Ty Conklin
Date of birth | March 30, 1976 |
place of birth | Anchorage , Alaska , USA |
Nickname | Conks, The Conk-eror |
size | 183 cm |
Weight | 83 kg |
position | goalkeeper |
number | # |
Catch hand | Left |
Career stations | |
1995-1997 | Green Bay Gamblers |
1998-2001 | University of New Hampshire |
2001-2004 | Edmonton Oilers |
2004-2005 | Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg |
2005-2006 | Edmonton Oilers |
2006-2007 | Columbus Blue Jackets |
2007 | Buffalo Sabers |
2007-2008 | Pittsburgh Penguins |
2008-2009 | Detroit Red Wings |
2009-2011 | St. Louis Blues |
2011–2012 | Detroit Red Wings |
Ty Conklin (born March 30, 1976 in Anchorage , Alaska ) is a former American ice hockey goalkeeper who has played for the Detroit Red Wings , Columbus Blue Jackets , Pittsburgh Penguins , St. Louis Blues and the Edmonton Oilers in the National Hockey League was active.
Career
Ty Conklin began his career in 1995 in the US Junior League USHL with the Green Bay Gamblers . There he asserted himself in his first year as a goalkeeper and won the Clark Cup with the Gamblers . He was also appointed to the league's Second All-Star Team. In the following season, the Gamblers were also at the top of the league when they took first place after the regular season, but failed prematurely in the playoffs .
College ice hockey (1997-2001)
He left the Gamblers in the summer of 1997 and went to the University of New Hampshire . After he had retired from ice hockey for a year, he was in the goal of the university team from the 1998/99 season and subsequently established himself as a strong support for the team. In his first year, when he shared the post as regular goalkeeper with Sean Matile , he was able to win 18 of his 22 games, reached the final of the US college championship and was awarded by the regional Hockey East Division, which is the University of New Hampshire belonged to the All- Rookie Team and elected to the Second All-Star Formation.
The following season he also made a name for himself nationally when he was named to the Second All-Star Team of the East by the NCAA , the US College Sports Association, and named Best Player of the Year by the Hockey East Division was awarded Mike Mottau . At the beginning of the 2000/01 season, Conklin was honored when he became the University of New Hampshire's first goalkeeper to be named team captain since 1961 . At the same time, it was also the last season of Conklin in college, which was again crowned with awards.
Minor Leagues and Breakthrough in the NHL (2001-2006)
After leaving college, he signed a contract with the Edmonton Oilers from the NHL in April 2001 . In his debut season, however, he was mainly used for the Hamilton Bulldogs , the farm team of the Oilers from the second-rate AHL, and only played four games in the NHL. In the following season he could not prevail against Tommy Salo and Jussi Markkanen in goal and remained with the Oilers without use, but was able to move into the final of the Calder Cup with the Hamilton Bulldogs .
In the 2003/04 season he was finally able to assert himself in the regular Edmonton squad, even moved temporarily to the position of goalkeeper due to an injury to Salo, who was later transferred to the Colorado Avalanche , and was thus at the NHL Heritage Classic 2003 , the first open-air game in NHL history, on the ice. At the end of the season, Conklin made 38 appearances and recorded 17 wins.
However, the Oilers could not qualify for the playoffs and Conklin instead played for the first time for the US national team at the 2004 World Cup . The team failed in the semi-finals to Sweden , but in the game for third place Conklin was the main support for the team. He struggled all 25 shots the Slovaks at his goal, and thus held throughout the regular season and the extension of a 0: 0th The US team could only decide the game in the penalty shootout . Conklin was then voted the tournament's best goalkeeper.
Since the NHL season 2004/05 was canceled because of the lockout , he signed a contract in Germany in January 2005 with the Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg from the DEL . There he played eleven games, only finishing penultimate place with Wolfsburg at the end of the season.
