after Sean Whyte, his father's first professional hockey roommate.

Sean Couturier was given the middle name "Gerald" after his grandfather Gerald Couturier, a Quebec police officer who died several years before Couturier was born.

Sean Couturier's father has been general manager for the Titan since 2005, and Sean Couturier became a minority owner of the team in 2013.