Josh Archibald

Josh Archibald


Date of birth	October 6, 1992
place of birth	Regina , Saskatchewan , Canada
size	178 cm
Weight	80 kg

position	Right wing
number	# 15
Shot hand	Left

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2011 , 6th round, 174th position Pittsburgh Penguins

Career stations

2009-2011	Brainerd High School
2011-2014	University of Nebraska Omaha
2014-2017	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins
2016-2017	Pittsburgh Penguins
2017-2019	Arizona Coyotes
since 2019	Edmonton Oilers

Josh Archibald (born October 6, 1992 in Regina , Saskatchewan ) is an American ice hockey player of Canadian origin who has been under contract with the Edmonton Oilers in the National Hockey League since July 2019, where he plays in the position of right winger . With the Pittsburgh Penguins , the right winger won the Stanley Cup in 2017 .

Career

youth

Josh Archibald was born in Regina, but when he was 15 he moved with his family to Brainerd , Minnesota , his mother's home. There he attended Brainerd High School and ran parallel for their ice hockey team in a regional high school league. In the 2011/12 season, the right winger scored 73 points in just 25 games and was therefore considered in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft in 174th position by the Pittsburgh Penguins . Archibald then enrolled in the fall of 2011 at the University of Nebraska Omaha and from then on took part in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) with their team, the Mavericks . During his college days, the attacker distinguished himself as a regular goalscorer and increased his personal statistics from year to year to 29 goals and 14 assists in the 2013/14 season. In recognition of these achievements, he was named Player of the Year by the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) and was voted into their First All-Star Team . He was also one of ten finalists for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award , which honors the best college player in the country.

NHL

Archibald then signed an entry-level contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins in May 2014 and, by the end of the season, played his first nine professional games for the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins from the American Hockey League (AHL), the Pittsburgh farm team . He also spent most of the 2014/15 season in Wilkes-Barre / Scranton, but was also sent to the third-class ECHL for nine missions with the Wheeling Nailers . As a result, the attacker stabilized his performance in the AHL and finally made his debut for the Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League (NHL) in March 2016 . In the 2016/17 season Archibald won the Stanley Cup with Pittsburgh and came to play in game four of the final series , so that his name was immortalized on the trophy. In the summer of 2017, he signed a new two-year contract with the Penguins.

Nevertheless, Archibald subsequently no longer played a role in the Penguins' NHL roster and was therefore handed over to the Arizona Coyotes in December 2017 along with Sean Maguire and a six- round vote for the 2019 NHL Entry Draft . In return, the Penguins received Michael Leighton and a four-round vote for the same draft. With the Coyotes, Archibald then established himself in the NHL. In the summer of 2019, the attacker switched to the Edmonton Oilers as a free agent on the basis of a one-year contract .

International

Archibald has dual citizenship through his American mother and Canadian father and decided to accrue for the United States . He represented them in the junior division with the U20 national team at the U20 World Cup in 2012 , where he finished seventh with the team.

Achievements and Awards

2014 NCHC First All-Star Team
2014 NCHC Player of the Year
2014 finalist for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award
2017 Stanley Cup win with the Pittsburgh Penguins

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

			Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2009/10	Brainerd High School	High school	25th	20th	30th	50		72	2	2	5	7th		2
2010/11	Brainerd High School	High school	25th	27	46	73		40	2	3	2	5		0
2011/12	University of Nebraska Omaha	NCAA	36	10	5	15th	+3	33
2012/13	University of Nebraska Omaha	NCAA	39	19th	17th	36	+18	34
2013/14	University of Nebraska Omaha	NCAA	37	29	14th	43	+2	62
2013/14	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL	7th	1	0	1	± 0	13	2	1	0	1	-1	0
2014/15	Wheeling Nailers	ECHL	9	7th	4th	11	+4	4th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL	45	5	8th	13	-1	24	3	0	1	1	+1	0
2015/16	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL	69	9	9	18th	+1	75	10	1	0	1	-3	10
2015/16	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL	1	0	0	0	± 0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL	61	16	13	29	+25	54	5	2	0	2	± 0	16
2016/17	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL	10	3	0	3	+3	4th	4th	0	0	0	-1	2
2017/18	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL	6th	1	2	3	-4	4th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL	3	0	0	0	± 0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Arizona Coyotes	NHL	39	5	6th	11	-2	25th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Arizona Coyotes	NHL	68	12	10	22nd	+1	15th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Edmonton Oilers	NHL	62	12	9	21st	-8th	12	4th	1	0	1	+1	4th
High school overall			95	64	88	152		197	7th	5	9	14th		8th
NCAA overall			112	58	36	94	+23	129
AHL total			188	32	32	64	+21	170	20th	4th	1	5	-3	26th
NHL overall			183	32	25th	57	–6	57	8th	1	0	1	± 0	6th

International

Represented the USA at:

U20 Junior World Championship 2012

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2012	United States	U20 World Cup	7th place		6th	0	2	2	-2	6th
Juniors overall					6th	0	2	2	-2	6th

( 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 )