Andrew Hedlund

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Andrew Hedlund
Date of birth May 16, 1978
place of birth Osseo , Minnesota , USA
size 186 cm
Weight 89 kg
position defender
number # 6
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1997-1998 Fargo-Moorhead Ice Sharks
1999-2002 Minnesota State University, Mankato
2002-2005 Binghamton Senators
2005-2006 Krefeld penguins
2006-2007 Binghamton Senators
2007 Hershey Bears
2007-2009 DEG Metro Stars
2009-2010 Adler Mannheim
2010–2012 DEG Metro Stars
2012-2014 EHC Linz

Andrew "Andy" Hedlund (born May 16, 1978 in Osseo , Minnesota ) is a former American ice hockey player ( defender ), who last played for Black Wings Linz in the Erste Bank Ice Hockey League . Hedlund played professional ice hockey from 1997 and was only active in North America until 2005 before he decided to move to Europe. There he was active for the DEG Metro Stars , Adler Mannheim and Krefeld Pinguine , among others .

Career

The defender was after his time in the US Junior League USHL in the squad of Minnesota State University, Mankato in the game operations of the NCAA , the American college sports organization. For the university, the right- shooter was on the ice in a total of 36 games in which he was able to score six points during the first season of his student days . In the following game year 2000/01 Hedlund was able to increase his yield to twelve points from 38 games. In his last year of college, the American rose again to 15 points in 37 missions.

Andrew "Andy" Hedlund slapped

In the subsequent NHL Entry Draft , the defender remained undrafted , but the Ottawa Senators took him under contract for the 2001/02 season . In the current year he was able to gain his first professional experience in the organization of the NHL team. Hedlund finished the season with the Senators ECHL farm team , the Trenton Titans . For this he played two games in the regular season, as well as another six playoff games . However, Hedlund remained without a point with six penalty minutes. The following season 2002/03 he started again with the Titans and brought it in 13 games on one goal and two assists.

In 2002 Andrew Hedlund was first used with the Binghamton Senators in the AHL and played here for the rest of the season. He scored one goal and seven assists in 59 games. In the following season , the defender was part of the permanent squad in Binghamton and completed a total of 80 season appearances. Also in the 2004/05 season he played again for Binghamton Senators, but could not build on the successful previous season. For the 2005/06 season , the American finally signed a contract with the Krefeld Penguins from the German Ice Hockey League .

For the 2006/07 season , Hedlund initially moved to league rivals DEG Metro Stars , but then returned to the Ottawa Senators in the National Hockey League in June . Again, the defender could not prevail there and was only used with the farm team Hershey Bears and the Binghamton Senators in the AHL, so that he signed a new two-year contract with the DEG Metro Stars for the 2007/08 season . In the 2009/10 season Hedlund played for Adler Mannheim. His contract, which originally ran for another year, was terminated after the season. In June 2010 it was announced that Hedlund will return to Düsseldorf. He signed a two-year contract.

After his contract expired, he accepted an offer from the then reigning Austrian champions EHC Linz in May 2012 and played a total of two seasons in the EBEL for the Black Wings . After the end of the 2013/14 season, he ended his career.

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1997/98 Fargo-Moorhead Ice Sharks USHL 56 4th 12 16 135 4th 0 4th 4th 0
1999/00 Minnesota State University NCAA 36 4th 2 6th 58
2000/01 Minnesota State University NCAA 38 6th 6th 12 64
2001/02 Minnesota State University NCAA 37 5 10 15th 48
2001/02 Trenton Titans ECHL 2 0 0 0 0 6th 0 0 0 6th
2002/03 Trenton Titans ECHL 13 1 2 3 14th - - - - -
2002/03 Binghamton Senators AHL 59 1 7th 8th 48 10 0 0 0 0
2003/04 Binghamton Senators AHL 80 4th 19th 23 108 2 0 0 0 2
2004/05 Binghamton Senators AHL 75 2 13 15th 103 6th 0 2 2 25th
2005/06 Krefeld penguins DEL 52 12 22nd 34 100 5 0 2 2 6th
2006/07 Binghamton Senators AHL 56 6th 21st 27 84 - - - - -
2006/07 Hershey Bears AHL 21st 0 8th 8th 30th 19th 0 3 3 28
2007/08 DEG Metro Stars DEL 55 12 23 35 142 13 2 5 7th 28
2008/09 DEG Metro Stars DEL 52 9 19th 28 68 16 4th 2 6th 24
2009/10 Adler Mannheim DEL 54 6th 9 15th 60 2 0 0 0 0
NCAA overall 111 15th 18th 33 170
AHL total 291 13 68 81 373 37 0 5 5 55
DEL total 216 39 63 102 370 36 6th 9 15th 58

( 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 )

Individual evidence

  1. Andree Mauritz: '' Hedlund and Ratschuk to DEG '' . Hockeyweb.de. Retrieved June 6, 2010.
  2. Kleine Zeitung , Linzer Leahy, Hedlund, Mayr and Hirn listen to ( memento from September 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), from March 31, 2014

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