His biography is an interesting read on success coming to someone at an early age and how he deals with it to emerge stronger and better.

Playing history

Before joining the U.S. National Team Development Program, Jimmy began his ice-hockey career playing for the Westport Rideaus of the Eastern Ontario. Playing for under-16, under-17, and under-18 games, he set a total record of 22-11-1. He attended the University of Maine and played as a goalie for the Maine Black Bears- men’s ice hockey team, and set several league records. Detroit Red Wings drafted him, in 2003, to the National Hockey League, while he was playing for the Maine Black Bears.

His professional ice-hockey career began in 2005-2006, with Grand Rapid Griffins for the AHL, but the Detroit Red Wings would occasionally call him to play for the NFL. His stats in first season in AHL is still considered one of his best. When the Detroit Red Wings won the NHL in 2007-2008, Jimmy Howard had played less than four matches and therefor his name wasn’t engraved on the cup. However, he was included in the Red Wings Stanely Cup picture and was given the cup for a day.

He won his permanent goalie position with Detroit Red Wingers in 2008-2009 and kept the position until the end of 2009-2010 session, finishing with excellent stats and was ranked among the top 5 in GAA and percentage of saves. He was also nominated as Rookie of the Year for the Calder Trophy.

In 2012, Jimmy Howard’s career peaked. Before the All-Star break, he had recorded the 30th win of the season. However, the same year he had to miss a number of games because of injuries. First it was a broken finger and then a recurring injury in the groin that prevented him from playing a number of games. Despite this, in 2014-2015, the Red Wings extended his contract to six years for $31.5Million dollar. But, his injuries never gave up on him and he continued missing games. He was named to an NHL All-Star game but couldn’t play because of his groin injury. His performance further declined in 2015-16 season, but very recently in April 2016, he recorded his 22nd shutout victory in franchise history, playing against the Philadelphia Flyers.

Achievements

Jimmy Howard has significant achievements to his name. He is the record holder at University of Maine school record for shutouts and GAA. In 2014, he was also named to the US men’s ice hockey team squad for the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Personal life

Jimmy Howard is married to Rachel Howard and they have a five year old son named James Russell Howard IV. His wife seems to be very caring and is always there at the games to cheer Jimmy Howard. Putting his salary and contracts together his networth is estimated to be approximately $12.8Million dollars. He is also quite active on Twitter and tweets interesting things about games and places visited for his followers.