Erik Burgdoerfer

Erik Burgdoerfer
Date of birth	December 11, 1988
place of birth	East Setauket , New York , USA
size	185 cm
Weight	94 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
2006-2010	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2010-2014	Bakersfield Condors
2014-2016	Hershey Bears
2016-2017	Rochester Americans
2017-2019	Belleville Senators
since 2019	Hershey Bears

Erik Lawrence Burgdoerfer (born December 11, 1988 in East Setauket , New York ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League since July 2019 and plays there on the position of defender .

Career

Burgdoerfer played in his junior years between 2005 and 2006 first with the New York Apple Core in the Eastern Junior Hockey League , from where he moved to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in summer 2006 . In parallel to his studies, he also played for the university's ice hockey team in ECAC Hockey , a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association , for the next four years . The defender made four solid seasons there, in which he never delivered more than seven scorer points per season. Therefore, he was not included in the NHL Entry Draft , but was on the ECAC All-Academic Team in 2010.

After completing his studies, Burgdoerfer - like his twin brother Greg , with whom he had played together at Apple Core and at the RPI - received a trial contract with the Bakersfield Condors from the ECHL in March 2010 . While Greg Burgdoerfer ended his ice hockey career in the summer of 2010, Erik Burgdoerfer received a permanent contract with the Condors and was part of the team for the following three game years. In October 2013, the defender finally received a contract with the cooperation partner Oklahoma City Barons from the American Hockey League , who continued to use him in Bakersfield. Nevertheless, he came to three missions with the OKC Barons during the 2013/14 season . In the summer of 2014 he finally moved permanently to the AHL, but as a free agent to the Hershey Bears .

At the Hershey Bears, the American was part of the permanent staff for the following two seasons up to summer 2016 and recommended himself for higher tasks during this time, so that in July 2016 he was contracted by the Buffalo Sabers from the National Hockey League . Although Burgdoerfer was there mainly in the squad of the AHL farm team Rochester Americans , but he also came to his first missions for the Sabers in the NHL during the season. In July 2017, he again changed employers as a free agent and was henceforth in the service of the Ottawa Senators . These put the defensive player at the Belleville Senators in the AHL, whose team captain he has been since the beginning of the 2018/19 game year . Since his move in the summer of 2017, he has also returned to the Canadian capital club in the NHL, before returning to the Hershey Bears as a free agent in July 2019. There he signed a one-year contract.

Achievements and Awards

• 2010 ECAC All-Academic Team
• 2011 Participation in the ECHL All-Star Game

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
2006/07	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	NCAA		23	1	1	2	32
2007/08	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	NCAA		32	2	3	5	47
2008/09	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	NCAA		35	3	2	5	106
2009/10	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	NCAA		39	1	6th	7th	51
2009/10	Bakersfield Condors	ECHL		3	0	0	0	10		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Bakersfield Condors	ECHL		68	2	14th	16	50		4th	1	0	1	2
2011/12	Bakersfield Condors	ECHL		60	5	11	16	91		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Bakersfield Condors	ECHL		71	4th	17th	21st	67		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Bakersfield Condors	ECHL		67	11	11	22nd	70		16	1	5	6th	18th
2013/14	Oklahoma City Barons	AHL		3	0	1	1	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Hershey Bears	AHL		58	1	6th	7th	58		10	0	1	1	2
2014/15	South Carolina Stingrays	ECHL		3	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Hershey Bears	AHL		74	6th	14th	20th	59		21st	0	4th	4th	18th
2016/17	Rochester Americans	AHL		52	1	16	17th	44		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		2	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Belleville Senators	AHL		66	5	12	17th	57		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Ottawa Senators	NHL		2	0	1	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Belleville Senators	AHL		64	5	13	18th	44		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Ottawa Senators	NHL		4th	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
NCAA overall				129	7th	12	19th	236
ECHL total				272	22nd	53	75	290		20th	2	5	7th	20th
AHL total				317	18th	62	80	266		31	0	5	5	20th
NHL overall				8th	0	1	1	2		-	-	-	-	-

( 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 )

Web links

• Erik Burgdoerfer in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Erik Burgdoerfer at eliteprospects.com (English)