| Career: 2011-12: Played his first pro season in Providence/AHL and finished third overall in the club’s scoring race while leading the team in goals with 20-16=36 totals ... Was the only player on the AHL Bruins to play in all 76 games ... Juniors: Played five seasons of junior hockey in the Western Hockey League with the Vancouver Giants and Portland Winterhawks with 103-161=254 totals and 272 penalty min- utes in 330 career junior games ... Won a Memorial Cup championship with the Giants in 2006-07 and his team’s captain that season was Milan Lucic ... Finished sixth in the WHL scoring race in 2009-10 with career-high 37-60=97 totals ... Earned a WHL West First All-Star Team berth and was the Western Conference finalist for the WHL Player of the Year Award that season ... Began the 2010-11 season in Vancouver with 10-35=45 totals in 36 Giants games before his Dec. 28 trade to Portland where he had 17-25=42 totals in 35 Winter Hawks games and his combined 87 points ranked 12th overall in the WHL ... Added 7-14=21 totals in 21 post-season games before the Winter Hawks fell to Kootenay in the WHL Finals ... Ranks second on the Giants’ list of all- time games played and third all-time in career points. Transactions: Boston’s fourth pick, 97th overall, in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft.
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