In autumn 2005 he returned to the Oilers, but where he was only number three behind Markkanen and Mike Morrison . Only in the course of the season he was able to oust Morrison as the second goalkeeper, but the Oilers brought another goalkeeper with Dwayne Roloson . Due to his rising form in the last weeks of the regular season, he was finally able to leave Markkanen and Morrison behind and win the competition for the post as substitute goalkeeper behind Roloson. The teams only qualified for the playoffs with the last game of the season and went into the first round as underdogs. But they used their underdog chance and moved to the Stanley Cup final after victories against the Detroit Red Wings , the San Jose Sharks and the Anaheim Ducks , with Roloson being a very important pillar. However, he was injured in the first game of the final series against the Carolina Hurricanes and had to be replaced by Conklin five minutes before the end of the game when the score was 4: 4. He could not recommend himself, however, because 30 seconds before the end he caused the Hurricanes' winning goal by losing a puck behind his goal. The Oilers relied on Jussi Markkanen in goal in the remaining games of the contested final series, but the Hurricanes won the Stanley Cup in the decisive seventh game.
Franchise change and end of career (2006–2012)
Conklin's contract was not renewed after the end of the playoffs and he went to the Columbus Blue Jackets , where he was not in the NHL roster at the start of the season and spent the first two months with the farm team, the Syracuse Crunch from the AHL. Due to an injury to Pascal Leclaire, Conklin finally moved up to the Blue Jackets squad in December 2006, but was unable to convince in his eleven missions and was transferred to the Buffalo Sabers in February 2007 , where he was allowed to play five more times.
Again he had to look for a new team at the end of the season and was signed by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the summer of 2007 . But even there he could not recommend himself at the beginning of the season for one of the two goalkeeping places that Marc-André Fleury and Dany Sabourin took and he began the 2007/08 season in the AHL. In December, however, the Penguins brought him into the team when goalkeeper Fleury injured himself and Conklin ousted Sabourin through good performances so that he became number one. Conklin won ten of his first twelve missions, which Pittsburgh were able to establish at the top of the Eastern Conference . He was also on the ice at the second outdoor game in NHL history when the Penguins met the Buffalo Sabers in the 2008 NHL Winter Classic . In March 2008 he moved back to the post of second goalkeeper, as Fleury was ready to go again. In the playoffs, the Penguins moved with Fleury in goal to the Stanley Cup final, where they failed in six games at the Detroit Red Wings.
Just four weeks after the final defeat, Conklin signed a new contract with the Red Wings, of all places, where he shared the operating times with Chris Osgood . Conklin convinced again with good performances, in the playoffs, however, coach Mike Babcock relied on the more experienced Osgood, so that Conklin was no longer used, with the exception of a short assignment, when Detroit made it to the Stanley Cup final. There the final series of the previous year was reissued, but this time Pittsburgh was victorious. It was the third time in four years that Conklin was in the squad of the losing team in the final series.
In the summer of 2009 he signed a contract with the St. Louis Blues . After Chris Osgood had announced his retirement as an active player on July 19, 2011, Conklin was signed a day later by the Red Wings as a free agent with a contract for one year.
Outdoor veteran
Ty Conklin is the only player to have appeared on the ice in the first three outdoor games in NHL history . On November 22, 2003, he guarded the gate of the Edmonton Oilers , who met the Montréal Canadiens in front of 57,167 spectators at the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton . Montréal won the game 4-3.
He made his second outdoor appearance on New Year's Day 2008 as the goalkeeper for the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 2008 NHL Winter Classic . Regular goalkeeper Marc-André Fleury was injured at the time, so Conklin, who was only the third goalkeeper at the beginning of the season, took on for the Penguins. At Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park , New York , the match between Pittsburgh and the local Buffalo Sabers set a new NHL record with 71,217 spectators. Conklin parried 36 of 37 shots and eventually won the game with the Penguins 2-1 after a shootout .
In the 2008/09 season he was, after a summer break to the Detroit Red Wings , again among the participants in an outdoor game. Again on New Year's Day, the Red Wings and the Chicago Blackhawks, two NHL teams met in the open air. The 2009 NHL Winter Classic was held at Wrigley Field in Chicago and Conklin was used as the Red Wings goalkeeper. After he was actually set as second goalkeeper for the season, he was preferred by better performances and injury problems from regular goalkeeper Chris Osgood . The Red Wings won the game 6-4 and Conklin celebrated his second win in an open-air game.
