| Ben Sexton | |
| Birth Date: | 6 June 1991 |
| Birth Place: | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Height Ft: | 5 |
| Height In: | 11 |
| Weight Lb: | 196 |
| Position: | Centre |
| Shoots: | Right |
| Played For: | Ottawa Senators |
| Draft: | 206th overall |
| Draft Year: | 2009 |
| Career Start: | 2013 |
| Career End: | 2020 |
Ben Sexton (born June 6, 1991) is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player. Sexton is currently an assistant coach with the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL), whom he also played for. A centre, he was selected by the Boston Bruins in the seventh round, 206th overall, of the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. Sexton is the son of one of the Ottawa Senators' founding partners, Randy Sexton.
Sexton played four years at Clarkson University. In his junior year, Sexton was named team captain and was named to the ECAC Hockey All-Academic team.[1] He was also awarded Clarkson's Mike Morrison Dedication Award and Clarkson Ironman Award.[2] The following season, again serving as captain, Sexton was named to the ECAC Hockey All-Academic team for the second year in a row.[1]
On March 20, 2014, Sexton signed an entry-level contract with the Boston Bruins and was subsequently assigned to their American Hockey League affiliate, the Providence Bruins.[3]
On July 1, 2017, Sexton signed a two-year, two-way contract with the Ottawa Senators.[4] Sexton was assigned to the Senators' American Hockey League affiliate, the Belleville Senators, after training camp. Sexton received a call-up in March 2018 and played his first NHL game on March 26, 2018, against the Carolina Hurricanes.[5] He was reassigned to the AHL a game later.[6] After the season, Sexton was Belleville's nominee for the Yanick Dupre Memorial Award as AHL man of the year.[7]
On December 5, Sexton and Macoy Erkamps were traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for Stefan Elliott and Tobias Lindberg.[8] Reassigned to AHL affiliate, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, Sexton appeared in 26 games, accruing seven goals and three assists for 10 points.
As a free agent from the Pittsburgh Penguins, Sexton opted to remain within the organization by continuing with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton on a one-year AHL contract on July 11, 2019.[9]
Having missed the entirety of the 2019–20 season due to a concussion injury, Sexton announced his retirement after seven professional seasons on May 9, 2020.[10]
Sexton comes from a family of hockey players; his father is one of the Ottawa Senators' founding partners, Randy Sexton. His younger brother Patrick played NCAA hockey for the University of Wisconsin from 2015–2017.[11]
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |||||
| 2007–08 | Nepean Raiders | CCHL | 48 | 15 | 15 | 30 | 71 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | ||
| 2008–09 | Nepean Raiders | CCHL | 38 | 14 | 21 | 35 | 54 | 11 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 22 | ||
| 2009–10 | Penticton Vees | BCHL | 50 | 13 | 29 | 42 | 83 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||
| 2010–11 | ECAC | 12 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 2011–12 | Clarkson University | ECAC | 27 | 8 | 21 | 29 | 44 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2012–13 | Clarkson University | ECAC | 28 | 5 | 15 | 20 | 70 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2013–14 | Clarkson University | ECAC | 35 | 6 | 22 | 28 | 88 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2013–14 | AHL | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 2014–15 | Providence Bruins | AHL | 35 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 57 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| 2015–16 | Providence Bruins | AHL | 29 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 45 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| 2016–17 | Albany Devils | AHL | 54 | 19 | 12 | 31 | 60 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 2017–18 | AHL | 30 | 10 | 11 | 21 | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 2017–18 | Ottawa Senators | NHL | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2018–19 | Belleville Senators | AHL | 17 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2018–19 | Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins | AHL | 26 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 31 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| NHL totals | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||