Ahren Spylo

Ahren Spylo
Date of birth	December 6, 1983
place of birth	Waterloo , Ontario , Canada
size	191 cm
Weight	102 kg
position	Left wing
number	# 18
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2002 , 3rd round, 85th position New Jersey Devils
Career stations
1999-2000	Streetsville Derbies
2000-2003	Windsor Spitfires
2003	Oshawa Generals
2003-2006	Albany River Rats
2006	HC Davos
2006	SCL Tigers
2006	HC Friborg-Gottéron
2007	Hamburg Freezers
2007-2008	Nuremberg Ice Tigers
2008-2009	Vityaz Chekhov
2009-2010	Adler Mannheim
2010-2016	EHC Biel
2017	HC Davos

Ahren Nittel Spylo (born December 6, 1983 in Waterloo , Ontario ) is a German - Canadian ice hockey player ( striker ) who was last under contract with HC Davos in the Swiss National League . His brother Adam was also a hockey player.

Career

Spylo played from the 2000/01 season to the middle of the 2002/03 season with the Windsor Spitfires in the OHL and then moved within the league to the Oshawa Generals . At the Windsor Spitfires he scored 37 goals and 21 assists (58 points in total) in 136 games (including 16 play-off games), while at the Oshawa Generals he scored again in 33 games (including 13 play-off games) 20 goals and 9 assists added (29 points scorer). He was selected in the third round of the 2002 NHL Entry Draft in 85th place by the New Jersey Devils .

In the 2003/04 season Spylo played 42 games in the AHL with the Albany River Rats and brought it to seven points scorer (4 goals, 3 assists), as well as two games in the UHL with the Adirondack IceHawks . Ahren Spylo played for the Albany River Rats again for the next two seasons (AHL, 95 games: 39 goals, 22 assists = 61 scorer points) and then moved to his first European station in Davos in Switzerland in 06/07 (17 games, 2 goals ). He moved twice within the National League A to the SCL Tigers and shortly afterwards to HC Friborg-Gottéron . In the middle of the 2006/07 season , the striker came to his first DEL station, the Hamburg Freezers , in Germany. At first he was only brought in for a test phase of five days, but he was convincing and was signed until the end of the season. For the 2007/08 season he signed a one-year contract with the Nürnberg Ice Tigers , where he was already convincing in preparation for his dominant style of play. Nuremberg coach Benoît Laporte described Spylo after the preparatory game against HC Slavia Prague (final score 4: 3, Spylo scored the remarkable goal to 3: 1) as “perhaps the most talented player in the league”. In September he was named Player of the Month by the specialist ice hockey news magazine .

Since April 2010 Ahren Spylo has been playing in Switzerland again at EHC Biel . In his first season in Biel, he was his team's top scorer . In his second season in Biel, Spylo was one of the top scorers (19 goals, 15 assists). In October 2012, Spylo tore his cruciate ligament in a game against his former employer Davos and was out for the rest of the season .

After the 2015/16 season, which was disappointing for the club, Spylo did not receive a contract extension. At the end of January 2017, Spylo was signed by HC Davos and given a contract until the end of the 2016/17 season, but was the fifth foreigner (with four contingent places) to play in only three games.

Others

• Spylo has both German and Canadian citizenship, as his mother is German and his father is Canadian.
• His older brother Adam Spylo played in the DEL, including the Nürnberg Ice Tigers .
• At the DEL Allstar Game 2008 in Dresden , he fell spectacularly into the North American team at the Skills Competition and suffered a laceration in his eye, which is why he could not take part in the game.

Achievements and Awards

• 2009 All-Star-Team of the Spengler Cup

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1999/00	Streetsville Derbies	OPJHL		11	1	5	6th	10		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	Windsor Spitfires	OHL		46	6th	4th	10	56		7th	3	1	4th	16
2001/02	Windsor Spitfires	OHL		52	19th	11	30th	100		9	4th	1	5	23
2002/03	Windsor Spitfires	OHL		22nd	5	4th	9	30th		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Oshawa Generals	OHL		20th	15th	7th	22nd	25th		13	5	2	7th	10
2003/04	Albany River Rats	AHL		42	4th	3	7th	24		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Albany River Rats	AHL		50	25th	11	36	18th		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Albany River Rats	AHL		45	14th	11	36	51		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	HC Davos	NLA		17th	1	4th	5	30th		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	SCL Tigers	NLA		3	2	1	3	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Friborg-Gottéron	NLA		4th	1	0	1	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		13	5	1	6th	8th		7th	2	2	4th	18th
2007/08	Nuremberg Ice Tigers	DEL		56	41	23	64	56		5	2	2	4th	20th
2008-09	Vityaz Chekhov	KHL		28	12	7th	19th	59		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Florida Everblades	ECHL		2	1	0	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Adler Mannheim	DEL		34	14th	17th	31	50		2	1	1	2	2
2010/11	EHC Biel	NLA		49	19th	19th	38	40		6 1	3	2	5	4th
2011/12	EHC Biel	NLA		45	15th	15th	30th	43		5	4th	0	4th	18th
2012/13	EHC Biel	NLA		9	4th	2	6th	20th		-	-	-	-	-
AHL total				137	43	25th	68	93		-	-	-	-	-
OHL total				140	45	26th	71	211		29	12	4th	16	49
ECHL total				2	1	0	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
KHL total				28	12	7th	19th	59		-	-	-	-	-
NLA total				127	42	41	83	145		5	4th	0	4th	18th
DEL total				69	46	24	70	64		12	4th	4th	8th	38

( 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

• Ahren Spylo at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Ahren Spylo at hockeydb.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ehcb.ch, PostFinance Top Scorer Ahren Spylo ( Memento from February 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ suedostschweiz.ch, Spylo before the end of the season
3. ↑ Klaus Zaugg: Ahren Spylo: How stupid can an ice hockey player actually be? In: watson.ch. September 14, 2016, accessed October 27, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Ahren Spylo amplifies HCD. Retrieved January 26, 2017 .