Ryan Malone (ice hockey player)

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Ryan Malone
Date of birth 1st December 1979
place of birth Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , USA
size 193 cm
Weight 102 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1999 , 4th lap, 115th position
Pittsburgh Penguins
Career stations
1998-1999 Omaha Lancers
1999-2003 St. Cloud State University
2004 Espoo Blues
2005 Ritten sport
2003-2008 Pittsburgh Penguins
2008-2014 Tampa Bay Lightning
2014-2015 New York Rangers
2017 Iowa Wild

Ryan Gregory Malone (born December 1, 1979 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ) is a retired American ice hockey player . The left winger played over 600 games for the Pittsburgh Penguins , Tampa Bay Lightning and New York Rangers in the National Hockey League between 2003 and 2014 . With the US national team , he won the silver medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics .

Career

Malone in the Pittsburgh Penguins jersey

The 1.93 m tall winger initially played for various US junior teams, during his college days he was on the team of St. Cloud State University , which competes in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . In the 1999 NHL Entry Draft , Malone was finally selected ( drafted ) as 115th in the fourth round by the Pittsburgh Penguins .

Towards the end of the 2002/03 season, the American was for the first time in the squad of the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins , a farm team of the Pittsburgh Penguins in the American Hockey League . Already in the following season Malone made the jump into the NHL roster of the franchise from Pittsburgh, behind Dick Tärnström and Alexei Morosow he was immediately the third best scorer of the Penguins. The lockout in the NHL season 2004/05 spent the attacker with the Espoo Blues of the Finnish SM-liiga , Ritten Sport of the Italian Serie A1 and the HC Ambri-Piotta in the Swiss National League A . For the 2005/06 season , the attacker returned to the squad of the Pittsburgh Penguins, with whom he reached the Stanley Cup finals in 2008 , but was defeated there in six games by the Detroit Red Wings . At the end of the season, Malone became a free agent . Since Pittsburgh could not agree on a new contract with him, however, they transferred the initial negotiating rights to the Tampa Bay Lightning , which brought him to sign a $ 31.5 million seven-year contract a little later.

After six years in Florida, his contract was not renewed at the end of the 2013/14 season, so he joined the New York Rangers as a free agent in September 2014 . In February 2015, the Rangers put him on the waiver to terminate his contract. Malone did not play for two years before receiving a trial contract with the Minnesota Wild in late August 2017 . This did not result in a permanent commitment, so that he switched to their farm team, the Iowa Wild , in the same way in October 2017 . There he played twelve games before he finally declared his active career over. In total, he had completed 690 games in the NHL and recorded 392 points.

International

With the US national team , Ryan Malone won the bronze medal at the 2004 World Cup , and at the 2006 World Cup he finished seventh with Team USA. The striker scored four goals and two assists in 16 World Cup games . Malone took part with the United States in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , Canada and won the silver medal with the team.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1998/99 Omaha Lancers USHL 51 14th 22nd 36 81 12 2 4th 6th 23
1999/00 St. Cloud State University WCHA 38 9 21st 30th 68
2000/01 St. Cloud State University WCHA 36 7th 18th 25th 52
2001/02 St. Cloud State University WCHA 41 24 25th 49 76
2002/03 St. Cloud State University WCHA 27 16 20th 36 85
2002/03 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins AHL 3 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
2003/04 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 81 22nd 21st 43 64 - - - - -
2004/05 Espoo Blues SM-liiga 9 2 1 3 36 - - - - -
2004/05 Ritten sport Series A1 10 6th 2 8th 20th - - - - -
2004/05 HC Ambrì-Piotta NLA - - - - - 1 0 0 0 2
2005/06 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 77 22nd 22nd 44 63 - - - - -
2006/07 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 64 16 15th 31 71 5 0 0 0 0
2007/08 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 77 27 24 51 103 20th 6th 10 16 25th
2008/09 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 70 26th 19th 45 98 - - - - -
2009/10 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 69 21st 26th 47 68 - - - - -
2010/11 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 54 14th 24 38 51 18th 3 3 6th 24
2011/12 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 68 20th 28 48 82 - - - - -
2012/13 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 24 6th 2 8th 22nd - - - - -
2013/14 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 57 5 10 15th 67 - - - - -
2014/15 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 24 4th 6th 10 29 - - - - -
2014/15 New York Rangers NHL 6th 0 0 0 4th - - - - -
2017/18 Iowa Wild AHL 12 0 2 2 16 - - - - -
NCAA overall 142 56 84 140 281
AHL total 39 4th 9 13 47 - - - - -
NHL overall 647 179 191 370 693 43 9 13 22nd 49

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2004 United States WM 3rd place, bronze 9 3 0 3 2
2006 United States WM 7th place 7th 2 2 4th 12
2010 United States Olympia 2nd place, silver 6th 3 2 5 6th
Men overall 22nd 8th 4th 12 20th

( 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 )

family

His father Greg Malone was also an ice hockey player and was active with the Pittsburgh Penguins , Hartford Whalers and Nordiques de Québec in the National Hockey League , where he got 501 points in 704 games . In 1991 and 1992 he won the Stanley Cup as a talent scout for the Pittsburgh Penguins and in the following years also worked as the team's chief scout, before moving to the Phoenix Coyotes organization in 2006 . Ryan Malone's uncle Jim Malone was selected in the first round of the 1980 NHL Entry Draft , but was never used in the NHL.

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personal data
SURNAME Malone, Ryan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Malone, Ryan Gregory (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 1st December 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , United States