Jason Ward

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CanadaCanada  Jason Ward Ice hockey player
Date of birth January 16, 1979
place of birth Chapleau , Ontario , Canada
size 188 cm
Weight 92 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1997 , 1st lap, 11th position
Canadiens de Montréal
Career stations
1995-1996 Niagara Falls Thunder
1996-1998 Erie Otters
1998-1999 Windsor Spitfires
1999 Plymouth Whalers
1999-2004 Canadiens de Montréal
2004-2005 Hamilton Bulldogs
2005-2007 New York Rangers
2007 Los Angeles Kings
2007-2009 Tampa Bay Lightning
2009 Norfolk Admirals
2009-2010 Adirondack Phantoms
2010-2011 EHC Linz

Jason Ward (born January 16, 1979 in Chapleau , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach , who last played in the Austrian ice hockey league at EHC Linz .

Career

Ward began his career in the Ontario Hockey League , Canada's highest junior league, and made his professional debut in the American Hockey League in the 1997/98 season . In 1997, he was drawn eleventh in the NHL Entry Draft . In total, he completed 348 games in the NHL , most of them for the Canadiens de Montréal . In the 2006/07 season he was transferred to the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for Sean Avery from the New York Rangers . His last games he completed after another change at the Tampa Bay Lightning . In 2009 and 2010, however, he was only used in the AHL. In the spring of 2010, he finally ended his active career due to a lack of contract offers and in the meantime worked as an assistant coach of the Brampton Battalion in the OHL, before the Austrian first division club EHC Linz brought him back from early retirement to replace the disappointing Eric Healey . After 35 games with the Black Wings by the end of the 2010/11 season , Ward returned to the Brampton Battalion in the Ontario Hockey League, where he has since acted again as an assistant coach.

International

Ward represented his home country at the 1998 Junior World Championship and the 1999 U20 World Junior Championship . In the course of the two tournaments he completed a total of 14 games and scored three points. At the U20 Junior World Championship in 1999, the winger lost in the final with Canada against Russia and won the silver medal.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM +/- Sp T V Pt SM +/-
1995-96 Niagara Falls Thunder OHL 64 15th 35 50 139 - 10 6th 4th 10 23 -
1996-97 Erie Otters OHL 58 25th 39 64 137 +6 5 1 2 3 2 -
1997-98 Erie Otters OHL 21st 7th 9 16 42 −5
Windsor Spitfires OHL 26th 19th 27 46 34 −21
Fredericton Canadiens AHL 7th 1 0 1 2 +3 1 0 0 0 2 −1
1998-99 Windsor Spitfires OHL 12 8th 11 19th 25th 0
Plymouth Whalers OHL 23 14th 13 27 28 +27 11 6th 8th 14th 12 -
Fredericton Canadiens AHL - - - - - - 10 4th 2 6th 22nd +5
1999-00 Québec Citadelles AHL 40 14th 12 26th 30th +10 3 2 1 3 4th −2
Montréal Canadiens NHL 32 2 1 3 10 −1
2000-01 Québec Citadelles AHL 23 7th 12 19th 69 −3
Montréal Canadiens NHL 12 0 0 0 12 +3
2001-02 Québec Citadelles AHL 78 24 33 57 128 0 3 0 0 0 2 −2
2002-03 Hamilton Bulldogs AHL 69 31 41 72 78 +20 23 12 9 21st 20th +8
Montréal Canadiens NHL 8th 3 2 5 0 +3
2003-04 Montréal Canadiens NHL 53 5 7th 12 21st +3 5 0 2 2 2 −2
Hamilton Bulldogs AHL 2 0 3 3 17th +1
2004-05 Hamilton Bulldogs AHL 77 20th 34 54 66 +7 4th 2 1 3 2 −4
2005-06 New York Rangers NHL 81 10 18th 28 44 −4 1 0 0 0 2 0
2006-07 New York Rangers NHL 46 4th 6th 10 26th −3
Los Angeles Kings NHL 7th 0 1 1 4th −1
Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 17th 4th 4th 8th 10 −11 6th 0 1 1 6th −6
2007-08 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 79 8th 6th 14th 42 −18
2008-09 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 1 0 0 0 2 0
Norfolk Admirals AHL 21st 2 7th 9 16 0
2009-10 Adirondack Phantoms AHL 56 12 17th 29 30th −8
2010-11 EHC Linz EBEL 35 9 10 19th 50 10 5 0 1 1 26th -
NHL overall 336 36 45 81 171 −29 12 0 3 3 10 −8

International

year team event Sp T V Pt SM
1998 Team Canada U20 World Cup 7th 1 0 1 2
1999 Team Canada U20 World Cup 7th 1 1 2 8th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Linz brings ex-NHLer Jason Ward out of retirement , report on hockeyfans.at from November 15, 2010