After recording 32 points in his junior rookie season, he was named to the QMJHL and the CHL All-Rookie Team.
Kristopher Joseph Pierre Irwin Letang is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who was born on April 24, 1987. He is an alternate captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL). Letang played major junior hockey for the Val-d’Or Foreurs of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League for three seasons. After recording 32 points in his junior rookie season, he was named to the QMJHL and the CHL All-Rookie Team. The next season, a 68-point effort in just 60 games earned him QMJHL First-Team All-Star honors.
In his second full NHL season, Letang won the Stanley Cup with Pittsburgh, in 2009, he became a two-time Stanley Cup champion when the Penguins defeated the San Jose Sharks in 2016, and a three-time Stanley Cup champion when the Penguins defeated the Nashville Predators in 2017. Internationally, he has competed for Canada at the under-18 and under-20 levels, winning back-to-back gold medals at the World Junior Championships in 2006 and 2007. In addition to receiving the Emile Bouchard Trophy as the QMJHL’s best defenceman and the Paul Dumont Trophy as the best personality, Letang also received the Kevin Lowe Trophy, as the best defensive defenceman, indicative of Letang’s abilities on both ends of the ice.
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Letang was selected 62nd overall by the Penguins in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft. He made his NHL debut in the 2006–07 season. And scored his first NHL goal in his third game, against Henrik Lundqvist of the New York Rangers in a 6–5 win. However, after two goals in seven games, Letang was scratched twice and then returned to Val-d’Or for further development. Letang debuted internationally for Canada in his junior rookie season during the 2005 World U18 Championships in the Czech Republic. Letang scored four points in six games in a silver medal effort, losing to the United States in the final.
| Games | 941 |
| Total Points | 650 |
| Total Goals | 144 |
| Total Assists | 506 |
The Canadian ice hockey player has a salary of $16 million. He signed a $58 million 8-year deal with the Pittsburg Penguins including $58 million guaranteed with an annual average salary of $7,250,000 million. As of 2021-22, Kris Letang is earning a base salary weight of $7,250,000 million while carrying a cap hit of the same. From 14 seasons played with the Pittsburg Penguins from 2007 to 2022, he has gathered a total salary of $68,748,780 million with an additional signing bonus of about $170,000. Kris Letang played his entire National Hockey League career with the Pittsburg Penguins since 2006.
Kris Letang and Catherine Laflamme tied the knot on July 18, 2015, in Montreal, Canada. The beautiful couple had been in a relationship for some time before walking down the aisle. Like Kris, Catherine is also a star and Canadian celebrity. She worked as an actuality program star and came to the spotlight after exhibiting in a French-language actuality current. Catherine attended the reality TV show “Hockey Wives” and marked a name for herself there. Kris and Catherine welcomed their first child, Alexander on November 23, 2012, before their marriage, and gave birth to their second child, Victoria on July 5, 2018.
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