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Position	Goaltender
Catches	Left
Nickname(s)	Turks, Turkey
Height Weight	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) 185 lb (84 kg/13 st 3 lb)
NHL Team	Dallas Stars
Nationality	Canada
Born	August 13, 1975 (1975-08-13) (age 32), Sault Ste. Marie, ON, CAN
NHL Draft	124th overall, 1994 Dallas Stars
Pro Career	2000 – present

Marty Turco (born August 13, 1975 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario) is a professional ice hockey goaltender with the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League. Because of his puckhandling prowess, Canadian hockey personality Don Cherry named Turco as "the smartest goalie in the NHL."[1]

Contents [hide] 1 Playing career 1.1 Early career 1.2 Dallas years 2 Awards 3 Records 4 Personal life 5 Career statistics 5.1 Regular season 5.2 Playoffs 6 International play 7 External links

[edit] Playing career

[edit] Early career

Turco started his career at the University of Michigan, with whom he won 2 NCAA titles. He was drafted in the fifth round of the 1994 NHL Entry Draft by the Dallas Stars, and went on to play for Michigan that fall. Turco earned many awards in his four years at Michigan, including Rookie of the Year in 1995, Tournament MVP in 1998, and nominations to the First All-Star team in 1997, the Second All-Star Team in 1998, and the All-Tournament Team in 1996 and 1998. After graduating, Turco went to play for Dallas's IHL affiliate, the Michigan K-Wings. In 1999, he was named IHL Rookie of the Year. After the 2001-2002 season, Dallas decided to make Turco the starting goaltender, allowing Belfour to sign with the Toronto Maple Leafs.

[edit] Dallas years

In his first year as the starting goaltender, 2002–03, Turco's goals-against average of 1.72 set a modern NHL record. (Miikka Kiprusoff broke Turco's record the next season with a 1.69 goals against average.) Turco played in the NHL All-Star Game during the season and was named to the Second All-Star Team following the season, finishing second in Vezina Trophy voting as well (behind Martin Brodeur). His .932 save percentage was also best in the NHL that year.

During the 2003–04 season, Turco continued to give the Stars quality goaltending, again playing (and starting) in the All-Star Game. However, when the Stars played the Colorado Avalanche in the first round of the playoffs, Turco struggled, receiving blame from some for the Stars' losing the series in five games.^{[citation needed]}

In the 2005–06 season, Turco won a career-best 41 games, 8 of them in shootouts. Turco's experience in the 2006 playoffs was similar to the prior season, again losing in five games to the Avalanche.

On April 13, 2007 Marty Turco recorded his first ever playoff shutout against the Vancouver Canucks to tie the series 1–1. After the game, Turco stated "We know we can beat these guys here [Vancouver], or at home, or anywhere."[2] After making such a bold statement, Turco walked into Vancouver and shut out the Canucks.

Turco went on to lose against the Canucks at home in game three, dropping a 2–1 overtime victory, when Taylor Pyatt got a quick one-time shot off a feed from Bryan Smolinski. In game 4, once again the Stars could not put up a win, losing to the Canuck's 2–1 off of goals from Mattias Ohlund, then the game winner from Linden. The Stars then went on to win game 5 in the series with 1–0 OT win. Brenden Morrow scored the game's only goal 6:22 into the first OT period, allowing Turco to get his second career playoff shutout. Turco followed this up with his third shutout of the series in a 2–0 win. The series ended on Monday, April 23rd, 2007 with a score of 4–1 Vancouver, after Turco allowed Trevor Linden to score the eventual game-winning goal in the 2nd period.

Turco has consistently been owned by the Detroit Red Wings. Turco has never won at the Joe Louis Arena. Turco is 0 - 9 - 2 lifetime at JLA. Turco has particularly had trouble with the Red Wings' Pavel Datsyuk. Pavel has made Turco look like a fish out of water at times with his dekes.

[edit] Awards

• Named NHL "First Star of the Week" for October 4 to October 15, 2006.
• Roger Crozier Saving Grace Award - 2001, 2003

[edit] Records

• NHL record for Most Shutouts in a Playoff Series (3)

[edit] Personal life

Marty and his wife Kelly have two daughters, Hailey and Katelyn, with the family residing in Highland Park, Texas. He also owns a home in his home town of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, where he spends much of his summer.

[edit] Career statistics

[edit] Regular season

Season	Team	League		GP	W	L	T	OTL	MIN	GA	SO	GAA	SV %
1994–95	Michigan	CCHA		37	27	7	1	-	2063	95	1	2.76	-
1995–96	Michigan	CCHA		42	34	7	1	-	2335	84	5	2.16	-
1996–97	Michigan	CCHA		41	33	4	4	-	2296	87	4	2.27	.893
1997–98	Michigan	CCHA		45	33	10	1	-	2639	95	4	2.16	.887
1998–99	Michigan K-Wings	IHL		54	24	17	10	-	3127	136	1	2.61	.899
1999–2000	Michigan K-Wings	IHL		60	23	27	7	-	3399	139	7	2.45	.901
2000–01	Dallas Stars	NHL		26	13	6	1	-	1266	40	3	1.90	.925
2001–02	Dallas Stars	NHL		31	15	6	2	-	1519	53	2	2.09	.921
2002–03	Dallas Stars	NHL		55	31	10	10	-	3203	92	7	1.72	.932
2003–04	Dallas Stars	NHL		73	37	21	13	-	4359	144	9	1.98	.913
2004–05	Djurgårdens	Sweden		6	-	-	-	-	356	12	1	2.02	.932
2005–06	Dallas Stars	NHL		68	41	19	-	5	3910	166	3	2.55	.898
2006–07	Dallas Stars	NHL		67	38	20	-	5	3763	140	6	2.23	.910
2007–08	Dallas Stars	NHL		62	32	21	-	6	3628	140	3	2.32	.909
NHL CAREER TOTALS				382	207	103	26	16	21,649	775	33	2.15	.913
CCHA CAREER TOTALS				165	127	28	17	-	9333	361	14	2.18	-
IHL CAREER TOTALS				114	47	44	17	-	6526	275	8	2.53	.918

• Stats as of April 28, 2008

[edit] Playoffs

Season	Team	League		GP	W	L	T	MIN	GA	SO	GAA	SV %
1998–99	Michigan K-Wings	IHL		5	2	3	-	300	14	0	2.80	-
2002–03	Dallas Stars	NHL		12	6	6	-	798	25	0	1.87	.919
2003–04	Dallas Stars	NHL		5	1	4	-	325	18	0	3.32	.849
2005–06	Dallas Stars	NHL		5	1	4	-	319	18	0	3.38	.868
2006–07	Dallas Stars	NHL		7	3	4	-	509	11	3	1.29	.952
2007–08	Dallas Stars	NHL		11	7	4	-	696	23	1	1.88	.921
NHL CAREER TOTALS				40	18	22	-	2557	91	4	2.13	.912
IHL CAREER TOTALS				5	2	3	-	300	14	0	2.80	-

• Stats as of May 9, 2008

[edit] International play

• Played for Team Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

[edit] External links

• Marty Turco at TSN.ca
• Marty Turco's NHL player profile

Preceded by Ed Belfour	Winner of the Crozier Award 2001	Succeeded by Jose Theodore
Preceded by Jose Theodore	Winner of the Crozier Award 2003	Succeeded by Dwayne Roloson