Jimmy Howard

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Jimmy Howard
Date of birth March 26, 1984
place of birth Ogdensburg , New York , USA
size 183 cm
Weight 100 kg
position goalkeeper
number # 35
Catch hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2003 , 2nd round, 64th position
Detroit Red Wings
Career stations
2001-2002 USA Hockey National Team Development Program
2002-2005 University of Maine
2005-2009 Grand Rapids Griffins
since 2009 Detroit Red Wings

James Russell "Jimmy" Howard III. (Born March 26, 1984 in Ogdensburg , New York ) is an American ice hockey goalkeeper who has been under contract with the Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League since 2005 .

Career

Jimmy Howard began his career in the USA Hockey National Team Development Program for players under the age of 18 and was U18 world champion with the US team , before moving to the University of Maine in 2002 , where he worked for their team in Hockey East , a division of National Collegiate Athletic Association , played. After his first season he was voted the best rookie of Hockey East and selected by the Detroit Red Wings in the second round of the 2003 NHL Entry Draft at position 64.

In the 2003/04 season, the University of Maine was able to win the championship of Hockey East and thus qualify for the NCAA tournament, in which the best college teams fight for the US championship. They made it to the finals of the tournament, but only just lost 0-1. Howard received several awards after the season, including as the goalkeeper with the lowest average goal conceded in the Hockey East and as the MVP of the Hockey East Playoffs . He was able to set new records in the Hockey East Association in the season with a goal average of 1.19 and a catch rate of 95.3 percent.

After another year in the college league, he left the University of Maine and received a three-year contract with the Detroit Red Wings in the fall of 2005, but played mainly with the Red Wings farm team , the Grand Rapids Griffins in the AHL . On November 28, 2005 he got his first chance in the NHL and convinced because he was able to parry 22 of the 24 shots of the Los Angeles Kings . This was followed by three more appearances for Detroit in the NHL in the next two weeks, but then he played again in the AHL, where he won 27 of his 38 games and was elected to the AHL All-Rookie Team at the end of the season .

At the beginning of the 2006/07 season he did not make the jump into the NHL squad and spent the year in Grand Rapids, where he shared the missions with Stefan Liv . In the regular season he could not build on the performance of the previous season, but convinced despite the first round defeat in the playoffs.

Howard showed very good performances in the Detroit Red Wings training camp in September 2007, but had to stay with the Grand Rapids Griffins in the AHL, where he shared the goalkeeping position with Adam Berkhoel . The Griffins played the weakest season since their league membership and Howard also showed weaknesses. In February 2008, however, he was used for the Red Wings in the NHL four times, as regular goalkeeper Dominik Hašek was injured. In the playoffs he returned to the Red Wings squad when they won the Stanley Cup , but Howard was not used as the third goalkeeper behind Chris Osgood and Hašek.

In preparation for the 2008/09 season , Howard tried again to qualify for a place in the NHL squad, but could not prevail against Chris Osgood and Ty Conklin . Instead, he formed the goalkeeping team at the Griffins with the young Swede Daniel Larsson . Howard started the season as a regular goalkeeper, but after Larsson showed better performance, she split the operating times. Howard showed weaknesses in the first two months and could not fully meet expectations, but he improved significantly over the course of the season and was voted AHL Player of the Week in late January 2009. In February he played a game in the NHL, but returned to the farm team, where he set a new franchise record with his 89th career win in the Griffins jersey on March 27 .

