19 Cody Hodgson

• Position: C
• Height: 6.00
• Weight: 188
• Born: Feb. 18, 1990
• Birthplace: Toronto, ON
• Home: Markham, ON
• OHL Draft: Brampton's 1st Round Choice (17th overall) in 2006
• NHL Draft: Vancouver's 1st Round Choice (10th overall) in 2008

Bio:
Cody's father Chris is president of the Mining Association of Ontario based in Toronto ... Chris, a graduate of Trent University in Peterborough, was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1994 to 2003, and a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eaves ... Cody's mother Marie is executive director of Wee Care Day Nursery in Haliburton ... his older brother Clayton is a third-year business student at Brock University in St. Catharines ... his two younger sisters, Charlotte and Caroline, both play organized hockey and attend Buttonville Public School ... Cody's favourite NHL team is the Vancouver Canucks and favourite player is former Detroit Red Wings star Steve Yzerman ... plays chess, fishes and enjoys biking.

Career Highlights:
Centre Cody Hodgson missed the final five regular-season games of 2009-10 with a foot injury ... one shorthanded goal and two assists Feb. 26 in a 4-0 win at Mississauga ... three assists the previous night in a 6-0 win vs. Sudbury ... one goal, two assists Feb. 18 in a 4-3 loss at Niagara ... returned to the lineup Feb. 4 and earned two assists in a 4-2 win vs. Erie ... had been sidelined with a back injury after being assigned to the Battalion by the Vancouver Canucks on Sept. 29 ... was the Battalion's leading scorer in 2008-09 with 43 goals and 49 assists for 92 points in 53 games and capped a sensational season by being named the most outstanding player in the Canadian Hockey League ... winner of the Red Tilson Trophy as the OHL's most valuable player and the William Hanley Memorial Trophy as the OHL's most sportsmanlike player ... first Battalion member with two 40-goal seasons ... led the OHL with a club-record 11 game-winning goals ... registered a club-record 23-game point streak (17G, 23A, 40 PTS) ... led Canada to a gold medal in the 2009 World Junior Championship at Ottawa ... was the tournament's top scorer with five goals and 11 assists for 16 points in six games ... Vancouver Canucks' first choice and 10th overall in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft at Ottawa ... signed a three-year entry-level contract with Vancouver on Oct. 4 ... capped an outstanding 2007-08 campaign in April by captaining Canada's team to the IIHF world under-18 championship in Russia ... Hodgson was the tournament's leading scorer with two goals and 10 assists for 12 points, tying Pierre-Marc Bouchard (now with the NHL's Minnesota Wild) for the all-time record for points by a Canadian player in the history of the event ... Hodgson was second in Battalion scoring in 2007-08 with 40 goals and 45 assists for 85 points in 68 regular-season games, and scored five of the team's nine goals in a five-game playoff series loss to the Barrie Colts ... Hodgson joined Wojtek Wolski (47, 2005-06) and Raffi Torres (43, 1999-00) as the only players in Battalion history to reach the 40-goal plateau ... led the Troops in goals (40), shorthanded goals (3) and a club record-tying eight game-winning goals ... earned three assists in the 2008 CHL Home Hardware Top Prospects Game at Edmonton ... one assist Feb. 6 in the 2008 OHL All-Star Game at Sault Ste. Marie ... the Battalion's first-round choice in the 2006 OHL Priority Selection and completed his rookie campaign in 2006-07 as one of the league's top freshmen with 23 goals and 23 assists for 46 points in 63 games ... tied Steven Stamkos as Canada's leading scorer at the 2007 under-18 World Cup tournament in the Czech Republic ... one of Team Ontario's leading performers at the 2007 Canada Winter Games at Whitehorse, Yukon ... competed in 2005-06 with the Markham Waxers Major Midgets while playing as a 15-year-old ... started playing organized hockey at age four in Haliburton ... his family moved to Markham in 1997 and he joined the Markham Minor Hockey Association ... moved to the Toronto Jr. Canadiens for his peewee and minor bantam seasons and captained both teams ... returned to the Waxers organization for the 2004-05 season as a bantam ... played in three all-Ontario championship tournaments during his minor hockey career ... won numerous most valuable player awards and was top scorer at the Big Nickel tournament in 2005.