Jason Williams (ice hockey player)

Jason Williams
Date of birth	August 11, 1980
place of birth	London , Ontario , Canada
size	180 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1996-2000	Peterborough Petes
2000-2007	Detroit Red Wings
2004-2005	Ässät Pori
2007-2008	Chicago Blackhawks
2008-2009	Atlanta Thrashers
2009	Columbus Blue Jackets
2009-2010	Detroit Red Wings
2010-2011	Connecticut Whale
2011	Dallas Stars
2011–2012	Pittsburgh Penguins
2012-2014	HC Ambrì-Piotta
2014-2015	Oklahoma City Barons
2015-2016	Cologne Sharks
2016	Ritten sport
2016-2017	Nottingham Panthers

Jason Williams (born August 11, 1980 in London , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach who played 482 games for the Detroit Red Wings , Chicago Blackhawks , Atlanta Thrashers and Columbus between 1996 and 2017 Blue Jackets , Dallas Stars and Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League on the position of right winger . Williams celebrated his greatest career success in the service of the Detroit Red Wings by winning the Stanley Cup in 2002 .

Career

Jason Williams began his career in 1996 in the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League with the Peterborough Petes . In the first two years he didn't really stand out. It was not until the 1998/99 season that he was able to draw attention to himself and scored a total of 74 points. The following season he was only one point worse and won the plus / minus rating, but was not drafted , which is why the Detroit Red Wings signed him as a free agent in September 2000 .

Until 2003 he played mainly with the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks and the Grand Rapids Griffins in the lower-class American Hockey League and was only used for the Red Wings if a player was injured. After all, he played 25 regular season games and 9 games in the playoffs of the 2001/02 season when the Red Wings won the Stanley Cup .

In the 2003/04 season he was used more often, but was slowed down by some injuries. During the lockout in the 2004/05 NHL season and the associated cancellation of the NHL season, Williams played in the Finnish SM-liiga for Porin Ässät . After the lockout, he played almost the entire 2005/06 season for the Red Wings and was only two games missing due to a minor injury and achieved a personal best with 58 points.

In the summer he signed a new two-year contract with Red Wings. In November 2006, Jason Williams was checked by Raffi Torres of the Edmonton Oilers and crashed his head on the ice. Williams had to be transported from the ice rink on a stretcher and was absent from three games due to a facial injury and a severe concussion. After that he was able to play regularly again, but was not able to build on the good performance of the previous season. On February 26, 2007 he was transferred to the Chicago Blackhawks for Kyle Calder .

In the 2007/08 season he was able to match his good performances with 36 scorer points in 43 games, but missed almost half of the season due to injury in the Chicago squad. In the summer of 2008 he did not get a new contract from the Blackhawks and moved to the Atlanta Thrashers . After only half a year they sent him to the Columbus Blue Jackets as part of a transfer deal . The 2009/10 season spent Williams with the Detroit Red Wings, for which he completed 47 games and scored 15 points. After his contract expired, he was initially without a club, before Williams was invited to a try-out at the Connecticut Whale in the AHL in December 2010 . In February 2011, the Dallas Stars provided him with a contract until the end of the season. After his contract with the stars expired, the striker was signed on July 26, 2011 by the Pittsburgh Penguins on a two-way contract.

Since Williams saw little prospect of more playing times in the NHL for the coming season, he moved to Europe and signed a 2-year contract with HC Ambrì-Piotta , a club from the highest Swiss ice hockey league . In the 2012/13 season he was able to score a total of 48 points (26 goals, 22 assists) in 50 games (season and play-outs) for his club, making him the best goalscorer this season in the league . In the following season Williams - also due to an injury - could no longer build on these successes (8 goals, 10 assists in 32 games) and his contract in Ambri was no longer extended.

Although he had offers from other clubs in the Swiss league, he moved back to North America for the 2014/15 season and signed a contract with the Oklahoma City Barons , the Edmonton Oilers' then AHL farm team . Even if the hoped-for renewed NHL appearance was no longer possible, he was able to play a solid season with 53 points (21 goals, 23 assists) and was signed by the Kölner Haien from the German ice hockey league for the 2015/16 season .

But Williams injured his back in a test match against SC Langnau Tigers in the pre-season phase and was only able to play the first game of the season for his new club in November 2015. In the further course of the season he had health problems and only made 9 appearances (3 assists), so that his contract was not extended by the Haien at the end of the season.

At the end of October 2016, he received a short-term contract from the South Tyrolean Ritten Sport club . Williams was instrumental in Ritten's entry into the final tournament of the IIHF Continental Cup by scoring three goals and three assists in three missions. In addition, he scored three goals in two games in the Alps Hockey League and booked an assist.

In early December 2016 he was signed by the Nottingham Panthers from the British EIHL . Despite a new offer, he did not extend this contract and ended his playing career. Since then he has been an assistant coach with the Komoka Kings from the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League.

