Byron Ritchie

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CanadaCanada  Byron Ritchie Ice hockey player
Date of birth April 24, 1977
place of birth Burnaby , British Columbia , Canada
size 178 cm
Weight 88 kg
position center
number # 9
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1995 , 7th lap, 165th position
Hartford Whalers
Career stations
1993-1997 Lethbridge Hurricanes
1997-1999 Beast of New Haven
1999-2001 Cincinnati Cyclones
2001-2002 Lowell Lock Monsters
2002-2004 Florida panthers
2004-2005 Rögle BK
2005-2007 Calgary Flames
2007-2008 Vancouver Canucks
2008-2009 HC Servette Genève
2009-2010 HK Dinamo Minsk
2010-2011 MODO hockey
2011-2015 SC Bern
2015-2017 MODO hockey

Byron Ritchie (born April 24, 1977 in Burnaby , British Columbia ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player . Among other things, he played 332 games in the NHL and became Swiss champion in 2013 with SC Bern .

Career

Byron Ritchie began his career as a hockey player with the Lethbridge Hurricanes , for which he was active from 1993 to 1997 in the Canadian Junior League Western Hockey League and won the President's Cup as a WHL champion in the 1996/97 season . In the 1995 NHL Entry Draft , he was selected in the seventh round as a total of 165 players by the Hartford Whalers , but never played for the team. After their resettlement in 1997, the attacker joined their successor team Carolina Hurricanes , for which he made his debut in the National Hockey League in the 1998/99 season . He remained pointless and punished in three games. However, he spent the rest of the first two years with their farm team from the American Hockey League Beast of New Haven . From 1999 to 2001 he was mostly on the ice for the new Hurricanes farm team, the Cincinnati Cyclones from the International Hockey League .

Byron Ritchie (right) in the SC Bern jersey (2012).

The 2001/02 season began Ritchie again in Carolina, played but mainly for the Lowell Lock Monsters in the AHL before he on 16 January 2002 together with Sandis Ozoliņš in exchange for Bret Hedican , Kevyn Adams and Tomas Malec to the Florida Panthers made has been. The left-handed shooter had a regular place in the Florida team for the next two and a half years. Only during the 2002/03 season he ran parallel in 29 games for their AHL farm team San Antonio Rampage . On July 2, 2004, he signed a contract with the Calgary Flames as a free agent .

However , he bridged the lockout during the 2004/05 NHL season at Rögle BK in HockeyAllsvenskan , the second Swedish division. From 2005 to 2007 the Canadian played in over 100 games for Calgary in the NHL. After a year with the Vancouver Canucks , he moved to the 2008/09 season for HC Servette Genève in the Swiss National League A . He then accepted an offer from HK Dinamo Minsk from the Continental Hockey League . After only one season he left HK Dinamo Minsk and moved to Sweden to MODO Hockey .

In April 2011 Ritchie signed a two-year contract with SC Bern . In November 2012, the contract was extended for a further two years until the end of the 2014/15 season. In 2013 he won the Swiss championship with the SCB.

At the end of his career, he was again under contract with MODO Hockey in Sweden from 2015 to 2017. In March 2017 he announced the end of his career.

Achievements and Awards

NHL statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Regular season 8th 324 25th 33 58 373
Playoffs 2 8th 0 0 0 10

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Byron Ritchie Stats and News. Retrieved March 16, 2017 (en_US).
  2. ↑ Byron Ritchie avslutar sin Karriär . In: Expressen . ( expressen.se [accessed March 16, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Ritchie, Byron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Burnaby , British Columbia , Canada