Anthony Stewart (ice hockey)

Anthony Stewart (born January 5, 1985) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player, having played in the NHL, AHL, and KHL.

In the 2004 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, in which Canada won a silver medal, Stewart tied for the tournament points lead.

In the 2005 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, he helped Team Canada win a gold medal.

[1][2] Norman immigrated to Canada from Jamaica in 1974, taking mainly seasonal jobs such as landscaping or construction,[3] and Sue was a stay-at-home mother.

On one such occasion, the two were walking in a blizzard when they were picked up by a fellow hockey parent, Bob Ziemendorf, who was driving his child to the same place.

[4] Ziemendorf drove them home again after the practice, and from then on he regularly gave the family lifts and helped them with the cost of hockey and groceries.

[7] After finishing his minor hockey career, Stewart was selected by the Kingston Frontenacs in the first round of the OHL draft.

After the Frontenacs failed to make the playoffs for the second consecutive year, Stewart made his professional debut, playing 10 games for the AHL team San Antonio Rampage, during which he scored a goal and two assists.

[13] Two days later he recorded the first NHL goal of his career, against Washington Capitals' goaltender Olaf Kolzig.

[14] He played ten games, scoring two goals and three points, before injuring his wrist when he crashed into the boards after a check by Carolina Hurricanes' defenceman Mike Commodore.

[8] Stewart played the entire 2010–11 season with the Thrashers,[8] scoring his first career hat-trick in a game against the Anaheim Ducks.

Three weeks into the labor dispute Stewart signed with the Nottingham Panthers of the Elite Ice Hockey League in the United Kingdom.

Upon the conclusion of the lockout Carolina traded Stewart to the Los Angeles Kings, along with two draft picks in exchange for Kevin Westgarth.

[25] In the 2013–14 season, Stewart initially signed a one-year contract with Russian club, Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg of the KHL.

Stewart contributed with 8 points in 12 games, before he continued his unsettled season, joining his third club and NLA strugglers, Rapperswil-Jona Lakers in a brief stint to end the year.

[27] The tournament is a non-International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) sanctioned event in which Canada is represented by five teams (Pacific, Western, Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic).

[30] His scoring success ranked him as the top goal-scoring Canadian; however, he contributed no assists, and finished third on the team in points.

[33][34] The following year Stewart was selected to play for Canada in the 2004 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships in Helsinki and Hämeenlinna, Finland.

[35][37] Later in the year Stewart was selected to play in the 2004 ADT Canada-Russia Challenge as part of the OHL All-Stars team, and later he was named an alternate captain.

[41] In 2005 Stewart was again selected to play for Canada in the World Junior Championships in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

[43] An injury to teammate Jeremy Colliton allowed Stewart to play in the following game, in which he scored two goals, contributing to a 9–0 defeat of the German team.

Stewart playing for the Thrashers in 2010