Andrew Gordon (ice hockey player)

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Andrew Gordon
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

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2014/15 season

Regular season Play-offs
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

Commons : Andrew Gordon  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nhl.com: "Trimming the Roster" (English, September 26, 2013, accessed December 4, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Gordon, Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Halifax , Nova Scotia