Ted Drury

Ted Drury
Date of birth	September 13, 1971
place of birth	Boston , Massachusetts , USA
size	183 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1989 , 2nd lap, 42nd position Calgary Flames
Career stations
1989-1993	Harvard University
1993-1994	Calgary Flames
1994-1995	Hartford Whalers
1995-1996	Ottawa Senators
1996-1999	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
1999-2000	New York Islanders
2000-2001	Chicago Wolves
2001-2002	Albany River Rats
2002-2003	Hamburg Freezers
2003-2005	Kassel Huskies
2005-2007	Krefeld penguins

Theodore Evans "Ted" Drury (born September 13, 1971 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is a former American ice hockey player (striker) and older brother of Chris Drury , who was also active in the National Hockey League during his playing career .

Career

Ted Drury studied from 1989 to 1993 at Harvard University and went from 1989 to 1993 for its university team in the NCAA , the highest college league, on the ice. This stay was interrupted by a one-year guest appearance (1991/92) with the US national team . In total, he played 74 games for Harvard, scored 49 goals and 72 assists for 131 points. His stay with the national team - which he continued for eleven games after his last year of college - is recorded in the statistics with a total of 64 games, 12 goals, 27 assists and 39 points. Even before his first NCAA year, the Calgary Flames had selected him after a convincing high school career with 56 goals and 115 points from 49 games in the second round of the 1989 NHL Entry Draft in 42nd position. Drury succeeded in the course of the 1993/94 season, the jump into the NHL squad of the Flames. In his rookie season, he scored five goals and seven assists for twelve points in 34 games. In March 1994 it was given to the Hartford Whalers as part of a swap deal with Gary Suter and Paul Ranheim in exchange for Michael Nylander , Zarley Zalapski and James Patrick . Here he added another 16 games with one goal and six points in the same season.

The game year 1994/95 started the American in the farm team with the Springfield Falcons in the American Hockey League , but was appointed after two games with Springfield with an assist in the NHL squad of the Whalers. In the season shortened by the first lockout , Drury completed 34 games with three goals and nine points. Ultimately, he did not make the breakthrough with the Whalers, so he was unprotected in the 1995 Waiver Draft . This secured the Ottawa Senators his services. For the Senators, the striker was on the ice in 42 games, in which he posted nine goals and 16 points. In early October 1996 he was transferred to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim along with the rights to defender Marc Moro in exchange for Jason York and Shaun Van Allen . Over the next three years he came to at least 73 missions. He played a total of 235 games including playoffs for the Ducks by 1999. He scored 21 goals and 46 points. He also had a lot of defensive tasks to do in the third to fourth row and was a good face-off player. In the 1999/2000 game year , his stay on the west coast ended and Drury moved east to the New York Islanders after eleven games (one goal, two points) . These were given in exchange by Tony Hrkac and Dean Malkoc . At least for Hrkac something similar applies to Van Allen and York.

In New York he completed another 55 games, but did not get more than one goal and three points. So it happened that he was again unprotected in the Expansion Draft 2000 and the new team from Columbus secured his rights. With the Blue Jackets, however, he couldn't get by. In the end, it was only enough for one more NHL game. The rest of the season he spent with the Chicago Wolves, the Jackets farm team, in the American Hockey League. Here he was able to score 21 goals and 42 points in 68 appearances. There were also 14 games with five goals and nine points in the playoffs. After his contract expired, the offensive player signed a contract with the New Jersey Devils as a free agent in the summer of 2001 . With the top team from the east coast, he did not make it into the roster and was sent to the farm team at the Albany River Rats . For the Albany River Rats he played 51 games with eight goals and 18 points before the Devils gave him in exchange for Mike Rucinsky to Carolina. In the Hurricanes, too, he was only used in the farm team at the Lowell Lock Monsters . Here he was able to score six goals and 16 points in 21 games including playoffs.

For the following season, the American decided to work in Europe and agreed on a contractual relationship with the Hamburg Freezers . In the course of the 2002/03 season , the striker completed 57 games including playoffs, with Drury scoring 16 goals and 40 points for the team from the Elbe. After the end of the season, he moved to the Kassel Huskies in the German Ice Hockey League . The American stayed with the team from North Hesse for two years. But many quarrels in the club, frequent coach changes and a team that ultimately never got together made the conditions difficult. In the last season in particular , the huskies did not run together and so they ultimately relegated in the play-downs against Wolfsburg . In a total of 103 games for North Hesse, he scored 26 goals and 57 points. For the 2005/06 season he switched to the Krefeld Penguins . His contract ran until 2007. After that, Drury ended his active career and now works as a broker on the Chicago Stock Exchange for a large hedge fund .

family

His younger brother Chris also played in the National Hockey League. He was awarded the 1999 Calder Memorial Trophy as the best rookie in the NHL and won the silver medal with the US team at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City .

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1989-90	Harvard University	NCAA		17th	9	13	22nd	10
1990-91	Harvard University	NCAA		26th	18th	18th	36	22nd
1991-92	US National Team	Int'l		53	11	23	34	30th		-	-	-	-	-
1992-93	Harvard University	NCAA		31	22nd	41	63	26th
1993-94	US National Team	Int'l		11	1	4th	5	11		-	-	-	-	-
1993-94	Calgary Flames	NHL		34	5	7th	12	26th		-	-	-	-	-
1993-94	Hartford Whalers	NHL		16	1	5	6th	10		-	-	-	-	–-
1994-95	Springfield Falcons	AHL		2	0	1	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
1994-95	Hartford Whalers	NHL		34	3	6th	9	21st		-	-	-	-	-
1995-96	Ottawa Senators	NHL		42	9	7th	16	54		-	-	-	-	-
1996-97	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	NHL		73	9	9	18th	54		10	1	0	1	4th
1997-98	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	NHL		73	6th	10	16	82		-	-	-	-	-
1998-99	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	NHL		75	5	6th	11	83		4th	0	0	0	0
1999-00	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	NHL		11	1	1	2	6th		-	-	-	-	-
1999-00	New York Islanders	NHL		55	2	1	3	31		-	-	-	-	-
2000-01	Chicago Wolves	IHL		68	21st	21st	42	53		14th	5	4th	9	4th
2000-01	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2001-02	Albany River Rats	AHL		51	8th	10	18th	23		-	-	-	-	-
2001-02	Lowell Lock Monsters	AHL		16	6th	5	11	10		5	0	5	5	6th
2002-03	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		52	16	22nd	38	52		5	0	2	2	6th
2003-04	Kassel Huskies	DEL		52	14th	16	30th	102		-	-	-	-	-
2004-05	Kassel Huskies	DEL		51	12	15th	27	67		-	-	-	-	-
2005-06	Krefeld penguins	DEL		48	21st	26th	47	66		5	2	1	3	6th
2006-07	Krefeld penguins	DEL		49	9	20th	29	97		2	1	1	2	0
NCAA overall				74	49	72	121	58
AHL total				69	14th	16	30th	33		5	0	5	5	6th
NHL overall				414	41	52	93	367		14th	1	0	1	4th
DEL total				252	70	98	168	384		12	'3	4th	7th	12

( 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

• Ted Drury at hockeydb.com (English)
• Ted Drury at legendsofhockey.net (English)