Bud Holloway

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Bud Holloway
Holloway with the St. John's IceCaps in 2015
Born (1988-03-01) March 1, 1988 (age 36)
Wapella, Saskatchewan, Canada
Height 6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight 200 lb (91 kg; 14 st 4 lb)
Position Right wing
Shot Right
BSHL team
Former teams		 Moosomin Rangers
Skellefteå AIK
SC Bern
Montreal Canadiens
CSKA Moscow
EC Red Bull Salzburg
NHL Draft 86th overall, 2006
Los Angeles Kings
Playing career 2008–2020

George Edward Holloway III[1][2] known as Bud Holloway (born March 1, 1988) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right wing. He was selected by the Los Angeles Kings in the 3rd round (86th overall) of the 2006 NHL Entry Draft.[3]

Playing career[edit]

Holloway played for the Seattle Thunderbirds of the Western Hockey League from 2004 to 2008. He then split the 2008–09 campaign between AHL's Manchester Monarchs and ECHL's Ontario Reign.[4] After two more years with the Monarchs, he took his game to Sweden. On July 25, 2011, Holloway was signed as a free agent by Skellefteå AIK of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL).[5][6] He was acquired by Skellefteå around the same time as fellow Manchester Monarchs' player Oscar Möller. Holloway won the Swedish National Championship with Skellefteå AIK in 2013 and 2014, and received the Golden Helmet Award as the league's Player of the Year following the 2012–13 season.

In the SHL playoffs, Holloway holds the record for the most points in a single playoff year (23 points: 10 G, 13 A), which he set in the 2011–12 season, surpassing Espen Knutsen's 21 points in the 1999–2000 season. The following season, Holloway became only the second player in SHL history (after Håkan Loob in 1982–83) to score over 70 points in a single SHL regular season; he scored 20 goals and 51 assists for a total of 71 points.[7]

On May 17, 2014, Holloway left the SHL after three seasons and signed as a free agent to a two-year contract with Swiss club SC Bern of the NLA.[8] He won the Swiss cup competition with SCB. He saw the ice in 53 NLA contests, tallying 17 goals and 28 assists. Holloway parted company with SC Bern following the 2014–15 season.[9]

On July 1, 2015, Holloway signed a one-year, two-way contract with the Montreal Canadiens for the 2015–16 season.[10] On November 27, 2015, Holloway made his NHL debut, and his only NHL appearance to date, in a game against the New Jersey Devils.[11] He spent most of the season with Montreal's AHL affiliate, the St. John's IceCaps. One of his most notable plays that year came during a game against the Binghamton Senators when he made a diving mid-air stick save to prevent an empty-net goal.[12] Holloway played a further three seasons with Skellefteå AIK before leaving following the conclusion of the 2018–19 season. On June 6, 2019, Holloway signed as a free agent to a one-year contract with Austrian outfit EC Red Bull Salzburg of the EBEL.[13]

Career statistics[edit]

Regular season and playoffs[edit]

Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
2003–04 Yorkton Harvest AAA SMHL 43 15 21 36 22 — — — — —
2003–04 Seattle Thunderbirds WHL 2 0 0 0 0 — — — — —
2004–05 Seattle Thunderbirds WHL 67 4 11 15 27 12 0 1 1 0
2005–06 Seattle Thunderbirds WHL 72 21 13 34 18 7 3 2 5 4
2006–07 Seattle Thunderbirds WHL 71 27 38 65 50 11 3 3 6 8
2007–08 Seattle Thunderbirds WHL 70 43 40 83 55 12 5 5 10 4
2008–09 Manchester Monarchs AHL 38 7 5 12 6 — — — — —
2008–09 Ontario Reign ECHL 23 14 8 22 8 7 5 9 14 8
2009–10 Manchester Monarchs AHL 75 19 28 47 26 16 7 7 14 9
2010–11 Manchester Monarchs AHL 78 28 33 61 58 7 4 7 11 10
2011–12 Skellefteå AIK SEL 55 21 28 49 32 19 10 13 23 4
2012–13 Skellefteå AIK SEL 55 20 51 71 36 13 4 5 9 18
2013–14 Skellefteå AIK SHL 53 10 23 33 26 11 3 5 8 6
2014–15 SC Bern NLA 42 13 24 37 24 11 4 4 8 4
2015–16 Montreal Canadiens NHL 1 0 0 0 0 — — — — —
2015–16 St. John's IceCaps AHL 70 19 42 61 14 — — — — —
2016–17 CSKA Moscow KHL 12 3 6 9 6 — — — — —
2016–17 Skellefteå AIK SHL 26 11 11 22 0 7 1 2 3 4
2017–18 Skellefteå AIK SHL 39 8 14 22 8 14 2 2 4 8
2018–19 Skellefteå AIK SHL 52 11 15 26 10 6 2 0 2 0
2019–20 EC Red Bull Salzburg AUT 46 12 16 28 22 3 3 1 4 0
AHL totals 261 73 108 181 104 23 11 14 25 19
SHL totals 280 81 142 223 112 70 22 27 49 40
NHL totals 1 0 0 0 0 — — — — —

International[edit]

Year Team Event Result GP G A Pts PIM
2005 Canada Western U17 1st place, gold medalist(s) 6 0 0 0 2
Junior totals 6 0 0 0 2

References[edit]

  1. ^ "WHL Notebook Cheers for Holloway travel far". seattletimes.nwsource.com..
  2. ^ "Reign Player Q&A". ontarioreign.com. Archived from the original on 2012-09-11..
  3. ^ National Hockey League (2010). The National Hockey League Official Guide & Record Book/2011. Triumph Books. p. 302. ISBN 978-1-60078-422-4.
  4. ^ "Interview with Monarchs 'Man of the Year' Bud Holloway". mayorsmanor.com. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
  5. ^ National Hockey League (2011). The National Hockey League Official Guide & Record Book/2012. Dan Diamond and Associates, Inc. p. 302. ISBN 978-1-894801-22-5.
  6. ^ "Kanadensisk forward klar". skellefteaaik.se. Archived from the original on 2011-09-24..
  7. ^ "Player statistics for the 2012–13 season". Swedish Hockey League. Archived from the original on 2013-07-31. Retrieved 2013-06-24.
  8. ^ "Bud Holloway for SCB" (in German). SC Bern. 2014-05-17. Retrieved 2014-05-17.
  9. ^ "SC Bern: Holloway wechselt nach Montreal". Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 2015-07-02. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
  10. ^ "One-year, two-way contract for George "Bud" Holloway". Canadiens.com. Retrieved July 2, 2015.
  11. ^ "Montreal Canadiens at New Jersey Devils". Canadiens.com. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
  12. ^ Goffenberg, Daniel (21 February 2016). "Forward Bud Holloway makes an incredible mid-air save". SportsNet.ca. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  13. ^ "Red Bull announce next signing". EC Red Bull Salzburg. 2019-06-06. Retrieved 2019-06-06.

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