Jeremy Williams (ice hockey)
Jeremy Williams ( born January 26, 1984 in Glenavon, Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player.
Career
Jeremy Williams began his career as a hockey player with the Swift Current Broncos, for which he was active from 2001 to 2004 in the Western Hockey League. During this time he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in the seventh round in 2003 when a total of 220 players from the Toronto Maple Leafs. Towards the end of the 2003/ 04 Williams made his debut in professional hockey when he was first appointed to the Executive of Toronto damaligem farm team, the St. John 's Maple Leafs of the American Hockey League. The 2004/05 season spent Williams in St. John, as the NHL season was canceled because of the lockout.
In the season 2005/ 06 Williams stood in the AHL for Toronto's new farm team, the Toronto Marlies on the ice and made his debut in the National Hockey League for the Maple Leafs. In his first and only NHL - use in this season, he also scored his first goal in the NHL. In the following season, Williams played mainly for the Marlies and met his second NHL application for the second time. In the 2007 /08 season the winger was allowed to play at least 18 times, so that it could reach two more goals. In July 2010 he moved to the New York Rangers, the 2010/11 put him in the course of the season mainly in the farm team in Hartford Wolf Pack and Connecticut Whale. In June 2011 he was taken from the EC Red Bull Salzburg of the Austrian Hockey League for the 2011/12 season under contract.
Plan for the next season of Canadians signed a contract for one season plus option on the HC Sierre in the Swiss National League B. After half a year the HC Sierre in the National League B, he joined the German second division ETC Crimmitschau.
Awards and achievements
- 2004 WHL East First All-Star Team
- 2004 CHL First All -Star Team
- 2011 European Trophy prize with the EC Red Bull Salzburg
NHL stats
(End of season 2010/11)