Alex Auld

Alex Auld
Date of birth	7th January 1981
place of birth	Thunder Bay , Ontario , Canada
size	196 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	goalkeeper
Catch hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1999 , 2nd round, 40th position Florida Panthers
Career stations
1997-2001	North Bay Centennials
2001-2006	Vancouver Canucks
2006-2007	Florida panthers
2007	Phoenix Coyotes
2007-2008	Boston Bruins
2008-2009	Ottawa Senators
2009-2010	Dallas Stars
2010	New York Rangers
2010-2011	Canadiens de Montréal
2011–2012	Ottawa Senators
2012-2013	EC Red Bull Salzburg

Alexander James "Alex" Auld (born January 7, 1981 in Thunder Bay , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper who was active in the National Hockey League for the Vancouver Canucks , Ottawa Senators , Florida Panthers and Boston Bruins , among others .

Career

Auld played during his junior years with the North Bay Centennials in the Ontario Hockey League . He was selected in the second round as 40th in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft by the Florida Panthers . He stayed in North Bay and was traded from the Panthers to the Vancouver Canucks in 2001 . In 2001 he took part with the Canadian junior national team in the Junior World Championship , in which the team finished third.

From then on, he played for a few years for the Canucks farm team , the Manitoba Moose , in the American Hockey League . But before the NHL lockout 2004/05 , Auld was finally allowed to play for Vancouver when he stood in for the injured Dan Cloutier . The same was true for much of the 2005-06 season , which saw Cloutier undergo cruciate ligament surgery after injuring himself in a game against the Anaheim Ducks in February. From that game on until the end of the season, Alex Auld formed the backbone of the team. At the 2006 Ice Hockey World Championship he played for the Canadian team. For the 2006/07 season , Auld moved as part of an exchange deal together with Todd Bertuzzi and Bryan Allen from the Canucks to the Florida Panthers , who gave Roberto Luongo and Lukáš Krajíček , as well as a draft right to the Canucks.

Auld formed an equal goalkeeper duo with Ed Belfour at the start of the season , but after an injury he was only able to play 27 games and his contract was not renewed. He then moved to the Phoenix Coyotes in the summer of 2007 , where he was first recommended for the NHL squad, but was sent to the San Antonio Rampage , the AHL farm team of the Coyotes, after Ilya Brysgalow was committed. In December 2007 he was finally transferred to the Boston Bruins . From 2008 to 2010 the Canadian played for the Ottawa Senators , Dallas Stars and New York Rangers before he was signed by the Canadiens de Montréal for the 2010/11 season .

On July 1, 2011, Auld signed a one-year contract with the Ottawa Senators. For the 2012/13 season, the Canadian was signed by EC Red Bull Salzburg from the Austrian ice hockey league before ending his career in September 2013.

Career statistics

season	team	league	Sp	S.	N	U	Min	GT	SO	GTS
1997-98	North Bay Centennials	OHL	6th	0	4th	0	206	17th	0	4.95
1998-99	North Bay Centennials	OHL	37	9	20th	1	1894	106	1	3.36
1999-00	North Bay Centennials	OHL	55	21st	26th	6th	3047	167	2	3.29
2000-01	North Bay Centennials	OHL	40	22nd	11	5	2319	98	1	2.54
2001-02	Columbia Inferno	ECHL	6th	3	1	2	375	12	0	1.92
2001-02	Manitoba mosses	AHL	21st	11	9	0	1104	65	1	3.53
2001-02	Vancouver Canucks	NHL	1	1	0	0	60	2	0	2.00
2002-03	Manitoba mosses	AHL	37	15th	19th	3	2209	97	3	2.64
2002-03	Vancouver Canucks	NHL	7th	3	3	0	382	10	0	1.57
2003-04	Manitoba mosses	AHL	40	18th	16	4th	2329	99	4th	2.55
2003-04	Vancouver Canucks	NHL	6th	2	2	2	348	12	0	2.07
2004-05	Manitoba mosses	AHL	50	25th	18th	4th	2763	118	2	2.56
2005-06	Vancouver Canucks	NHL	67	33	26th	6th	3859	189	0	2.94
2006-07	Florida panthers	NHL	27	7th	13	5	1471	82	1	2.94
NHL overall			108	46	44	13	6121	295	2	2.89

Sporting successes

• 2001 bronze medal at the U20 Junior World Championship

Personal awards

• 1998 OHL Second All-Rookie Team
• 1999 OHL Rookie Team
• 2001 OHL Third All-Star Team

Web links

• Alex Auld at hockeydb.com (English)
• Alex Auld at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Alex Auld at hockeygoalies.org