Jason Robertson

Jason Robertson (born July 22, 1999) is an American professional ice hockey left winger for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Robertson was born on July 22, 1999, in Arcadia, California, to Mercedes and Hugh Robertson.

Beginning with Robertson's older brother Michael, all of Mercedes and Hugh's children were childhood hockey fans, and the family owned season tickets to see the Los Angeles Kings at the Staples Center.

Robertson began playing hockey around the age of four or five, and when he was 10 years old, the family moved to Northville, Michigan, where there were more opportunities for him to ice skate.

He played minor ice hockey for a number of teams there, including Little Caesars and the Detroit Kings AAA team before spending a season with the Don Mills Flyers of the Greater Toronto Hockey League.

With the Flyers, he scored 28 goals and recorded 33 assists for a total of 61 points.

Those 16 goals were the most of any rookie born in 1999 by that point of the OHL season.

Robertson finished the regular season with 41 goals and a team-leading 87 points in 68 games, also becoming the first Frontenac to record 40 goals in consecutive seasons since Mike Zigomanis in 2000 and 2001.

He played for the Little Caesars and Detroit Kings minor ice hockey teams in Michigan before he was drafted by the Kingston Frontenacs of the Ontario Hockey League in 2015.

Robertson's 18 goals in his first season with Kingston were the most of any rookie since Anthony Stewart, and in the next two years, he became the first Frontenac to record back-to-back 40-goal seasons since Michael Zigomanis.

Robertson also played in the 2015 OHL Cup, where his team finished second to the Toronto Marlboros.

The Omaha Lancers of the United States Hockey League (USHL) selected Robertson in Phase I of the 2015 USHL draft, but he instead committed to begin his junior ice hockey career with the Kingston Frontenacs of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), who drafted him in the second round, 62nd overall, of the 2015 OHL Priority Selection.

He impressed head coach Paul McFarland during rookie camp and made the Frontenacs' 2015–16 opening day roster at 16, the youngest possible age for junior ice hockey.

He recorded his first OHL goal on October 7 against the Oshawa Generals, and on December 11, he scored his first junior hat-trick, leading Kingston to a 4–1 victory over the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds.

By the OHL's Christmas break, Robertson had 16 goals for the Frontenacs, three of which came on the power play, as well as eight assists and a +2 plus–minus rating.

He finished the 2015–16 season as the Frontenacs' leading rookie scorer with 18 goals and 32 points in 54 games.

Those 18 goals were the most by any Kingston 16-year-old since Anthony Stewart 14 years prior.

That September, Robertson participated in the 2016 CCM/USA Hockey All-American Prospects Game at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Following his breakout rookie performance, Robertson began the 2016–17 OHL season playing on Kingston's top offensive line with Warren Foegele and Ted Nichol.

While the team as a whole struggled to score at the beginning of the season, with only 21 goals through their first nine games, Robertson led the team in scoring with three goals and seven points through that same stretch.

After Foegele was traded to the Erie Otters halfway through the season, Robertson became an offensive leader for Kingston, with 26 goals and 47 points in 33 regular season games after the trade.

Although the Frontenacs' 179 goals were the fewest of any OHL team during the 2016–17 season, Robertson finished with 42 goals and 81 points in 68 regular season games.

Those 42 goals made up 24 percent of the Frontenacs' total scoring.

He added another five goals and 18 points in 11 postseason games before the Frontenacs were swept by the Peterborough Petes in the second round of OHL playoffs.

The NHL Central Scouting Bureau had named Robertson the No. 34 draft-eligible North American skater in their midterm rankings, but he finished the season at No. 14 overall.

The Stars selected him in the second round, 39th overall, of the 2017 NHL Entry Draft.

Robertson was born in Arcadia, California, but his family moved to Northville, Michigan, at the age of 10 to increase his opportunities for ice hockey.

That June, the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL) selected Robertson in the second round, 39th overall, of the 2017 NHL Entry Draft.

After attending the Stars' 2017 training camp, Robertson returned to Kingston, where he was named one of four rotating assistant captains for the 2017–18 season.

He found strong line chemistry with Linus Nyman at his other wing: by November 9, both wingers had 20 goals apiece, with most of Nyman's assists coming on Robertson's goals.

The Nyman—Robertson line found a center in the second half of the season in Gabriel Vilardi.

By the halfway point of the season, Robertson led the Frontenacs with 20 goals and 42 points in 33 games.

He also led the OHL with 158 shots, recording at least one shot in every game to that point.

Robertson was traded to the Niagara IceDogs partway through the 2018–19 OHL season, during which he recorded 117 points in 62 games to win both the Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy and the CHL Top Scorer Award.

Joining the Stars for the season, Robertson spent most of the year with the Texas Stars, Dallas's American Hockey League affiliate.

On March 7, 2018, in a 5–3 loss to the Oshawa Generals, Robertson scored his 100th career OHL goal.

He was included in Dallas's quarantine bubble for the 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs but did not appear in a game.

Robertson made Dallas's opening night roster the following season, where he was the Calder Memorial Trophy runner-up with 17 goals and 28 assists in 51 games.

Robertson continued his offensive production during the season, becoming the first player in Dallas Stars history to record hat-tricks in consecutive games.

He was named an All-Star in en route to recording his first 100-point season.