Brett Ritchie

Brett Ritchie
Date of birth	July 1, 1993
place of birth	Orangeville , Ontario , Canada
size	191 cm
Weight	100 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 18
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2011 , 2nd round, 44th position Dallas Stars
Career stations
2009–2012	Sarnia Sting
2012-2013	Niagara IceDogs
2013-2016	Texas Stars
2014-2019	Dallas Stars
since 2019	Boston Bruins

Brett Ritchie (born July 1, 1993 in Orangeville , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League since July 2019 . The winger previously spent over six years with the Dallas Stars organization .

Career

youth

Brett Ritchie played in his youth for the junior division of the Toronto Marlboros , before he was selected in 2009 in the Priority Selection of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) in twelfth position by the Sarnia Sting . As a rookie , he scored 29 points in 65 games in his first OHL season and represented his home country at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2010 for the first time on an international level, where he won the silver medal with the team. After winning the gold medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament in August 2010, the attacker went into his draft season, in which he was out for a month due to glandular fever . After Ritchie finished fourth with the U18 national team at the 2011 U18 World Cup , he was finally selected in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft in 44th position by the Dallas Stars . Subsequently, the right winger returned to the OHL, but he was given in January 2012 to the Niagara IceDogs , with the Sting receiving four draft options in return. With the IceDogs, the Canadian reached the playoff final for the J. Ross Robertson Cup , but lost to the London Knights . After the season, Ritchie signed an entry-level deal with the Dallas Stars in July 2012 . During the following pre-season preparation, however, Ritchie could not initially recommend himself for the professional squad, so he returned to the OHL for a final year, where he achieved his best personal statistic with 76 points in 53 games and was therefore elected to the OHL Second All-Star Team . In addition, he took part with the U20 national team of Canada over the turn of the year in the U20 World Cup 2013 and finished there a further fourth place.

Dallas Stars

After the 2012/13 OHL season, Ritchie moved to the Dallas Stars organization, who used him in 14 games on their farm team , the Texas Stars , in the American Hockey League (AHL) by the end of the season . The striker also spent the entire 2013/14 season in Texas, at the end of which he won the AHL playoffs for the Calder Cup with the Stars , as well as the first half of the 2014/15 season. At the end of December 2014, however, the Canadian was called up to the Dallas Stars for the first time and made his debut in the National Hockey League a little later . By the end of the season he had 31 NHL appearances, in which he posted nine points scorer. Due to a wrist injury, Ritchie missed larger parts of the 2015/16 season, so he only came to eight NHL and 35 AHL games. With the beginning of the 2016/17 season, however, Ritchie established himself in the NHL lineup of stars and was from then on regularly.

Boston Bruins

After more than six years in the organization of the stars, his expiring contract was not renewed in the summer of 2019, so that Ritchie signed a one-year contract as a free agent with the Boston Bruins in July 2019 .

Achievements and Awards

• 2010 silver medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
• 2010 gold medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament
• 2013 OHL Second All-Star Team
• 2014 Calder Cup win with the Texas Stars

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2009/10	Sarnia Sting	OHL		65	13	16	29	-33	35		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Sarnia Sting	OHL		49	21st	20th	41	-1	47		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Sarnia Sting	OHL		23	8th	7th	15th	± 0	30th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Niagara IceDogs	OHL		30th	16	14th	30th	+27	24		20th	3	8th	11	± 0	14th
2012/13	Niagara IceDogs	OHL		53	41	35	76	+35	40		4th	1	3	4th	-1	9
2012/13	Texas Stars	AHL		5	3	1	4th	+3	0		9	2	0	2	-2	2
2013/14	Texas Stars	AHL		68	22nd	26th	48	+14	53		13	7th	4th	11	+3	10
2014/15	Texas Stars	AHL		33	14th	7th	21st	+19	40		3	1	1	2	± 0	2
2014/15	Dallas Stars	NHL		31	6th	3	9	-1	12		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Texas Stars	AHL		35	14th	14th	28	-2	26th		3	1	1	2	-1	0
2015/16	Dallas Stars	NHL		8th	0	1	1	-3	7th		2	0	0	0	-2	0
2016/17	Dallas Stars	NHL		78	16	8th	24	+11	38		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Dallas Stars	NHL		71	7th	7th	14th	+1	42		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Dallas Stars	NHL		53	4th	2	6th	–7	57		1	0	0	0	± 0	2
OHL total				220	99	92	191	+28	176		24	4th	11	15th	-1	23
AHL total				141	53	48	101	+34	119		28	11	6th	17th	± 0	14th
NHL overall				241	33	21st	54	+1	156		3	0	0	0	-2	2

International

Represented Canada to:

• World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2010
• Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2010
• U18 World Championship 2011
• U20 World Cup 2013

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2010	Canada Ontario	WHC			6th	2	1	3		6th
2010	Canada	Hlinka Memorial			5	4th	0	4th	+5	2
2011	Canada	U18 World Cup	4th Place		7th	4th	3	7th	± 0	6th
2013	Canada	U20 World Cup	4th Place		6th	1	3	4th	+3	2
Juniors overall					24	11	7th	18th		16

( 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 )

family

Brett's brother, Nick Ritchie , is also an ice hockey player and was selected 10th in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft by the Anaheim Ducks .

Web links

• Player biography on the Boston Bruins website
• Brett Ritchie at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ritchie's success a family affair. foxnews.com, June 13, 2011, accessed February 6, 2017 . 
2. ↑ IceDogs Acquire Brett Ritchie from Sarnia for Draft Picks. (No longer available online.) Niagaraicedogs.net January 5, 2012, archived from the original February 6, 2017 ; accessed on February 6, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Dallas Stars sign Brett Ritchie and Troy Vance to three-year entry-level deals. nhl.com, July 11, 2012, accessed February 6, 2017 (rundi). 
4. ↑ Mike Heika: Why Brett Ritchie's return from injury is 'just the first step' in what could be a long journey. sportsday.dallasnews.com, December 5, 2015, accessed February 6, 2017 .