Josh Brown (ice hockey player)

Josh Brown
Date of birth	January 21, 1994
place of birth	London , Ontario , Canada
size	196 cm
Weight	98 kg
position	defender
number	# 2
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2013 , 6th round, 152nd position Florida Panthers
Career stations
2011-2015	Oshawa Generals
2015-2016	Portland Pirates Manchester Monarchs
2016-2019	Springfield Thunderbirds
since 2019	Florida panthers

Joshua "Josh" Brown (born January 21, 1994 in London , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Florida Panthers in the National Hockey League since April 2015 and plays for them on the position of defender .

Career

Josh Brown was born in London, where he played for the London Jr. Knights in his youth . With the beginning of the 2010/11 season he played for the Whitby Fury in the Ontario Junior Hockey League , before moving to the Oshawa Generals in the higher-class Ontario Hockey League (OHL) in 2011 . There he established himself in the following years as a defensively oriented defensive player who, due to his above-average physique, impressed with physically robust ice hockey. Therefore, he was selected in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft in 152nd position by the Florida Panthers , although he had not scored a goal in two OHL years and had only 20 assists. Then the defense took over for the season 2013/14 the Office of the team captain with the general, rather he his team in the 2014/15 season to win the OHL playoffs for the J. Ross Robertson Cup and a little later to victory in the 2015 Memorial Cup lead . He personally ended the year with a plus / minus rating of +49, which means that he was only surpassed by Connor McDavid and Alex DeBrincat in the league .

In April 2015, the Florida Panthers equipped him with an entry-level contract and initially used him with their farm teams , the Portland Pirates from the American Hockey League (AHL) and the Manchester Monarchs from the third-rate ECHL . For the 2016/17 season, Brown established himself with the new AHL cooperation partner, the Springfield Thunderbirds , and acted as assistant captain there from the 2017/18 season. Finally, the Panthers called him for the first time in January 2019, so that the defender made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) a little later . Over the course of the year, he earned himself a regular place there and has been on duty since then.

Achievements and Awards

• 2015 J. Ross Robertson Cup win with the Oshawa Generals
• 2015 Memorial Cup win with the Oshawa Generals

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
2011/12	Oshawa Generals	OHL		46	0	4th	4th	–9	49		2	0	0	0	-1	0
2012/13	Oshawa Generals	OHL		68	0	16	16	+17	79		9	1	4th	5	+1	11
2013/14	Oshawa Generals	OHL		56	2	10	12	+7	83		9	0	0	0	+5	18th
2014/15	Oshawa Generals	OHL		60	6th	15th	21st	+49	92		21st	2	2	4th	+5	30th
2015	Oshawa Generals	Memorial Cup									4th	0	1	1	+1	2
2015/16	Manchester monarchs	ECHL		54	1	11	12	+10	80		5	0	0	0	± 0	4th
2015/16	Portland Pirates	AHL		10	0	1	1	-2	7th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Springfield Thunderbirds	AHL		72	3	10	13	-5	96		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Springfield Thunderbirds	AHL		66	1	9	10	-10	67		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Springfield Thunderbirds	AHL		22nd	3	0	3	+1	34		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Florida panthers	NHL		37	1	1	2	-3	28		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Florida panthers	NHL		56	3	5	8th	+1	39		2	0	0	0	± 0	0
OHL total				230	8th	45	53	+64	303		41	3	6th	9	+10	59
AHL total				170	7th	20th	27	-16	204		-	-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				93	4th	6th	10	-2	67		2	0	0	0	± 0	0

( 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

• Player biography on the Florida Panthers website
• Josh Brown at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Florida Panthers Agree to Terms with D Josh Brown. nhl.com, April 9, 2015, accessed January 1, 2020 .