Ryan Kraft

United States Ryan Kraft


Date of birth	7th November 1975
place of birth	Bottineau , North Dakota , USA
size	180 cm
Weight	90 kg

position	center
number	# 17
Shot hand	Left

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	1995 , 8th lap, 194th position San Jose Sharks

Career stations

1993-1994	Moorehead High School
1994-1998	University of Minnesota
1998-2000	Richmond Renegades
2000-2001	Kentucky Thoroughblades
2001-2003	Cleveland Barons
2003-2005	Bridgeport Sound Tigers
2005-2010	Kassel Huskies

Ryan Kraft (born November 7, 1975 in Bottineau , North Dakota ) is an American ice hockey player . In the National Hockey League he was active for the San Jose Sharks .

Career

Kraft first played from 1994 to 1998 at the University of Minnesota in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association , a league in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . There he won the WCHA championship at the end of the 1995/96 season. After the San Jose Sharks had already selected him in the eighth round in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft in 194th place, the American moved after his training to the organization of the franchise from California , where he first played in the East Coast Hockey League for the Richmond Renegades stood on the ice.

For the next three years, the center played exclusively in the minor leagues with the San Joses farm team , the Kentucky Thoroughblades from the International Hockey League and the Cleveland Barons from the American Hockey League . After his first full season in the American Hockey League in 2000/01, Kraft was honored with the Dudley "Red" Garrett Memorial Award for the best rookie of the season and was also appointed to the Second All-Star Team and All-Rookie Team of the AHL. As a result, the attacker was nominated for the squad of the US national team at the 2001 Men's Ice Hockey World Championship and played his first seven NHL games for the San Jose Sharks in the 2002/03 season . After the season expired Krafts contract and he signed a new contract with the New York Islanders in the summer of 2003 , which let him play exclusively in the AHL with the Bridgeport Sound Tigers .

For the 2005/06 season , the center forward moved to Europe in the German Ice Hockey League to the Kassel Huskies . Despite the relegation of the huskies to the 2nd Bundesliga , Kraft stayed with the North Hesse and celebrated with them the promotion to the DEL after two years.

Represented the USA at:

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2001	United States	WM	4th Place		9	0	2	2	0
Men overall					9	0	2	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 )

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