Andrew Hedlund

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

Web links

• Andrew Hedlund at hockeydb.com (English)
• Andrew Hedlund at eurohockey.com