Ryan McKiernan

Ryan McKiernan
Date of birth	July 27, 1989
place of birth	White Plains , New York , USA
size	180 cm
Weight	85 kg
position	defender
number	# 58
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
2007-2008	Des Moines Buccaneers
2008-2010	Voltigeurs de Drummondville
2010	Titan d'Acadie-Bathurst
2010-2014	McGill University
2014-2015	AIK ishockey
2015-2016	EC VSV
2016-2018	Vienna Capitals
2018-2019	Düsseldorfer EG
since 2019	Polar bears Berlin

Ryan Connor McKiernan (born July 27, 1989 in White Plains , New York ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Eisbären Berlin in the German Ice Hockey League since 2019 .

Career

Ryan McKiernan made 74 appearances for the Des Moines Buccaneers club from Iowa in the United States Hockey League (USHL) and four more for the New Jersey Hitmen in the Eastern Junior Hockey League (EJHL). For the Voltigeurs de Drummondville from Québec , he played 84 times in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (QMJHL) and was able to win the league championship in 2008/09. As assistant captain of the Titan d'Acadie-Bathurst from New Brunswick , he then played 33 missions.

From 2010 to 2014 he played very successfully for McGill University in the Canadian Interuniversity Sport Association (CIS). He helped McGill to the first CIS championship title in university history in 2011 and was honored as the most valuable player of the team in 2013 and 2014. In 160 missions he also scored 41 goals and achieved 76 assists.

For the 2014/15 season he went to Europe and played for the Swedish club AIK in the second class Allsvenskan , with which he also took part in the promotion round Kvalserien .

In 2015 McKiernan was signed by the Carinthian club EC VSV in the EBEL and played there from September 25th. On September 27, 2015, during the warm-up phase before the game against EC Red Bull Salzburg, there was an incident when McKiernan crossed the center line slightly and touched Salzburg goalkeeper Luka Gračnar with his stick. The Department of Player Safety (DOPS) recognized “unsportsmanlike conduct” and “incitement through contact” and imposed a game ban, which is why McKiernan had to sit out on October 2nd against HC Bozen .

On July 4, 2016, he was presented as a new addition to the Vienna Capitals . McKiernan made it to the EBEL final with the Viennese and scored the “Championship Winning Goal” for the Austrian championship . In total, he scored seven goals and 36 assists over the course of the season.

In May 2018 he withdrew his release clause in the contract and signed a contract in the German ice hockey league with the Düsseldorfer EG until 2019. McKiernan scored 6 goals and 25 assists in 51 main round games for DEG in the 2018/19 season. Seven more games, two hits and four assists were added to the play-offs. Then he was committed by the Eisbären Berlin .

successes

• 2009 QMJHL winner with the Voltigeurs de Drummondville club
• 2011 CIS winner with McGill University
• 2013 Bobby Bell Trophy as McGill University's Most Valuable Player
• 2014 Bobby Bell Trophy as McGill University's Most Valuable Player
• 2014 All-Canadian First Team and CIS Best Defender
• 2017 Austrian champion and EBEL winner with the Vienna Capitals

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2004/05	Brunswick School	USHS		21st	3	10	13	-		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Des Moines Buccaneers	USHL		59	2	13	15th	44		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Des Moines Buccaneers	USHL		15th	0	3	3	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	New Jersey Hitmen	EJHL		4th	0	1	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Voltigeurs de Drummondville	LHJMQ		24	2	10	12	18th		19th	2	5	7th	12
2009/10	Voltigeurs de Drummondville	LHJMQ		41	4th	17th	21st	28		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Titan d'Acadie-Bathurst	LHJMQ		28	5	18th	23	41		5	1	2	3	12
2010/11	McGill University	CIS		28	7th	13	20th	40		8th	0	3	3	10
2011/12	McGill University	CIS		17th	5	4th	9	28		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	McGill University	CIS		28	8th	13	21st	20th		3	0	1	1	2
2013/14	McGill University	CIS		28	13	24	37	22nd		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	AIK	Allsvenskan		52	9	13	22nd	54		10	0	3	3	12
2015/16	EC VSV	EBEL		49	5	20th	25th	38		11	0	5	5	8th
2016/17	Vienna Capitals	EBEL		48	4th	29	33	48		12	3	7th	10	10
2017/18	Vienna Capitals	EBEL		47	17th	20th	37	58		11	2	7th	9	10

( 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 McKiernan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ryan McKiernan at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ryan McKiernan - 2013-14 Men's Ice Hockey, McGill Athletics
2. ↑ Compulsory breaks for Rotter and McKiernan, DOPS
3. ↑ UPC Vienna Capitals website. In: www.vienna-capitals.at. Retrieved July 6, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Polar bears pull Ryan McKiernan ashore. In: kicker.de . April 17, 2019, accessed September 3, 2019 .