Brad Boyes

Bradley Keith Boyes (born April 17, 1982) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player, who spent thirteen seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of seven different teams.

As a youth, Boyes played in the 1996 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the Toronto Young Nationals minor ice hockey team.

Boyes played several years of roller hockey for the Mississauga Rattlers.

He was a member of the Mississauga Reps AAA hockey team before being drafted by the Erie Otters of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL).

He was the OHL's Most Outstanding Player in the 2000–01 season and was twice named the league's most sportsmanlike.

Boyes was drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the first round, 24th overall in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft.

He joined the Maple Leafs American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the St. John's Maple Leafs, for the 2001–02 season, playing in 65 games.

Boyes won the J. Ross Robertson Cup with the Otters in 2002.

In four years with the Otters he registered 141 goals and 309 points in 233 games.

On March 9, 2002 He was traded to the San Jose Sharks along with Alyn McCauley and a 1st-round selection in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft in exchange for Owen Nolan.

Boyes was assigned to the Sharks' AHL affiliate, the Cleveland Barons.

The next season he spent mostly with Cleveland until he was recalled and played in his first NHL game on March 7.

Boyes made his NHL debut in 2003 for the San Jose Sharks, but only played in one game before returning to the AHL.

Two days later Boyes was traded from the Sharks to the Boston Bruins in a three-way deal that saw Jeff Jillson go to the Buffalo Sabres, Curtis Brown go to San Jose, and Boyes and Andy Delmore go to Boston on March 9, 2004.

Boyes was once again assigned to the AHL for the 2004–05 season, this time to the Bruins' affiliate, the Providence Bruins, where he scored 33 goals and 75 points for second on the team and added 8 goals and 15 points in 16 playoff games.

He re-signed with Boston in the off-season.

He returned to the NHL during the 2005-2006 season with the Boston Bruins, playing for the team for two seasons before being traded to the St. Louis Blues in 2007, where he had his longest stint at five seasons.

Boyes made the Bruins out of training camp for the 2005–06 season and scored his first NHL goal on October 8, 2005, against Sébastien Caron of the Pittsburgh Penguins.

He scored his first NHL hat trick on March 18, 2006, against Cam Ward of the Carolina Hurricanes.

He finished the season with 26 goals and 69 points in 82 games and was named to the NHL All-Rookie Team.

Boyes signed a two-year contract extension in the off-season.

The following season Boyes struggled, scoring only 13 goals and 34 points in 62 games.

On trade deadline day, the Bruins traded Boyes to the St. Louis Blues in exchange for Dennis Wideman on February 27, 2007.

After arriving in St. Louis, Boyes would score 4 more goals in 19 games.

In St. Louis Boyes became a star player, scoring 43 goals in the 2007–08 season.

On March 1, 2008, he signed a four-year contract with St. Louis.

He followed this up with 33 goals in the 2008–09 season.

The following two seasons were a disappointment, with just 14 goals and 12 goals during that time.

Traded to the Buffalo Sabres in 2010, he remained with the team for two seasons before being acquired by the New York Islanders in 2012.

On February 27, 2011, Boyes was traded by the Blues to the Buffalo Sabres in exchange for a second-round pick in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft.

Boyes scored a goal in his Sabres debut on March 2, 2011.

He scored again in the following game.

In his second season with Buffalo Boyes registered 8 goals and 23 points.

After one season with the Islanders, Boyes spent the next two seasons with the Florida Panthers, before playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs during the 2015-2016 season.

Boyes went to Hazel McCallion Senior Public School and Clarkson Secondary School, both in Mississauga, before moving to Erie, Pennsylvania.

His mother is a teacher.

His father is a school principal, and was the principal of Champlain Trail Public School.

His father is also one of the directors of the Streetsville Hockey League, a small house league based in Streetsville.

Despite living in the Greater Toronto Area, Boyes was an Ottawa Senators fan growing up.

However, the hometown Toronto Maple Leafs were Boyes' "second team", and he would later say that he "always wanted to play for the Leafs".