Achievements and Awards
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Career statistics
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season | team | league | GP | W. | L. | T | MIN | GA | SO | ATM | GP | W. | L. | T | MIN | GA | SO | ATM | ||
1995-96 | Green Bay Gamblers | USHL | 30th | 1727 | 82 | 1 | 2.85 | - | ||||||||||||
1996-97 | Green Bay Gamblers | USHL | 30th | 19th | 7th | 1 | 1609 | 86 | 1 | 3.21 | 17th | 8th | 9 | - | 980 | 56 | 1 | 3.43 | ||
1997-98 | University of New Hampshire | NCAA | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||||||
1998-99 | University of New Hampshire | NCAA | 22nd | 18th | 3 | 1 | 1338 | 41 | 0 | 1.84 | ||||||||||
1999-00 | University of New Hampshire | NCAA | 37 | 22nd | 8th | 6th | 2194 | 91 | 2 | 2.49 | ||||||||||
2000-01 | University of New Hampshire | NCAA | 34 | 17th | 12 | 5 | 2048 | 70 | 5 | 2.05 | ||||||||||
2001-02 | Hamilton Bulldogs | AHL | 37 | 13 | 12 | 8th | 2043 | 89 | 1 | 2.61 | 7th | 4th | 2 | - | 416 | 18th | 0 | 2.60 | ||
Edmonton Oilers | NHL | 4th | 2 | 0 | 0 | 147 | 4th | 0 | 1.63 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
2002-03 | Hamilton Bulldogs | AHL | 38 | 19th | 13 | 3 | 2140 | 91 | 4th | 2.55 | 17th | 9 | 6th | - | 1024 | 38 | 1 | 2.23 | ||
2003-04 | Edmonton Oilers | NHL | 38 | 17th | 14th | 4th | 2085 | 84 | 1 | 2.42 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2004-05 | Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg | DEL | 11 | 623 | 31 | 0 | 2.99 | 7th | 4th | 3 | - | 414 | 11 | 2 | 1.59 | |||||
2005-06 | Edmonton Oilers | NHL | 18th | 8th | 5 | 1 | 922 | 43 | 1 | 2.80 | 1 | 0 | 1 | - | 5 | 1 | 0 | 10.00 | ||
Hamilton Bulldogs | AHL | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 152 | 8th | 0 | 3.17 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
Hartford Wolf Pack | AHL | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 130 | 5 | 0 | 2.31 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
2006-07 | Syracuse crunch | AHL | 19th | 3 | 12 | 3 | 1085 | 60 | 0 | 3.32 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
Columbus Blue Jackets | NHL | 11 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 491 | 27 | 0 | 3.30 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
Buffalo Sabers | NHL | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 227 | 13 | 0 | 3.44 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
2007-08 | Pittsburgh Penguins | NHL | 33 | 18th | 8th | 5 | 1865 | 78 | 2 | 2.51 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins | AHL | 18th | 11 | 7th | 0 | 1058 | 39 | 2 | 2.21 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
2008-09 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 40 | 25th | 11 | 2 | 2246 | 94 | 6th | 2.51 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | 20th | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
USHL total | 60 | 3336 | 168 | 2 | 3.02 | - | ||||||||||||||
NCAA overall | 93 | 57 | 23 | 12 | 5580 | 202 | 7th | 2.17 | ||||||||||||
AHL total | 117 | 48 | 46 | 15th | 6608 | 292 | 7th | 2.65 | 24 | 13 | 8th | - | 1440 | 56 | 1 | 2.33 | ||||
NHL overall | 149 | 73 | 43 | 14th | 7986 | 343 | 10 | 2.58 | 2 | 0 | 1 | - | 25th | 1 | 0 | 2.38 | ||||
DEL total | 11 | 623 | 31 | 0 | 2.99 | 7th | 4th | 3 | - | 414 | 11 | 2 | 1.59 |
International
year | team | event | GP | W. | L. | T | MIN | GA | SO | ATM | |
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2004 | United States | WM | 5 | 4th | 0 | 1 | 280 | 10 | 1 | 2.14 | |
2005 | United States | WM | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 179 | 6th | 0 | 2.00 | |
Men overall | 8th | 5 | 0 | 3 | 459 | 16 | 1 | 2.09 |
( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; 1 play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)
Web links
- Ty Conklin at hockeydb.com (English)
- Ty Conklin at legendsofhockey.net (English)
- Ty Conklin at hockeygoalies.org
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Conklin, Ty |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ice hockey goalkeeper |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1976 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Anchorage , Alaska |