DARNELL NURSE
North American Skater - Sault Ste. Marie, OHL
Final Rank:4Midterm Rank:9
Position:DefensemanShoots:Left
Height:6' 4"Weight:221
Born:February 4, 1995Hometown:Hamilton, ON
Born in:Hamilton, ON, CAN
Drafted: 2013: EDM (1st Round / 7th Overall) 
• In his second OHL season, Nurse led Sault Ste. Marie with 116 penalty minutes and finished second on the team with a plus-15 rating. His 41 points (12-29--41) ranked third among Greyhounds defensemen.

• Nurse was named the Ontario Hockey League’s Scholastic Player of the Year for 2012-13 after carrying an 85% average in six Grade 12 University Prep courses. Previous winners of the award include NHL stars Dustin Brown (2001-03), Steven Stamkos (2006-07) and Matt Duchene (2008-09).

• He won gold with Team Canada at the 2012 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament and bronze at the 2012 Under-18 World Championship. He also won bronze with Team Ontario at the 2012 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge and was selected to the tournament All-Star Team.

• Nurse comes from an athletic family – his father, Richard, played wide receiver for Hamilton in the Canadian Football League; his mother, Cathy, starred with the McMaster Marauders basketball team in Hamilton, Ont.; his older sister, Tamika, played basketball at Oregon and Bowling Green; and his younger sister, Kia, has represented both Ontario and Canada in basketball. His uncle is former NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb and his aunt, Raquel Nurse, is a former Syracuse basketball standout.

• He played minor hockey with the Don Mills Flyers (2008-11) alongside fellow draft prospect Max Domi (No. 19-ranked North American Skater) and he played on his first hockey team, the Lawfield Lightning, at the age of five.

• Nurse likes to play the guitar in his spare time away from the rink.

NEWS

NURSE HAS GREAT SOURCE FOR ADVICE IN UNCLE – MCNABB (click here)

FAVORITES

NHL team: New Jersey Devils
NHL player: Trevor Daley
Shootout move: “Shoot at anything that looks open”
Goal celebration: “Straight to the face-off dot”
Video game: NHL 13
Movie: Friday Night Lights
TV show: Sons of Anarchy
Actor: Denzel Washington
Website: Google
Pump-up song: Dreams and Nightmares by Meek Mill
Restaurant: The Keg
Sport (other than hockey): Basketball
Breakfast food: Bacon and eggs
Superhero: Batman


STATISTICS

SEASONTEAMLEAGUEGPGAPPIM
2023-2024EDMONTONNHL709162567
2022-2023EDMONTONNHL8212314364
2021-2022EDMONTONNHL719263554
2020-2021EDMONTONNHL5616203657
2019-2020EDMONTONNHL715283348
2018-2019EDMONTONNHL8210314187
2017-2018EDMONTONNHL826202667
2016-2017EDMONTONNHL44561133
2015-2016EDMONTONNHL69371060
2015-2016BAKERSFIELDAHL60117
2014-2015SAULT STE. MARIEOHL3610233358
2014-2015EDMONTONNHL20000
2013-2014SAULT STE. MARIEOHL6413375091
2012-2013SAULT STE. MARIEOHL68122941116
2011-2012SAULT STE. MARIEOHL53191061
2010-2011DON MILLS MINOR MIDGETGTHL3811182972
2010-2011ST. MICHAELSOJHL20004