Marty Reasoner

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Position	Center
Shoots	Left
Nickname	The Reason
Height Weight	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) 200 lb (91 kg)
NHL Team F. Teams	Edmonton Oilers St. Louis Blues Boston Bruins
Nationality	United States
Born	February 26, 1977, Honeoye Falls NY, USA
NHL Draft	14th overall, 1996 St. Louis Blues
Pro Career	1998 – present

Marty Reasoner (b. 26 February 1977) is a professional centerman in the National Hockey League, currently playing for the Edmonton Oilers. He was born in Honeoye Falls, New York and taken in the first round of the 1996 NHL Entry Draft, 14th overall, by the St. Louis Blues. This followed two years of high school hockey at McQuaid Jesuit High School, two years of high school at Deerfield Academy in Mass. and one year at Boston College, where he was named Rookie of the Year. He then completed two more years at BC. Reasoner split 1998-2001 between the Blues and their top minor-league affiliate, the Worcester IceCats. In 2003, he was voted a starter on the IceCats' tenth-anniversary All-Time Team.

Reasoner was traded on July 1, 2001 to the Edmonton Oilers, along with Jochen Hecht and Jan Horacek in exchange for Oilers' captain Doug Weight and Michel Riesen. In November 2003, Reasoner suffered a severe knee injury when he crashed into the end boards. On August 9, 2005, Reasoner and the Oilers came to terms on a one-year deal. He was traded from Edmonton to the Boston Bruins on March 9, 2006, along with Yan Stastny and a second-round pick in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft (Milan Lucic) in exchange for Sergei Samsonov, thus missing the incredible playoff run of the Oilers that year.