John Mitchell (ice hockey player, 1985)

John Mitchell
Date of birth	January 22, 1985
place of birth	Oakville , Ontario , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	93 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2003 , 5th round, 158th position Toronto Maple Leafs
Career stations
2001-2005	Plymouth Whalers
2005-2011	Toronto Maple Leafs
2011–2012	New York Rangers
2012-2017	Colorado Avalanche
2017	Cleveland Monsters
2017-2018	Nuremberg Ice Tigers
2018-2019	EHC Red Bull Munich

John Mitchell (born January 22, 1985 in Oakville , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player who played 566 games in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs , Colorado Avalanche and New York Rangers during his career .

Career

Mitchell in the jersey of the New York Rangers

John Mitchell began his career as a hockey player with the Plymouth Whalers , for whom he played for a total of four years in the Ontario Hockey League from 2001 to 2005 . During this time he was selected during the NHL Entry Draft 2003 in the fifth round as a total of 158th player by the Toronto Maple Leafs . Towards the end of the 2004/05 season, the attacker played for the first time in professional ice hockey when he played two games for the St. John's Maple Leafs , the then Toronto farm team , from the American Hockey League .

From 2005 to 2008, Mitchell stood exclusively for the new AHL Maple Leafs farm team, the Toronto Marlies , before joining the Toronto Maple Leafs roster in the summer of 2008 and making his debut in the later this season National Hockey League existed. Mitchell scored his first two NHL goals on November 1, 2008 in a 5-2 win over New York Rangers . In late February 2011, Mitchell was given in a transfer deal in exchange for a seven-round vote in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft to the New York Rangers.

On July 1, 2012, he signed a two-year contract with the Colorado Avalanche .

After the 2016/17 season, Mitchell did not get a further contract in Colorado, so he had been looking for a new employer since July 2017. He found this in the Cleveland Monsters from the AHL, which however did not commit him after three competitive games on trial. As a result, Mitchell moved in October to the Nuremberg Ice Tigers in the German Ice Hockey League , where he signed a contract until the end of the current season. In Nuremberg he was able to establish himself immediately as a top performer, becoming Player of the Month for December, scoring 32 points (12 goals) in 37 preliminary round games and 11 more points (5 goals) in the subsequent playoffs in 12 games. He and his team were eliminated in the semi-finals of the best-of-seven series against the Eisbären Berlin . At the beginning of May 2018, he moved within the league to the reigning German champions EHC Munich .

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2017/18 season

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2001/02	Plymouth Whalers	OHL		62	9	9	18th	33		6th	1	0	1	4th
2002/03	Plymouth Whalers	OHL		68	18th	37	55	31		18th	2	10	12	8th
2003/04	Plymouth Whalers	OHL		65	28	54	82	45		9	6th	6th	12	6th
2004/05	Plymouth Whalers	OHL		63	25th	50	75	59		4th	1	1	2	0
2004/05	St. John's Maple Leafs	AHL		2	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Toronto Marlies	AHL		51	5	12	17th	22nd		2	0	0	0	0
2006/07	Toronto Marlies	AHL		73	16	20th	36	46		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Toronto Marlies	AHL		79	20th	31	51	56		19th	8th	4th	12	12
2008/09	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		76	12	17th	29	33		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		60	6th	17th	23	31		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		23	2	1	3	12		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Toronto Marlies	AHL		10	1	4th	5	2		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Connecticut Whale	AHL		14th	7th	5	12	10		6th	3	3	6th	0
2011/12	Connecticut Whale	AHL		17th	7th	7th	14th	20th		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	New York Rangers	NHL		63	5	11	16	8th		18th	0	1	1	2
2012/13	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		47	10	10	20th	18th		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		75	11	21st	32	36		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		68	11	15th	26th	32		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		71	10	11	21st	52		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		65	3	4th	7th	45		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Nuremberg Ice Tigers	DEL		37	12	20th	32	42		12	5	6th	11	4th
OHL total				258	80	150	230	158		37	10	17th	27	18th
AHL total				246	56	79	135	156		27	11	7th	18th	12
NHL overall				548	70	107	177	267		18th	0	1	1	2

Web links

Commons : John Mitchell  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• John Mitchell at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• John Mitchell at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bio - John Mitchell in the National Hockey League database
2. ↑ Avalanche Signs Mitchell. Colorado Avalanche , July 1, 2012, accessed July 2, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Nuremberg's top striker Mitchell strengthens champions EHC Red Bull Munich. Retrieved May 4, 2018 .