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Jared Staal (RW)

Charlotte Checkers

Biography

2011-12: Completed his second professional season and second with the Checkers ...Played a career-high 44 games with Charlotte and Providence, spending the entire season at the AHL level for the first time ...Set new career highs in goals (3), assists (5) and points (8) ...Made his season debut vs. HOU (10/21) ...Recorded his first point of the season, an assist on Justin Soryal's goal at HOU (10/30) ... Opened the scoring with his first goal of the season at RFD (11/6) ... Assisted on Brett Sutter's goal and was plus-2 at OKC (11/12) ...Had a career-high seven penalty minutes, including his first career fight, at HOU (11/13) ...Scored the only power-play goal of his career and took a career-high six shots at SA (12/11) ...Recorded his first career game-winning goal at TEX (2/4) ...Dropped the gloves with Mark Cundari at PEO (2/11) ...Had the primary assist on A.J. Jenks' goal at CHI (2/19) ... Reassigned by the Carolina Hurricanes to Providence on 3/5 and finished the season with the Bruins ...Picked up an assist in his Providence debut vs. WBS (3/9) ...Games missed due to illness: 1 (1/11) ...Sat out 29 games as a healthy extra (10/7-10/16, 11/18, 11/23-12/9, 1/20-1/27, 2/10, 3/4, 3/16-3/18, 3/25-3/31, 4/6-4/13, 4/15).

2010-11: Completed his first full professional season, splitting the year between Charlotte (AHL) and Florida (ECHL)... Had two points (1g, 1a) in 13 games on the AHL level and 11 points (6g, 5a) in 33 ECHL games...Began the season with the Everblades in the ECHL, and netted his first professional goal vs. Trenton (11/24)...Earned his first AHL recall on 12/17, and netted his first AHL goal at Binghamton (12/18)...Earned his first assist with the Checkers vs. Worcester (4/9)... Did not appear in any of Charlotte's Calder Cup Playoff games.

2009-10: Played his fourth season in the Ontario Hockey League with Sudbury scoring 12 goals and adding a career-high 37 assists (49 points) in 59 games...Joined San Antonio (AHL) for five games registering his first career pro point, an assist, on 4/08 vs. HOU.

2008-09: Scored 52 points (19g, 33a) in 67 games played...Played five games with SAN (AHL), making his professional debut at Lake Erie 03/21.

Juniors: Played four seasons with Sudbury (OHL) scoring 54 goals and 99 assists for a total of 153 points in 249 games.

Miscellaneous: Made professional debut 03/21/2009 at LEM... recorded first career professional point, an assist, 04/08/2010 vs. HOU... Acquired by the Hurricanes, from the Coyotes, in exchange for a fifth-round draft pick in 2010 on 05/13/2010...Signed three-year entry-level contract with Carolina on 05/14/2010...Is the younger brother of NHLers Eric, Marc and Jordan Staal.