Andrew Bodnarchuk

Andrew Bodnarchuk
Date of birth	July 11, 1988
place of birth	Drumheller , Alberta , Canada
size	180 cm
Weight	89 kg
position	defender
number	# 2
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2006 , 5th round, 128th position Boston Bruins
Career stations
2005-2008	Halifax Mooseheads
2007–2012	Providence Bruins
2012-2015	Manchester monarchs
2015-2016	Columbus Blue Jackets Lake Erie Monsters
2016	Colorado Avalanche
2016-2018	Texas Stars
since 2018	EHC Red Bull Munich

Andrew Scott Bodnarchuk (born July 11, 1988 in Drumheller , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with EHC Red Bull Munich in the German Ice Hockey League since June 2018 .

Career

Bodnarchuk played in his youth for the Halifax Mooseheads in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ), after winning the bronze medal in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge with Team Canada Atlantic in 2005 . After his first season in Halifax, where he was elected to the All-Rookie team LHJMQ who elected him Boston Bruins in the NHL Entry Draft in 2006 at the 128th position and put him in the episode for the first time in the playoffs the season 2006/07 join the Providence Bruins , their farm team from the American Hockey League (AHL). After the 2007/08 season, in which he had led the Mooseheads as team captain, Bodnarchuk moved permanently to the squad of the Providence Bruins, for which he was active until 2012. During this period, in the 2009/10 season, he also made his debut with the Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League (NHL) and came there on five missions.

As a free agent , he signed a one-year contract with the Los Angeles Kings in July 2012 , which was extended for two more seasons after it expired. However, the defender was only used for the Kings AHL farm team, the Manchester Monarchs , and won the Calder Cup with them in 2015 . In the summer of 2015 he joined the Columbus Blue Jackets , also as a free agent, where he was able to establish himself for the first time in the NHL squad and there came 16 missions. However, when he was to be sent back to the AHL via the waiver in January 2016 , the Colorado Avalanche signed him , where he played 21 games by the end of the season. Despite this, Colorado did not renew his expiring contract, so he signed a new two-year contract with the Dallas Stars in July 2016 .

In June 2018 he moved to the German champions EHC Red Bull Munich .

Achievements and Awards

• 2005 bronze medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
• 2006 LHJMQ All-Rookie Team
• 2015 Calder Cup win with the Manchester Monarchs

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2017/18 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		GP	G	A.	Pts	+/-	PIM		GP	G	A.	Pts	+/-	PIM
2005/06	Halifax Mooseheads	LHJMQ		68	6th	17th	23	+11	136		11	0	2	2	-4	22nd
2006/07	Halifax Mooseheads	LHJMQ		63	16	41	57	-1	96		12	1	10	11	+7	25th
2006/07	Providence Bruins	AHL		-	-	-	-	-	-		1	0	0	0	± 0	0
2007/08	Halifax Mooseheads	LHJMQ		65	10	33	43	+4	89		14th	0	9	9	+1	16
2008/09	Providence Bruins	AHL		62	1	9	10	-2	33		15th	0	2	2	± 0	22nd
2009/10	Providence Bruins	AHL		70	5	10	15th	+7	51		-	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Boston Bruins	NHL		5	0	0	0	-2	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Providence Bruins	AHL		75	1	15th	16	-8th	91		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Providence Bruins	AHL		63	5	12	17th	–6	44		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Manchester monarchs	AHL		69	5	15th	20th	+17	77		4th	0	0	0	-1	0
2013/14	Manchester monarchs	AHL		73	8th	24	32	+43	89		4th	0	0	0	-2	0
2014/15	Manchester monarchs	AHL		61	5	20th	25th	+12	84		19th	0	6th	6th	+8	14th
2015/16	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		14th	2	6th	8th	+1	10		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		16	0	2	2	–6	8th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		21st	0	2	2	-1	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Texas Stars	AHL		69	5	21st	26th	-10	69		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Texas Stars	AHL		73	3	18th	21st	-3	68		22nd	1	0	1	-3	23
LHJMQ total				196	32	91	123	+14	321		37	1	21st	22nd	+4	63
AHL total				629	40	150	190	+51	616		65	1	8th	9	+2	59
NHL overall				42	0	4th	4th	–9	16		-	-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Canada to:

• World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2005

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2005	Canada Atlantic	U17-WHC			6th	0	2	2	8th
Juniors overall					6th	0	2	2	8th

( 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 : Andrew Bodnarchuk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Andrew Bodnarchuk in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Andrew Bodnarchuk at eliteprospects.com (English)