Jeremy Williams (ice hockey player)

Jeremy Williams
Date of birth	January 26, 1984
place of birth	Glenavon , Saskatchewan , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 18
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2003 , 7th round, 220th position Toronto Maple Leafs
Career stations
2001-2004	Swift Current Broncos
2004-2005	St. John's Maple Leafs
2005-2009	Toronto Maple Leafs
2009-2010	Grand Rapids Griffins
2010-2011	Hartford Wolf Pack / Connecticut Whale
2011–2012	EC Red Bull Salzburg
2012	HC Sierre
2012-2013	Ice pirates Crimmitschau
2013-2016	VIK Västerås HK
since 2016	Straubing Tigers
2018	Örebro HK (loan)

Jeremy Williams (left) and Michael Del Zotto (2011)

Jeremy Williams (born January 26, 1984 in Glenavon , Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian ice hockey player . He has been part of the Straubing Tigers' squad since June 2016 .

Career

Jeremy Williams began his career as a hockey player with the Swift Current Broncos , for which he was active in the Western Hockey League from 2001 to 2004 . During this time he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2003 in the seventh round as a total of 220th player from the Toronto Maple Leafs . Towards the end of the 2003/04 season, Williams made his professional ice hockey debut when he was first appointed to the squad of Toronto's then farm team , the St. John's Maple Leafs of the American Hockey League . The 2004/05 season spent Williams in St. John, as the NHL season because of the lockout was canceled.

In the 2005/06 season Williams was in the AHL for Toronto's new farm team, the Toronto Marlies on the ice and made his debut in the National Hockey League for the Maple Leafs. In his first and only NHL appearance this season, he also scored his first goal in the NHL. In the following season, Williams mainly played for the Marlies and scored for the second time on his second NHL mission. In the 2007/08 season, the winger was allowed to play 18 times, so he was able to score two more goals. In July 2010 he moved to the New York Rangers , who used him mainly in the farm team at the Hartford Wolf Pack and Connecticut Whale during the 2010/11 season . In June 2011 he was signed by EC Red Bull Salzburg from the Austrian Ice Hockey League for the 2011/12 season.

For the subsequent season of Canadians signed a contract for one season plus option when HC Sierre in the Swiss National League B . After half a year at HC Sierre in the National League B, he moved to the German second division team ETC Crimmitschau . He then played for the Swedish second division club VIK Västerås HK from 2013 to 2016 and was the HockeyAllsvenskan top scorer in the 2013/14 season . In June 2016 he moved to the Straubing Tigers in the German Ice Hockey League (DEL). During the 2017/18 season , he also played eight games on loan for Örebro HK from Svenska Hockeyligan .

Achievements and Awards

• 2004 WHL East First All-Star Team
• 2004 CHL First All-Star Team
• 2011 AHL All-Star Classic
• 2011 European Trophy win with the EC Red Bull Salzburg
• 2019 top scorer of the DEL preliminary round 2018/19 (57 points)

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2000/01	Swift Current Broncos	WHL		2	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Swift Current Broncos	WHL		32	6th	7th	13	30th		12	1	0	1	4th
2002/03	Swift Current Broncos	WHL		72	41	52	93	117		4th	1	0	1	6th
2003/04	Swift Current Broncos	WHL		68	52	49	101	82		5	2	1	3	12
2003/04	St. John's Maple Leafs	AHL		4th	0	2	2	0		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	St. John's Maple Leafs	AHL		75	16	20th	36	24		5	0	0	0	0
2005/06	Toronto Marlies	AHL		55	23	33	56	77		5	1	0	1	6th
2005/06	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		1	1	0	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Toronto Marlies	AHL		23	6th	9	15th	27		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		1	1	0	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Toronto Marlies	AHL		49	18th	15th	33	36		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		18th	2	0	2	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		11	5	2	7th	2		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Toronto Marlies	AHL		46	27	13	40	29		6th	0	1	1	6th
2009/10	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		77	32	31	63	55		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Hartford Wolf Pack	AHL		75	32	23	55	68		6th	1	2	3	4th
2010/11	New York Rangers	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	EC Red Bull Salzburg	EBEL		35	9	8th	17th	46		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	HC Sierre	NLB		28	6th	9	15th	44
2012/13	ETC Crimmitschau	2nd BL		24	17th	13	30th	71
2013/14	VIK Västerås HK	SHL		47	26th	20th	46	40
2014/15	VIK Västerås HK	SHL		37	17th	11	28	30th
2015/16	VIK Västerås HK	SHL		49	19th	24	43	63
2016/17	Straubing Tigers	DEL		43	19th	17th	36	24		0	0	0	0	0
WHL overall				174	99	108	207	231		21st	4th	1	5	22nd
AHL total				404	154	146	300	316		22nd	2	3	5	16
NHL overall				32	9	2	11	6th		-	-	-	-	-
SHL total				133	62	55	117	133		-	-	-	-	-

( 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 )

Personal

Williams has been married to Canadian actress Ashley Leggat since 2011 . The couple have a daughter.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DEL: Straubing Tigers sign attacker Jeremy Williams - sportal.de. In: www.sportal.de. Retrieved June 29, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Ashley Leggat ( English ) Mylifetime. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. 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. Retrieved February 28, 2015.