Nick Johnson (ice hockey, born 1986)

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| name = Nick Johnson

| team = Free Agent

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| former_teams = HC Plzeň
Schwenninger Wild Wings
HC Pardubice
Grizzlys Wolfsburg
South Carolina Stingrays

| position = Forward

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| height_ft = 5

| height_in = 11

| weight_lb = 190

| shoots = left

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1986|8|25}}

| birth_place = Windsor, Connecticut, U.S.

| draft = Undrafted

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| career_start = 2010

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Nick Johnson (born August 25, 1986) is an American professional ice hockey forward who is currently an unrestricted free agent who most recently played with the South Carolina Stingrays of the ECHL.

Playing career

Undrafted out of Sacred Heart University, he first played professionally with HC Plzeň in the Czech Extraliga during the 2010–11 Czech Extraliga season.{{cite web| url = http://www.eliteprospects.com/team.php?team=637&year0=2011&status=stats | title = HC Plzen team statistics | website = eliteprospects.com | date = 2011-05-06 | accessdate = 2011-05-15}} After his third season with Plzeň in 2012–13 and helping the franchise to its first championship, Johnson left as a free agent and signed a one-year contract in the German DEL, with newcomers, the Schwenninger Wild Wings on August 12, 2013.{{cite web| url = http://www.wildwings.de/web/aktuell/news-detailseite/?tx_news_pi1=detail | title = Wild Wings pick Nick Johnson | website = Schwenninger Wild Wings | date = 2013-08-12 | accessdate = 2013-08-12 | language = German}}

After spending the first seven seasons of his professional career abroad in the Czech Republic and Germany, Johnson returned to North America as a free agent to sign a one-year ECHL contract with the South Carolina Stingrays on August 4, 2017.{{cite web | url = http://www.stingrayshockey.com/news/detail/stingrays-agree-to-terms-with-forward-nick-johnson | title = Stingrays agree to terms with forward Nick Johnson | publisher = South Carolina Stingrays | date = 2017-08-04 | accessdate = 2017-08-04 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170916140635/http://www.stingrayshockey.com/news/detail/stingrays-agree-to-terms-with-forward-nick-johnson | archive-date = 2017-09-16 | url-status = dead }} Johnson began the 2017–18 season on the Stingrays top offensive line and recorded 6 goals and 10 points in 16 games before opting for a mutual release from his contract on January 23, 2018.