Joakim Ryan

Joakim Ryan
Date of birth	17th June 1993
place of birth	Rumson , New Jersey , USA
size	180 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2012 , 7th round, 198th position San Jose Sharks
Career stations
2008-2010	New Jersey Devils Youth U16 Christian Brothers Academy
2010-2011	Dubuque Fighting Saints
2011-2015	Cornell University
2015	Worcester Sharks
2015-2017	San Jose Barracuda
2017-2019	San Jose Sharks
since 2019	Los Angeles Kings

Joakim Ryan (born June 17, 1993 in Rumson , New Jersey ) is an American ice hockey player of Swedish origin who has been under contract with the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League since July 2019, where he plays the position of defender . Prior to that, Ryan was active in organizing the San Jose Sharks for four seasons . He is the son of the former Swedish tennis player Catarina Lindqvist-Ryan .

Career

Ryan, the son of an American and a Swede, played between 2008 and 2010 at both the renowned Christian Brothers Academy and in the junior program of the New Jersey Devils . For the 2010/11 season, the defender moved to the United States Hockey League for one season , where he won the championship in the form of the Clark Cup with the Dubuque Fighting Saints . He then attended Cornell University for four years , where he ran parallel to his studies for the ice hockey team in ECAC Hockey , a division in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . During this time he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2012 in the seventh round in 198th place by the San Jose Sharks from the National Hockey League .

After completing his studies, the defender switched to the professional field at the end of the 2014/15 season and, after signing a contract with the San Jose Sharks, played for their farm team , the Worcester Sharks , in the American Hockey League . After their relocation, he was part of the San Jose Barracuda squad from the beginning of the 2015/16 season , where he developed into one of the top performers. In early February 2017, he was finally called up for the first time in the NHL San Joses squad, but had to wait until the following October for his NHL debut. There he was part of the regular squad from that point on, but was not always in the starting line-up, so that over the two years he only played around 65 percent of the possible games. In the summer of 2019, the management waived a further obligation, so that the defender switched to the Los Angeles Kings as a free agent .

International

Ryan represented Sweden - which means he decided to play internationally for his mother's country of birth - in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2010 , in which the Swedish team finished the tournament in third place. The defender contributed two scorer points in six tournament games. There was a gate underneath. Furthermore, Ryan played - in addition to the U17 selection of the Tre Kronor - between 2010 and 2012 for the U18, U19 and U20 national teams on the international stage. He only represented the U20 selection in the World Junior A Challenge of 2011. There he remained pointless in three missions.

Achievements and Awards

2011 USHL All-Star Game 2011 Clark Cup win with the Dubuque Fighting Saints 2013 All- Ivy League Second Team 2014 ECAC Second All-Star Team

2014 All-Ivy League First Team 2015 ECAC First All-Star Team 2015 All-Ivy League First Team

International

• 2010 bronze medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
• 2010 bronze medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2010/11	Dubuque Fighting Saints	USHL		53	3	29	32	26th		11	2	3	5	2
2011/12	Cornell University	NCAA		34	7th	10	17th	20th
2012/13	Cornell University	NCAA		34	3	20th	23	12
2013/14	Cornell University	NCAA		32	8th	16	24	27
2014/15	Cornell University	NCAA		23	1	13	14th	27
2014/15	Worcester Sharks	AHL		7th	0	2	2	2		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	San Jose Barracuda	AHL		66	2	26th	28	26th		4th	0	3	3	0
2016/17	San Jose Barracuda	AHL		65	10	39	49	41		15th	4th	7th	11	4th
2017/18	San Jose Barracuda	AHL		2	1	1	2	0		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	San Jose Sharks	NHL		62	3	9	12	8th		3	0	0	0	0
2018/19	San Jose Sharks	NHL		44	0	7th	7th	15th		20th	0	1	1	0
2019/20	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		35	1	4th	5	10		-	-	-	-	-
USHL total				53	3	29	32	26th		11	2	3	5	2
NCAA overall				123	19th	59	78	86
AHL total				140	13	68	81	69		19th	4th	10	14th	4th
NHL overall				141	4th	20th	24	33		23	0	1	1	0

International

Represented Sweden at:

• World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2010
• Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2010

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2010	Sweden	U17-WHC			6th	1	1	2	2
2010	Sweden	Hlinka Memorial			5	0	1	1	0
Juniors overall					11	1	2	3	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

• Player biography on the Los Angeles Kings website
• Joakim Ryan at eliteprospects.com (English)