Achievements and Awards

2000 OHL Plus / Minus Award 2000 OHL Third All-Star Team 2002 AHL All-Star Classic 2002 Stanley Cup win with the Detroit Red Wings

2012 Spengler Cup win with Team Canada 2013 NLA top scorer 2017 IIHF Continental Cup win with the Nottingham Panthers

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1996/97	Peterborough Petes	OHL		60	4th	8th	12	8th		10	1	0	1	2
1997/98	Peterborough Petes	OHL		55	8th	27	35	31		4th	0	1	1	2
1998/99	Peterborough Petes	OHL		68	26th	48	74	42		5	1	2	3	2
1999/00	Peterborough Petes	OHL		66	36	37	73	64		5	2	1	3	2
2000/01	Cincinnati Mighty Ducks	AHL		76	24	45	69	48		1	0	0	0	2
2000/01	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		5	0	3	3	2		2	0	0	0	0
2001/02	Cincinnati Mighty Ducks	AHL		52	23	27	50	27		3	0	1	1	6th
2001/02	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		25th	8th	2	10	4th		9	0	0	0	2
2002/03	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		45	23	22nd	45	18th		15th	1	7th	8th	16
2002/03	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		16	3	3	6th	2		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		49	6th	7th	13	15th		3	0	0	0	2
2004/05	Assat Pori	SM-liiga		43	26th	17th	43	52		2	1	1	2	4th
2005/06	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		80	21st	37	58	26th		6th	1	1	2	6th
2006/07	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		58	11	15th	26th	24		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		20th	4th	2	6th	20th		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		43	13	23	36	22nd		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Atlanta Thrashers	NHL		41	7th	11	18th	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		39	12	17th	29	16		4th	0	1	1	2
2009/10	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		44	6th	9	15th	8th		3	0	0	0	0
2010/11	Connecticut Whale	AHL		17th	4th	5	9	10		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Dallas Stars	NHL		27	2	3	5	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		8th	1	1	2	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		59	13	29	42	32		12	3	10	13	2
2012/13	HC Ambrì-Piotta	NLA		47	26th	20th	46	16		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	HC Ambrì-Piotta	NLA		32	8th	10	18th	12		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Oklahoma City Barons	AHL		72	21st	32	53	30th		10	0	5	5	6th
2015/16	Cologne Sharks	DEL		9	0	3	3	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Ritten sport	AlpsHL		2	3	1	4th	0		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Nottingham Panthers	EIHL		11	5	9	14th	0		2	0	1	1	0
OHL total				249	74	120	194	145		24	4th	4th	8th	8th
AHL total				321	108	160	268	165		41	4th	23	27	32
NHL overall				455	94	133	227	157		27	1	2	3	12
NLA total				79	34	30th	64	28		-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Canada to:

• World Championship 2006

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2006	Canada	WM	4th Place		9	2	5	7th	2
Men overall					9	2	5	7th	2

( 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

Commons : Jason Williams  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Jason Williams at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Jason Williams at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Jason Williams at hockeydb.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jason Williams: I also had other offers from Europe ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Donators Club - HC Ambri-Piotta, 29 May 2012, accessed on 17 July 2015  
2. ^ A Stanley Cup winner on Ambri , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , May 29, 2012, accessed on July 17, 2015
3. ↑ Congratulations to Jason Williams - NLA Top Scorer , Gazzetta dell Ambri, March 1, 2013, accessed July 17, 2015
4. ↑ Ambris Williams moves to North America ( memento of the original from July 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Infoticker CH, July 26, 2014, accessed on July 17, 2015 
5. ↑ Veteran depth at center? Much-traveled NHL vet Jason Williams signs AHL pact with OKC Barons , Edmonton Journal, July 25, 2014, accessed July 17, 2015
6. ↑ NHL veteran Jason Williams off to hot start in OKC , News OK, October 31, 2014, accessed July 17, 2015
7. ↑ New coup: Kölner Haie sign Jason Williams , Kölnische Rundschau , July 16, 2015, accessed on July 17, 2015
8. ↑ After a long injury break - Jason Williams is finally starting with the Kölner Haien , Kölner Stadtanzeiger , November 12, 2015, accessed on August 14, 2016
9. ↑ The second comeback of Jason Williams , Haimspiel, January 26, 2016, accessed August 14, 2016
10. ↑ Seven departures from the sharks , Hockeyweb, April 12, 2016, accessed on August 14, 2016
11. ↑ Jason Williams: A Stanley Cup Winner for Ritten. In: www.sportnews.bz. Retrieved December 4, 2016 . 
12. ↑ Jason Williams does not return on the rides | be my boy! ( rittnerbuam.com [accessed December 4, 2016]).
13. ↑ Panthers sign ex-NHL forward Jason Williams. (No longer available online.) In: panthers.co.uk. Archived from the original on December 6, 2016 ; accessed on December 6, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.