Second chances, fresh starts, are known to possess miraculous recuperative powers. Turris is a case in point.

The 6-foot-1, 190-pound center's career seemed at a complete standstill landlocked in the Arizona desert when Ottawa Senators' GM Bryan Murray swung a trade on Dec. 17, 2011. Reinvigorated by a change of scenery, the shift has resurrected Turris' career and he's become a vital cog down the middle at Canadian Tire Centre.

As a 16-year-old with Burnaby of the British Columbia Hockey League in 2005-06, Turris scored an impressive 36 goals and 72 points in 57 games. But the next season was staggering: 121 points, including 66 goals, in 53 games.

Turris, who had been ranked first among North American skaters by the Central Scouting Bureau, was selected by the Phoenix Coyotes with the No. 3 pick in the 2007 NHL Draft, the highest player drafted by an NHL organization out of Tier II Junior A.

A native of New Westminster, B.C., Turris enrolled at the University of Wisconsin, where he finished the 2007-08 season with 11 goals and 35 points in 36 games before making his NHL debut on April 3, 2008, in a 4-2 home loss to the Dallas Stars. He scored his first NHL point - an assist - in his third game, a season-ending 3-2 loss to the Anaheim Ducks.

Penciled in as a Top 2-line center, Turris struggled to consistently produce offense for the Coyotes, as his rather modest total of 19 goals and 46 points in 137 games would indicate.

The trade to Ottawa on Dec. 17, 2011 changed everything. In 49 games, Turris scored 12 goals and 29 points, and the Senators signed him to a five-year, $17.5 million contract extension the following summer.