Josh Jooris

Josh Jooris
Date of birth	July 14, 1990
place of birth	Burlington , Ontario , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
2008-2010	Burlington Cougars
2010-2013	Union College
2013-2014	Abbotsford Heat
2014-2016	Calgary Flames
2016	New York Rangers
2016-2017	Arizona Coyotes
2017-2018	Carolina Hurricanes
2018	Pittsburgh Penguins Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins
2018-2019	Toronto Marlies
since 2019	Lausanne HC

Joshua "Josh" Jooris (born July 14, 1990 in Burlington , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Lausanne HC from the Swiss National League since June 2019, where he plays in the center position. His father, Mark Jooris, was also a professional ice hockey player and coach.

Career

Youth and education

Josh Jooris was born in 1990 into a sporty family with Belgian roots. His grandfather was already active as a professional soccer player, while his father, Mark Jooris, earned his living as a professional ice hockey player in the American Hockey League and the German Ice Hockey League . He started playing ice hockey at the age of three and grew up partly in his Canadian homeland and partly in Europe, where his father was under contract.

In his hometown of Burlington, Josh Jooris went through the youth departments of the Burlington Eagles and later that of the Burlington Cougars . He played for the latter in the Ontario Junior Hockey League (OJHL) and in the Central Canada Hockey League (CCHL) - two junior leagues that are not among the three top junior leagues in Canada . Jooris received less attention from scouts and was consequently not selected in the NHL Entry Draft . He then enrolled at the American Union College in the state of New York and from then on played for their ice hockey team, the Union Dutchmen , in ECAC Hockey , a university league of the NCAA . At the university he began studying psychology .

Jooris at the Boston Bruins training camp (2011)

In his three years at Union College, the center achieved stable scorer points (32-28-28) every season. With the team he won the play-offs of the ECAC and thus the Whitelaw Cup , which is synonymous with qualifying for the qualifying games for the national championship of all university teams in the USA in the last two years . In the 2011/12 season they advanced to the semifinals and thus into the Frozen Four , where they were defeated by Ferris State University .

Calgary Flames

Jooris had already attended a training camp for the Boston Bruins in summer 2011 and one of the Vancouver Canucks the following year , but was unable to prevail in either. He tried the same the following year with the Calgary Flames , which then equipped him with an entry level contract for the National Hockey League (NHL) in July 2013 . As a result, he left Union College before the senior year and did not complete his psychology degree. In order to grant him playing time, the center was initially sent to the American Hockey League (AHL) to the Abbotsford Heat , the farm team of the Calgary Flames. There he spent the entire 2013/14 season, scoring 11 goals and providing 16 assists in 73 games. After he spent the beginning of the following season with the Adirondack Flames , the Flames ' new farm team, he was appointed to the NHL squad for the first time after two AHL games; The reason was an injury to David Jones . In his debut against the Columbus Blue Jackets he scored directly, and two weeks later he scored a brace against the Canadiens de Montréal , which solidified his position in the NHL squad.

New York, Arizona, Carolina, Pittsburgh and Toronto

After three years in the organization of the Flames, Jooris did not get a new contract after the 2015/16 season, so he joined the New York Rangers as a free agent in July 2016 . For the Rangers he completed twelve NHL games before he should be sent to the AHL via the waiver , with the center forward from the Arizona Coyotes . In Arizona, Jooris ended the season and subsequently joined the Carolina Hurricanes as a free agent in July 2017 . However, the Hurricanes handed the attacker over to the Pittsburgh Penguins by the trade deadline in February 2018 after a little over six months . In return, Pittsburgh sent Greg McKegg to Carolina. In July 2018, Jooris signed a one-year contract as a free agent with the Toronto Maple Leafs , where he played exclusively in the AHL with the Toronto Marlies during the season. In June 2019 he signed a contract with Lausanne HC from the Swiss National League .

Achievements and Awards

• 2012 Whitelaw Cup win with Union College
• 2013 Whitelaw Cup win with Union College
• 2019 Spengler Cup win with Team Canada

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
2008/09	Burlington Cougars	OJHL		42	8th	26th	34		36		8th	1	7th	8th		12
2009/10	Burlington Cougars	CCHL		50	26th	90	116	+60	42		12	5	10	15th	+8	10
2010/11	Union College	NCAA		40	9	23	32	+5	18th
2011/12	Union College	NCAA		38	8th	20th	28	+14	30th
2012/13	Union College	NCAA		39	12	16	28	+7	46
2013/14	Abbotsford Heat	AHL		73	11	16	27	± 0	67		1	0	0	0	-1	2
2014/15	Adirondack Flames	AHL		2	0	0	0	± 0	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Calgary Flames	NHL		60	12	12	24	+1	16		9	0	0	0	± 0	4th
2015/16	Calgary Flames	NHL		59	4th	9	13	-1	39		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	New York Rangers	NHL		12	1	1	2	+1	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Arizona Coyotes	NHL		42	3	7th	10	-3	10		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Charlotte Checkers	AHL		5	0	3	3	+4	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL		31	3	3	6th	–7	16		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		6th	1	0	1	-1	4th		3	0	1	1	–6	0
2017/18	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		9	0	0	0	± 0	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Toronto Marlies	AHL		74	8th	7th	15th	−2	28		13	0	2	2	−2	0
NCAA overall				117	29	59	88	+26	94
AHL total				160	20th	26th	46	+1	101		17th	0	3	3	–9	2
NHL overall				213	23	32	55	–9	87		9	0	0	0	± 0	4th

( 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

Commons : Josh Jooris  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the Toronto Maple Leafs website
• Josh Jooris at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} timesunion.com: "Union's Jooris hopes to match father's feat" (English, March 28, 2012, accessed on November 22, 2014)
2. ↑ ^{a b} calgaryherald.com: "Jooris excited to do what dad didn't" (English, July 31, 2013, accessed November 22, 2014)
3. ↑ flamesnation.ca: "The Curious Case of Josh Jooris" (English, October 4, 2014, accessed November 22, 2014)
4. ↑ nhl.com: "Flames sign Jooris to entry-level contract" (English, July 30, 2013, accessed on November 22, 2014)