Byron Ritchie

Byron Ritchie ( born April 24, 1977 in Burnaby, British Columbia) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is under contract with SC Bern of the National League A since April 2011.

Career

Byron Ritchie began his career as a hockey player with the Lethbridge Hurricanes, which until 1997 he was active from 1993 in the Canadian junior Western Hockey League and in the 1996/97 season won the President's Cup as WHL champions. In 1995 NHL Entry Draft, he was selected in the seventh round as a total 165 players from the Hartford Whalers, but never played for the team. After their relocation in 1997, the attacker joined its successor Carolina Hurricanes team, for whom he made ​​his debut in the National Hockey League in the 1998/99 season. He was point and impunity in three games. The rest of the first two years he spent, however, in their farm team in the American Hockey League Beast of New Haven. From 1999 to 2001 he was mainly for the new farm team the Hurricanes that. Cincinnati Cyclones of the International Hockey League, on the ice

The 2001/02 season began Ritchie again in Carolina, but mainly played for the Lowell Lock Monsters in the AHL before he delivered on 16 January 2002 together with Sandis Ozoliòš in exchange for Bret Hedican, Kevyn Adams and Tomáš Malec on ​​the Florida Panthers been. In team from Florida of the links Sagittarius had a regular place in the following two and a half years. Only during the season 2002 /03 he ran parallel in 29 games for their AHL farm team San Antonio Rampage. On 2 July 2004, he signed as a free agent contract with the Calgary Flames.

However, the lockout during the 2004/ 05 NHL season he bridged at Rögle BK HockeyAllsvenskan, the Swedish second division. From 2005 to 2007, the Canadians played in over 100 games for Calgary in the NHL. After a year at the Vancouver Canucks, he joined the 2008/09 season for HC Servette Geneva in the Swiss National League A. He then accepted an offer from HK Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League. After only one season, he left the HK Dinamo Minsk and moved to Sweden to MODO Hockey.

In April 2011, Ritchie signed a contract for two years at the SC Bern. In November 2012 there was a contract extension for another two years until the end of the 2014 season / 15 campaign.

Awards and achievements

NHL stats

(End of season 2010/11)