Eric Staal

**Eric Craig Staal** (born 29 October 1984 in Thunder Bay, Ontario) is a Canadian ice hockey player and alternate captain for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League.  He is the older brother of Jordan Staal, who is playing for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Marc Staal, who is playing for the New York Rangers, and Jared Staal, who was drafted by the Phoenix Coyotes in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft but is currently playing for the AHL's San Antonio Rampage.

## Awards and honours

|Award|Year||
| --- | --- | --- |
|colspan="3"|CHL||
|OHL Top Prospect Award|2002–03||
|OHL Second All-Star Team|2002–03||
|Top Prospects Game|2003||
|CHL First All-Star Team|2002–03||
|colspan="3"|AHL||
|Best Plus/Minus|2004–05||
|colspan="3"|NHL||
|YoungStars Game|2003–04||
|Second All-Star Team|2005–06||
|Stanley Cup (Carolina Hurricanes)|2005–06||
|All-Star Game|2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 2018||
|All-Star Game MVP|2008||
|colspan="3"|International||
|World Championship Gold|2007||
|Olympic Gold|2010||

## Records

- Carolina Hurricanes' franchise record for most hat tricks in a single season – 4 (2008–09)
- Carolina Hurricanes' franchise record for most career post-season points – 43
- Carolina Hurricanes' franchise record for consecutive games – 349 (2004–2009)
- Tied Minnesota Wild's franchise record for most goals in a single season – 42 (2017–18)

### Regular season and playoffs

|colspan="3"  bgcolor="#ffffff"||rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff"||colspan="5"|Regular season|rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff"||colspan="5"|Playoffs||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1999–00|Thunder Bay Kings Bantam AAA|TBAHA|61|40|36|76|52|—|—|—|—|—|
|2000–01|Peterborough Petes|OHL|63|19|30|49|23|7|2|5|7|4|
|2001–02|Peterborough Petes|OHL|56|23|39|62|40|6|3|6|9|10|
|2002–03|Peterborough Petes|OHL|66|39|59|98|36|7|5|9|14|6|
|2003–04|Carolina Hurricanes|NHL|81|11|20|31|40|—|—|—|—|—|
|2004–05|Lowell Lock Monsters|AHL|77|26|51|77|88|11|2|8|10|12|
|2005–06|Carolina Hurricanes|NHL|82|45|55|100|81|25|9|19|28|8|
|2006–07|Carolina Hurricanes|NHL|82|30|40|70|68|—|—|—|—|—|
|2007–08|Carolina Hurricanes|NHL|82|38|44|82|50|—|—|—|—|—|
|2008–09|Carolina Hurricanes|NHL|82|40|35|75|50|18|10|5|15|4|
|2009–10|Carolina Hurricanes|NHL|70|29|41|70|68|—|—|—|—|—|
|2010–11|Carolina Hurricanes|NHL|81|33|43|76|72|—|—|—|—|—|
|2011–12|Carolina Hurricanes|NHL|82|24|46|70|48|—|—|—|—|—|
|2012–13|Carolina Hurricanes|NHL|48|18|35|53|54|—|—|—|—|—|
|2013–14|Carolina Hurricanes|NHL|79|21|40|61|74|—|—|—|—|—|
|2014–15|Carolina Hurricanes|NHL|77|23|31|54|41|—|—|—|—|—|
|2015–16|Carolina Hurricanes|NHL|63|10|23|33|32|—|—|—|—|—|
|2015–16|New York Rangers|NHL|20|3|3|6|2|5|0|0|0|4|
|2016–17|Minnesota Wild|NHL|82|28|37|65|34|5|0|1|1|0|
|2017–18|Minnesota Wild|NHL|82|42|34|76|42|5|1|1|2|2|
|2018–19|Minnesota Wild|NHL|81|22|30|52|34|—|—|—|—|—|
|2019–20|Minnesota Wild|NHL|66|19|28|47|28|4|1|4|5|2|

### International

|Year|Team|Event|Result|rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff"||GP|G|A|Pts|PIM|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2002|Canada|WJC18|6th|8|2|5|7|4|||
|2007|Canada|WC||9|5|5|10|6|||
|2008|Canada|WC||8|4|3|7|6|||
|2010|Canada|Oly||7|1|5|6|6|||
|2013|Canada|WC|5th|8|0|3|3|4|||

## Infobox (ice hockey player)

- **image**: Eric Staal 2013-3.jpg
- **image size**: 230px
- **caption**: Staal with the Hurricanes in 2012–13 NHL season, 2013
- **position**: Centre (ice hockey), Centre
- **shoots**: Left
- **height ft**: 6
- **height in**: 4
- **weight lb**: 208
- **team**: Buffalo Sabres
- **former teams**: Minnesota Wild
Carolina Hurricanes
New York Rangers
- **league**: National Hockey League, NHL
- **ntl team**: CAN
- **birth place**: Thunder Bay, Ontario, ON, Canada, CAN
- **career start**: 2003
- **draft**: 2nd overall
- **draft year**: 2003
- **draft team**: Carolina Hurricanes