Dennis Seidenberg

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Dennis Seidenberg
Date of birth July 18, 1981
place of birth Villingen-Schwenningen , Germany
size 183 cm
Weight 95 kg
position defender
number # 44
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2001 , 6th round, 172nd position
Philadelphia Flyers
Career stations
1999-2002 Adler Mannheim
2002-2006 Philadelphia Flyers
2006-2007 Phoenix Coyotes
2007-2009 Carolina Hurricanes
2009-2010 Florida panthers
2010-2016 Boston Bruins
2012 Adler Mannheim
2016-2018 New York Islanders
2019 New York Islanders

Dennis Seidenberg (born July 18, 1981 in Villingen-Schwenningen ) is a former German ice hockey player and today's ice hockey coach. The defender began his professional career with the Adler Mannheim , with whom he became German champion in 2001 . He was then considered in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft at 172nd position by the Philadelphia Flyers , before he played over 800 games for a total of six teams in the National Hockey League in the following 15 years . He celebrated his greatest success during this time with the Boston Bruins , with whom he won the Stanley Cup in the 2011 playoffs . In addition, Seidenberg took part with the German national team in three Olympic Winter Games and five World Championships. After Seidenberg ended his active career with the New York Islanders in the NHL in 2019 , he joined the coaching staff of the same organization.

Career

Seidenberg played in the youth department of his home club Schwenninger ERC during his junior years . At the age of 16 he made his debut in the season 1997/98 in the Schwenninger amateur squad in the then 2nd division . For the 1999/2000 season he moved to Adler Mannheim in the German Ice Hockey League . He was first used in the youth team of the young eagles in the German Junior League, but also came to his first three DEL appearances during the season. From the 2000/01 game year , in which the Mannheim team won the German championship , the defender was part of the professional squad. Another DEL season followed, in which he significantly improved his statistics compared to the previous year.

After he was selected in the sixth round in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft in 172nd place by the Philadelphia Flyers , he went to North America in the summer of 2002. There he managed to get a place in the Flyers squad and played 58 games this season, in which he scored 13 points. He also played 19 games for the Flyers' farm team , the Philadelphia Phantoms from the American Hockey League and the nomination for the NHL YoungStars Game confirmed Seidenberg's good rookie season . The German spent the following season mainly in the AHL and was nominated for the AHL All-Star Classic . However, a training accident in January 2004 in which he broke his left leg prevented him from participating. His NHL appearances were limited to five in the regular season , with his first three playoff appearances in the Flyers' jersey. Due to the lockout of the NHL season 2004/05 Seidenberg ran again the entire season for the Phantoms in the AHL. At the end of the season he won the Calder Cup , the championship of the AHL, with these .

Seidenberg in the Jersey of the Florida Panthers

Due to the new salary structures in the NHL and the associated savings measures in the franchises , Seidenberg was back in the regular squad of the NHL team at the beginning of the 2005/06 season . Several minor injuries threw him back in the first half of the season and so he came to 29 games by mid-January 2006 before he was transferred to the Phoenix Coyotes for Petr Nedvěd . Also with the Coyotes, who were trained by Wayne Gretzky , the defender was an integral part of the defensive department and achieved a total of 63 games and 18 points in the season. After his statistics deteriorated in the 2006/07 season , he was in January 2007 for Kevyn Adams at the Carolina Hurricanes . Seidenberg was usually the seventh defender there, so he often took a seat in the stands. In the 2007/08 season he played more regularly, but fell out for a long time due to a knee and ankle injury, which meant he lost his regular place in the squad. In the 2008/09 season , Seidenberg stabilized his performance, remained largely injury-free and became an integral part of the Hurricanes' defense. However, they did not extend the expiring contract because the salary expectations of both parties were too far apart. On September 14, 2009, the German signed a one-year contract for $ 2.25 million with the Florida Panthers as a free agent . Despite a solid season in which he was one of the players with the most ice ages with the Panthers, he was bartered for Byron Bitz , Craig Weller and a second-round suffrage in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft on March 3, 2010 with Matt Bartkowski given to the Boston Bruins . There he mostly played alongside the Slovak Zdeno Chára in a defensive pair . After the end of the season, he agreed with Boston to extend his contract until 2014. On June 15, 2011 Dennis Seidenberg won  the Stanley Cup - the second German after Uwe Krupp in 1996 . The Boston Bruins defeated the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 in the decisive seventh game .

For the duration of the NHL lockout phase 2012/13 he played for the Adler Mannheim in the DEL. After the lockout ended in January 2013, he returned to the Boston Bruins. In October 2013, Seidenberg signed a new four-year contract in Boston that earned him an annual salary of $ 4 million. The last year of his contract was paid out to him by the Bruins in June 2016 (buy-out) , so that from then on he went looking for a new employer, which he found in the New York Islanders at the end of September 2016 . With the Islanders, the defender was active until the end of the 2017/18 season when his expiring contract was not renewed. However, he stayed with the team, took part in training operations and received a contract at the end of February 2019 until the end of the 2018/19 game year. However, he was not used subsequently and did not receive a further contract before he announced the official end of his active career in October 2019. At the same time, the New York Islanders declared that Seidenberg would henceforth be part of the 'Player Development Staff', the expanded coaching staff of the franchise.

