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Riley crab apple
Date of birth	August 18, 1988
place of birth	Regina , Saskatchewan , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2006 , 2nd round, 43rd position Atlanta Thrashers
Career stations
2004-2008	Moose Jaw Warriors
2008-2011	Chicago Wolves
2011–2012	St. John's IceCaps
2012	Syracuse crunch
2012-2013	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins
2013-2015	HV71
2015-2016	Karlskrona HK
since 2016	Vienna Capitals

Riley Holzapfel (born August 18, 1988 in Regina , Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Vienna Capitals in the Austrian Erste Bank Eishockey Liga since July 2016 .

Career

Holzapfel was at the beginning of his career from the 2004/05 season for a total of four seasons with the Moose Jaw Warriors in the Canadian Junior League Western Hockey League on the ice. In September 2007 he signed a three-year contract with the Atlanta Thrashers from the National Hockey League , who had previously secured the transfer rights to the Canadian in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft . The subsequent 2007/08 season, however, Holzapfel played again in the WHL, before he was active from the following season with the Chicago Wolves , the farm team of the Thrashers in the second-rate American Hockey League .

In the summer of 2011, the attacker was hired by the Winnipeg Jets from the NHL, who initially only used him for the St. John's IceCaps farm team in the 2011/12 season . Then Holzapfel was transferred to the Anaheim Ducks in February 2012 in exchange for Maxime Macenauer , who also sent him to the AHL for the Syracuse Crunch . For the 2012/13 season, the left-shooter signed with the Pittsburgh Penguins , but only came here to appearances with the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins in the AHL.

In the summer of 2013, Holzapfel decided to move to Europe and hired the first division club HV71 , for which he played in the following two seasons. After the 2014/15 season , his contract was not renewed there, so that the attacker signed with league competitor Karlskrona HK in May 2015 and held the position of assistant captain there in the 2015/16 season . In the summer of 2016, he moved to the Vienna Capitals in the Austrian Erste Bank Eishockey Liga and was named the best player of the EBEL season 2016/17. In the third final game he scored his twelfth playoff goal and broke the existing EBEL record.

Achievements and Awards

• 2006 CHL Top Prospects Game
• 2007 WHL East First All-Star Team
• 2008 gold medal at the U20 Junior World Championship
• 2017 Ron Kennedy Trophy as the most valuable player in the EBEL
• 2017 Most playoff goals in the history of the EBEL
• 2017 Austrian champion with the Vienna Capitals

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2004/05	Moose Jaw Warriors	WHL		63	15th	13	28	32		5	1	2	3	8th
2005/06	Moose Jaw Warriors	WHL		64	19th	38	57	46		22nd	7th	9	16	20th
2006/07	Moose Jaw Warriors	WHL		72	39	43	82	94		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Moose Jaw Warriors	WHL		49	18th	22nd	40	43		6th	3	5	8th	12
2007/08	Chicago Wolves	AHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Chicago Wolves	AHL		73	13	19th	32	38		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Chicago Wolves	AHL		60	7th	16	23	30th		14th	0	3	3	6th
2010/11	Chicago Wolves	AHL		68	12	15th	27	20th		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	St. John's IceCaps	AHL		29	8th	14th	22nd	34		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Syracuse crunch	AHL		28	8th	14th	22nd	34		4th	0	1	1	4th
2012/13	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		76	21st	30th	51	93		15th	4th	6th	10	8th
2013/14	HV71	SHL		48	10	12	22nd	49		4th	0	0	0	0
2014/15	HV71	SHL		49	7th	6th	13	14th		6th	0	0	0	0
2015/16	Karlskrona HK	SHL		48	9	16	25th	24		5	1	1	2	4th
2016/17	Vienna Capitals	EBEL		54	22nd	31	53	20th		12	12	11	23	8th
2017/18	Vienna Capitals	EBEL		53	21st	26th	47	20th		2	1	2	3	0
2018/19	Vienna Capitals	EBEL		53	19th	34	53	24		18th	3	6th	9	10
2019/20	Vienna Capitals	EBEL		48	18th	28	46	18th		3	2	0	2	0
AHL total				335	69	101	170	223		33	4th	10	14th	18th
EBEL total				208	80	119	199	82		35	18th	19th	37	18th
SHL total				145	26th	34	60	87		15th	1	1	2	4th
WHL overall				248	91	116	207	215		33	11	16	27	40

( 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

• Riley Holzapfel at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Riley Holzapfel at hockeydb.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ducks.nhl Ducks Acquire Holzapfel from Winnipeg in Exchange for Macenauer
2. ↑ penguins.nhl.com Penguins Sign Goaltender Jeff Zatkoff and Forward Riley Holzapfel
3. ↑ Riley Holzapfel elected MVP of the EBEL season - UPC Vienna Capitals. Retrieved March 31, 2017 .