Justin Cox

Justin Cox
Date of birth	March 13, 1981
place of birth	Merritt , British Columbia , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	center
number	# 27
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1999 , 6th round, 184th position Dallas Stars
Career stations
1997-2001	Prince George Cougars
2001-2005	Utah grizzlies
2005-2006	Idaho steelheads
2006	EHC Visp
2006-2007	Storhamar Dragons
2007-2009	EV Duisburg
2009-2010	IK Oskarshamn
2010-2011	Heilbronn falcon

Justin Cox (born March 13, 1981 in Merritt , British Columbia ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who last played for the Heilbronner Falken in the 2nd Bundesliga ice hockey .

Career

Cox began his career in 1997 in the Canadian Junior Western Hockey League with the Prince George Cougars . Achieved already in his second year of the then 18-year-old in 72 games 22 points scorer , prompting some NHL - Scouts on the 1.83-meter striker took notice. During the 1999 NHL Entry Draft , it was the Dallas Stars who finally secured his rights. Cox was selected 184th overall in the sixth round. Nevertheless, the attacker initially stayed in the Western Hockey League for two years.

Cox in the jersey of Füchse Duisburg (right)

In the summer of 2001, the Canadian moved to the American Hockey League for the Utah Grizzlies , for which he completed 74 games in his first season and scored 17 points. Cox did not get the chance to prove himself in the NHL despite an attractive performance. After he figured out only a small chance of a possible engagement with the Dallas Stars, he moved to the San Antonio Rampage , the farm team of the Phoenix Coyotes, for the 2005/06 season . There, too, the attacker played exclusively in the AHL and only moved to Europe for the first time a year later. Here Cox first went on the ice for the Swiss second division club EHC Visp and in the same season for the Norwegian first division club Storhamar Dragons .

After he performed well in Switzerland and Norway , the management of Füchse Duisburg also became aware of the offensive player who signed him before the 2007/08 season . Justin Cox received a two-year contract with the Foxes. In the first season with the Füchsen he was the fifth best player in the internal scorer list. When Duisburg had to file for bankruptcy in the summer of 2009 , he left the club and moved to IK Oskarshamn in the Swedish HockeyAllsvenskan .

In 2010 he returned to Germany and was signed by the Heilbronner Falken from the 2nd Bundesliga ice hockey .

DEL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	2	96	27	19th	46	94
Play-offs	-	-	-	-	-	-

(Status: end of the 2009/10 season)

Web links

• Justin Cox at eurohockey.com
• Justin Cox at eliteprospects.com (English)