Ryan McDonagh

United States Ryan McDonagh


Date of birth	June 13, 1989
place of birth	Saint Paul , Minnesota , USA
size	185 cm
Weight	91 kg

position	defender
number	# 27
Shot hand	Left

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2007 , 1st lap, 12th position Montreal Canadiens

Career stations

2004-2007	Cretin-Derham Hall High School
2007-2010	University of Wisconsin – Madison
2010-2018	New York Rangers
since 2018	Tampa Bay Lightning

Ryan McDonagh (born June 13, 1989 in Saint Paul , Minnesota ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League since February 2018 . The defender previously spent eight years with the New York Rangers and led the team as captain .

Career

High School and College (2004-2010)

Ryan McDonagh played during his junior years from 2004 to 2007 on the ice hockey team at Cretin-Derham Hall High School in his hometown of Saint Paul in the high school league system of the United States. After completing his high school career, McDonagh won the annual Minnesota Mr. Hockey award in calendar year 2007, which honors the best high school player in the US state of Minnesota . He was then selected in the first round in the NHL Entry Draft 2007 in twelfth position by the Montreal Canadiens . McDonagh spent the next three seasons at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and went on the ice for their ice hockey team in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association . On June 30, 2009, the Canadiens gave his rights in a transfer deal together with Pawel Walentenko , Christopher Higgins and Doug Janik in exchange for Tom Pyatt , Michael Busto and Scott Gomez to the New York Rangers . In the 2009/10 season, his last at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the defender led the ice hockey team as team captain on the ice.

New York Rangers (2010-2018)

In the summer of 2010 he was invited to the New York Rangers training camp. In October 2010 he was sent to the Hartford Wolf Pack in the American Hockey League and made his professional debut a short time later. Around three months later he received his first appointment to the Rangers NHL squad and came on January 7, 2011 in the encounter against the Dallas Stars for his first appearance in the National Hockey League . In April 2011 he scored his first goal in the top division of North America in the game against the New Jersey Devils, securing his team's victory and entry into the play-offs. During the lockout in the 2012/13 season , the American played for Barys Astana in the Continental Hockey League .

In the summer of 2013, his contract in New York was extended by six years for a total reported salary of $ 28.2 million. In the following season 2013/14 McDonagh established himself in the back line of the Rangers and was with 43 points scorer the highest point defender of his team. Also in the play-offs , the left shooter showed his offensive potential and was the second best scorers of his team with 17 points when they made it to the Stanley Cup final, where they lost to the Los Angeles Kings . In October 2014, McDonagh was named the new captain of the Rangers, succeeding the departed Ryan Callahan . With his consistent performance, he was again instrumental in the successful performance of the Rangers in the 2014/15 season and won the Presidents' Trophy with the team for the most points after the main round. In the playoffs they failed in the Eastern Conference final against the Tampa Bay Lightning , with McDonagh later stated that he had played the last three games of the series with a broken foot.

Tampa Bay Lightning (since 2018)

At the trade deadline in February 2018, after eight years in New York, McDonagh and JT Miller were handed over to the Tampa Bay Lightning . In return, the Rangers Wladislaw Namestnikow , the young players Libor Hájek and Brett Howden received a first-round vote for the 2018 NHL Entry Draft and another second-round vote. The latter should become one for the first draft round, provided the Lightning win the Stanley Cup in the next two years . McDonagh then signed a new seven-year contract in Tampa in July 2018, which should earn him an average annual salary of $ 6.75 million from the 2019-20 season.

International

McDonagh represented his home country at the 2007 U18 World Junior Championship and the 2009 U20 World Junior Championship . With the U18 team, he won the silver medal in 2007 after losing to Russia in the final and made seven appearances in the course of the tournament and made three assists. Two years later, McDonagh failed with the U20 selection in the quarter-finals against Slovakia . With the US senior selection , McDonagh took part in the 2011 World Cup , the 2014 Winter Olympics and the 2016 World Cup of Hockey .

Achievements and Awards

2007 Minnesota Mr. Hockey
2008 WCHA All-Rookie Team
2009 WCHA All-Academic Team
2010 WCHA Second All-Star Team

2010 WCHA All-Academic Team
2016 NHL All-Star Game
2017 NHL All-Star Game

International

2007 silver medal at the U18 Junior World Championship

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
2004/05	Cretin-Derham Hall High School	USHS	28	12	18th	30th
2005/06	Cretin-Derham Hall High School	USHS	25th	12	33	45
2006/07	Cretin-Derham Hall High School	USHS	26th	14th	26th	40
2007/08	University of Wisconsin – Madison	WCHA	40	5	7th	12	42
2008/09	University of Wisconsin-Madison	WCHA	36	5	11	16	59
2009/10	University of Wisconsin-Madison	WCHA	43	4th	14th	18th	65
2010/11	Hartford Wolf Pack / Connecticut Whale	AHL	38	1	7th	8th	12	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	New York Rangers	NHL	40	1	8th	9	14th	5	0	0	0	4th
2011/12	New York Rangers	NHL	82	7th	25th	32	44	20th	0	4th	4th	11
2012/13	Barys Astana	KHL	10	0	3	3	6th	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	New York Rangers	NHL	47	4th	15th	19th	22nd	12	1	3	4th	6th
2013/14	New York Rangers	NHL	77	14th	29	43	36	25th	4th	13	17th	8th
2014/15	New York Rangers	NHL	71	8th	25th	33	26th	19th	3	6th	9	8th
2015/16	New York Rangers	NHL	73	9	25th	34	22nd	3	0	0	0	0
2016/17	New York Rangers	NHL	77	6th	36	42	37	12	2	5	7th	12
2017/18	New York Rangers	NHL	49	2	24	26th	20th	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL	14th	2	1	3	0	17th	0	5	5	6th
2018/19	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL	82	9	37	46	34	4th	0	0	0	2
US high school total			79	38	77	115
WCHA overall			119	14th	32	46	166
NHL overall			612	62	225	287	255	117	10	36	46	57

International

Represented the USA at:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2007	United States	U18 World Cup		7th	0	3	3	4th
2009	United States	U20 World Cup	5th place	6th	0	3	3	2
2011	United States	WM	8th place	7th	0	1	1	2
2014	United States	Olympia	4th Place	6th	1	1	2	0
2016	United States	World cup	7th place	3	2	0	2	0
Juniors overall				13	0	6th	6th	6th
Men overall				16	3	2	5	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 )