Ross Johnston

Ross Johnston
Date of birth	February 18, 1994
place of birth	Charlottetown , Prince Edward Island , Canada
size	195 cm
Weight	107 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2011-2013	Moncton Wildcats
2013-2014	Tigres de Victoriaville
2014-2015	Charlottetown Islanders
since 2015	New York Islanders Bridgeport Sound Tigers

Ross Johnston (born February 18, 1994 in Charlottetown , Prince Edward Island ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the New York Islanders from the National Hockey League since March 2015 and plays for them on the position of the left winger . Johnston embodies the role of enforcer , which has now become rare .

Career

Johnston spent his junior years until the beginning of the 2011/12 season with various junior teams in the province of Prince Edward Island , in whose capital Charlottetown he was born. After the election by the Moncton Wildcats in the Entry Draft of the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec in summer 2011, the winger moved to the league and was part of the team until summer 2013. He then moved to league rivals Tigres de Victoriaville , where he also spent a season as in the 2014/15 season with the Charlottetown Islanders .

After the attacker was always disregarded in the NHL Entry Draft , he was still signed by the New York Islanders from the National Hockey League in March 2015 . At the end of the 2014/15 season, Johnston then made his professional debut with New York's farm team , the Bridgeport Sound Tigers , in the American Hockey League . At the Sound Tigers, the offensive player was mainly in the squad in the following three seasons. However, he also made his debut for the Islanders in the NHL in the 2015/16 season . Further missions followed in the course of the 2017/18 season . After the four-year contract extension in the summer of 2018, the Canadian has been part of the New York NHL squad since the beginning of the 2018/19 season , but is only used irregularly there due to his limited skills as an enforcer .

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
2011/12	Moncton Wildcats	LHJMQ		38	2	5	7th	55		2	0	0	0	8th
2012/13	Moncton Wildcats	LHJMQ		53	12	15th	27	96		3	0	0	0	4th
2013/14	Tigres de Victoriaville	LHJMQ		60	10	15th	25th	139		5	0	3	3	6th
2014/15	Charlottetown Islanders	LHJMQ		44	18th	14th	32	124		10	4th	7th	11	28
2014/15	Bridgeport Sound Tigers	AHL		2	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Bridgeport Sound Tigers	AHL		39	1	3	4th	79		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Missouri Mavericks	ECHL		13	4th	7th	11	23		5	3	1	4th	10
2015/16	New York Islanders	NHL		1	0	0	0	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Bridgeport Sound Tigers	AHL		62	8th	7th	15th	135		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Bridgeport Sound Tigers	AHL		38	3	8th	11	113		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	New York Islanders	NHL		24	3	3	6th	62		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	New York Islanders	NHL		17th	1	3	4th	23		-	-	-	-	-
LHJMQ total				195	42	49	91	414		20th	4th	10	14th	46
AHL total				141	12	18th	30th	327		-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				42	4th	6th	10	89		-	-	-	-	-

( 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

• Player biography on the New York Islanders website
• Ross Johnston at eliteprospects.com (English)