Joey MacDonald
Joey MacDonald ( born February 7, 1980 in Halifax, Nova Scotia ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who stands since February 2013 with the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League under contract and in parallel for their AHL farm team, which comes Abbotsford Heat used.
Career
Joey MacDonald started his career in 1997 in the Canadian Junior Football League QMJHL with the Halifax Mooseheads. After a year he moved to the Peterborough Petes in the Ontario Hockey League, a junior league, which also belongs as the QMJHL for the Canadian Hockey League. In summer 2001, MacDonald had to leave the team because he was too old to play in a junior league.
He had been drafted by any team in the National Hockey League, but was taken by the Detroit Red Wings in January 2002 under contract and completed the rest of the season in the East Coast Hockey League with the Toledo Storm, a former farm team of the Red Wings. In the summer of 2002, he was named to the Grand Rapids Griffins, another farm team, brought in the American Hockey League to work there as a back -up goalie Marc Lamothe. Both received at the end of the season award for the fewest goals in the AHL. In the 2003 /04 season, the two shared the position as the number 1 and in the following year, MacDonald was the sole goalkeeper. This season he achieved a personal best with 34 victories.
2005/ 06 MacDonald formed with Jimmy Howard and Drew MacIntyre a goalkeeping trio that the Ice Age aufteilte in the AHL Season.
In autumn 2006, MacDonald was added to the NHL squad of Detroit Red Wings, where he will act as a back-up goalie of Dominik Hašek and Chris Osgood. On 19 October 2006, he came for the first time in the NHL used. In the game against the San Jose Sharks, the Red Wings had already conceded three goals after 15 minutes, after MacDonald came in to replace Osgood. But he could not decisively affect the game. At the end of the game went with 1:5 lost and MacDonald cashed in its 45 minutes of ice two goals in 15 shots. On November 18, 2006 against the Edmonton Oilers MacDonald was the first time for the Red Wings from the start on the ice. The game went to the shootout with 3:4 lost. MacDonald fended off in the 65 minutes 18 of 21 shots. MacDonald was still further operations, benefiting among other things, a breach of Chris Osgood. End of February 2007 he was put on the Waiverliste and shortly afterwards committed by Boston Bruins.
In summer 2007, he signed as a free agent contract with the New York Islanders, but received no place in the NHL squad and plays most of the season 2007/ 08 at the Bridgeport Sound Tigers, the AHL farm team of the Islanders. In the AHL he performed well, but only won 13 of his 32 games. When the goalkeeper of the Islanders, Rick DiPietro, failed in March 2008 due to a hip replacement, MacDonald was appointed to the NHL squad.
For the season 2008/ 09 he finally succeeded, the final leap into the NHL team as a reserve goalkeeper behind DiPietro. After DiPietro had to undergo knee surgery in November 2008, and therefore turned out for almost the entire rest of the season, MacDonald took over the post as the goalkeeper of the Islanders.
Before the following season, MacDonald was hired by the Toronto Maple Leafs, who used it mainly in the Toronto Marlies in the AHL so that he completed only six NHL games. In March 2010, he was traded by the Leafs against a draft pick of the Anaheim Ducks, but remained with the Marlies. In the summer of 2010 he was taken from his former team, the Red Wings from Detroit, for one year under contract, who used him again as goalkeeper of the Grand Rapids Griffins.
In February 2013, located on the Waiverliste MacDonald was selected by the Calgary Flames. There he could not prevail in the NHL squad and was in November 2013 to the AHL farm team, the Abbotsford Heat transferred.
Others
- Joey MacDonald holds two team records in the Grand Rapids Griffins: most career shutouts (20) and best fishing quota in a season ( 93.6 %)
Awards and achievements
- 2003 Harry " Hap " Holmes Memorial Award (along with Marc Lamothe )
- 2005 AHL All- Star Classic