John Armstrong (ice hockey player)

John Armstrong
Date of birth	February 26, 1988
place of birth	Unionville , Ontario , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	85 kg
position	center
number	# 75
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2006 , 3rd round, 87th position Calgary Flames
Career stations
2004-2007	Plymouth Whalers
2007-2008	Peterborough Petes
2008-2009	Quad City Flames
2009–2012	Abbotsford Heat
2011–2012	Utah grizzlies
2012-2013	Kalamazoo Wings
2013-2014	Las Vegas Wranglers
2014-2015	Lillehammer IK
2015-2016	Odense Bulldogs
2016-2018	Sheffield Steelers
2018	KHL Medveščak Zagreb
since 2018	Sheffield Steelers

John Armstrong (born February 26, 1988 in Unionville , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Sheffield Steelers in the Elite Ice Hockey League since December 2018 .

Career

John Armstrong began his career as a hockey player in the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League , in which he was active from 2004 to 2008 for the Plymouth Whalers and Peterborough Petes . During this period he was selected in the third round of the 2006 NHL Entry Draft as a total of 87 players by the Calgary Flames .

After the attacker had scored 20 scorer points for Calgary's farm team , the Quad City Flames from the American Hockey League , in 68 games in the 2008/09 season , he played for the new farm team of the Calgary Flames, the Abbotsford Heat, from the 2009/10 season in the AHL. He played there until 2012, but was also part of the ECHL team of the Utah Grizzlies in his last season . He then played for two years in the ECHL - first with the Kalamazoo Wings and later with the Las Vegas Wranglers . In 2014 he moved to Europe, where after two Scandinavian years at Lillehammer IK and the Odense Bulldogs , with whom he won the Danish Ice Hockey Cup, he has been on the ice with the Sheffield Steelers in the Elite Ice Hockey League since 2016 . With the team from the center of the British steel industry, he won the league playoffs in 2017 with a 6-5 win after extra time against the Cardiff Devils .

From August 2018 Armstrong was under contract with the KHL Medveščak Zagreb in the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga , but left the club in December due to a lack of salary payments and returned to the Steelers.

Achievements and Awards

• 2006 CHL Top Prospects Game
• 2016 Danish cup winner with the Odense Bulldogs
• 2017 Elite Ice Hockey League playoff winner

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2004/05	Plymouth Whalers	OHL		52	6th	13	19th	39		4th	0	0	0	4th
2005/06	Plymouth Whalers	OHL		65	14th	23	37	75		13	4th	7th	11	18th
2006/07	Plymouth Whalers	OHL		34	8th	13	21st	26th		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Peterborough Petes	OHL		27	11	13	24	34		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Peterborough Petes	OHL		65	21st	36	57	77		5	0	1	1	6th
2008/09	Quad City Flames	AHL		68	5	15th	20th	72		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Abbotsford Heat	AHL		14th	1	5	6th	13		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Abbotsford Heat	AHL		78	9	8th	17th	91		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Abbotsford Heat	AHL		17th	1	0	1	32		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Utah grizzlies	ECHL		37	8th	12	20th	43		3	0	0	0	2
2012/13	Kalamazoo Wings	ECHL		48	12	32	44	45		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Kalamazoo Wings	ECHL		6th	0	1	1	2		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Las Vegas Wranglers	ECHL		49	18th	19th	37	32		4th	1	1	2	0
2014/15	Lillehammer IK	GET leagues		31	10	16	26th	30th		4th	0	1	1	4th
2015/16	Odense Bulldogs	Metal leagues		31	15th	35	50	20th		7th	1	2	3	4th
2016/17	Sheffield Steelers	Elite Ice Hockey League		52	22nd	28	50	24		4th	1	0	1	33
AHL total				177	16	28	44	208		-	-	-	-	-

( 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

• John Armstrong at eliteprospects.com (English)
• John Armstrong at hockeydb.com (English)