Aaron Rome

Aaron Rome
Date of birth	September 27, 1983
place of birth	Selkirk , Manitoba , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	101 kg
position	defender
number	# 27
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2002 , 4th round, 104th position Los Angeles Kings
Career stations
1998-2000	Saskatoon Blades
2000-2001	Kootenay Ice
2001-2004	Swift Current Broncos
2004	Moose Jaw Warriors
2004-2005	Cincinnati Mighty Ducks
2005-2007	Portland Pirates
2007-2009	Columbus Blue Jackets
2009–2012	Vancouver Canucks
2012-2014	Dallas Stars
2014	Norfolk Admirals

Aaron Rome (born September 27, 1983 in Selkirk , Manitoba ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach. In his active professional career, which lasted from 2004 to 2014, the defender played 226 games in the National Hockey League and 335 appearances in the American Hockey League .

Career

Aaron Rome (right, # 44) during a Columbus Blue Jackets game against the St. Louis Blues

The 1.85 m tall defender began his career with various teams in the Canadian Junior League WHL before he was selected in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft as 104th in the fourth round by the Los Angeles Kings . Because the Kings did not submit a contract to Aaron Rome within two years of the draft year, they lost the negotiating rights of the player. Then Rome signed on June 7, 2004 as a free agent a contract with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim , which first used him with the farm teams Cincinnati Mighty Ducks and Portland Pirates in the American Hockey League (AHL).

Towards the end of the 2006/07 season , the defender was appointed for the first time in the squad of the now renamed Anaheim Ducks NHL franchise . Although he won the Stanley Cup , the North American ice hockey championship, with the Ducks in the same season , since he did not play a game in the final series and only played one game in the regular season, his name was not engraved on the cup according to the rules of the league. Either 41 games in the season or one game in the Stanley Cup Playoffs are required for engraving your own name.

On November 15, 2007 Aaron Rome was transferred together with Clay Wilson in exchange for Geoff Platt to the Columbus Blue Jackets , of which he was mostly used in the Syracuse Crunch in the AHL. On July 1, 2009 Rome signed as a free agent a contract with the Vancouver Canucks , with which the defender reached the final series of the Stanley Cup in the 2010/11 season .

After two years with the Dallas Stars , he was fired in June 2014 in order not to exceed the salary cap . From then on, he was considered an unrestricted free agent until he was hired on probation by the Norfolk Admirals from the AHL in November 2014 (professional tryout contract) . There he was released after two games, which meant the end of his playing career.

Since the beginning of the 2016/17 season, Rome has been the assistant coach of the Brandon Wheat Kings from the WHL.

Achievements and Awards

• 2002 CHL Top Prospects Game
• 2004 WHL East Second All-Star Team

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1998/99	Saskatoon Blades	WHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
1999/00	Saskatoon Blades	WHL		47	0	6th	6th	22nd		1	0	0	0	0
2000/01	Saskatoon Blades	WHL		3	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	Kootenay Ice	WHL		53	2	8th	10	43		11	1	3	4th	6th
2001/02	Swift Current Broncos	WHL		70	7th	24	31	168		10	1	4th	5	23
2002/03	Swift Current Broncos	WHL		61	12	44	56	201		4th	1	0	1	20th
2003/04	Swift Current Broncos	WHL		41	7th	26th	33	122		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Moose Jaw Warriors	WHL		28	3	16	19th	88		8th	0	6th	6th	17th
2004/05	Cincinnati Mighty Ducks	AHL		75	2	14th	16	130		12	3	3	6th	33
2005/06	Portland Pirates	AHL		64	5	19th	24	87		18th	1	4th	5	33
2006/07	Portland Pirates	AHL		76	8th	17th	25th	139		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		1	0	0	0	0
2007/08	Portland Pirates	AHL		14th	2	3	5	31		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Syracuse crunch	AHL		41	3	21st	24	126		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		17th	1	1	2	33		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Syracuse crunch	AHL		48	7th	21st	28	153		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		8th	0	1	1	0		1	0	1	1	0
2009/10	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		49	0	4th	4th	24		1	0	0	0	0
2009/10	Manitoba mosses	AHL		7th	6th	1	7th	15th		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		56	1	4th	5	53		14th	1	0	1	37
2011/12	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		43	4th	6th	10	46		1	0	0	0	0
2012/13	Dallas Stars	NHL		27	0	5	5	18th		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Dallas Stars	NHL		25th	0	1	1	11		1	0	0	0	0
2013/14	Texas Stars	AHL		8th	0	1	1	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Norfolk Admirals	AHL		2	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
WHL overall				304	31	124	155	646		34	3	13	16	66
AHL total				335	33	97	130	689		30th	4th	7th	11	66
NHL overall				226	6th	22nd	28	185		19th	1	1	2	37

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Commons : Aaron Rome  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Aaron Rome in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Aaron Rome at legendsofhockey.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ What is the criteria for a player to get his name on the Stanley Cup? about.com, accessed June 23, 2011 . 
2. ↑ nhl.com: "Stars use compliance buyout on defenseman Rome" (English, June 17, 2014, accessed on August 2, 2014)