Ryan O'Reilly

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Ryan O'Reilly
Date of birth February 7, 1991
place of birth Clinton , Ontario , Canada
Nickname ROR
size 183 cm
Weight 91 kg
position center
number # 90
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2009 , 2nd round, 33rd position
Colorado Avalanche
Career stations
2007-2009 Erie Otters
2009-2015 Colorado Avalanche
2012 HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
2015-2018 Buffalo Sabers
since 2018 St. Louis Blues

Ryan O'Reilly (born February 7, 1991 in Clinton , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract for the St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League since July 2018 . With the Blues, the center won the Stanley Cup in the 2019 playoffs and was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy . Before that, he spent six years with the Colorado Avalanche and three seasons with the Buffalo Sabers . With the Canadian national team he won the gold medal at the 2015 and 2016 World Championships .

Career

Ryan O'Reilly was selected in 2007 in the Priority Selection of the Ontario Hockey League in overall first position by the Erie Otters . In the 2007/08 OHL season , O'Reilly was used in 61 games for the Otters, with 19 goals and a total of 52 points scorer . After the season he was elected the best rookie and the fairest athletic player on the team. In recognition of his playful and academic achievements, he was also nominated by the Otters for the Bobby Smith Trophy ; however, the award went to Ryan Ellis .

In his second OHL season , in which he ran up as assistant captain of the Erie Otters, O'Reilly was able to build on his performances from the previous year and reached 66 points in 68 games. During this season he established himself as a good two-way player who was both an offensive and dangerous player, as well as a good defensive performance. The coaches of the OHL Western Conference chose Ryan O'Reilly after the season 2008/09 among other things as the best outnumbered player of the conference.

In the 2009 NHL Entry Draft , an annual event in which National Hockey League teams can secure the rights to promising young players, the Canadian was selected in the second round in 33rd position by the Colorado Avalanche . After convincing performances in the Avalanche pre-season training camp, O'Reilly made his debut in the National Hockey League on October 1, 2009 in Colorado's 5-2 home win over the San Jose Sharks . The nomination for the Avalanche's NHL squad came as a surprise to many. O'Reilly was the first player since Dan Fritsche and Patrice Bergeron 2003 who made the direct jump into the NHL and was not selected in the first round of an entry draft. At 18 years and 236 days, Colorado was the youngest player ever to play this game.

O'Reilly in the jersey of the Colorado Avalanche (2014)

On his NHL debut, the attacker gave an assist, his first goal followed two weeks later in a game against the Montréal Canadiens . The striker completed a total of 81 regular season games in his rookie season, scoring 26 points. In the subsequent play-offs he faked in the overtime of the third game of the Western Conference quarter-finals of the best-of-seven series against the San Jose Sharks a break from Sharks defender Dan Boyle in the San Jose goal. Due to the special rules in ice hockey, the goal was attributed to him.

In the 2010/11 NHL season , he was able to confirm the performances from the previous season. As in the previous year, the Canadian scored 26 points; for Colorado, however, the season was already over after the regular season, after the team occupied the penultimate place in the Western Conference. In the following season , O'Reilly established himself as one of the best two-way strikers in the National Hockey League and was considered a possible winner of the Frank J. Selke Trophy , which is awarded annually by the NHL to the best defensive striker , in the middle of this season . At the end of the season, the center was the most successful points collector of the Colorado Avalanche with 55 points.

After the 2011/12 season, his entry contract expired and the player was initially a so-called restricted free agent . During the NHL lockout before the start of the 2012/13 season , he played for HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Continental Hockey League (KHL). After the lockout ended, he could not agree on a new contract with Colorado and initially stayed in the KHL. On January 24th, his contract with Magnitogorsk was terminated amicably after an ankle injury.

After the Colorado Avalanche and Ryan O'Reilly could not agree on a contract in the following weeks, the Calgary Flames submitted an "Offer Sheet" to the player on February 28, 2013, a kind of contract offer. The two-year contract awarded O'Reilly a total salary of $ 10 million. Due to the commitment to the current club as a Restricted Free Agent as stipulated in the NHL regulations, the Colorado Avalanche had a week to make an equivalent offer to keep the player on the team, which they did a few hours later. As a result, O'Reilly completed 29 NHL games for Colorado and scored 20 points scorer.

As part of the NHL Entry Draft 2015 , O'Reilly and Jamie McGinn were given to the Buffalo Sabers . Colorado received Buffalo's second-round voting rights for this draft as well as Mikhail Grigorenko , Nikita Sadorow and JT Compher in return . The attacker was active for the Sabers for three years before he was transferred to the St. Louis Blues in July 2018 . In return, Tage Thompson , Vladimír Sobotka , Patrik Berglund , a first-round vote for the NHL Entry Draft 2019 and a second-round vote for the NHL Entry Draft 2021 moved to Buffalo. In his first year in St. Louis, he reached the final of the 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs with the Blues and won the first Stanley Cup in franchise history with a 4-3 win over the Boston Bruins . As the top scorer of the playoffs (together with Brad Marchand ) he was also honored with the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player . A little later he was also awarded the Frank J. Selke Trophy , which honors the best defensive striker in the league.

