Ryan Suter

Ryan Suter
Date of birth	January 21, 1985
place of birth	Madison , Wisconsin , USA
size	185 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	defender
number	# 20
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2003 , 1st round, 7th position Nashville Predators
Career stations
2003-2004	USA Hockey National Team Development Program
2001-2003	University of Wisconsin – Madison
2004-2005	Milwaukee Admirals
2005–2012	Nashville Predators
since 2012	Minnesota Wild

Ryan Suter (born January 21, 1985 in Madison , Wisconsin ) is an American ice hockey player who has been with the Minnesota Wild in the National Hockey League since July 2012 . Previously, the defender spent eight years in the Nashville Predators organization . With the US national team , he won the silver medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics .

Career

He played his first real ice hockey season in the 2003/04 season for the University of Wisconsin-Madison , where he achieved 19 points in 39 games in his rookie season , which was enough to be elected WCHA All-Rookie Defender. In 2003, he was also drawn seventh in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft by the Nashville Predators .

In the 2004/05 season , the Predators brought him to their AHL farm team, the Milwaukee Admirals . As an AHL rookie, he got 23 points in 63 games. This performance reached the Predators to him for the 2005/06 season in the NHL team. However, Suter was much under criticism in his first NHL season, because Shea Weber , who was drafted one round after Suter, developed much faster and better than Suter. Still, he played a good season for a rookie. Suter was able to improve from season to season, so that he set a new personal record with 31 points in the 2007/08 season .

Suter took part with the United States in the 2010 Winter Olympics and won the silver medal with the team.

In the season 2016/17 Suter led together with his teammate Jason Zucker , the plus / minus statistic the NHL with +34 (Figs. NHL Plus / Minus Award ; not officially awarded more). At the beginning of the 2018/19 season, he also played his 1000th game in the NHL.

Achievements and Awards

2004 WCHA All-Rookie Defenceman 2012 Participation in the NHL All-Star Game 2013 NHL First All-Star Team

2015 Participation in the NHL All-Star Game 2017 participation in the NHL All-Star Game 2017 NHL Plus / Minus Award (together with Jason Zucker , not officially awarded)

International

• 2002 gold medal at the U18 World Junior Championship
• 2002 Best Defender of the U18 World Junior Championship
• 2004 gold medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
• 2010 silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games

Career statistics

Suter in the jersey of the Nashville Predators (2005)

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2001/02	USA Hockey NTDP	NEAR		35	2	10	12	75
2002/03	USA Hockey NTDP	NEAR		9	2	5	7th	12
2003/04	University of Wisconsin – Madison	WCHA		39	3	16	19th	93
2004/05	Milwaukee Admirals	AHL		63	7th	16	23	70		7th	1	5	6th	16
2005/06	Nashville Predators	NHL		71	1	15th	16	66		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Nashville Predators	NHL		82	8th	16	24	54		5	1	0	1	8th
2007/08	Nashville Predators	NHL		76	7th	24	31	71		6th	1	1	2	4th
2008/09	Nashville Predators	NHL		82	7th	38	45	73		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Nashville Predators	NHL		82	4th	33	37	48		6th	0	0	0	0
2010/11	Nashville Predators	NHL		70	4th	35	39	54		12	1	5	6th	6th
2011/12	Nashville Predators	NHL		79	7th	39	46	30th		10	1	3	4th	4th
2012/13	Minnesota Wild	NHL		48	4th	28	32	24		5	0	0	0	4th
2013/14	Minnesota Wild	NHL		82	8th	35	43	34		13	1	6th	7th	4th
2014/15	Minnesota Wild	NHL		77	2	36	38	48		10	0	3	3	0
2015/16	Minnesota Wild	NHL		82	8th	43	51	30th		6th	0	3	3	4th
2016/17	Minnesota Wild	NHL		82	9	31	40	36		5	1	2	3	10
2017/18	Minnesota Wild	NHL		78	6th	45	51	34		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Minnesota Wild	NHL		82	7th	40	47	41		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Minnesota Wild	NHL		69	8th	40	48	12		3	0	1	1	0
NAHL total				44	4th	15th	19th	87
NHL overall				1142	90	498	588	655		81	6th	24	30th	44

International

Represented the USA at:

U18 World Junior Championship 2002 U20 Junior World Championship 2003 U18 Junior World Championship 2003 U20 Junior World Championship 2004 U20 Junior World Championship 2005 World Championship 2005 World Championship 2006

World Championship 2007 World Championship 2009 2010 Winter Olympics 2014 Winter Olympics World Cup of Hockey 2016 World Championship 2019

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2002	United States	U18 World Cup			8th	1	6th	7th	12
2003	United States	U20 World Cup	4th Place		7th	2	1	3	2
2003	United States	U18 World Cup	4th Place		6th	1	3	4th	22nd
2004	United States	U20 World Cup			6th	0	2	2	8th
2005	United States	U20 World Cup	4th Place		7th	1	7th	8th	20th
2005	United States	WM	6th place		1	0	0	0	0
2006	United States	WM	7th place		7th	1	1	2	10
2007	United States	WM	5th place		7th	1	2	3	12
2009	United States	WM	4th Place		9	1	2	3	8th
2010	United States	Olympia			6th	0	4th	4th	2
2014	United States	Olympia	4th Place		6th	0	3	3	4th
2016	United States	World cup	7th place		3	0	1	1	0
2019	United States	WM	7th place		8th	0	5	5	4th
Juniors overall					34	5	19th	24	64
Men overall					47	3	18th	21st	40

( 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 Bob Suter won the gold medal at the Miracle on Ice with Team USA , while his uncle Gary Suter played over 1,000 NHL games and won the Stanley Cup . Furthermore, his brother Garrett Suter and his cousins Jake Suter and Jeremy Dehner made it into professional ice hockey.

Web links

Commons : Ryan Suter  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the Minnesota Wild website
• Ryan Suter at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Ryan Suter at eliteprospects.com (English)