Former Canadian Professional Hockey Player Who Won Two Stanley Cup

Jarret Stoll | Biography

Talent Scout For National Hockey League's Los Angeles Kings

• By Reena Chikanbanjar
• Original : December 06, 2021

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Jarret Stoll is a former Canadian professional ice hockey player in the NHL. He is famous for his faceoff expertise and two Stanley Cup victories.

Who is Jarret Stoll?

Jarret Stoll started playing hockey at a very young age in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, where he was born and grew up. He began his career in minor league hockey in 1997. He assisted the Yorkton Bantam AAA Terriers to a Western Canadian Championship the same year. 

After winning the championship, he became the first overall pick of the Edmonton Ice (later renamed as the Kootenay Ice) in the 1997 WHL Bantam Draft. He played for the Saskatoon Blazers of the Saskatchewan Midget Triple-A Hockey League before being selected as the captain of the Edmonton Ice in his third season with the team. In his final 2001-2002 season with Ice, he helped the team to a Memorial Cup championship.

He went through the NHL draft process two times while playing with the Ice. He was selected in the second round (46th overall) in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft by the Calgary Flames. However, he failed to come to terms with the team. He was then traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs, but he could not sign a deal. He re-entered the 2002 NHL Entry Draft and was selected by the Edmonton Oilers in the second round (36th overall). 

Stoll represented Canada in the World Junior Hockey Championship, winning the bronze medal in 2001 and the silver medal in 2002. He was named captain for Team Canada in 2002.

He debuted in the Stanley Cup playoffs in the 2005-2006 season. On 4 February 2006, he set a team record by winning 21 of 22 faceoffs in a game against the Vancouver Canuck. He was traded to the Los Angeles Kings on 29 June 2008. He signed a four-year contract worth $14.4 million within three months with the Kings. In 2012, he scored the series-winning goal in Game 5 of the Western Conference Quarterfinals.

Later, he re-signed with the Kings for a three-year deal worth $9.75 million in 2015. With the Kings, he won the Stanley Cup twice - one on 11 June 2012 against the New Jersey Devils and second on 13 June 2014 in game five against the New York Rangers. 

On 10 August 2015, Stoll signed a one-year contract worth $800,000 with the New York Rangers. He played as the team’s fourth-line center on 7 October 2015 in a game against the Chicago Blackhawks. He played a total of 29 games with the Rangers before being released by the team. 

He was claimed off waivers from the Rangers by the Minnesota Wild on 15 December 2015. As an unrestricted free agent from the Wild, he failed to attain an NHL deal as he agreed to a professional try-out contract with the Columbus Blue Jackets on 30 August 2016.

However, he was soon released from his professional try-out on 5 October 2016. He subsequently retired from his NHL career. On 15 December 2016, he accepted a job as a talent scout for the Kings, which is a role in which he still functions today.

How old is Jarret Stoll?

Born in Melville, Canada, on 24 June 1982, Jerret Stoll’s age is 39 years as of 2021.

Wedding and Wife

Stoll was engaged to thirteen years older New Zealand model, actress, and television personality Rachel Hunter. They had planned to marry in August 2009, but Stoll called off their wedding two months before it was scheduled to take place.

Later, in December 2012, he started dating sportscaster Erin Andrews. They got engaged on 9 December 2016 and subsequently got married on 24 June 2017. 

Meeting Andrews

It was Stoll who made the first approach. He wanted to take Andrews to date and requested his friend Michael Strahan to aid him. Strahan was Stoll and Andrew's familiar friend.

Despite the friendly approach from Stoll, she first rejected the offer due to her work priorities. However, Stoll's persistence escorted them to a solid relationship that was cemented with a wedding in 2017.

Fertility Issues 

The world didn't fall apart for Andrews when she was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2016. Even after the diagnosis, she did what brought her solace—broadcasting. At the time, she even planned to have a family. "I didn't have to have a hysterectomy and so I'm fully capable of having a baby," she told herself at the time. 

However, she faced the problem of conceiving and took the support of IVF treatment, which she found hard and hated. "This is my 7th one, and I've been going through these treatments since I was 35 years old," she wrote on her blog "The Real Deal with Erin Andrews" in August 2021. 

In November 2021, she revealed to US Weekly that she struggled like many other women. It was Stoll who aided her in the emotional rollercoaster journey, and he became someone she could rely on. The situation acted as a silver lining for the couple as they would have a wedding a year later after her cancer diagnosis. 

Net Worth

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Stoll has an estimated net worth of $16 million, as of 6 December 2021. He amassed his net worth through his professional ice hockey career.