Nick Johnson (ice hockey, born 1985)

Nick Johnson ( born December 24, 1985 in Calgary, Alberta ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is since July 2013 with the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League contract.

Career

Nick Johnson began his career as a hockey player with the St. Albert Saints, for which he was active from 2002 to 2004 in the Alberta Junior Hockey League. He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2004 in the third round than a total of 67 players from the Pittsburgh Penguins. First, however, he attended from 2004 to 2008 Dartmouth College, for the team he was parallel in the National Collegiate Athletic Association is active, before he was towards the end of the 2007/08 season his debut in professional hockey for Pittsburgh's farm team Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins. By the end of the season he gave two assists in 14 games.

As of 2008, Johnson played regularly for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton in the AHL, where he stood in parallel in the 2009/10 season in six games for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League on the ice. He scored a goal and gave a presentation.

On 29 September 2011 it chose the Minnesota Wild from the Waiverliste after the Pittsburgh Penguins had set the winger on the waiver. With the game he scored eight goals in 77 games overall and 18 templates. On 12 July 2012, he signed as a free agent a two-way one-year contract with the Phoenix Coyotes.

In July 2013 he signed a one year contract with the Boston Bruins.

Awards and achievements

• 2012 NHL All-Star Game Super Skills Competition

Statistics

(End of season 2012/ 13)