Ryan Button

Ryan Button
Date of birth	March 26, 1991
place of birth	Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	defender
number	# 55
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2009 , 3rd round, 86th position Boston Bruins
Career stations
2004-2007	Edmonton Canadians
2007-2011	Prince Albert Raiders
2011	Seattle Thunderbirds
2011-2013	Providence Bruins
2013-2014	Texas Stars Idaho Steelheads
2014-2017	Iserlohn Roosters
2017-2019	EHC Red Bull Munich
since 2019	Grizzlies Wolfsburg

Ryan Button (born March 26, 1991 in Edmonton , Alberta ) is a German - Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Grizzlys Wolfsburg in the German Ice Hockey League since May 2019 .

Career

Ryan Button began playing ice hockey in his hometown of Edmonton . There he played for various youth teams. In the 2005/06 season Button was active in the Alberta Major Bantam Hockey League and finished the regular season with his team as the best on points. In the playoffs , however, they were eliminated early. The next year he played in the Alberta Midget Hockey League . For the 2007/08 season Button moved to the Western Hockey League for the Prince Albert Raiders . There he scored eight points scorer in 58 games. In the next season he increased significantly with 37 points in 70 games and was then selected in the third round of the NHL Entry Draft 2009 in 86th place by the Boston Bruins . In the 2009/10 season Button missed qualifying for the playoffs for the third time in a row. Also in the next season he was part of the Raiders team and performed well. In January 2011 Button was transferred to the Seattle Thunderbirds . With his new team he missed the playoffs while the Raiders qualified for the first time since 2007.

Button then made his professional debut for the Providence Bruins in the American Hockey League in March 2011 and came to seven missions. In May 2011 he signed a three-year contract with the Boston Bruins from the National Hockey League . They put him in the farm teams Providence Bruins from the AHL and Reading Royals from the ECHL . In the 2012/13 season Button came due to injuries and tough competition in the Boston Bruins system to only 31 games in the AHL and nine games for the South Carolina Stingrays in the ECHL. In July 2013, he was transferred to the Dallas Stars along with Tyler Seguin and Rich Peverley in exchange for Loui Eriksson , Joe Morrow , Reilly Smith and Matt Fraser . Button then played for the Texas Stars in the AHL and the Idaho Steelheads in the ECHL.

After the 2013/14 season he did not receive a new contract offer from the Dallas Stars and signed an annual contract with the Iserlohn Roosters from the German Ice Hockey League in July 2014 . He played for the Iserlohn Roosters until 2017, after which he was under contract for two seasons with EHC Red Bull Munich . Ryan Button celebrated his greatest success in the 2017/18 season when he won the championship title in the German Ice Hockey League with EHC Red Bull Munich. By the end of the 2018/19 season, he had played a total of 295 games in the DEL, in which he scored 25 goals and 87 assists. There were also 21 games in the Champions Hockey League . In the 2018/19 season he reached the final of this league with Munich, in which it was defeated by Frölunda HC Göteborg .

After the 2018/19 season his contract in Munich ran out and Button decided to move to the Grizzlys Wolfsburg , where he received a two-year contract.

Achievements and Awards

• 2018 German champion with the EHC Red Bull Munich
• 2019 German runner-up with the EHC Red Bull Munich

Personal

Button's grandparents emigrated from Wuppertal to Canada in the 1950s .

Career statistics

				Regular season							Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-
2004/05	Edmonton Canadians Bantam AA	ERBHL		18th	2	5	7th	28
2004/05	Edmonton Canadians Bantam AAA	AMBHL		2	0	0	0	2
2005/06	Edmonton Canadians Bantam AAA	AMBHL		28	9	26th	35	37			5	0	5	5
2006/07	Edmonton Canadians Midget AAA	AMHL		28	2	6th	8th	74			3	0	1	1	2
2007/08	Prince Albert Raiders	WHL		58	0	8th	8th	30th	-20		-	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Prince Albert Raiders	WHL		70	5	32	37	43	-15		-	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Prince Albert Raiders	WHL		67	6th	27	33	46	9		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Prince Albert Raiders	WHL		44	3	20th	23	31	-4		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Seattle Thunderbirds	WHL		25th	2	10	12	18th	-4		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Providence Bruins	AHL		7th	0	1	1	2	-1		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Providence Bruins	AHL		28	0	2	2	16	-8th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Reading Royals	ECHL		30th	1	5	6th	14th	-5		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Providence Bruins	AHL		25th	0	0	0	15th	-2		6th	0	0	0	4th	-3
2012/13	South Carolina Stingrays	ECHL		5	0	0	0	4th	4th		4th	0	1	1	2	-1
2013/14	Texas Stars	AHL		26th	3	0	3	32	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Idaho steelheads	ECHL		33	7th	16	23	24	5		1	0	0	0	0	0
2014/15	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL		49	6th	15th	21st	40	9		7th	0	0	0	8th	-2
2015/16	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL		52	6th	23	29	38	-2		6th	0	0	0	6th	-5
2016/17	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL		49	4th	18th	22nd	20th	-15		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	EHC Red Bull Munich	DEL		51	6th	10	16	20th	0		15th	0	5	5	16	+4
2018/19	EHC Red Bull Munich	DEL		48	3	14th	17th	18th	+13		18th	0	2	2	24	−3
WHL overall				264	16	97	113	168	-34		-	-	-	-	-	-
ECHL total				68	8th	21st	29	42	4th		5	0	1	1	2	-1
AHL total				86	3	3	6th	65	–11		6th	0	0	0	4th	-3

International

Represented Canada to:

• World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2008

year	team	event		Sp	T	A.	Pt	SM
2008	Canada	U17-WHC		6th	1	0	1	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

Commons : Ryan Button  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Ryan Button at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Ryan Button at eurohockey.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jürgen Braun: Grizzlys Wolfsburg bring defender Ryan Button from runner-up Munich. In: sportbuzzer.de. May 20, 2019, accessed June 25, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Grandma in Dortmund, German woman . " Derwesten.de ". January 12, 2016. Accessed February 1, 2016.