Andrew Gordon (ice hockey player)
Date of birth | December 13, 1985 |
place of birth | Halifax , Nova Scotia , Canada |
size | 180 cm |
Weight | 86 kg |
position | Right wing |
Shot hand | Right |
Draft | |
NHL Entry Draft |
2004 , 7th round, 197th position Washington Capitals |
Career stations | |
2002-2004 | Notre Dame Hounds |
2004-2007 | St. Cloud State University |
2007-2011 |
Hershey Bears Washington Capitals |
2011–2012 |
Syracuse Crunch Anaheim Ducks |
2012-2013 |
Chicago Wolves Vancouver Canucks |
2013-2014 | St. John's IceCaps |
2014-2015 | Lehigh Valley Phantoms |
since 2015 | Linköpings HC |
Andrew Gordon (born December 13, 1985 in Halifax , Nova Scotia ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Linköpings HC in the Svenska Hockeyligan since June 2015 .
Career
The right winger first played from the 2002/03 season for the Notre Dame Hounds in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League , a Canadian junior league within the second-rate Canadian Junior Hockey League . During this time he was selected in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft in the seventh round at position 197 by the Washington Capitals . After spending two seasons in the SJHL, the Canadian began studying in the US state of Minnesota at St. Cloud State University and went on the ice for their ice hockey team, the Huskies, in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association . The right-handed shooter managed to continuously increase his points yield over the course of his three years playing in the university team, for which he was honored in the 2006/07 season with the nomination for the First All Star team of the WCHA. Following the striker received his first professional contract with the Washington Capitals for the AHL - Farm Team Hershey Bears winger in the 2007/08 season for the first time on the ice was, and he in 58 games of the regular season aground. In the same season, Gordon was also active for the South Carolina Stingrays in the ECHL . During the 2008/09 season he made his debut for the Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League . This was his only NHL appearance that season, while Gordon won his first Calder Cup with the Hershey Bears after a success in the final series against the Manitoba Moose .
In the 2009/10 season , the Canadian won the second Calder Cup in a row with the Hershey Bears. Gordon was instrumental in this success with 71 points in the regular season and 13 play-off goals and, along with Keith Aucoin , Alexandre Giroux and Chris Bourque, was one of the top players in the team from Pennsylvania , which won one with 60 regular season wins Overbid franchise record. Also for the 2010/11 season the attacker failed to make the final leap into the NHL roster of the Caps, so that he was sent to the Hershey Bears farm team with Jay Beagle and Mathieu Perreault after the training camp . On December 21, 2010, Gordon scored his first NHL goal in the game against the New Jersey Devils when the right- shooter defeated goalkeeper Martin Brodeur . However, he spent almost the entire season in Hershey. At the AHL All-Star Classic 2011, the offensive player was successful with two hits for the Eastern Conference team. In early July 2011, Gordon, whose contract with the Washington Capitals had expired, became available as a free agent . On July 2, 2011, he agreed on a two-year contract with the Anaheim Ducks . The 2011/12 season he began in the NHL squad of the Californians, where he formed the third attack line at the start of the season together with Andrew Cogliano and Devante Smith-Pelly .
On February 27, 2012, the Californians transferred him to the Vancouver Canucks in exchange for Sebastian Erixon . These used him mainly in the farm team with the Chicago Wolves , where the Canadian was a regular until the end of the 2012/13 season. In July 2013, Gordon signed a one-year contract with the Winnipeg Jets . Also in Winnipeg he could not prevail in the NHL squad and was handed over to the AHL farm team of the Jets, the St. John's IceCaps , in September . After the season he left the IceCaps in the direction of Lehigh Valley Phantoms , where he also only played a year before he moved to Europe for the first time to Linköpings HC .
Gordon is considered a very fast winger who established himself as a reliable and constant scorer in the American Hockey League . He is generally seen as a not particularly physically strong player who has weaknesses in terms of points yield at the NHL level.
Achievements and Awards
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Career statistics
Status: end of the 2014/15 season
Regular season | Play-offs | |||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
2002/03 | Notre Dame Hounds | SJHL | 58 | 20th | 27 | 47 | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2003/04 | Notre Dame Hounds | SJHL | 55 | 20th | 44 | 64 | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2004/05 | St. Cloud State University | WCHA | 38 | 9 | 8th | 17th | 6th | |||||||
2005/06 | St. Cloud State University | WCHA | 42 | 20th | 20th | 40 | 22nd | |||||||
2006/07 | St. Cloud State University | WCHA | 40 | 22nd | 23 | 45 | 16 | |||||||
2007/08 | Hershey Bears | AHL | 58 | 16 | 35 | 51 | 39 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | ||
2007/08 | South Carolina Stingrays | ECHL | 11 | 8th | 6th | 14th | 6th | 9 | 5 | 3 | 8th | 8th | ||
2008/09 | Hershey Bears | AHL | 80 | 21st | 24 | 45 | 47 | 22nd | 6th | 4th | 10 | 6th | ||
2008/09 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2009/10 | Hershey Bears | AHL | 79 | 37 | 34 | 71 | 57 | 17th | 13 | 7th | 20th | 2 | ||
2009/10 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2010/11 | Hershey Bears | AHL | 50 | 28 | 29 | 57 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6th | ||
2010/11 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2011/12 | Anaheim Ducks | NHL | 37 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2011/12 | Syracuse crunch | AHL | 19th | 3 | 5 | 8th | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2011/12 | Chicago Wolves | AHL | 10 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2012/13 | Vancouver Canucks | NHL | 6th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2012/13 | Chicago Wolves | AHL | 54 | 19th | 13 | 32 | 49 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2013/14 | St. John's IceCaps | AHL | 76 | 23 | 34 | 57 | 43 | 21st | 8th | 11 | 19th | 22nd | ||
2014/15 | Lehigh Valley Phantoms | AHL | 76 | 18th | 24 | 42 | 22nd | - | - | - | - | - | ||
SJHL overall | 113 | 40 | 71 | 111 | 24 | |||||||||
WCHA overall | 120 | 51 | 51 | 102 | 44 | |||||||||
AHL total | 501 | 167 | 199 | 366 | 301 | 67 | 30th | 25th | 55 | 38 | ||||
NHL overall | 55 | 3 | 4th | 7th | 6th | - | - | - | - | - |
( 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
- Andrew Gordon at eliteprospects.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ nhl.com: "Trimming the Roster" (English, September 26, 2013, accessed December 4, 2013)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gordon, Andrew |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1985 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Halifax , Nova Scotia |