Lance Ward

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CanadaCanada  Lance Ward Ice hockey player
Date of birth June 2nd 1978
place of birth Lloydminster , Alberta , Canada
size 190 cm
Weight 98 kg
position defender
number # 47
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1996 , 1st round, 10th position
New Jersey Devils
NHL Entry Draft 1998 , 3rd round, 63rd position
Florida Panthers
Career stations
1993-1994 Lloydminster Lancers
1994-1998 Red Deer Rebels
1998-1999 Fort Wayne Comets
Beast of New Haven
Miami Matadors
1999-2001 Louisville Panthers
2000-2003 Florida panthers
2003-2004 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
2005-2006 Binghamton Senators
2006-2008 HV71
2008-2009 Frankfurt Lions
2009-2011 HV71

Lance Ward (born June 2, 1978 in Lloydminster , Alberta ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player who last played in the HV71 in the Elitserien on the position of defender .

Career

Lance Ward first played ice hockey in his hometown Lloydminster before the defensive player went on the ice for four seasons for the Red Deer Rebels in the Canadian Junior Western Hockey League from 1994 . In the 1996 NHL Entry Draft , he was selected by the New Jersey Devils in the first round in tenth position. However, since this did not get him to sign the contract and instead he continued to play for the Red Deer Rebels in the Western Hockey League, the Canadian was available again in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft , where he was finally 63rd of the Florida Panthers in the third round was pulled.

After that was Ward from 1998 to 2000 for various teams in the East Coast Hockey League , International Hockey League and American Hockey League active and also was in the service of the Louisville Panthers , a farm team of the Florida Panthers, with whom he in the 1999/2000 season , the first round of playoffs reached. During the 2000/01 season Ward made his debut in the National Hockey League . He ran from 2001 to 2003 for the Florida Panthers and came to a total of 134 games, in which the right-shooter came on four goals, seven assists , eleven points and 254 penalty minutes. During the 2002/03 season , on January 30, 2003, the Panthers transferred the defender together with Sandis Ozoliņš in exchange for Pavel Trnka , Matt Cullen and a four-round suffrage in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim , for the he played a total of 75 games without scoring a goal and only gave five assists. In the 2004/05 season Ward did not play in the NHL due to the lockout and signed a contract with the Ottawa Senators in the summer of 2005 , who used him exclusively in the farm team Binghamton Senators in the American Hockey League during the 2005/06 season .

On June 5, 2006 Ward signed a one-year contract with the Swedish Elitserien club HV71 . There the Canadian stood out for his tough style of play and was also often involved in arguments with opposing players. With 273 penalty minutes in the 2006/07 season , the Canadian holds the record for the most penalty minutes in a season in the top Swedish division. After this season, the defender had already signed a two-year contract with EC Graz 99ers from Austria , but Graz terminated the contract before the start of the season, whereupon the Canadian returned to Sweden to his former club in Jönköping, where he received another one-year contract . In the 2007/08 season Ward was the first Swedish champion and then signed a contract for the following season with the Frankfurt Lions from the German Ice Hockey League . For the 2009/10 season Ward returned to the HV71, with which the Canadian won the Swedish championship for the second time in his career at the end of the season. After the end of his contract in the summer of 2011, Ward ended his active career.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1993-94 Lloydminster Lancers AAHA 20th 8th 12 20th 68 - - - - -
1994-95 Red Deer Rebels WHL 28 0 0 0 57 - - - - -
1995-96 Red Deer Rebels WHL 72 4th 13 17th 127 10 0 4th 4th 10
1996-97 Red Deer Rebels WHL 70 5 34 39 229 16 0 3 3 36
1997-98 Red Deer Rebels WHL 71 8th 25th 33 233 5 0 0 0 16
1998-99 Fort Wayne Comet IHL 13 0 2 2 28 - - - - -
1998-99 Beast of New Haven AHL 43 2 5 7th 51 - - - - -
1998-99 Miami matadors ECHL 6th 1 0 1 12 - - - - -
1999-00 Louisville Panthers AHL 80 4th 16 20th 190 4th 0 0 0 6th
2000-01 Florida panthers NHL 30th 0 2 2 45 - - - - -
2000-01 Louisville Panthers AHL 35 3 2 5 78 - - - - -
2001-02 Florida panthers NHL 68 1 4th 5 131 - - - - -
2002-03 Florida panthers NHL 36 3 1 4th 78 - - - - -
2002-03 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 29 0 1 1 43 - - - - -
2003-04 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 46 0 4th 4th 94 - - - - -
2003-04 Cincinnati Mighty Ducks AHL 5 0 1 1 6th - - - - -
2004-05 no team due to NHL lockout - - - - - - - - - -
2005-06 Binghamton Senators AHL 80 3 20th 23 278 - - - - -
2006-07 HV71 Elitserien 50 6th 4th 10 273 14th 0 0 0 47
2007-08 HV71 Elitserien 52 0 7th 7th 212 16 0 0 0 66
2008-09 Frankfurt Lions DEL 41 1 2 3 86 1 0 0 0 0
2009-10 HV71 Elitserien 30th 0 3 3 73 9 0 0 0 10
2010-11 HV71 Elitserien 11 0 0 0 22nd - - - - -
WHL overall 241 17th 80 97 646 31 0 7th 7th 62
AHL total 243 12 44 56 603 4th 0 0 0 6th
NHL overall 209 4th 12 16 391 - - - - -
Elitserien total 143 6th 14th 20th 580 39 0 0 0 123
DEL total 41 1 2 3 86 1 0 0 0 0

( 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 Ward, Lance
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH June 2nd 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Lloydminster , Alberta