Ryan Graves (ice hockey player)

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Ryan Graves (ice hockey player)
Date of birth May 21, 1995
place of birth Yarmouth , Nova Scotia , Canada
size 196 cm
Weight 100 kg
position defender
number # 27
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2013 , 4th round, 110th position
New York Rangers
Career stations
2011-2013 PEI Rocket
2013-2014 Charlottetown Islanders
2014 Foreurs de Val-d'Or
2014-2015 Remparts de Quebec
2015-2018 Hartford Wolf Pack
2018 San Antonio Rampage
2018-2019 Colorado Eagles
since 2018 Colorado Avalanche

Ryan Graves (born May 21, 1995 in Yarmouth , Nova Scotia ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Colorado Avalanche in the National Hockey League since February 2018 and plays for them on the position of defender .

Career

youth

Ryan Graves was born in Yarmouth and played in his youth for the South Shore Mustangs and the Yarmouth Mariners in regional youth leagues. For the 2011/12 season he moved to Prince Edward Island- based PEI Rocket from the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ), which had selected him in ninth position in the 2011 Entry Draft . At the Rocket, he established himself in the following years as a defensive-oriented defender who, due to his above-average physique, was particularly noticeable with physically robust ice hockey. As a result, he was also considered in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft in 110th position by the New York Rangers . With the beginning of the 2013/14 season, the PEI Rocket changed their name to Charlottetown Islanders , while the Canadian was only active for half a season for the franchise . In January 2014 he was given a third-round vote for the draft to the Foreurs de Val-d'Or , while the Islanders Wladislaw Lyssenko and David Henley received. With the Foreurs, who had the later NHL players Anthony Mantha and Antoine Bibeau in their ranks, the defender won the LHJMQ playoffs for the Coupe du Président at the end of the 2013/14 season . In the subsequent Memorial Cup 2014 , the team failed in the semi-finals at the eventual winner, the Edmonton Oil Kings . In August 2014 he was transferred to the Remparts de Québec , with whom he again reached the final for the Coupe du Président, but there was defeated by the Océanic de Rimouski . A little later, the host also took part in the 2015 Memorial Cup , where another defeat in the semi-finals followed. However, Graves was personally elected to the tournament's All-Star Team.

NHL

Graves in the jersey of the Colorado Avalanche (2020)

In March 2014, the New York Rangers had given the defender an entry-level contract . After four years in the junior division, he switched to their organization for the 2015/16 season, where he was initially employed in their farm team in the American Hockey League , at the Hartford Wolf Pack . He represented the "wolf pack" in his rookie season at the AHL All-Star Classic . Overall, he showed about two and a half years of constant performance in Hartford, but without coming to a use in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Broadway Blueshirts . Finally, in February 2018, it was given to the Colorado Avalanche in exchange for Chris Bigras .

The Avalanche also used the defender for the time being in their AHL farm teams, the San Antonio Rampage or, from the following season, the Colorado Eagles , before he finally made his NHL debut for Colorado at the end of December 2018. In the Avalanche line-up, Graves established himself at the latest by the start of the 2019/20 season, where he stood out for his outstanding plus / minus statistics, for example, leading the league in this category in December and January. With a value of +40, this was also the case at the end of the season that was ultimately shortened.

International

His only international tournament to date was the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2012 , where he finished seventh with the Canada Atlantic team .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2011/12 PEI Rocket LHJMQ 62 2 7th 9 -23 34 - - - - - -
2012/13 PEI Rocket LHJMQ 68 3 13 16 +7 90 6th 0 0 0 -2 6th
2013/14 Charlottetown Islanders LHJMQ 39 3 9 12 -2 52 - - - - - -
2013/14 Foreurs de Val-d'Or LHJMQ 26th 2 8th 10 +22 16 24 1 7th 8th +12 24
2014 Foreurs de Val-d'Or Memorial Cup 4th 0 2 2 +1 4th
2014/15 Remparts de Quebec LHJMQ 50 15th 24 39 +17 49 21st 5 6th 11 +11 25th
2015 Remparts de Quebec Memorial Cup 5 2 3 5 +1 4th
2015/16 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 74 9 12 21st +6 53 - - - - - -
2016/17 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 76 8th 22nd 30th -17 69 - - - - - -
2017/18 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 57 4th 7th 11 -15 66 - - - - - -
2017/18 San Antonio Rampage AHL 21st 1 5 6th -5 7th - - - - - -
2018/19 Colorado Eagles AHL 32 2 7th 9 +4 26th - - - - - -
2018/19 Colorado Avalanche NHL 26th 3 2 5 +4 2 - - - - - -
LHJMQ total 245 25th 61 86 +21 241 51 6th 13 19th +21 55
Memorial Cup overall 9 2 5 7th +2 8th
AHL total 260 24 53 77 -27 221 - - - - - -
NHL overall 26th 3 2 5 +4 2 - - - - - -

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2012 Canada Atlantic WHC 7th place 5 0 0 0 2
Juniors overall 5 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

Commons : Ryan Graves  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jason Malloy: 'Hard to leave Charlottetown' Islanders blue-liner Ryan Graves says. theguardian.pe.ca, January 7, 2014, accessed January 19, 2020 .
  2. ^ Rangers Agree to Terms With Defenseman Ryan Graves. nhl.com, March 17, 2014, accessed January 19, 2020 .
  3. ^ Avalanche Acquires Ryan Graves From Rangers. nhl.com, February 26, 2018, accessed on January 19, 2020 .
  4. ^ Kyle Fredrickson: How Avalanche's Ryan Graves emerged as NHL plus / minus leader. denverpost.com, December 10, 2019, accessed January 19, 2020 .
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Squad of the Colorado Avalanche in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME Graves, Ryan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Yarmouth , Nova Scotia , Canada