International

O'Reilly in the jersey of the Canadian national team (2012).

The attacker made his international debut in 2008 at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge , where he ran for Team Ontario as team captain and won the gold medal. He also reached gold in 2008 at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament . He gained greater attention when he led his country as captain at the U18 Junior World Championship and achieved fourth place. At the Men's World Championships in 2012 and 2013 , O'Reilly finished fifth with the Canadian national team .

At the World Championships in 2015 and 2016 , he won the gold medal with the team. He also represented his home country at the World Cup of Hockey 2016 and won the gold medal there with the team.

Achievements and Awards

International

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
2007/08 Erie Otters OHL 61 19th 33 52 -18 14th - - - - - -
2008/09 Erie Otters OHL 68 16 50 66 +1 26th 5 0 5 5 +1 2
2009/10 Colorado Avalanche NHL 81 8th 18th 26th +4 18th 6th 1 0 1 ± 0 2
2010/11 Colorado Avalanche NHL 74 13 13 26th –7 16 - - - - - -
2011/12 Colorado Avalanche NHL 81 18th 37 55 -1 12 - - - - - -
2012/13 Metallurg Magnitogorsk KHL 12 5 5 10 +6 2 - - - - - -
2012/13 Colorado Avalanche NHL 29 6th 14th 20th -3 4th - - - - - -
2013/14 Colorado Avalanche NHL 80 28 36 64 -1 2 7th 2 4th 6th +3 0
2014/15 Colorado Avalanche NHL 82 17th 38 55 -5 12 - - - - - -
2015/16 Buffalo Sabers NHL 71 21st 39 60 -16 8th - - - - - -
2016/17 Buffalo Sabers NHL 72 20th 35 55 -1 10 - - - - - -
2017/18 Buffalo Sabers NHL 81 24 37 61 -23 2 - - - - - -
2018/19 St. Louis Blues NHL 82 28 49 77 +22 12 26th 8th 15th 23 +2 4th
OHL total 129 35 83 118 -17 40 5 0 5 5 +1 2
NHL overall 733 183 316 499 -31 96 39 11 19th 30th +5 6th

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2008 Canada Ontario U17-WHC 1st place, gold 6th 0 6th 6th 0
2008 Canada HIMT 1st place, gold 4th 2 3 5 0
2009 Canada U18 World Cup 4th Place 6th 2 3 5 0
2012 Canada WM 5th place 7th 2 2 4th 4th
2013 Canada WM 5th place 8th 1 2 3 0
2015 Canada WM 1st place, gold 10 2 9 11 0
2016 Canada WM 1st place, gold 10 2 6th 8th 2
2016 Canada World cup 1st place, gold 6th 0 0 0 0
2017 Canada WM 2nd place, silver 10 6th 3 9 0
2018 Canada WM 4th Place 10 4th 0 4th 2
Juniors overall 16 4th 12 16 0
Men overall 61 17th 22nd 39 8th

( 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 older brother Cal O'Reilly is also a professional ice hockey player.

Web links

Commons : Ryan O'Reilly  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ oursportscentral.com Otters to select Ryan O'Reilly. Retrieved July 22, 2011 .
  2. ↑ nhl.com, O'Reilly fostering attention in this year's draft. Retrieved July 22, 2011 .
  3. ↑ nhl.com, O'Reilly surprises Avs, himself with strong play. Retrieved July 22, 2011 .
  4. ^ Avalanche.nhl.com, Ryan O'Reilly - Notes. Retrieved July 22, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Pierre LeBrun : Midseason review: Awards picks. ESPN , January 11, 2012, accessed April 15, 2012 .
  6. ^ Mike G. Morreale: O'Reilly leading Avs offensively and defensively. National Hockey League , March 16, 2012, accessed April 15, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Colorado Avalanche roster from the 2011/12 season; sorted by scorer points. Colorado Avalanche , accessed April 15, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Sean Leahy: Ryan O'Reilly, Metallurg terminate his KHL contract; deal with Avalanche 'not close'. Yahoo ! Sports, January 24, 2013, accessed March 2, 2013 .
  9. ^ Adam Gretz: Flames sign Ryan O'Reilly to offer sheet. CBS , February 28, 2013, accessed March 2, 2013 .
  10. ^ Avs match Flames' two-year, $ 10M offer sheet for O'Reilly. The Sports Network , February 28, 2013, accessed March 2, 2013 .
  11. ^ Blues acquire O'Reilly from Sabers. nhl.com, July 1, 2018, accessed July 2, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Blues win the Stanley Cup for the first time. Retrieved June 13, 2019 (German).
  13. ↑ O'Reilly wins Conn Smythe Trophy 2019. Accessed June 13, 2019 (German).
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personal data
SURNAME O'Reilly, Ryan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES O'Reilly, Ryan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Clinton , Ontario , Canada