Aaron Ward

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Aaron Ward
Date of birth 17th January 1973
place of birth Windsor , Ontario , Canada
size 188 cm
Weight 98 kg
position defender
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1991 , 1st round, 5th position
Winnipeg Jets
Career stations
1990-1993 University of Michigan
1993-1996 Adirondack Red Wings
1996-2001 Detroit Red Wings
2001-2006 Carolina Hurricanes
2004-2005 ERC Ingolstadt
2006-2007 New York Rangers
2007-2009 Boston Bruins
2009-2010 Carolina Hurricanes
2010 Anaheim Ducks

Aaron Christian Ward (* 17th January 1973 in Windsor , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player , who during his playing career between 1990 and 2010 among other 934 games for the Detroit Red Wings , Carolina Hurricanes , New York Rangers , Boston Bruins and Anaheim Ducks has played in the National Hockey League on the position of defender . During his 13 seasons in the NHL Ward won a total of three Stanley Cups  - in 1997 and 1998 twice with the Detroit Red Wings and 2006 with the Carolina Hurricanes.

Career

Aaron Ward was drafted in fifth place in the first round of the 1991 NHL Entry Draft by the Winnipeg Jets . But he never played for Winnipeg. In the summer of 1993 he was transferred to the Detroit Red Wings . From 1993 to 1996 he played mainly for the then Detroit farm team in the American Hockey League with the Adirondack Red Wings . In the National Hockey League he came only six times in the three years.

In the 1996/97 season he was part of the Red Wings NHL team and won the Stanley Cup . He was able to repeat the success with the team in the following year, but he was missing in the playoffs due to an injury. In the summer of 2001 he was transferred to the Carolina Hurricanes for a second-round draft pick .

In his first season in Carolina he reached the Stanley Cup final and he had to compete in the final series against his former team from Detroit. Carolina won the first game, but Detroit won the next four games and with it the Stanley Cup.

Ward (left) with Stéphane Yelle during training for the Boston Bruins

The following two years in Carolina were unsuccessful and the playoffs were missed. The 2004/05 NHL season was canceled due to the lockout and Aaron Ward signed a contract with ERC Ingolstadt in the German Ice Hockey League . With the team he reached the semi-finals of the German championship and won the DEB Cup .

The 2005-06 NHL season took place and Carolina finished third in the league. In the playoffs, the Hurricanes fought their way from round to round and ended up in the final of the Stanley Cup against the Edmonton Oilers . Carolina dominated the first games and led after four games with 3-1 wins, so that only one victory was missing. But Edmonton was able to win the next two games and so it came to the decisive seventh game. Aaron Ward gave Carolina a 1-0 lead in the first period before the Oilers equalized. But Carolina took the lead again. In the last minutes of the game the Oilers took their goalkeeper off the ice to force an equalizer with another striker, but this attempt failed and Carolina scored the decisive 3-1 into the empty goal of the Oilers one minute before the end.

Aaron Ward's contract with the Carolina Hurricanes expired in the summer of 2006 and he signed a two-year contract with the New York Rangers , but was transferred to the Boston Bruins in February 2007 . Due to multiple injuries, Aaron Ward was never able to play the entire 82 games of a season. His personal record comes from the 2001/02 season with 79 games played. On July 24, 2009, he was given in exchange for Patrick Eaves and a four-round vote for the 2010 NHL Entry Draft to the Carolina Hurricanes.

Although he was one of the regulars with the Hurricanes and completed 60 games in the 2009/10 season , he was given in an exchange deal on March 3, 2010. Ward went to the Anaheim Ducks , in exchange the Hurricanes got goalkeeper Justin Pogge and a four-round vote. By the end of the season, the defender played 17 games for the Ducks and scored two points. He ended his active career on August 24, 2010.

Achievements and Awards

  • 1998 Stanley Cup win with the Detroit Red Wings
  • 2006 Stanley Cup win with the Carolina Hurricanes

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1990/91 University of Michigan NCAA 46 8th 11 19th 126
1991/92 University of Michigan NCAA 42 7th 12 19th 64
1992/93 University of Michigan NCAA 30th 5 8th 13 73
1993/94 Adirondack Red Wings AHL 58 4th 12 16 87 9 2 6th 8th 6th
1993/94 Detroit Red Wings NHL 5 1 0 1 4th - - - - -
1994/95 Adirondack Red Wings AHL 76 11 24 35 87 4th 0 1 1 0
1994/95 Detroit Red Wings NHL 1 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
1995/96 Adirondack Red Wings AHL 74 5 10 15th 133 3 0 0 0 6th
1996/97 Detroit Red Wings NHL 49 2 5 7th 52 19th 0 0 0 17th
1997/98 Detroit Red Wings NHL 52 5 5 10 47 - - - - -
1998/99 Detroit Red Wings NHL 60 3 8th 11 52 8th 0 1 1 8th
1999/00 Detroit Red Wings NHL 36 1 3 4th 24 3 0 0 0 0
2000/01 Detroit Red Wings NHL 73 4th 5 9 57 - - - - -
2001/02 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 79 3 11 14th 74 23 1 1 2 22nd
2002/03 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 77 3 6th 9 90 - - - - -
2003/04 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 49 3 5 8th 37 - - - - -
2004/05 ERC Ingolstadt DEL 8th 0 3 3 16 11 1 1 2 16
2005/06 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 71 6th 19th 25th 62 25th 2 3 5 18th
2006/07 New York Rangers NHL 60 3 10 13 57 - - - - -
2006/07 Boston Bruins NHL 20th 1 2 3 18th - - - - -
2007/08 Boston Bruins NHL 65 5 8th 13 54 6th 0 1 1 6th
2008/09 Boston Bruins NHL 65 3 7th 10 44 11 1 0 1 2
2009/10 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 60 1 10 11 54 - - - - -
2009/10 Anaheim Ducks NHL 17th 0 2 2 8th - - - - -
NCAA overall 123 20th 30th 50 263
AHL total 208 20th 46 66 307 16 2 7th 9 12
NHL overall 839 44 107 151 736 95 4th 6th 10 73

( 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 Ward  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hurricanes get goalie help
  2. ↑ Aaron Ward retires after 13 NHL seasons ( August 30, 2010 memento in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Ward, Aaron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ward, Aaron Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Windsor , Ontario