Jeff Skinner


Jeffrey Scott Skinner is a Canadian ice hockey player currently playing for the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League . Selected seventh overall by the Hurricanes in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, Skinner was the youngest player in the NHL during the 201011 season and is the youngest player ever to play in the NHL All Star Game, as well as any AllStar game within the four major North American sports leagues. He won the Calder Memorial Trophy for best rookie in the 201011 NHL season at age 18, the first to do so since Tom Barrasso won it in 198384 as a member of the Buffalo Sabres.

Skinner was born to lawyers Andrew Skinner and Elisabeth Campin. He has five siblings, each of whom either are or have been involved with hockey. He is the secondyoungest among those siblings, four of which are sisters Jennifer Andrea Erica and the youngest of the Skinner family, Jillian . He also has one brother, Benjamin, who was in the Kitchener Rangers system, but now plays for the Golden Hawks at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo.

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