Josh Green

Josh Green
Date of birth	November 16, 1977
place of birth	Camrose , Alberta , Canada
size	191 cm
Weight	98 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1996 , 2nd round, 30th position Los Angeles Kings
Career stations
1993-1997	Medicine Hat Tigers
1997	Swift Current Broncos
1997-1998	Portland Winter Hawks
1998	Fredericton Canadiens
1998-1999	Los Angeles Kings
1999-2000	New York Islanders
2000-2002	Edmonton Oilers
2002-2003	New York Rangers
2003	Washington Capitals
2003-2004	Calgary Flames
2004	New York Rangers
2004-2005	Manitoba mosses
2005-2007	Vancouver Canucks
2007-2008	EC Red Bull Salzburg
2008-2009	Iowa chops
2009-2010	MODO Hockey Örnsköldsvik
2010-2011	Anaheim Ducks
2011-2013	Oklahoma City Barons
2013-2015	Tappara Tampere
since 2015	KooKoo

Josh Green (born November 16, 1977 in Camrose , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with KooKoo in the Liiga since July 2015 .

Career

Green played for the Medicine Hat Tigers during his junior years in the Western Hockey League . In the 1996 NHL Entry Draft , he was selected by the Los Angeles Kings in the second round as 30th. After the draft, he moved within the WHL to the Swift Current Broncos and later to the Portland Winter Hawks .

After a season in the American Hockey League with the Fredericton Canadiens , he came to his first NHL appearances with the Kings during the 1998/99 season . Mostly, however, he played for the Springfield Falcons in the AHL. For the 1999/2000 season it was handed over to the New York Islanders together with Olli Jokinen , Mathieu Biron and a first-round pick in the 1999 draft . In return, Žigmund Pálffy and Bryan Smolinski came to Los Angeles. after a start in the AHL with the Lowell Lock Monsters, he fought for a regular place with the Islanders. After the end of the season he moved with Eric Brewer to the Edmonton Oilers , who gave Roman Hamrlík to the Islanders for this .

Due to a shoulder injury, he missed almost the entire 2000/01 season . After a few development games in the AHL with the Hamilton Bulldogs , he only made three appearances in the playoffs. After a full season in Edmonton, an eventful season came to him. He started in Edmonton, moved to the New York Rangers and was passed on to the Washington Capitals during the season , but even here he only stayed until the end of the season.

He played for the Calgary Flames in the 2003-04 season before returning to the Rangers later in the season. Since the following season was canceled due to a strike, Green played in the AHL with the Manitoba Moose . From the 2005/06 season he was with the Vancouver Canucks for two years . In summer 2007 he decided to move to Europe and played in the 2007/08 season for EC Red Bull Salzburg in the Austrian ice hockey league .

In the 2008/09 season he ran in the AHL for the Iowa Chops before he was committed in July 2009 by MODO Hockey from the Swedish Elitserien . In July 2010, he signed a one-year contract with the Anaheim Ducks . In October 2010 he was sent to their farm team , the Syracuse Crunch , in the American Hockey League together with Maxime Macenauer .

On July 3, 2011, Green signed a two-way contract with the Edmonton Oilers and was used in the following two seasons mainly with the Oklahoma City Barons in the AHL. After he could not recommend himself again in the fall of 2013 for a regular place in the NHL squad of the Oilers, Green moved to Europe to Tappara Tampere .

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	11	334	35	39	74	199
Playoffs	2	12	0	1	1	12

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Josh Green at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Josh Green at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ducks Sign Left Wing Green to One-Year Deal
2. ^ Green, Macenauer Reassigned