Brad Ference

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CanadaCanada  Brad Ference Ice hockey player
Date of birth April 2nd 1979
place of birth Calgary , Alberta , Canada
size 191 cm
Weight 95 kg
position defender
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1997 , 1st round, 10th position
Vancouver Canucks
Career stations
1996-1999 Spokane Chiefs
1999 Tri-City Americans
1999-2001 Louisville Panthers
2001-2003 Florida panthers
2003-2004 Phoenix Coyotes
2004-2005 HC Morzine-Avoriaz
2005 San Antonio Rampage
2005-2006 Albany River Rats
2006-2007 Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben Knights
2007-2008 Grand Rapids Griffins

Bradley W. "Brad" Ference (born April 2, 1979 in Calgary , Alberta ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 250 games for the Florida Panthers , Phoenix Coyotes and Calgary Flames in the course of his active career between 1996 and 2008 National Hockey League (NHL) on the position of defender . Ference, who won the silver medal at the U20 Junior World Championship in 1999, also spent a large part of his active career in the American Hockey League (AHL), where he played 285 additional games for five different franchises .

Career

Ference in the Calgary Flames jersey

Ference played until the 1995/96 season in the lower class junior leagues in his native Calgary . Over the course of the season, the defender left the Olympic city of 1988 and moved across the Canadian border to the Spokane Chiefs in the United States . The team took part in the game operations of the Canadian Junior League Western Hockey League (WHL). At the end of his first full season in the league, Ference was elected to the all-rookie team of the entire Canadian Hockey League (CHL). His qualities on the offensive and his tough style of play ultimately led to the fact that he was selected in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft in tenth overall position by the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Canadians remained a half more seasons in Spokane and took by the year 1998 at the Memorial Cup in part, to the Chiefs to line up to host this season. At the end of the prestigious tournament he found himself in the All-Star Team. In the course of his last season in the junior division, Ference moved via transfer at the end of January 1999 within the league to the ambitious Tri-City Americans , with whom he advanced to the final of the West Division. He was denied winning the championship.

For the 1999/2000 season, the Canadian finally switched to the professional field at the age of 20. However, not to the Vancouver Canucks, but to the organization of the Florida Panthers . At the beginning of the 1999 calendar year, these had entered into an extensive transfer business with the Canucks that comprised a total of seven players and two draft options. In addition to Ference, Pawel Bure , Bret Hedican and a third-round suffrage in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft moved to the southeastern United States, while Ed Jovanovski , Dave Gagner , Mike Brown , Kevin Weekes and a first-round suffrage of the same draft went to the Canadian west coast. In the Panthers franchise, the defender commuted in his first two years with the professionals between the NHL squad in Florida and that of the farm team Louisville Panthers in the American Hockey League (AHL). It wasn't until the 2001/02 season that Ference managed to establish himself as a regular in the NHL squad. In the course of the 2002/03 game year , however, he was transferred to the Phoenix Coyotes , who made Darcy Hordichuk and a second-round vote in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft . The defensive player initially played for Phoenix until spring 2004.

Due to the failure of the NHL season 2004/05 due to the lockout , Ference joined HC Morzine-Avoriaz from the French Ligue Magnus in October 2004 and completed a total of 17 games for the newly promoted team, in which he collected twelve scorer points . For the 2005/06 season he returned - still under contract with the Phoenix Coyotes - back to North America. As a result of the lockout, the qualities of the rough defender with the moves of an enforcer were no longer in demand as before. So he was only on the ice for Phoenix 'cooperation partner, the San Antonio Rampage , in the AHL. Nevertheless, he was  worth three players to the New Jersey Devils in November 2005 - namely Pascal Rhéaume , Ray Schultz and Steven Spencer - when they signed him through a transfer. But they also use it exclusively in the AHL on their farm team Albany River Rats .

However, the Devils did not extend his expiring contract at the end of the season, so he moved to the Calgary Flames organization as a free agent for one year in the summer of 2006 . There he played his last five of a total of 250 NHL games during the 2006/07 season. Most of the season he continued to spend in the AHL with the farm team Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben Knights . In the AHL, he also spent his last season with the professionals in the 2007/08 season, after switching again as a free agent. His new employer Detroit Red Wings used him exclusively at the Grand Rapids Griffins . In the summer of 2008, Ference ended his active career at the age of 29.

International

On the international stage, Ference took part in the junior division with the Canadian U20 national team in 1998 and 1999 at the U20 World Junior Championship. He won the silver medal with the team in 1999. The defender prepared three goals in a total of 14 World Cup appearances. With the senior national team , he contested the 2002 World Cup in Sweden , which the Canadians finished in sixth place. He himself completed six tournament games in which he remained pointless.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1995/96 Spokane Chiefs WHL 5 0 2 2 18th - - - - -
1996/97 Spokane Chiefs WHL 67 6th 20th 26th 324 9 0 4th 4th 21st
1997/98 Spokane Chiefs WHL 54 9 29 38 213 18th 0 7th 7th 59
1998 Spokane Chiefs Memorial Cup 4th 1 2 3 12
1998/99 Spokane Chiefs WHL 31 3 22nd 25th 125 - - - - -
1998/99 Tri-City Americans WHL 20th 6th 15th 21st 116 12 1 9 10 63
1999/00 Louisville Panthers AHL 58 2 7th 9 231 2 0 0 0 2
1999/00 Florida panthers NHL 13 0 2 2 46 - - - - -
2000/01 Louisville Panthers AHL 52 3 21st 24 200 - - - - -
2000/01 Florida panthers NHL 14th 0 1 1 14th - - - - -
2001/02 Florida panthers NHL 80 2 15th 17th 254 - - - - -
2002/03 Florida panthers NHL 60 2 6th 8th 118 - - - - -
2002/03 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 15th 0 1 1 28 - - - - -
2003/04 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 63 0 5 5 103 - - - - -
2004/05 HC Morzine-Avoriaz FRA 17th 2 10 12 138 4th 1 4th 5 10
2005/06 San Antonio Rampage AHL 19th 2 9 11 39 - - - - -
2005/06 Albany River Rats AHL 43 3 8th 11 96 - - - - -
2006/07 Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben Knights AHL 73 3 23 26th 210 6th 0 0 0 6th
2006/07 Calgary Flames NHL 5 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
2007/08 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 32 1 1 2 78 - - - - -
WHL overall 177 24 88 112 796 39 1 20th 21st 143
AHL total 277 14th 69 83 854 8th 0 0 0 8th
NHL overall 250 4th 30th 34 565 - - - - -

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1998 Canada U20 World Cup 8th place 7th 0 1 1 6th
1999 Canada U20 World Cup 2nd place, silver 7th 0 2 2 25th
2002 Canada WM 6th place 6th 0 0 0 4th
Juniors overall 14th 0 3 3 31
Men overall 6th 0 0 0 4th

( 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 )

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Commons : Brad Ference  - collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Ference, Brad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ference, Bradley W. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 2nd 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Calgary , Alberta , Canada