Josh Holden

Canada Josh Holden

Date of birth	January 18, 1978
place of birth	Calgary , Alberta , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	86 kg

position	center
number	27
Shot hand	Left

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	1996 , 1st lap, 12th position Vancouver Canucks

Career stations

1994-1998	Regina Pats
1998-2001	Vancouver Canucks
2001-2002	Manitoba mosses
2002-2004	St. John's Maple Leafs
2004-2005	Hämeenlinnan Pallokerho
2005-2007	Friborg-Gottéron
2007-2008	SCL Tigers
2008-2018	EV train
2017-2018	EVZ Academy

Josh Holden (born January 18, 1978 in Calgary , Alberta ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach who was last under contract with EV Zug in the Swiss National League from 2008 to 2018 . Holden previously played a few games for the Vancouver Canucks , Carolina Hurricanes and Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League .

Career

Josh Holden played as a junior from 1994 to 1998 for the Regina Pats in the Western Hockey League . In the 1995/96 season he scored 112 points in the regular season and was the sixth best scorer in the Western Hockey League. In the next two years it failed each time just at the 100 point mark and came to 98 and 99 points. In the 1998/99 season Holden had his first appearances for the Vancouver Canucks in the National Hockey League , which had selected him in the first round in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft in twelfth position. He was a supplement player with the Vancouver Canucks for three years before the Carolina Hurricanes signed him from the waiver in 2001 . After eight games, he was again signed by the Vancouver Canucks. Before the 2002/03 season he came to the Toronto Maple Leafs for Jeff Farkas . But even there, Holden did not succeed as a regular player. For the lockout season, the Canadian moved to Europe for the first time and went to the Finnish club Hämeenlinnan Pallokerho , where he quickly took on a leadership role. After a year in Finland, the Swiss club Friborg-Gottéron signed him . After two years in Friborg, the SCL Tigers followed suit , before Holden switched to EV Zug in 2008 . There he was the NLA player with the most goals scored (30) in the qualification in the 2009/10 season .

In the 2017/18 season he was eligible to play for the EVZ Academy in the Swiss League and only sporadically helped out in the NL team. Then he ended his career. For the 2018/19 season he became an assistant coach at EV Zug.

International

Holden took part in the 1998 Junior World Championship for Canada . As the Canadians' top scorer, he scored four goals in seven games, but Team Canada only achieved a disappointing eighth place in the Junior World Championship.

Achievements and Awards

1998 WHL East Second All-Star Team
2005 Most underpaid goals in the SM-liiga
2010 Most goals in the National League A
2012 Spengler Cup winner with Team Canada

Web links

Josh Holden at eliteprospects.com (English)
Josh Holden at hockeyfans.ch

Individual evidence

↑ Josh Holden becomes assistant trainer at EVZ - Luzerner Zeitung. In: luzernerzeitung.ch. May 28, 2018. Retrieved October 17, 2018 .

Squad EV train in the season 2019/20

personal data
SURNAME	Holden, Josh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	January 18, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH	Calgary , Alberta

[luzerner-024168-1] Josh Holden becomes assistant trainer at EVZ - Luzerner Zeitung. In: luzernerzeitung.ch. May 28, 2018. Retrieved October 17, 2018 .