International

Seidenberg represented a German selection for the first time at the U18 Junior World Championship in 1999 on the international stage. In the U20 age group he played at the B World Championships in 2000 and 2001 . In the senior division, he represented the senior national team at the 2001 , 2002 , 2008 , 2017 and 2018 World Championships , the 2002 , 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2004 World Cup of Hockey . Seidenberg was also represented at the third edition of the World Cup of Hockey in 2016 , albeit with Team Europe , with whom he took second place there.

At the 2017 World Cup, Seidenberg was named the best defender by the World Ice Hockey Federation IIHF .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1999/00 Adler Mannheim DEL 3 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2000/01 Adler Mannheim DEL 55 2 5 7th 6th 12 0 1 1 10
2001/02 Adler Mannheim DEL 55 7th 13 20th 56 8th 0 0 0 2
2002/03 Philadelphia Phantoms AHL 19th 5 6th 11 17th - - - - -
2002/03 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 58 4th 9 13 20th - - - - -
2003/04 Philadelphia Phantoms AHL 33 7th 12 19th 31 9 2 2 4th 4th
2003/04 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 5 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 0
2004/05 Philadelphia Phantoms AHL 79 13 28 41 47 18th 2 8th 10 19th
2005/06 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 29 2 5 7th 4th - - - - -
2005/06 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 34 1 10 11 14th - - - - -
2006/07 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 32 1 1 2 16 - - - - -
2006/07 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 20th 1 5 6th 2 - - - - -
2007/08 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 47 0 15th 15th 18th - - - - -
2008/09 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 70 5 25th 30th 37 16 1 5 6th 16
2009/10 Florida panthers NHL 62 2 21st 23 33 - - - - -
2009/10 Boston Bruins NHL 17th 2 7th 9 6th - - - - -
2010/11 Boston Bruins NHL 81 7th 25th 32 41 25th 1 10 11 31
2011/12 Boston Bruins NHL 80 5 18th 23 39 7th 1 2 3 2
2012/13 Adler Mannheim DEL 26th 2 18th 20th 20th - - - - -
2012/13 Boston Bruins NHL 46 4th 13 17th 10 18th 0 1 1 4th
2013/14 Boston Bruins NHL 34 1 9 10 10 - - - - -
2014/15 Boston Bruins NHL 82 3 11 14th 34 - - - - -
2015/16 Boston Bruins NHL 61 1 11 12 24 - - - - -
2016/17 New York Islanders NHL 73 5 17th 22nd 32 - - - - -
2017/18 New York Islanders NHL 28 0 5 5 17th - - - - -
2018/19 New York Islanders NHL Without any effort
DEL total 139 11 36 47 82 20th 0 1 1 12
AHL total 131 25th 46 71 95 27 4th 10 14th 23
NHL overall 859 44 207 251 359 69 3 18th 21st 53

International

Represented Germany at:

 

Represented Team Europe at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1999 Germany U18 World Cup 9th place 4th 0 0 0 2
2000 Germany U20-B-WM 2nd place 5 0 0 0 0
2001 Germany U20 World Cup Div. I. 2nd place 5 1 3 4th 2
2001 Germany WM 8th place 7th 0 1 1 2
2002 Germany Olympia 8th place 7th 1 1 2 8th
2002 Germany WM 8th place 7th 1 2 3 8th
2004 Germany World cup 8th place 4th 0 0 0 0
2006 Germany Olympia 10th place 5 0 0 0 6th
2008 Germany WM 10th place 6th 0 0 0 14th
2010 Germany Olympia 11th place 4th 1 0 1 2
2016 Germany Olympic qualification 1st place 3 0 1 1 2
2016 Team Europe World cup 2nd place 5 0 1 1 2
2017 Germany WM 8th place 8th 1 7th 8th 4th
2018 Germany WM 11th place 7th 0 0 0 2
Juniors overall 14th 1 3 4th 4th
Men overall 63 4th 13 17th 50

( 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

His brother Yannic is also a professional ice hockey player.

Web links

Commons : Dennis Seidenberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marcel Goc and Dennis Seidenberg approaching. (No longer available online.) Adler-mannheim.de, September 20, 2012, archived from the original on September 24, 2012 ; Retrieved September 30, 2012 .
  2. ↑ B's Extend Seidenberg Four Years. bruins.nhl.com, October 3, 2013, accessed July 1, 2016 (English).
  3. ↑ https://www.eishockeynews.de/aktuell/artikel/2019/02/25/new-york-islanders-statten-dennis-seidenberg-mit-vertrag-bis-saisonende-aus.html
  4. ^ Seidenberg Retires After 15 Seasons. islanders.nhl.com, October 28, 2019, accessed October 29, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Seidenberg's award and Sturm's criticism. In: kicker.de. May 22, 2017. Retrieved May 22, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Seidenberg, Dennis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Villingen-Schwenningen