Josh Ho-Sang

Josh Ho-Sang
Date of birth	January 22, 1996
place of birth	Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	78 kg
position	center
number	# 66
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2014 , 1st round, 28th position New York Islanders
Career stations
2012-2014	Windsor Spitfires
2014-2016	Niagara IceDogs
since 2016	New York Islanders Bridgeport Sound Tigers San Antonio Rampage

Joshua "Josh" Ho-Sang (born January 22, 1996 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League since October 2014 and since October 2016 for their farm team , the Bridgeport Sound Tigers , plays in the American Hockey League on the position of the center . He has also been on the ice on loan for the San Antonio Rampage since February 2020 .

Career

Josh Ho-Sang at the CHL Top Prospects Game (2014)

Ho-Sang comes from a multicultural family and is of Jewish faith . His father immigrated to Canada from the island of Jamaica at the age of ten and has Chinese ancestors who lived in Hong Kong . His mother comes from Chile and has Russian and Swedish ancestors. She came to Canada at the age of twelve.

First, Ho-Sang played until 2012 for the Toronto Marlboros in the junior leagues of the province of Ontario . In the OHL Priority Selection , the striker was selected by the Windsor Spitfires from the Ontario Hockey League in fifth position. At the beginning of the 2012/13 season , he was finally in their squad and, as a 16-year-old, played 63 games in his rookie season . He got 44 points scorer . He almost doubled this yield in the following season with 85 points. In the summer he was finally selected in the first round of the NHL Entry Draft 2014 in 28th place by the New York Islanders from the National Hockey League . After the attacker signed his first professional contract with the Islanders in October, but the franchise allowed him to continue playing in the junior division, he began the 2014/15 season in Windsor. Although he missed the first six games of the season due to a suspension, he led the team after almost a third of the season by scorer points. However, he was transferred to league competitor Niagara IceDogs in mid-November . Ho-Sang spent the rest of his junior years at the IceDogs until spring 2016. In 288 OHL games over a period of four years, he scored 337 points scorer.

For the 2016/17 season , the Canadian finally switched to the professional field. After he had already participated unsuccessfully in the Islanders 'pre-season training camp in the previous two years, at the beginning of the season he was given a place in the roster of the Bridgeport Sound Tigers , the Islanders' farm team in the American Hockey League . There he spent his first professional playing time until the beginning of March 2017, before he was appointed to the New York NHL squad for the first time and made his debut there. At this point he had scored 36 points in 48 AHL games.

After he had spent the 2019/20 season exclusively in the AHL up to this point, the Islanders awarded him to the San Antonio Rampage within the league in February 2020 .

International

For his home country, Ho-Sang played in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2013 as a member of the Ontario team . He finished sixth with the team, to which he contributed five scorer points in five missions.

Achievements and Awards

• 2014 Participation in the CHL Top Prospects Game

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2012/13	Windsor Spitfires	OHL		63	14th	30th	44	22nd		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Windsor Spitfires	OHL		67	32	53	85	44		4th	1	2	3	10
2014/15	Windsor Spitfires	OHL		11	3	16	19th	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Niagara IceDogs	OHL		49	14th	48	62	38		11	1	15th	16	18th
2015/16	Niagara IceDogs	OHL		66	19th	63	82	44		17th	6th	20th	26th	8th
2016/17	Bridgeport Sound Tigers	AHL		50	10	26th	36	24		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	New York Islanders	NHL		21st	4th	6th	10	12		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Bridgeport Sound Tigers	AHL		50	8th	23	31	40		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	New York Islanders	NHL		22nd	2	10	12	2		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Bridgeport Sound Tigers	AHL		56	8th	35	43	18th		5	1	1	2	0
2018/19	New York Islanders	NHL		10	1	1	2	6th		-	-	-	-	-
OHL total				256	82	210	292	156		32	8th	37	45	36
AHL total				156	26th	84	110	82		5	1	1	2	0
NHL overall				53	7th	17th	24	20th		-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Canada to:

• World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2013

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2013	Canada Ontario	U17-WHC	6th place		5	3	2	5	0
Juniors overall					5	3	2	5	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 )

Others

Ho-Sang wears the shirt number 66 in honor of Mario Lemieux since the age of 15 and was the second player after TJ Brodie in the 2010/11 season with her in the NHL since Lemieux ended his active career in 2006. He was only the sixth player in the 100-year history of the NHL to play a game with this shirt number.

Web links

• Player biography on the New York Islanders website
• Josh Ho-Sang at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Craig Custance: Unique Skills, Story for Ho-Sang. espn.com, June 25, 2014, accessed March 3, 2017 . 
2. ^ Dov Ivry: Meet Josh Ho-Sang. timesofisrael.com, June 14, 2014, accessed March 3, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Arthur Staple: Islanders' Josh Ho-Sang wears 66 to honor Mario Lemieux. newsday.com, March 2, 2017, accessed March 3, 2017 . 
4. ↑ NHL Players Who Wore Sweater Number 66. hockey-reference.com, accessed March 3, 2017 .