John Hughes (ice hockey player, 1988)

John Hughes
Date of birth	January 6, 1988
place of birth	Whitby , Ontario , Canada
Nickname	Johnny
size	180 cm
Weight	75 kg
position	center
number	# 72
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
2004-2006	Belleville Bulls
2006-2008	Brampton Battalion
2008-2009	EC Red Bull Salzburg
2009-2010	Tappara Tampere Hanover Indians
2010–2012	HDD Olimpija Ljubljana
2012-2014	EC VSV
since 2014	EC Red Bull Salzburg

John Hughes (born January 6, 1988 in Whitby , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with EC Red Bull Salzburg in the Erste Bank Ice Hockey League since July 2014 .

Career

John Hughes 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 Belleville Bulls and the Brampton Battalion . In his last OHL season he received the Jim Mahon Memorial Trophy as the top scorer among the right wingers. The Canadian then received a contract with EC Red Bull Salzburg from the Austrian ice hockey league . Here he was able to convince completely in his rookie year . In a total of 56 games he scored 58 points scorer, 17 of them goals. With a plus / minus balance of +21, he was also the league-wide best player in this category.

The 2009/10 season began Hughes at Tappara Tampere in the Finnish SM-liiga , but left the club after only six games and in December 2009 joined the Hanover Indians from the 2nd ice hockey Bundesliga . For the North Germans he scored 42 scorer points in 36 games by the end of the season, with which he recommended himself for a return to the Austrian ice hockey league. For the 2010/11 season he was signed by the Slovenian capital club HDD Olimpija Ljubljana . From the 2012/13 season John Hughes played for the Austrian EC VSV , where he was one of the crowd's favorites. On March 31, 2014, he was released from his contract - which ran until the end of the season - after completing a pub crawl the night before the decisive semi-final game.

Since July 2014 he has been under contract with EC Red Bull Salzburg again.

Achievements and Awards

• 2004 Jack Ferguson Award
• 2008 Jim Mahon Memorial Trophy
• 2009 Best plus / minus balance of the Austrian ice hockey league
• 2011 Most Assists and Rookie of the Year in the Austrian Ice Hockey League
• 2012 Ron Kennedy Trophy , Slovenian champion, most assists and most points in the Austrian ice hockey league
• 2014 Most assists and most points in the Austrian Ice Hockey League
• 2015 Austrian champion with the EC Red Bull Salzburg , as well as most assists and most points in the play-offs
• 2016 Austrian champion with EC Red Bull Salzburg, most assists and most points in the main round of the Austrian ice hockey league
• 2017 Best plus / minus balance and most goals in the main round of the Austrian ice hockey league
• 2018 Most assists and most points in the playoffs of the Austrian Ice Hockey League
• 2018 First player with 500 assists in the Austrian ice hockey league

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2004/05	Belleville Bulls	OHL		60	13	18th	31	10		4th	0	1	1	4th
2005/06	Belleville Bulls	OHL		66	28	54	82	36		6th	1	4th	5	10
2006/07	Belleville Bulls	OHL		14th	3	17th	20th	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Brampton Battalion	OHL		48	21st	38	59	36		4th	1	4th	5	0
2007/08	Brampton Battalion	OHL		68	28	63	91	42		5	1	1	2	2
2008/09	EC Red Bull Salzburg	EBEL		39	13	30th	43	38		17th	4th	11	15th	26th
2009/10	Tappara Tampere	SM-liiga		6th	0	1	1	2		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Hanover Indians	2nd Bundesliga		26th	10	18th	28	28		10	2	12	14th	6th
2010/11	HDD Olimpija Ljubljana	EBEL		53	16	48	64	28		4th	1	4th	5	2
2010/11	HDD Olimpija Ljubljana	Slovenia		3	0	8th	8th	4th		4th	0	4th	4th	32
2011/12	HDD Olimpija Ljubljana	EBEL		50	21st	47	68	54		11	4th	8th	12	34
2011/12	HDD Olimpija Ljubljana	Slovenia		-	-	-	-	-		5	1	10	11	6th
2012/13	EC VSV	EBEL		54	18th	45	63	40		7th	3	7th	10	14th
2013/14	EC VSV	EBEL		54	24	61	85	18th		9	5	7th	12	10
2014/15	EC Red Bull Salzburg	EBEL		53	11	39	50	20th		13	7th	16	23	12
2015/16	EC Red Bull Salzburg	EBEL		50	17th	49	66	38		19th	7th	11	18th	10
2016/17	EC Red Bull Salzburg	EBEL		53	32	33	65	54		11	0	8th	8th	10
2017/18	EC Red Bull Salzburg	EBEL		51	15th	46	61	8th		19th	6th	15th	21st	14th
2018/19	EC Red Bull Salzburg	EBEL		53	20th	42	62	36		13	3	10	13	2
EBEL total				510	187	440	627	334		123	40	97	137	134
OHL total				256	93	190	283	132		19th	3	10	13	16

( 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 : John Hughes  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• John Hughes at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ VSV throws out star striker. In: derstandard.at . March 31, 2014, accessed August 18, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Ice hockey: Canadian striker John Hughes is again from Salzburg. In: kurier.at. July 1, 2014, accessed August 18, 2016 .