Joel Ward (ice hockey player)
Date of birth | 2nd December 1980 |
place of birth | North York , Ontario , Canada |
size | 188 cm |
Weight | 98 kg |
position | Right wing |
number | # 42 |
Shot hand | Right |
Career stations | |
1997-2000 | Owen Sound Platers |
2000-2001 | Owen Sound Attack |
2001 | Long Beach Ice Dogs |
2001-2005 | University of Prince Edward Island |
2005-2008 | Minnesota Wild |
2008-2011 | Nashville Predators |
2011-2015 | Washington Capitals |
2015-2018 | San Jose Sharks |
Joel Randal Ward (born December 2, 1980 in North York , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player with Barbadian roots. The right winger played a total of over 800 games in the National Hockey League between 2006 and 2018 and was active for the Minnesota Wild , Nashville Predators , Washington Capitals and San Jose Sharks .
Career
Joel Ward, whose father is from the Barbados , began his career as a hockey player in the Ontario Hockey League , in which he played from 1997 to 2001 for a total of four years. First he was active three seasons for the Owen Sound Platers , then another season for their successor team, the Owen Sound Attack . The 2000/01 season he ended, however, in the West Coast Hockey League , where he came in the playoffs to eight missions for the Long Beach Ice Dogs .
After he was active for four years for the ice hockey team of the University of Prince Edward Island , the Houston Eros signed him from the American Hockey League on December 4, 2005 as a free agent . For the Eros he made his professional ice hockey debut in the 2005/06 season . After a year in Houston, the winger was signed on September 27, 2006 by the Minnesota Wild , whose farm team is the Houston Eros. In the 2006/07 season , Joel Ward played a total of eleven games in the National Hockey League and scored an assist.
The 2007/08 season Ward spent exclusively in the AHL with the Eros, so the Nashville Predators signed the attacker on July 14, 2008 as a free agent.
On July 1, 2011, he signed a four-year contract with the Washington Capitals . This was not renewed, so he joined the San Jose Sharks in July 2015 . He was active there until the end of the 2017/18 season when his contract was not extended. After a trial contract with the Canadiens de Montréal before the 2018/19 season did not result in a permanent engagement, Ward ended his active career. In total, he had played 809 NHL games and recorded 356 points scorer .
International
With the Canadian national team , Ward took part in the 2014 World Cup in the Belarusian capital Minsk , where he finished fifth with the team. He himself was able to collect nine scorer points in eight tournament games. There were six gates below.
Achievements and Awards
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Career statistics
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
1997/98 | Owen Sound Platers | OHL | 47 | 8th | 4th | 12 | 14th | 11 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||
1998/99 | Owen Sound Platers | OHL | 58 | 19th | 16 | 35 | 23 | 16 | 2 | 4th | 6th | 0 | ||
1999/00 | Owen Sound Platers | OHL | 63 | 23 | 20th | 43 | 51 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2000/01 | Owen Sound Attack | OHL | 67 | 26th | 36 | 62 | 45 | 5 | 2 | 4th | 6th | 4th | ||
2000/01 | Long Beach Ice Dogs | WCHL | - | - | - | - | - | 8th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
2001/02 | University of Prince Edward Island | CIS | 22nd | 13 | 14th | 27 | 16 | |||||||
2002/03 | University of Prince Edward Island | CIS | 19th | 11 | 15th | 26th | 24 | |||||||
2003/04 | University of Prince Edward Island | CIS | 27 | 14th | 24 | 38 | 42 | |||||||
2004/05 | University of Prince Edward Island | CIS | 28 | 16 | 28 | 44 | 42 | |||||||
2005/06 | Houston Eros | AHL | 66 | 8th | 14th | 22nd | 34 | 8th | 4th | 2 | 6th | 4th | ||
2006/07 | Houston Eros | AHL | 64 | 9 | 14th | 23 | 45 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2006/07 | Minnesota Wild | NHL | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2007/08 | Houston Eros | AHL | 79 | 21st | 20th | 41 | 47 | 4th | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||
2008/09 | Nashville Predators | NHL | 79 | 17th | 18th | 35 | 29 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2009/10 | Nashville Predators | NHL | 71 | 13 | 21st | 34 | 18th | 6th | 2 | 2 | 4th | 2 | ||
2010/11 | Nashville Predators | NHL | 80 | 10 | 19th | 29 | 42 | 12 | 7th | 6th | 13 | 6th | ||
2011/12 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 73 | 6th | 12 | 18th | 20th | 14th | 1 | 4th | 5 | 6th | ||
2012/13 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 39 | 8th | 12 | 20th | 12 | 7th | 1 | 3 | 4th | 6th | ||
2013/14 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 82 | 24 | 25th | 49 | 32 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2014/15 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 82 | 19th | 15th | 34 | 30th | 14th | 3 | 6th | 9 | 2 | ||
2015/16 | San Jose Sharks | NHL | 79 | 21st | 22nd | 43 | 28 | 24 | 7th | 6th | 13 | 16 | ||
2016/17 | San Jose Sharks | NHL | 78 | 10 | 19th | 29 | 30th | 6th | 1 | 3 | 4th | 4th | ||
2017/18 | San Jose Sharks | NHL | 52 | 5 | 7th | 12 | 20th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
OHL total | 235 | 76 | 76 | 152 | 133 | 32 | 5 | 9 | 14th | 9 | ||||
CIS total | 96 | 54 | 81 | 135 | 124 | |||||||||
AHL total | 209 | 38 | 48 | 86 | 126 | 12 | 4th | 4th | 8th | 4th | ||||
NHL overall | 726 | 133 | 171 | 304 | 261 | 83 | 22nd | 30th | 52 | 42 |
International
Represented Canada to:
year | team | event | result | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | |
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2014 | Canada | WM | 5th place | 8th | 6th | 3 | 9 | 4th | |
Men overall | 8th | 6th | 3 | 9 | 4th |
( 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
- Joel Ward in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
- Joel Ward at legendsofhockey.net ( Memento from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- Joel Ward at eliteprospects.com (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ward, Joel |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ward, Joel Randal (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd December 1980 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | North York , Ontario , Canada |