Pat Kavanagh

This article is about ice hockey player Pat Kavanagh. For other people, see Patrick Kavanagh .

Pat Kavanagh
Date of birth	March 14, 1979
place of birth	Ottawa , Ontario , Canada
size	188 cm
Weight	87 kg
position	center
number	# 15
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1997 , 2nd round, 50th position Philadelphia Flyers
Career stations
1995-1996	Kanata Valley Lasers
1996-1999	Peterborough Petes
1999-2000	Syracuse crunch
2000-2004	Vancouver Canucks
2004-2005	Binghamton Senators
2005-2006	Philadelphia Flyers
2006	Portland Pirates
2006-2007	SaiPa Lapeenranta
2007	HV 71 Jönköping
2007-2008	Iserlohn Roosters
2008-2009	Frankfurt Lions
2009-2010	ERC Ingolstadt
2010-2011	Iserlohn Roosters
2011–2012	Vienna Capitals
2012-2013	HC Pustertal
2013	Cornwall River Kings

Patrick Kavanagh (born March 14, 1979 in Ottawa , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who was last under contract with the Cornwall River Kings in the LNAH .

Career

Pat Kavanagh began his ice hockey career in 1995 with the Kanata Valley Lasers from the Canadian Junior Hockey League . In 1996 he moved to the Peterborough Petes in the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League . After his first season, the Philadelphia Flyers pulled the Canadian in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft in the second round in a total of 50th place. However, Kavanagh stayed in the OHL for two more years, improving his scores every year. In the summer of 1999, Kavanagh was transferred to a six-round draft pick in the organization of the Vancouver Canucks . But he first played a season with the farm team Syracuse Crunch in the American Hockey League . After he initially also next year completely in the minor league spent, this time with the Kansas City Blades in the International Hockey League , he came in the first round of the Stanley Cup - Play-offs in 2001 against the Colorado Avalanche to his debut in the National Hockey League . The 2001/02 season completed Kavanagh completely in the AHL. In the next two years he did not manage to assert himself in the NHL and only came to three NHL games. For the Manitoba Moose in the AHL, however, he played a major role.

In the 2004/05 season , the attacker played for the Binghamton Senators , a farm team for the NHL club Ottawa Senators from Kavanagh's hometown. After just one year, the striker signed with the Philadelphia Flyers, where he was mostly used in the AHL team Philadelphia Phantoms , but was also allowed to play eight times in the NHL. The 2006/07 season began the right-shooter with the Portland Pirates in the AHL, before he decided to move to Europe in 2006.

First, the striker was there for the Finnish club Saimaan Pallo from the SM-liiga on the ice, before he moved to the Swedish Elitserien club HV 71 Jönköping in the same season . In May 2007 the DEL Club Iserlohn Roosters announced the commitment of the Canadian who signed a one-year contract in the Sauerland. There he played an outstanding year alongside Jimmy Roy and Ryan Ready , but signed a two-year contract early on with play-off opponents Frankfurt Lions . In Frankfurt, however, he could not convince, so that he moved to ERC Ingolstadt after just one season . Kavanagh only stayed one year in Bavaria and returned to the Iserlohn Roosters for the 2010/2011 season . In June 2011 Kavanagh was signed by the Vienna Capitals from the Austrian Ice Hockey League and given a one-year contract for the 2011/12 season . At the end of September of the same year, his contract was terminated after the engagement of Nathan Robinson . In the summer of 2012 he moved to Italy, where he came to an agreement with the runner-up HC Pustertal .

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1995/96	Kanata Valley Lasers	CJHL		54	19th	16	35	99
1996/97	Peterborough Petes	OHL		43	6th	8th	14th	53		11	1	1	2	12
1997/98	Peterborough Petes	OHL		66	10	16	26th	90		4th	1	0	1	6th
1998/99	Peterborough Petes	OHL		68	26th	43	69	118		5	0	5	5	10
1999/00	Syracuse crunch	AHL		68	12	8th	20th	56		4th	0	0	0	0
2000/01	Kansas City Blades	IHL		78	26th	15th	41	86		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		-	-	-	-	-		3	0	0	0	2
2001/02	Manitoba mosses	AHL		70	13	19th	32	100		7th	1	0	1	6th
2002/03	Manitoba mosses	AHL		63	15th	15th	30th	96		14th	7th	4th	11	20th
2002/03	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		3	1	0	1	2		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Manitoba mosses	AHL		73	23	22nd	45	69		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		3	1	0	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Binghamton Senators	AHL		80	14th	17th	31	87		6th	0	1	1	10
2005/06	Philadelphia Phantoms	AHL		73	20th	23	43	81		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		8th	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Portland Pirates	AHL		2	0	0	0	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	SaiPa Lapeenranta	SM-liiga		23	3	5	8th	24		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	HV 71 Jönköping	SEL		10	1	2	3	6th		14th	1	1	2	62
2007/08	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL		54	25th	25th	50	156		6th	2	3	5	40
2008/09	Frankfurt Lions	DEL		49	15th	25th	40	96		5	3	2	5	6th
2009/10	ERC Ingolstadt	DEL		55	17th	32	49	97		10	1	2	3	10
2010/11	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL		52	15th	27	42	62		-	-	-	-	-
OHL total				177	48	67	115	261		20th	2	6th	8th	28
AHL total				429	97	104	201	493		31	8th	5	13	36
DEL total				210	72	109	181	411		21st	6th	7th	13	56
NHL overall				14th	2	0	2	4th		3	0	0	0	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

• Pat Kavanagh at eurohockey.com
• Pat Kavanagh at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Pat Kavanagh at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kavanagh's entry at hockey.azplayers.com ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Pat Kavanagh at eishockey.info