Ryan Gardner

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Ryan Gardner
Date of birth April 18, 1978
place of birth Akron , Ontario , Canada
size 196 cm
Weight 101 kg
position Right wing
number # 51
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1995-1996 London Knights
1996-1997 North Bay Centennials
1997-2001 HC Ambrì-Piotta
2001-2007 HC Lugano
2007-2010 ZSC Lions
2010-2015 SC Bern
2015-2016 Friborg-Gottéron
2016-2017 HC Lugano

Template: Infobox ice hockey player / file type

Ryan Gardner (born April 18, 1978 in Akron , Ontario ) is a former Swiss - Canadian ice hockey player who played in the National League A at HC Lugano , Friborg-Gottéron , SC Bern , ZSC Lions and HC Ambrì-Piotta played. He was Swiss champion four times and won World Cup silver with the national team in 2013.

Career

Since his father Dave Gardner played in Switzerland in the 1980s for HC Ambrì-Piotta and EHC Visp , he bought his son Ryan's first player license in Switzerland. This began his career as a hockey player in the Ontario Hockey League , in which he was active from 1995 to 1997 for one season each for the London Knights and the North Bay Centennials .

The attacker then switched to HC Ambrì-Piotta from the Swiss National League A , with whom he won the IIHF Continental Cup in 1998 and 1999 , and became Swiss runner-up in 1999. In the summer of 2001, Gardner moved to their cantonal rivals HC Lugano , with whom he became Swiss champions for the first time in 2003 . He was able to repeat this success with his team in the 2005/06 season . At European level, Gardner and Lugano came third in the IIHF Continental Cup in 2003 and 2004 . In 2007 Gardner received a contract with the ZSC Lions , with whom he became champions in the 2007/08 season and in 2009 won the Champions Hockey League , which was held for the first time . Since summer 2008 he has both Canadian and Swiss citizenship. In autumn 2009 it was announced that Ryan Gardner will move to SC Bern . He signed a four-year contract with the traditional Bern club. With the move to SC Bern in 2010, Ryan Gardner advanced to become one of the highest paid ice hockey players in Switzerland. According to Swiss sports media, Gardner earns CHF 840,000 gross per year at SC Bern. In his first season at SC Bern he failed with his new club in the semifinals at the Kloten Flyers . In the following game year of the 2011/12 season Gardner reached the final with his team and was runner-up. In the decisive seventh game of the final series, the Mutzen lost to the ZSC Lions 1: 2.

In 2013 he won his first Swiss championship title with SC Bern, and in 2015 he won the Swiss Ice Hockey Cup 2014/15 . In April 2015, the SCB agreed on a player swap with Friborg-Gottéron , which brought Timo Helbling to Bern and Ryan Gardner to Friborg in return.

In April 2016, Gardner agreed on a contract with HC Lugano , for which he had already been active between 2001 and 2007. He played for Lugano until the end of the 2016/17 season. In February 2018 he announced the end of his professional career.

From June 2018 he worked for the Swiss professional leagues as a player safety officer.

International

For Switzerland , the naturalized Gardner took part in the 2009 , 2011 and 2013 World Championships .

At the 2013 World Cup in Stockholm and Helsinki he was again part of the national team and won the silver medal with it.

Personal

Gardner came from a hockey family: his grandfather Cal Gardner , his father Dave Gardner and his uncle Paul Gardner played in the NHL .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1995/96 London Knights OHL 61 4th 10 14th 24 - - - - -
1996/97 London Knights OHL 19th 1 3 4th 14th - - - - -
1996/97 North Bay Centennials OHL 47 7th 6th 13 35 - - - - -
1997/98 North Bay Centennials OHL 9 0 2 2 2 - - - - -
1997/98 HC Ambrì-Piotta NLA 5 0 0 0 0 9 0 1 1 12
1997/98 HC Lausanne NLB 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1997/98 HC Ambrì-Piotta Elite Jr. 19th 13 11 24 50 - - - - -
1998/99 HC Ambrì-Piotta NLA 40 9 4th 13 8th 15th 3 7th 10 2
1998/99 HC Sierre NLB 6th 0 1 1 25th - - - - -
1999/00 HC Ambrì-Piotta NLA 45 11 17th 28 16 9 4th 3 7th 2
2000/01 HC Ambrì-Piotta NLA 43 10 12 22nd 47 5 1 2 2 4th 2
2001/02 HC Lugano NLA 39 9 8th 17th 6th 13 0 1 1 2
2002/03 HC Lugano NLA 36 7th 13 20th 47 16 5 6th 11 10
2003/04 HC Lugano NLA 48 13 27 40 40 16 5 6th 11 12
2004/05 HC Lugano NLA 44 24 22nd 46 24 5 0 2 2 4th
2005/06 HC Lugano NLA 40 15th 27 42 36 17th 8th 7th 15th 18th
2006/07 HC Lugano NLA 44 5 22nd 27 26th 6th 2 4th 6th 6th
2007/08 ZSC Lions NLA 35 17th 14th 31 16 17th 8th 9 17th 67
2008/09 ZSC Lions NLA 50 25th 28 53 28 4th 1 0 1 2
2009/10 ZSC Lions NLA 49 16 26th 42 26th 7th 1 1 2 0
2010/11 SC Bern NLA 49 15th 20th 35 34 11 1 10 11 2
2011/12 SC Bern NLA 49 11 21st 32 10 17th 4th 6th 10 2
2012/13 SC Bern NLA 50 25th 17th 42 26th 18th 7th 8th 15th 25th
2013/14 SC Bern NLA 48 9 21st 30th 12 6 1 4th 3 7th 4th
2014/15 SC Bern NLA 44 9 15th 24 24 11 1 0 1 2
OHL total 136 12 21st 33 75 - - - - -
NLB total 7th 0 1 1 25th - - - - -
NLA total 758 234 310 544 426 191 50 71 121 107

International

Represented Switzerland at:

year team event Sp T V Pt SM +/-
2009 Switzerland WM 5 1 0 1 0 −3
2011 Switzerland WM 6th 3 2 5 2 +2
2013 Switzerland WM 10 2 3 5 0 +1
Men overall 21st 6th 5 11 2 ± 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 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 20min.ch, Switzerland for the first time with Ryan Gardner
  2. ↑ derbund.ch, Ryan Gardner for SCB
  3. ↑ blick.ch, Lohn-Wahnsinn: Swiss ice hockey in a dilemma - the players in the NLA deserve that
  4. ↑ Ice hockey news: SCB picks up Helbling and gives Gardner. In: Swiss radio and television . April 2, 2015, accessed September 1, 2015 .
  5. ↑ NLA: Gardner changes to HC Lugano. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Retrieved April 20, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Ryan Gardner from HC Lugano resigns from ice hockey. In: Nau , February 7, 2018
  7. ↑ https://www.sihf.ch/de/national-league/news/#/article/2018-06-20/lv-ryan-gardner-wird-als-zusaetzlicher-player-safety-officer-gewaehlt
  8. ↑ Dave Feschuk: Grandfather Cal Gardner scored Stanley Cup winner in 1949. Dad Dave and uncle Paul Gardner played in NHL. In: Toronto Star . February 9, 2014, accessed April 20, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Gardner, Ryan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Akron , Ontario, Canada