Dwayne Roloson

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Dwayne Roloson
Date of birth October 12, 1969
place of birth Simcoe , Ontario , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 81 kg
position goalkeeper
number # 35
Catch hand Left
Career stations
1990-1994 University of Massachusetts Lowell
1994-1996 Saint John Flames
1996-1998 Calgary Flames
1998-2000 Buffalo Sabers
2000-2001 Worcester IceCats
2001-2006 Minnesota Wild
2004-2005 Lukko Rauma
2006-2009 Edmonton Oilers
2009-2011 New York Islanders
2011–2012 Tampa Bay Lightning

Albert Dwayne Roloson (born October 12, 1969 in Simcoe , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper who last played for the Tampa Bay Lightning in the National Hockey League .

Career

Calgary Flames (1996-1998)

Dwayne Roloson began his career in the lower leagues of Canada and the USA and only rose very late to the higher divisions. Unlike most NHL professionals, he was not drafted, but signed his first contract in 1994 with the Calgary Flames as a so-called free agent . He spent the first two years with the Calgary farm team, the Saint John Flames , in the American Hockey League to gain experience. During his first year he was taken for Team Canada to the 1995 Ice Hockey World Championship , which finished in third place, but Dwayne Roloson did not get a single minute on the ice. In the 1996/97 season he came for the first time in the NHL and brought it to a total of 31 games as number 2 behind Trevor Kidd . The following season he shared the post as the number 1 Calgary Flames with Rick Tabaracci and played 39 times.

Buffalo Sabers, St. Louis Blues, and Minnesota Wild (1998-2006)

Rolosn in the jersey of the Worcester IceCats (2001)

After his contract expired at the end of the season, he signed with the Buffalo Sabers , where he had the best goalkeeper of the decade with Dominik Hašek as a competitor, against whom he could not prevail. While he was still number 2 in the 1998/99 season , he was even ousted to the position of third goalkeeper in the following season by Martin Biron . With the big competition there was no perspective for Dwayne Roloson in Buffalo and so he left the team after his sophomore year and signed a one-year contract with the St. Louis Blues . He was not used during the entire 2000/01 season in the NHL, but instead played for the farm team Worcester IceCats in the AHL, where he excelled with good performance and was awarded the Aldege "Baz" Bastien Memorial Award for best goalkeeper in the league has been.

He then received a contract with the NHL organization of the Minnesota Wild in the summer of 2001 , where he alternated between the posts with Manny Fernandez in the first year , before he was the sole goalkeeper in the following two seasons due to excellent performances. He was elected to the NHL All-Star Game 2004 and received the Roger Crozier Saving Grace Award after the 2003/04 season as the goalkeeper with the best catch rate. While the NHL season 2004/05 was canceled because of the lockout , he played with Lukko Rauma in the Finnish SM-liiga . After Dwayne Roloson's return at the beginning of the 2005/06 season , Fernandez ousted him as number 1 in Minnesota.

Edmonton Oilers (2006-2009)

Roloson as Goalkeeper for the Oilers , 2009

Towards the end of the regular season in March 2006, the game transferred him within the league to the Edmonton Oilers . There he immediately asserted himself as a regular goalkeeper and with his achievements made a significant contribution to his team's entry into the Stanley Cup final series. In the first final game against the Carolina Hurricanes , the Canadian injured himself five minutes before the end when the score was 4: 4 and had to be replaced. Roloson's injury was so serious that he could no longer be used in the final series. Edmonton lost in the end after seven games, so the Hurricanes won the coveted Stanley Cup for the first time in their history. His expiring contract was extended after the season by three years with a rumored total salary of a total of eleven million US dollars.

The 2006/07 season was initially positive for Roloson and the Oilers , but the end of December began the downturn for the team. The climax of the crisis was reached when they could get only one win in 17 games within five weeks from February 25, 2007 and finally missed the playoffs far behind, with Roloson being one of the team's few positive appearances. After the early end of the season, the left catcher took part with the Canadian national team in the 2017 ice hockey world championship and won the world championship. At the beginning of the 2007/08 season he was ousted by Mathieu Garon , but benefited from his injury towards the end of the season, in which the Oilers again missed the playoffs. During the 2008/09 season Roloson was able to prevail against Garon, who was transferred to the Pittsburgh Penguins a little later , and the young goalkeeper Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers .

New York Islanders and Tampa Bay Lightning (2009–2012)

Roloson in the dress of the New York Islanders
Roloson in the Tampa Bay Lightning jersey , 2011

In the summer of 2009 Roloson was hired as an unrestricted free agent for two seasons by the New York Islanders , where he should replace the injured Rick DiPietro as number 1 in goal. On January 1, 2011, the New York Islanders transferred him again to the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for Ty Wishart . At Tampa, Roloson solved the goalkeeping problem straight away and even played four games without conceding a goal in his first eleven games for the Lightning . In April 2011, he recorded another shutout in the decisive seventh game of the first play-off round against Pittbsburgh , which made him the oldest goalkeeper to succeed at the age of 41. In the further course of the post season he failed with his team in the Eastern Conference final against the Boston Bruins . During the summer break, his contract was extended for another year and Roloson then went into the 2011/12 season as a regular goalkeeper , but where he was unable to build on the previous year's performance. In 40 games he had conceded an average of 3.66 hits per game and a catch rate of 88.6%. After the Lightning missed the play-offs, Roloson ended his active career.

End of career (since 2012)

After the announcement of the end of his career, he returned to the organization of the Anaheim Ducks and initially worked as a goalkeeping coach for their farm team Norfolk Admirals in the AHL. In the summer of 2013 he rose to the same position at the Ducks , where he succeeded Pete Peeters . After regular goalkeeper John Gibson injured himself at short notice in November 2014, Roloson stepped in again as a substitute goalkeeper for the Ducks in the game against the Colorado Avalanche , but remained without use.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league GP GA SO GA Avg SV% GP GA SO GA Avg SV%
1994-95 Saint John Flames AHL 46 156 1 3.42 .900 5 13 0 2.61 .897
1995-96 Saint John Flames AHL 67 190 1 2.83 .905 16 19th 1 2.86 . ???
1996-97 Calgary Flames NHL 31 78 1 2.89 .897 - - - - -
1997-98 Calgary Flames NHL 39 110 0 2.99 .890 - - - - -
1998-99 Buffalo Sabers NHL 18th 42 1 2.77 .909 4th 10 0 4.32 .851
1999-00 Buffalo Sabers NHL 14th 32 0 2.84 .884 - - - - -
2000-01 Worcester IceCats AHL 52 113 6th 2.17 .929 11 23 1 1.98 .931
2001-02 Minnesota Wild NHL 45 112 5 2.68 .901 - - - - -
2002-03 Minnesota Wild NHL 50 98 4th 2.00 .927 11 25th 0 2.59 .903
2003-04 Minnesota Wild NHL 48 89 5 1.88 .933 - - - - -
2004-05 Lukko Rauma SM-Liiga 34 70 4th 2.05 .931 9 18th 2 2.10 .941
2005-06 Minnesota Wild NHL 24 68 1 3.00 .910 - - - - -
Edmonton Oilers NHL 19th 47 1 2.42 .905 18th 45 1 2.33 .927
2006-07 Edmonton Oilers NHL 68 180 4th 2.75 .909 - - - - -
NHL overall 356 856 22nd 2.55 .910 33 80 1 2.56 .915

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; 1  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

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personal data
SURNAME Roloson, Dwayne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roloson, Albert Dwayne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Simcoe , Ontario