Joey Hishon

Joey Hishon
Date of birth	October 20, 1991
place of birth	Stratford , Ontario , Canada
size	178 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2010 , 1st round, 17th position Colorado Avalanche
Career stations
2007-2011	Owen Sound Attack
2013-2016	Colorado Avalanche San Antonio Rampage
2016-2017	Jokerite
2017-2018	Luleå HF

Joey Hishon (born October 20, 1991 in Stratford , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player on the position of the center . Most recently he was under contract with Luleå HF in the Svenska Hockeyligan .

Career

In his first season for Owen Sound Attack , Hishon ended the 2007-08 season as the team's youngest player and second-best scorer. In the following season he led his team with 81 points from 65 games back into the play-offs , which were missed the previous year. In the same season he was honored by the coaches of the Western Conference of the Ontario Hockey League among other things as best playmaker. During the 2009-10 OHL season , Hishon broke his foot while blocking a shot and sustained a knee injury. These injuries limited his bets to 36 games in which he scored 40 points. In the 2010 NHL Entry Draft , the player was selected in the first round in a total of 17th position by the Colorado Avalanche .

On March 14, 2011, Hishon signed a three-year contract with the Avalanche and finished the 2010/11 regular season with 87 points in 50 games. The striker was appointed to the OHL First All-Star team after this season . In the play-offs of this season, the Canadian and his team reached the final of the Ontario Hockey League after victories over the London Knights , Plymouth Whalers , Windsor Spitfires . Owen Sound prevailed there against the Mississauga St. Michael's Majors in the best-of-seven series with 4-3 victories and thus earned the J. Ross Robertson Cup and participation in the Memorial Cup 2011 . In this competition, Hishon was checked by Brayden McNabb in the last leg of the first tournament game of the attack against Kootenay Ice and hit by his elbow in the head. Due to the resulting head injuries Joey Hishon could not continue both the game and the tournament; McNabb received a suspension from one game.

Hishon's convalescence process dragged on for nearly two years, from May 2011 to March 2013, during which he did not play a game. On March 19, 2013, he finally made his debut for Colorado's farm team Lake Erie Monsters in the American Hockey League (AHL). After nine AHL games in the 2012/13 season , which has been running since October 2012 , in which he scored six points, Hishon had to suspend the last two games of the season after another check on the head and recurring symptoms.

Hishon in the jersey of the Lake Erie Monsters (2013).

In the following season , the center completed 50 games for Lake Erie, and he was also used for the first time for the Avalanche in the National Hockey League (NHL). Hishon played three games for Colorado against the Minnesota Wild in the 2014 NHL play-offs , scoring an assist.

After he was only used at the San Antonio Rampage in the AHL in the 2015/16 season , Hishon moved to Jokerit in the Continental Hockey League (KHL) in May 2016 .

International

The striker made his debut in the Canadian national ice hockey team at the U18 Junior World Championship in 2009 , where he was the Canadians' most successful scorer with ten points from six games. A medal was missed, however, and the team finished fourth. Joey Hishon was also invited to the 2011 U20 World Junior Championship but was not nominated for the final team.

Achievements and Awards

• 2010 CHL Top Prospects Game
• 2009 OHL All-Star Classic
• 2011 OHL First All-Star Team
• 2011 J. Ross Robertson Cup win with Owen Sound Attack

International

• 2008 gold medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2015/16 season

				Regular season							Play-offs
season	team	league		GP	G	A.	Pts	+/-	PIM		GP	G	A.	Pts	+/-	PIM
2007/08	Owen Sound Attack	OHL		63	20th	27	47	-34	38		-	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Owen Sound Attack	OHL		65	37	44	81	+5	34		4th	4th	3	7th	-5	6th
2009/10	Owen Sound Attack	OHL		36	16	24	40	+10	26th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Owen Sound Attack	OHL		50	37	50	87	+16	64		22nd	5	19th	24	+4	32
2011	Owen Sound Attack	Memorial Cup									1	0	0	0	± 0	8th
2011/12	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		not played because of a head injury
2012/13	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		9	1	5	6th	+1	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		50	10	14th	24	-10	16	-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		-	-	-	-	-	-	3	0	1	1	± 0	2
2014/15	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		53	16	20th	36	–7	34	-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		13	1	1	2	-1	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		62	14th	29	43	-4	62	-	-	-	-	-	-
OHL total				215	110	146	256	-3	164	26th	9	22nd	31	-1	38
AHL total				174	41	68	109	-20	114	-	-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				13	1	1	2	-1	0	3	0	1	1	± 0	2

International

year	team	event	result		GP	G	A.	Pts	PIM
2008	Canada Ontario	U17-WHC			6th	2	3	5	14th
2009	Canada	U18 World Cup	4th Place		6th	5	5	10	0
Juniors overall					12	7th	8th	15th	14th

( 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 : Joey Hishon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the Colorado Avalanche website
• Joey Hishon at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ avalanche.nhl.com, Hishon Has Friends In High Places
2. ↑ avalanche.nhl.com, Avalanche Signs Hishon
3. ↑ avalanche.nhl.com, Hishon Honored By The OHL
4. ↑ yahoo.com, Memorial Cup: Hishon leveled by hit; McNabb suspended
5. ^ Tim Wharnsby: Concussion cost Joey Hishon 22 months of hockey career. CBC , December 18, 2013, accessed July 23, 2014 . 
6. ↑ stratfordbeaconherald.com, Hishon takes cut in stride ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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.