Craig Johnson is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 former professional ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 player. Johnson played offense during all his minor hockey and became a feared defence for the rest of his professional career between 1991 and 2003.

Playing and coaching career

Johnson played Professionally for 12 Years (1991–2003) in various leagues across North-America, including the International Hockey League, American Hockey League

American Hockey League

The American Hockey League is a 30-team professional ice hockey league based in the United States and Canada that serves as the primary developmental circuit for the National Hockey League...

, East Coast Hockey League

ECHL

The ECHL is a mid-level professional ice hockey league based in Princeton, New Jersey with teams scattered across the United States...

 and the Central Hockey League

Central Hockey League

The Central Hockey League is a mid-level professional hockey league, owned by Global Entertainment Corporation. Its current champions are the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs, which defeated the Colorado Eagles four games to three in the 2011 playoffs....

. He participated in 580 regular season and playoff games where he scored 77 goals and 92 assists. Johnson was also know a fast and robust defenceman feared by many players. During his career he accumulated 2494 minutes of penalties. He finished his career as player assistant coach for his final 4 seasons and then became full time assistant coach in Fort Worth TX. During those 2 years he was also the hockey director for the Fort Worth Amateur Hockey Association.

From 2004 to 2006, Johnson led the Connecticut Jr. Whalers in the interstate junior hockey league (IJHL

Empire Junior Hockey League

The Empire Junior Hockey League is an American Tier III Junior B ice hockey league. The EmJHL is a member of USA Hockey. It is primarily a feeder to the Eastern Junior Hockey League, a Junior A league....

) as head coach and reached the National Junior Championships during both seasons. Johnson now lives in Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

 and is involved in the fitness industry as well as giving back to the youth hockey players through hockey associations, hockey schools and coaching elite hockey teams.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Playoffs
Season Season (sports) In an organized sports league, a season is the portion of one year in which regulated games of the sport are in session. For example, in Major League Baseball, one season lasts approximately from April 1 through October 1; in Association football, it is generally from August until May In an...	Team	League		GP	G Goal (ice hockey) In ice hockey, a goal is scored when the puck completely crosses the goal line between the two goal posts and below the goal crossbar. A goal awards one point to the team attacking the goal scored upon, regardless of which team the player who actually deflected the puck into the goal belongs to...	A Assist (ice hockey) In ice hockey, an assist is attributed to up to two players of the scoring team who shot, passed or deflected the puck towards the scoring teammate, or touched it in any other way which enabled the goal, meaning that they were "assisting" in the goal. There can be a maximum of two assists per goal...	Pts Point (ice hockey) Point in ice hockey has three official meanings:* A point is awarded to a player for each goal scored or assist earned. The total number of goals plus assists equals total points. In some European leagues, a goal counts as two points, and an assist counts as one...	PIM Penalty (ice hockey) A penalty in ice hockey is a punishment for inappropriate behavior. Most penalties are enforced by detaining the offending player within a penalty box for a set number of minutes, during which, the player can not participate in play. The offending team usually may not replace the player on the ice,...		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1992-93	Oklahoma City Blazers	CHL		50	8	11	19	219		11	0	2	2	67
1993-94	Oklahoma City Blazers	CHL		48	5	5	10	230		4	0	0	0	2
1994-95	Birmingham Bulls	ECHL		37	3	0	3	150
1994-95	Wichita Thunder	CHL		14	1	0	1	99		7	2	5	7	14
1995-96	Saginaw Wheels	CoHL		31	3	1	4	139		2	0	0	0	0
1996-97	Mobile Mysticks	ECHL		4	0	0	0	74
1996-97	Oklahoma City Blazers	CHL		36	6	11	17	134
1996-97	Michigan K-Wings	IHL		2	0	0	0	2
1996-97	Manitoba Moose	IHL		16	2	2	4	38
1997-98	Manitoba Moose	IHL		19	1	0	1	57
1997-98	Oklahoma City Blazers	CHL		40	7	7	14	142		10	0	1	1	80
1998-99	Houston Aeros	IHL		1	0	0	0	0
1998-99	Austin Ice Bats	WPHL		43	16	9	25	164
1998-99	Oklahoma City Blazers	CHL		9	3	7	10	63		10	2	1	3	73
1999-00	Central Texas Stampede	WPHL		63	6	15	21	254		9	1	1	2	63
2000-01	Central Texas Stampede	WPHL		31	1	6	7	54
2000-01	Fort Worth Brahmas	WPHL	23	3	3	6	125
2001-02	Fort Worth Brahmas	CHL	45	5	5	10	147	4	0	0	0	52
2002-03	Fort Worth Brahmas	CHL	11	2	0	2	52
Career totals			523	72	82	154	2143	57	5	10	15	351