Like his father Thomas Steen, a forward who played for the Winnipeg Jets from 1981-95, Steen began his NHL career with a Canadian team when he debuted for the Toronto Maple Leafs against the Ottawa Senators on Oct. 5, 2005. When Steen scored a goal against the Montreal Canadiens in his second NHL game three days later, he and his dad became the first Swedish father-son combination to score in the NHL.
The Maple Leafs selected Steen in the first round (No. 24) of the 2002 NHL Draft. He represented Sweden at the 2002 IIHF World Under-18 Championship and the World Junior Championship in 2003 and 2004. Steen scored 18 goals as an NHL rookie in 2005-06 and at least 15 in each of his first three seasons.
Like his father Thomas Steen, a forward who played for the Winnipeg Jets from 1981-95, Steen began his NHL career with a Canadian team when he debuted for the Toronto Maple Leafs against the Ottawa Senators on Oct. 5, 2005. When Steen scored a goal against the Montreal Canadiens in his second NHL game three days later, he and his dad became the first Swedish father-son combination to score in the NHL.
The Maple Leafs selected Steen in the first round (No. 24) of the 2002 NHL Draft. He represented Sweden at the 2002 IIHF World Under-18 Championship and the World Junior Championship in 2003 and 2004. Steen scored 18 goals as an NHL rookie in 2005-06 and at least 15 in each of his first three seasons.
In 2006-07, Steen had an NHL-best plus-23 rating on the road and played in the NHL YoungStars Game. He got his first NHL hat trick against the Boston Bruins as part of a five-point game on Jan. 4, 2007.
The Maple Leafs traded Steen to the St. Louis Blues on Nov. 24, 2008. He had back-to-back 20-goal seasons for the Blues in 2009-10 and 2010-11. On March 16, 2010 against the Colorado Avalanche, he tied Greg Paslawski's Blues record for the fastest goal from the start of a game (eight seconds).
In 2011-12, Steen led St. Louis and was 12th in the NHL with a plus-24 rating. In the first round of the 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs, Steen scored at 13:26 of overtime in Game 1 for the first shorthanded OT goal in Blues playoff history.
Steen was named the NHL First Star of the Month for October 2013 after scoring an NHL-leading 11 goals. He became the first NHL player to score a goal in each of his team's first 10 wins of the season since Eric Lindros in 1993-94 and finished 2013-14 with 33 goals. Steen scored 20 goals in his first 24 games that season, becoming the second-fastest player in Blues history to reach that mark (Brett Hull scored 20 in 20 games in 1990-91).
NOTES & TRANSACTIONS
- Traded to St. Louis by Toronto with Carlo Colaiacovo for Lee Stempniak, November 24, 2008.
- Signed as a free agent by MODO (Sweden), September 25, 2012.
