John Armstrong (ice hockey player)
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 | |||||||||||||
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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)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Armstrong, John |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1988 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Unionville , Ontario , Canada |