Drew Bannister

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CanadaCanada  Drew Bannister Ice hockey player
Date of birth April 9, 1974
place of birth Belleville , Ontario , Canada
size 189 cm
Weight 90 kg
position defender
number # 7
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1992 , 2nd round, 26th position
Tampa Bay Lightning
Career stations
1990-1994 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds
1994-1996 Atlanta Knights
1996-1997 Tampa Bay Lightning
1997-1998 Edmonton Oilers
1998 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
1998-1999 Tampa Bay Lightning
1999-2001 Hartford Wolf Pack
2001-2002 Cincinnati Mighty Ducks
2002-2003 Kärpät Oulu
2003-2004 Espoo Blues
2004 Severstal Cherepovets
2004-2005 Nuremberg Ice Tigers
2005-2009 Kassel Huskies
2009-2010 Binghamton Senators
2010-2011 Hull Stingrays
2011–2012 Braehead clan

Drew Bannister (born April 9, 1974 in Belleville , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach who has worked for the Tampa Bay Lightning , Edmonton Oilers , Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and New York Rangers in the National during his playing career Hockey League . Since June 2018 he has been the head coach of the San Antonio Rampage in the American Hockey League .

Career

Drew Bannister began his career in 1990 with Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds , for whom he played in the Ontario Hockey League until 1994 . The defender spent the following two seasons with Atlanta Knights in the International Hockey League (IHL), until he finally got his first assignments with cooperation partner Tampa Bay Lightning in the National Hockey League and finally stayed in the highest North American professional league. During the 1996/97 season , the Canadian moved to the Edmonton Oilers , which he in turn left in the course of the following season in the direction of Mighty Ducks of Anaheim .

In the 1998/99 game year Bannister first played 21 NHL games for his former employer from Tampa before he was given up for the rest of the season in the IHL to the Las Vegas Thunder . The next two seasons ran the defender for the Hartford Wolf Pack in the American Hockey League (AHL) until he played three more games for the New York Rangers in the NHL in 2001 . After he had completed 30 games in North America for the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks and also one game for the "Mighty Ducks" from Anaheim at the beginning of the 2001/02 season , Drew Bannister moved to the Finnish SM-liiga for two seasons . There the Canadian first played for Kärpät Oulu , with whom he became Finnish runner- up in the 2002/03 season . After this success he moved to the Espoo Blues , with whom he was eliminated in the following play-offs in the first round.

Drew Bannister came to Germany for the 2004/05 season and initially played one year for the Nürnberg Ice Tigers in the German Ice Hockey League . For the following season, the defender moved to the Kassel Huskies . He played with the Huskies in the DEL in 2005/06 , but was relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga at the end of the season . On April 25, 2008, Drew Bannister scored in the 74th minute of the extension of the fifth final game of the second division play-offs the decisive goal for a sporting return to the German ice hockey league. The Canadian was also named the league's best defender this season.

Bannister's contract with the Huskies was valid until the end of the 2008/09 DEL season and was not extended. Then signed him in August 2009, the Ottawa Senators from the National Hockey League by a one-year two-way contract. The defender was the entire 2009/10 season with the Binghamton Senators from the AHL on the ice, before Bannister was signed in November 2010 by the Hull Stingrays from the Elite Ice Hockey League . With these he was mainly active as a player, but also took on the tasks of assistant coach and supported player-coach Sylvain Cloutier . In addition, Bannister was assistant captain of the Stingrays. In July 2011, the defender made a transfer within the EIHL and joined the Braehead Clan as a player- coach . After the end of the 2011/12 season, the Canadian defender ended his playing career and was subsequently committed as an assistant coach by the Owen Sound Attack from the Ontario Hockey League. Within the league, he moved to Sault Ste in 2015 . Marie Greyhounds , as their head coach he received the Matt Leyden Trophy and the Brian Kilrea Coach of the Year Award as Trainer of the Year in 2018 . He was then introduced in June 2018 as the new head coach of the San Antonio Rampage from the AHL.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1990/91 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds OHL 41 2 8th 10 51 4th 0 0 0 0
1991/92 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds OHL 64 4th 21st 25th 122 16 3 10 13 36
1992/93 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds OHL 59 5 28 33 114 18th 2 7th 9 12
1993/94 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds OHL 58 7th 43 50 108 14th 6th 9 15th 20th
1994/95 Atlanta Knights IHL 72 5 7th 12 74 5 0 2 2 22nd
1995/96 Atlanta Knights IHL 61 3 13 16 105 3 0 0 0 4th
1995/96 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 13 0 1 1 4th - - - - -
1996/97 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 64 4th 13 17th 44 - - - - -
1996/97 Edmonton Oilers NHL 1 0 1 1 0 12 0 0 0 30th
1997/98 Edmonton Oilers NHL 34 0 2 2 42 - - - - -
1997/98 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 27 0 6th 6th 47 - - - - -
1998/99 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 21st 1 2 3 24 - - - - -
1998/99 Las Vegas Thunder IHL 16 2 1 3 73 - - - - -
1999/00 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 44 6th 14th 20th 121 18th 2 9 11 53
2000/01 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 73 9 30th 39 143 5 0 2 2 6th
2000/01 New York Rangers NHL 3 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2001/02 Cincinnati Mighty Ducks AHL 30th 1 10 11 57 3 0 1 1 6th
2001/02 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2002/03 Oulun Kärpät SML 41 2 12 14th 81 14th 2 0 2 42
2003/04 Espoo Blues SML 36 2 8th 10 42 9 0 3 3 26th
2003/04 Severstal Cherepovets RUS 3 0 0 0 4th - - - - -
2004/05 Nuremberg Ice Tigers DEL 46 1 12 13 97 - - - - -
2005/06 Kassel Huskies DEL 44 9 12 21st 79 - - - - -
2006/07 Kassel Huskies 2nd BL 43 9 32 41 0 8th 1 6th 7th 8th
2007/08 Kassel Huskies 2nd BL 41 11 27 38 73 15th 4th 12 16 28
2008/09 Kassel Huskies DEL 34 2 15th 17th 84 - - - - -
2009/10 Binghamton Senators AHL 57 4th 10 14th 77 - - - - -
2010/11 Hull Stingrays EIHL 34 5 15th 20th 50 2 0 2 2 2
2011/12 Braehead clan EIHL 55 13 32 45 114 2 0 0 0 4th
OHL total 222 18th 100 118 395 52 11 26th 37 68
IHL total 149 10 21st 31 252 8th 0 2 2 26th
AHL total 204 20th 64 84 398 26th 2 12 14th 65
SM-liiga total 77 4th 20th 24 123 23 2 3 5 68
2. Bundesliga overall 84 20th 59 79 73 23 5 18th 23 36
DEL total 124 12 39 51 260 0 0 0 0 0
NHL overall 164 5 25th 30th 161 12 0 0 0 30th

( 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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personal data
SURNAME Bannister, Drew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Belleville , Ontario