Toni Lydman

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FinlandFinland  Toni Lydman Ice hockey player
Date of birth September 25, 1977
place of birth Lahti , Finland
size 185 cm
Weight 93 kg
position defender
number # 32
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1996 , 4th lap, 89th position
Calgary Flames
Career stations
until 1996 Reipas Lahti
1996-1998 Tappara Tampere
1998-2000 HIFK Helsinki
2000-2005 Calgary Flames
2005 HIFK Helsinki
2005-2010 Buffalo Sabers
2010-2013 Anaheim Ducks

Toni Petteri Lydman (born September 25, 1977 in Lahti ) is a former Finnish ice hockey player who played 902 games for the Calgary Flames , Buffalo Sabers and Anaheim Ducks in the National Hockey League in the course of his active career between 1995 and 2013 of the defense attorney has denied. Lydman celebrated numerous successes in international tournaments with the Finnish national team in particular and was inducted into the Finnish Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 2016 .

Career

Lydman comes from the offspring of the Finnish ice hockey club Reipas Lahti , for whom he played in various junior teams. He was selected at the NHL Entry Draft 1996 by those responsible for the Calgary Flames in the fourth round as a total of 89, but played four more years in the Finnish SM-liiga for Tappara Tampere and Helsingfors IFK in Helsinki . In the 2000/01 season he made his NHL debut for the Flames after he came to Canada with the recommendation of winning the Pekka Rautakallio trophy as the best defender in the Finnish league.

The defender had his best season in the Flames jersey in the 2001/02 season when he scored six goals and 22 assists . In the following season he was the Flames defender with the highest points with 26 points and remained injury-free throughout the season, so that he only missed one game due to a cold. The Calgary Flames reached the 2004 Stanley Cup playoff finals , but Lydman missed a large portion of the playoff games due to injury. During the lockout in the 2004/05 NHL season , the defender returned to Helsinki for HIFK in late January 2005, but could only be used in eight games. After returning to Calgary, he was transferred on August 25, 2005 from the Flames to the Buffalo Sabers , who received a third-round pick in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft . On July 1, 2010, he signed a three-year contract with the Anaheim Ducks .

With the Californians he formed a defensive duo with Ľubomír Višňovský in his debut season and while Višňovský took over the offensive part, Lydman convinced with a plus / minus value of +32. This meant the second best record in franchise history together with Ryan Getzlaf , who had achieved the same value in the 2007/08 season . The team-internal record was still held by Paul Kariya with +36 from the 1996/97 season . After his contract expired in the summer of 2013, the Finn ended his active career at the age of 36. In 2016, Lydman became the 238th person to be inducted into the Finnish Ice Hockey Hall of Fame .

International

Toni Lydman represented his home country in the junior division at the U18 European Junior Championships in 1995 and the U20 World Junior Championships in 1996 and 1997 . At the European Championships, the defender celebrated winning the gold medal.

From 1998 Lydman was a member of the Finnish national team , for which he completed the World Championships in 1998 , 1999 , 2000 , 2002 and 2003 . He also played for Finland at the 2004 World Cup of Hockey , the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics . As part of the world championship tournaments, the defender won two silver and one bronze medal. Furthermore, he was able to win a silver and a bronze medal at the Winter Olympics and also finished the World Cup in second place.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1994/95 Reipas Lahti A-Juniors I-divisioona 26th 6th 4th 10 10 - - - - -
1995/96 Reipas Lahti A-Juniors I-divisioona 8th 2 2 4th 6th - - - - -
1995/96 Reipas Lahti I-divisioona 39 5 2 7th 30th 3 0 1 1 0
1996/97 Tappara Tampere SM-liiga 49 1 2 3 65 3 0 0 0 6th
1997/98 Tappara Tampere SM-liiga 48 4th 10 14th 48 4th 0 2 2 0
1998/99 HIFK Helsinki SM-liiga 42 4th 7th 11 36 11 0 3 3 2
1999/00 HIFK Helsinki SM-liiga 46 4th 18th 22nd 36 9 0 4th 4th 6th
2000/01 Calgary Flames NHL 62 3 16 19th 30th - - - - -
2001/02 Calgary Flames NHL 79 6th 22nd 28 52 - - - - -
2002/03 Calgary Flames NHL 81 6th 20th 26th 28 - - - - -
2003/04 Calgary Flames NHL 67 4th 16 20th 30th 6th 0 1 1 2
2004/05 HIFK Helsinki SM-liiga 8th 1 2 3 2 5 0 3 3 0
2005/06 Buffalo Sabers NHL 75 1 16 17th 82 18th 1 4th 5 18th
2006/07 Buffalo Sabers NHL 67 2 17th 19th 55 18th 1 4th 5 55
2007/08 Buffalo Sabers NHL 82 4th 22nd 26th 74 - - - - -
2008/09 Buffalo Sabers NHL 80 3 20th 23 70 - - - - -
2009/10 Buffalo Sabers NHL 67 4th 16 20th 30th 6th 0 1 1 6th
2010/11 Anaheim Ducks NHL 78 3 22nd 25th 42 6th 0 0 0 2
2011/12 Anaheim Ducks NHL 74 0 13 13 46 - - - - -
2012/13 Anaheim Ducks NHL 35 0 6th 6th 12 3 0 0 0 0
A-Juniors I-divisioona total 34 8th 6th 14th 16 - - - - -
I-divisioona total 39 5 2 7th 30th 3 0 1 1 0
SM-liiga total 193 14th 39 53 187 32 0 12 12 14th
NHL overall 847 36 206 242 551 55 3 8th 11 42

International

Represented Finland at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1995 Finland U18 European Championship 1st place, gold 5 2 3 5 2
1996 Finland U20 World Cup 6th place 6th 0 2 2 6th
1997 Finland U20 World Cup 5th place 6th 2 0 2 6th
1998 Finland WM 2nd place, silver 10 0 1 1 31
1999 Finland WM 2nd place, silver 10 0 0 0 4th
2000 Finland WM 3rd place, bronze 9 1 0 1 12
2002 Finland WM 4th Place 9 1 1 2 0
2003 Finland WM 5th place 7th 2 1 3 6th
2004 Finland World cup 2nd place 6th 0 3 3 6th
2006 Finland Olympia 2nd place, silver 8th 1 0 1 10
2010 Finland Olympia 3rd place, bronze 6th 0 0 0 2
Juniors overall 17th 4th 5 9 14th
Men overall 65 5 6th 11 71

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ducks.nhl.com, Ducks Sign Lydman to 3-year Deal
  2. ↑ ducks.nhl.com, Ducks Year-by-Year Leaders
personal data
SURNAME Lydman, Toni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lydman, Toni Petteri (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Lahti , Finland