Jeff Skinner

Jeffrey Scott Skinner (born May 16, 1992) is a Canadian ice hockey player currently playing for the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League (NHL). Selected seventh overall by the Hurricanes in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, Skinner was the youngest player in the NHL during the 2010–11 season and is the youngest player ever to play in the NHL All Star Game, as well as any All-Star game within the four major North American sports leagues. He won the Calder Memorial Trophy for best rookie in the 2010–11 NHL season at age 18, the first to do so since Tom Barrasso won it in 1983–84 as a member of the Buffalo Sabres.

Early life

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 second-youngest among those siblings, four of which are sisters: Jennifer (a former Harvard Crimson forward); Andrea (a former Cornell Big Red forward and lawyer at Bay Street law firm Aird & Berlis); Erica (current Carleton Ravens defence); and the youngest of the Skinner family, Jillian (currently a defenseman wearing the number 25 at Mercyhurst University<ref name=Mercyhurst University Women's Ice Hockey Roster>"Mercyhurst University Women's Ice Hockey Roster". Retrieved 2014-11-18. </ref>). 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.