Nathan Horton
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Horton in 2013
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| Born |
May 29, 1985 Dunnville, Ontario, Canada |
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| Height | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) | ||
| Weight | 229 lb (104 kg; 16 st 5 lb) | ||
| Position | Right Wing | ||
| Shot | Right | ||
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NHL team Former teams |
Toronto Maple Leafs Florida Panthers Boston Bruins Columbus Blue Jackets |
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| NHL Draft | 3rd overall, 2003 Florida Panthers |
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| Playing career | 2003–2014 | ||
Nathan Russell Horton (born May 29, 1985) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is currently under contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League (NHL). He won the Stanley Cup in 2011 with the Boston Bruins. During his career, Horton has also played for the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Florida Panthers.
Horton has not played in an NHL game since April 2014, due to a back injury. Though he is not officially retired, the surgery required to fix Horton's back would end his career.
Horton grew up in Dunnville, Ontario playing much of his minor hockey with the Welland Tigers of the OMHA South Central AAA League until his Minor Peewee year before making the move to play in the Greater Toronto Hockey League with the Toronto Red Wings. Going into his Peewee season he left the Red Wings to go play for the Thorold Blackhawks Jr.B. club of the OHA's Golden Horseshoe League at the age of 13. For much of his career with Welland, Horton played up on the "'84" Tigers team with future NHL'ers Daniel Girardi, Daniel Paille (a future Bruins teammate) and Andre Deveaux.
Horton first entered junior hockey as a player for the Thorold Blackhawks. In one season with Thorold he scored 16 goals and registered 31 assists in 41 games. Prior to the 2001 OHL Draft, a 16-year-old Horton stated that if he was drafted first overall by the Mississauga Ice Dogs, he would not report to the team. He was instead selected second overall in the draft by the Oshawa Generals. As a rookie in the OHL, Horton totaled 31 goals and 36 assists in 64 games for the Generals. During two seasons with Oshawa, Horton would score 64 goals and record 71 assists.
To begin the 2002–03 season, Horton missed 13 games out of 22 but still ended up scoring 9 goals with 18 points during that span. Horton was named to the Canadian national junior team's selection camp in December but was one of the first cuts. He ended his final season in Oshawa with 33 goals and 35 assists in 54 games.
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