Corey Perry

Corey Perry is a Canadian professional ice hockey winger for the Los Angeles Kings in the NHL. He spent his first 14 seasons with the Anaheim Ducks, winning the Stanley Cup with them in 2007. His career has also taken him to the Dallas Stars, Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Blackhawks, Edmonton Oilers, and Tampa Bay Lightning.

Perry is known for scoring goals and for a rough, irritating style of play that gets under opponents’ skin. His scoring touch earned him the nickname "Scorey Perry," while his abrasive side led to the less flattering "the Worm."

In junior hockey, he won the Memorial Cup with the OHL’s London Knights and a gold medal at the World Junior Championships with Canada. The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim picked him 28th overall in the first round of the 2003 NHL draft, and he won the Stanley Cup with them in 2007. In 2008, he had 29 goals and 25 assists. He improved to 72 points in 2009, earning his first NHL All-Star Game selection.

In 2010, he scored 27 goals and added 49 assists. The next season, he won the Hart Memorial Trophy as league MVP for 2010–11, leading the NHL with 50 goals and finishing third in points with 98. During one-year stints with Dallas and Montreal, Perry lost back-to-back Stanley Cup Finals to Tampa Bay in 2020 and 2021. He then joined the Lightning the following season and lost a third straight Final in 2022, becoming the first player in NHL history to lose three consecutive Finals with three different teams.

He later returned to the Final with the Oilers in 2024 and 2025, losing both times, making him the first player to reach the Final with five different franchises and the first to lose four Finals with four different teams.

Internationally, Perry won Olympic gold with Canada in 2010 and 2014. He joined the Triple Gold Club after captaining Canada to gold at the 2016 World Championship, adding to his Stanley Cup and Olympic gold. He is only the second player, after Scott Niedermayer, to combine Triple Gold membership with gold at the World Juniors, a Memorial Cup win, and a World Cup of Hockey win.

Perry was born on May 16, 1985, in New Liskeard, Ontario, the first of two boys born to Geoff and Nancy Perry. He and his brother Adam learned to skate when Corey was two. When he was 10, his family moved from Haileybury, Ontario, to Peterborough, Ontario. As a child, his favorite NHL team was the Montreal Canadiens.

Perry played youth hockey with the Peterborough Minor Petes AAA organization in the OMHA’s Eastern AAA league. In 2001, he led his team to win the first OHL Cup Bantam AAA championship, held in Peterborough. That year, he scored 73 goals in 67 games.

After a strong minor hockey career, the London Knights selected Perry fifth overall in the 2001 OHL Priority Draft. In his rookie season, he produced 59 points in 60 games. The next year, his draft season, he improved to 78 points and was taken 28th overall by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the 2003 NHL draft. In 2003–04, he scored 40 goals and 73 assists for 113 points in 66 games, becoming the first Knight to reach 100 points in a season since Jason Allison in 1994.

That season, the Ducks nearly traded Perry to the Edmonton Oilers for Mike Comrie, but the deal fell through when Comrie refused to return $2.5 million of his salary. In the OHL playoffs, he added seven goals, earning a call-up to the Ducks’ AHL affiliate, the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks. He was named an OHL first-team All-Star. In his fourth and final junior season, 2004–05, Perry scored a career-high 130 points in 60 games.

He added 38 points in the postseason to win the J. Ross Robertson Cup as OHL champions and then the Memorial Cup. In 18 playoff games, he had 11 goals and 27 assists. The Knights shut out Sidney Crosby’s Rimouski Océanic in the final.

Perry debuted with the Ducks in 2005–06 but was sent down to the AHL early that year alongside fellow rookie Ryan Getzlaf. He scored his first NHL goal against the Edmonton Oilers on October 10, 2005, and recorded a point in each of his first four games. He had his first multi-goal game against the Los Angeles Kings on January 28, 2006. Perry and Getzlaf combined for 67 points in 36 games with the Portland Pirates, the Ducks’ new AHL affiliate, and were recalled for the 2006 playoffs. Perry finished his rookie season with 25 points (13 goals, 12 assists) in 56 games. In the playoffs, he had three assists and no goals as the Ducks lost in the Western Conference Final to the eighth-seeded Edmonton Oilers. In 2006–07, his second season, he improved to 44 points (17 goals, 27 assists) in all 82 games, playing alongside Ryan Getzlaf and Dustin Penner.