| Position: | Left wing |
| Shoots: | Left |
| Height Ft: | 5 |
| Height In: | 10 |
| Weight Lb: | 170 |
| Played For: | Chicago Blackhawks Harringay Racers Richmond Hawks |
| Birth Date: | September 9, 1911 |
| Birth Place: | Charlottetown, PEI, Canada |
| Death Place: | Charlottetown, PEI, Canada |
| Career Start: | 1929 |
| Career End: | 1941 |
John Ivan "Hickey" Nicholson (September 9, 1911 – November 22, 1956) was a Canadian ice hockey player who played two games in the National Hockey League with the Chicago Black Hawks during the 1937–38 season. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1929 to 1941, was mainly spent in the minor leagues. Nicholson was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island in 1911 and died there in 1956.
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |||||
| 1929–30 | Moncton Atlantics | NBSHL | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1929–30 | Charlottetown Abbies | PEI Sr | 8 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 28 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | ||
| 1929–30 | Charlottetown Islanders | Al-Cup | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1930–31 | Charlottetown Abbies | PEI Sr | 11 | 8 | 3 | 11 | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| 1931–32 | Charlottetown Abbies | MSHL | 24 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 18 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1932–33 | Charlottetown Abbies | MSHL | 10 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | ||
| 1933–34 | Charlottetown Abbies | MSHL | 39 | 12 | 7 | 19 | 43 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | ||
| 1934–35 | Charlottetown Abbies | MSHL | 19 | 8 | 15 | 23 | 34 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 14 | ||
| 1935–36 | Richmond Hawks | ENL | — | 8 | 8 | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1935–36 | Harringay Racers | ENL | 34 | 9 | 8 | 17 | 30 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1937–38 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1937–38 | Kansas City Greyhounds | AHA | 47 | 11 | 17 | 28 | 26 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1938–39 | Kansas City Greyhounds | AHA | 48 | 16 | 35 | 51 | 33 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1939–40 | Kansas City Greyhounds | AHA | 47 | 14 | 14 | 28 | 33 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1940–41 | Halifax Army | NSDHL | 4 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| AHA totals | 142 | 41 | 66 | 107 | 92 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| NHL totals | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||