Ty Conklin

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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.

Ty Conklin in the Pittsburgh Penguins jersey (2008)
Ty Conklin at the Detroit Red Wings

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

  • 1996 Clark Cup win with the Green Bay Gamblers
  • 1996 USHL Second All-Star Team
  • 1999 Hockey East Second All-Star Team
  • 1999 Hockey East All- Rookie Team
  • 2000 Hockey East Player of the Year (together with Mike Mottau )
  • 2000 Hockey East First All-Star Team
  • 2000 NCAA East Second All-American Team
  • 2001 Hockey East First All-Star Team
  • 2001 NCAA East First All-Star Team
  • 2001 Walter Brown Award (together with Brian Gionta )
  • 2004 bronze medal at the world championship
  • 2004 World Cup best goalkeeper

Career statistics

    Regular season   Playoffs / playdowns
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
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)

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