Quinton Howden

Canada Quinton Howden


Date of birth	January 21, 1992
place of birth	Oakbank , Manitoba , Canada
size	188 cm
Weight	86 kg

position	center
Shot hand	Left

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2010 , 1st round, 25th position Florida Panthers

Career stations

2008–2012	Moose Jaw Warriors
2012-2016	Florida Panthers San Antonio Rampage
2016-2017	Manitoba mosses
2017-2019	HK Dinamo Minsk
2019	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
since 2019	HK Vitjas

Quinton Howden (born January 21, 1992 in Oakbank , Manitoba ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with HK Vitjas from the Continental Hockey League since December 2019 and plays for them in the position of right winger .

Career

Quinton Howden began his career in the local ice hockey leagues in the Canadian province of Manitoba before he was selected in 2007 as the overall first in the WHL Bantam Draft by the Moose Jaw Warriors from the Western Hockey League . After he had completed five games for the Warriors at the end of the 2007/08 season , Howden succeeded in the following season as a rookie straight away to become a regular. In 62 games he was able to achieve 30 points and was voted Rookie of the Year for the Moose Jaw Warriors. In the 2009/10 season the striker was able to improve significantly and with 65 points at the end of the season for the first time to reach one point per game. At the same time he was invited to the CHL Top Prospects Game . In the 2010 NHL Entry Draft Howden was finally selected in the first round in 25th place by the Florida Panthers .

Before the start of the 2010-11 season , Howden was named assistant captain of the Warriors. Although he played five fewer games in the regular season, he was able to increase his goal count from 28 to 40 goals and was the top scorer of his team. In addition, he was elected to the Second All-Star Team of the Eastern Conference at the end of the season . Also in the following season he helped the Warriors with 30 goals to get back into the playoffs, where they could advance to the conference finals.

In April 2011, Quinton Howden signed a three-year entry-level contract with the Florida Panthers . For the 2012/13 season he finally moved to the Panthers farm team, the San Antonio Rampage , in the American Hockey League . There he achieved a total of 30 scorer points in 57 appearances in his rookie season. After the start of the season in the National Hockey League was delayed by several months until January 2013, Howden was appointed to the Panthers roster for the first time at the end of the month. There he received his first use in a 7-1 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers .

After four years in the Panthers organization, his contract was not renewed after the 2015/16 season, so he joined the Winnipeg Jets as a free agent for one year in July 2016 . There he came with the exception of five NHL games but mainly in the farm team, the Manitoba Moose , in the AHL for use. After mid-August 2017 found no new NHL team, he moved to the season 2017/18 for HC Dinamo Minsk in the Kontinental Hockey League .

After two years at Dinamo, he was given to Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod in exchange for Andrew Calof in August 2019 .

International

On an international level, the Canadian got his first appearance at the U18 Junior World Championship 2010 , where the team was eliminated in the preliminary round. Howden scored four goals in six games and also gave two assists.

For the U20 Junior World Championship 2011 , the striker was called up again in the Canadian U20 national team and won the silver medal with the team. In the following year he was appointed assistant captain of the junior national team and helped his team win the bronze medal at the U20 junior world championship in 2012 with six points.

The attacker made his debut for the senior national team at the 2018 Winter Olympics , where he won the bronze medal with the team that competed without NHL players.

Achievements and Awards

2010 CHL Top Prospects Game
2011 WHL East Second All-Star Team

International

2009 gold medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament
2011 silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
2012 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
2018 bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

			Regular season					Play-offs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2007/08	Moose Jaw Warriors	WHL	5	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Moose Jaw Warriors	WHL	62	13	17th	30th	22nd	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Moose Jaw Warriors	WHL	65	28	37	65	44	2	0	2	2	2
2010/11	Moose Jaw Warriors	WHL	60	40	39	79	43	6th	5	2	7th	2
2011/12	Moose Jaw Warriors	WHL	52	30th	35	65	16	14th	5	10	15th	6th
2011/12	San Antonio Rampage	AHL	-	-	-	-	-	4th	0	0	0	2
2012/13	San Antonio Rampage	AHL	57	13	17th	30th	24	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Florida panthers	NHL	18th	0	0	0	2	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	San Antonio Rampage	AHL	59	10	17th	27	26th	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Florida panthers	NHL	16	4th	2	6th	10	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	San Antonio Rampage	AHL	33	3	15th	18th	16	3	0	1	1	2
2015/16	Florida panthers	NHL	58	6th	5	11	18th	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Manitoba mosses	AHL	58	13	11	24	10	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Winnipeg Jets	NHL	5	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	HK Dinamo Minsk	KHL	56	17th	15th	32	34	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	HK Dinamo Minsk	KHL	58	12	16	28	24	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod	KHL
WHL overall			244	111	128	239	125	22nd	10	14th	24	10
AHL total			207	39	60	99	76	7th	0	1	1	4th
NHL overall			97	10	7th	17th	30th	-	-	-	-	-
KHL total			114	29	31	60	58	-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Canada to:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2009	Canada Western	U17-WHC	4th Place	6th	3	1	4th	10
2009	Canada	HIMT		4th	0	0	0	2
2010	Canada	U18 World Cup	7th place	6th	4th	2	6th	4th
2011	Canada	U20 World Cup		7th	2	3	5	4th
2012	Canada	U20 World Cup		6th	3	3	6th	2
2018	Canada	Olympia		3	0	1	1	0
Juniors overall				29	12	9	21st	22nd
Men overall				3	0	1	1	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 )