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Steven Christopher Stamkos is one of the biggest stars in the NHL. He was born in Markham, Ontario on February 7, 1990. He grew up with his dad, Chris, his mom, Lessley and his sister Sarah. He played AAA with the Markham Waxers.

media type="custom" key="22379422" Some of Steven Stamkos's accomplishments are scoring 60 goals in one season. Here is a video of all of his goals.

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He also scored 5 OT goals in one season. That is the most in NHL history.

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Steven Stamkos will get more achevments to come.

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=__**OHL CAREER**__= Steven Stamkos got drafted first overall by the Sarnia Sting in 2006. In the 2006-07 season, he got 42 goals and 50 assists in his 63 game rookie season. The same year he was named the second all-rookie team. He also won the Bobby Smith trophy being the league's scholastic player of the year. Stamkos got 58 points and 47 assists the next year and got named to the OHL second all-star team. Later, he got selected to the CHL first all-star team. In his NHL draft-eligible season, he was ranked first through out the season. He won the CHL top prospect award.

=__**NHL CAREER**__= Steven Stamkos was the drafted first overall in the 2008 NHL entry draft by the Tampa Bay Lightning.Stamkos signed a three year starter level contract on July 29, 2008.

He played his first game in Prague, Czech Republic at the begining of the 2008-09 season. He got his first point whichwas a secondary assist against the Toronto Maple Leafs. He scored his first goal against the Buffalo Sabers the next game. Stamkos got his first hat trick on February 17, 2009. He was critisized by his coach of his lack of effort in the first half of his rookie season. He got limeted to less than 10 minuets of ice time some games. In his last 20 games of the season he got 19 points. At the end of his rookie season he had 23 goals and 46 points.

Steven Stamkos had a great season in the 2009-10. He had 51 goals and tied with Sidney Crosby. The two shared the Rocket Richard trophey for scoring the most goals in one season. Stamkos scored his 51 goal with an empty net goal in the final minute of the last game.He became the third youngest player to score 50 goals in a season. Steven Stamkos got 5 more goals in 2009-10 than points in 2008-9 with only 46 points. he had 95 points in 20009-10 ranking fifth in the league.

In 20010-11, Stamkos scored 19 goals in his first 19 games. He started to attract rare 50 goals in 50 games standard. In January 2011, stamkos got named to play in the NHL All-Star Game. He was drafted second overall by Team Lidstrom, joining his teammate Martin St. Louis on the team. Stamkos did not achive the 50 goals in 50 games. On the 52 game, he scored his league-leading 38 goals. At the end of the season he finnished second in the legue in goals and got 91 points finishing fifth.

The Lightning finished the season fifth in the Eastern Conference. Stamkos made his playoff debut in 2011. He got his first two goals and an assist in a 8-2 victory. The Lightning advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals against the Boston Bruins. In game seven, Stamkos took a Johnny Boychuck slapshot to the nose.

media type="youtube" key="rP1AQu2h58w" height="315" width="560" He returned with a full visor on his helmet, but the Lightning lost 1-0 and got elimenated from the playoffs.

During that off season he became a restricted free agent. 18 days later, he re-signed with the Lightning with a 5 year contract worth $37.5.

On March 13 2012. Stamkos scored his 50 goal. He scored it against the Boston Bruins. Stamkos scored his 53 goal of the season, breaking a team record for most goals in one season. 5 days after that he scored his record braking 5 OT goal. On the last day of the season, he scored goal #60.

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These are stamkos's stats.

Regular season and playoffs
 * ~  ||~   ||||||||||~ [|Regular season] ||~   ||||||||||~ [|Playoffs] ||
 * ~ [|Season] ||~ Team ||~ League ||^  ||~ GP ||~ [|G] ||~ [|A] ||~ [|Pts] ||~ [|PIM] ||^   ||~ GP ||~ G ||~ A ||~ Pts ||~ PIM ||
 * 2005–06 || Markham Waxers || [|OMHA] ||^  || 66 || 105 || 92 || 197 || 87 ||^   || — || — || — || — || — ||
 * [|2006–07] || [|Sarnia Sting] || [|OHL] ||^  || 63 || 42 || 50 || 92 || 56 ||^   || 4 || 3 || 3 || 6 || 0 ||
 * [|2007–08] || Sarnia Sting || OHL ||^  || 61 || 58 || 47 || 105 || 88 ||^   || 9 || 11 || 0 || 11 || 20 ||
 * [|2008–09] || [|Tampa Bay Lightning] || [|NHL] ||^  || 79 || 23 || 23 || 46 || 39 ||^   || — || — || — || — || — ||
 * [|2009–10] || Tampa Bay Lightning || NHL ||^  || 82 || 51 || 44 || 95 || 36 ||^   || — || — || — || — || — ||
 * [|2010–11] || Tampa Bay Lightning || NHL ||^  || 82 || 45 || 46 || 91 || 74 ||^   || 18 || 6 || 7 || 13 || 6 ||
 * [|2011–12] || Tampa Bay Lightning || NHL ||^  || 82 || 60 || 37 || 97 || 66 ||^   || — || — || — || — || — ||
 * ~ OHL totals ||^  ||~ 124 ||~ 100 ||~ 97 ||~ 197 ||~ 144 ||^   ||~ 13 ||~ 14 ||~ 3 ||~ 17 ||~ 20 ||
 * ~ NHL totals ||^  ||~ 325 ||~ 179 ||~ 150 ||~ 329 ||~ 215 ||^   ||~ 18 ||~ 6 ||~ 7 ||~ 13 ||~ 6 ||

These are his international stats.

Steven Stamkos grew up in Unionville, Ontario and played AAA hockey with the Markham Waxers. His team won 8 straight OMHA titles. While playing for the North York Canadiens, he was temmate with other NHL player, P.K. Subban. Before being drafted to the OHL, Stamkos went to Central Park Public School and Brother Andre Catholic High School. Once Stamkos was drafted to Sarnia, he went to Northen Colligiate Instatute & Vocational School.
 * ~ Year ||~ Team ||~ Comp ||~  ||~ GP ||~ G ||~ A ||~ Pts ||~ PIM ||
 * [|2007] || [|Canada U18] || [|U18] ||^  || 6 || 2 || 8 || 10 || 8 ||
 * [|2007] || Canada U18 || [|JWC] ||^  || 4 || 1 || 4 || 5 || 16 ||
 * [|2008] || [|Canada U20] || [|WJC] ||^  || 7 || 1 || 5 || 6 || 4 ||
 * [|2009] || [|Canada] || [|WC] ||^  || 9 || 7 || 4 || 11 || 6 ||
 * [|2010] || Canada || WC ||^  || 5 || 2 || 1 || 3 || 10 ||
 * ~ Totals ||^  ||~ 31 ||~ 13 ||~ 22 ||~ 35 ||~ 44 ||