At the beginning of the 2009/10 season, Howard established himself as the goalkeeper of the Red Wings and only gave up this position briefly in the 2016/17 season to Petr Mrázek .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp S. N OTN Min GT SO GTS Sv% Sp S. N Min GT SO GTS Sv%
2001/02 USA Hockey NTDP USHL 8th 4th 3 0 425 14th 0 1.98 92.7 - - - - - - - -
2001/02 USA Hockey NTDP NEAR 8th 3 4th 0 381 25th 0 3.93 - - - - - - - -
2002/03 University of Maine NCAA 21st 14th 6th 0 1151 47 3 2.45 91.6
2003/04 University of Maine NCAA 23 14th 4th 3 1364 27 6th 1.19 95.6
2004/05 University of Maine NCAA 39 19th 13 7th 2310 74 6th 1.92 92.4
2005/06 Detroit Red Wings NHL 4th 1 2 0 200 10 0 2.99 90.4 - - - - - - - -
2005/06 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 38 27 6th 2 2141 92 2 2.58 91.0 13 5 7th 763 44 0 3.46 88.5
2006/07 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 49 21st 21st 3 2776 125 6th 2.70 91.1 7th 3 4th 434 14th 0 1.94 92.7
2007/08 Detroit Red Wings NHL 4th 0 2 0 197 7th 0 2.13 92.6 - - - - - - - -
2007/08 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 54 21st 28 2 3097 146 2 2.83 90.7 - - - - - - - -
2008/09 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 45 21st 15th 7th 2644 112 4th 2.54 91.6 10 4th 6th 598 24 0 2.41 90.0
2008/09 Detroit Red Wings NHL 1 0 1 0 59 4th 0 4.07 85.7 - - - - - - - -
2009/10 Detroit Red Wings NHL 63 37 15th 10 3740 141 3 2.26 92.4 12 5 7th 720 33 1 2.75 91.5
2010/11 Detroit Red Wings NHL 63 37 17th 5 3615 168 2 2.79 90.8 11 7th 4th 673 28 0 2.50 92.3
2011/12 Detroit Red Wings NHL 57 35 17th 4th 3360 119 6th 2.13 92.0 5 1 4th 295 13 0 2.64 88.8
2012/13 Detroit Red Wings NHL 42 21st 13 7th 2446 87 5 2.13 92.3 14th 7th 7th 859 35 1 2.44 92.4
2013/14 Detroit Red Wings NHL 51 21st 19th 11 3004 133 2 2.41 91.0 3 1 2 178 6th 1 2.02 93.1
2014/15 Detroit Red Wings NHL 53 23 13 11 2971 121 2 2.44 91.0 1 0 0 20th 1 0 3.00 91.7
2015/16 Detroit Red Wings NHL 37 14th 14th 5 1974 92 2 2.80 90.6 2 0 2 117 7th 0 3.59 89.1
2016/17 Detroit Red Wings NHL 26th 10 11 1 1397 49 1 2.10 92.7 - - - - - - - -
2016/17 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 4th 3 1 0 227 8th 1 2.11 92.0 - - - - - - - -
2017/18 Detroit Red Wings NHL 60 22nd 27 9 3368 160 1 2.85 91.0 - - - - - - - -
2018/19 Detroit Red Wings NHL 55 23 22nd 5 3053 156 0 3.07 90.9 - - - - - - - -
2019/20 Detroit Red Wings NHL 27 2 23 2 1372 96 0 4.20 88.2 - - - - - - - -
NCAA overall 83 47 23 10 4825 148 15th 1.84 93.1
AHL total 190 93 74 14th 10885 483 15th 2.66 91.1 30th 12 17th 1795 82 0 2.74 89.9
NHL overall 543 246 196 70 30755 1343 24 2.62 91.2 48 21st 26th 2864 123 3 2.58 91.8

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp S. N OTN Min GT SO GTS Sv%
2002 United States U18 World Cup 1st place, gold 6th 5 1 0 360 8th 1 1.33 95.4
2003 United States U20 World Cup 4th Place 3 0 1 0 79 8th 0 6.05 80.0
2012 United States WM 7th place 7th 5 2 0 421 17th 1 2.42 91.1
2014 United States Olympia 4th Place Without any effort
2017 United States WM 5th place 6th 4th 2 0 355 11 1 1.86 92.0
Juniors overall 9 5 2 0 439 16 1 2.18 92.6
Men overall 13 9 4th 0 776 28 2 2.16 91.5

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; 1  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

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personal data
SURNAME Howard, Jimmy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Howard, James Russell III. (Full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Ogdensburg (New York) , United States