Mark Rycroft

Mark Rycroft
Date of birth	July 12, 1978
place of birth	Penticton , British Columbia , Canada
size	180 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1995-1997	Nanaimo Clippers
1997-2000	University of Denver
2000-2003	Worcester IceCats
2003-2006	St. Louis Blues
2004-2005	Briançon HC
2006-2007	Colorado Avalanche
2007-2008	Lake Erie Monsters Syracuse Crunch

Mark Rycroft (born July 12, 1978 in Penticton , British Columbia ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played for the St. Louis Blues and Colorado Avalanche in the National Hockey League from 1995 to 2008 .

Career

Mark Rycroft began his career as a hockey player with the Nanaimo Clippers, for which he was active from 1995 to 1997 in the British Columbia Hockey League . The attacker then played for the University of Denver team for three years before he got a free agent contract with the St. Louis Blues on May 15, 2000 . In his first three seasons in the Blues franchise , he only played nine games for St. Louis in the National Hockey League and spent the rest of the time in the American Hockey League with their farm team , the Worcester IceCats .

In the 2003/04 season Rycroft made his breakthrough in the NHL. In his first full season with the Blues, he scored nine goals in 74 games and gave twelve assists. The lockout during the 2004/05 NHL season he spent at Briançon HC in the French Ligue Magnus . After resumption of play, the right-shooter initially returned to St. Louis, but signed in the summer of 2006 with their league rivals Colorado Avalanche . In the 2007/08 season he was only used in Colorado's AHL farm team Lake Erie Monsters , so that he was transferred to the Columbus Blue Jackets on January 22, 2008 in exchange for Darcy Campbell and Philippe Dupuis .

After Rycroft was only used in their AHL farm team Syracuse Crunch in Columbus until the end of the season , he decided to spend the 2008/09 season at HK Dinamo Minsk from the newly founded Continental Hockey League . The Belarusians released the Canadian from his contract before the first game of the season, after which he ended his active career at the age of 30. Since then he has worked as a video analyst for Altitude Sports and Entertainment , who broadcasts the games of his ex-club Colorado Avalanche on TV.

Achievements and Awards

• 1998 WCHA All-Rookie Team

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	4th	226	21st	25th	46	113
Playoffs	1	3	0	0	0	2

Web links

• Mark Rycroft at hockeydb.com (English)
• Mark Rycroft at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Mark Rycroft at eurohockey.com