Dan Boyle (ice hockey)
Daniel Boyle ( born July 12, 1976 in Ottawa, Ontario ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who plays for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League on the position of the defender since July 2008.
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Career
Boyle played during his junior first time since 1991 at the Gloucester Rangers in the Canadian Junior Football League Central Junior Hockey League. In summer 1994, he accepted a scholarship to Miami University. There he played alongside his studies for the university team in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association, a league game in the operation of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Overall, the Canadians remained for four years at the university. DC in his rookie season he reached 26 points scorer in 35 games. In the following two years he was able to increase its yield point, respectively. At the end of the 1996/97 season were 54 points in 40 games to beech, a value that he himself could not beat in his fourth and final year of college. In the last two seasons, he has received numerous appeals in various all-star teams from the CCHA and NCAA.
After completion of the NCAA season the defender moved ungedraftet in the professional sector. He was taken from the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League contract that made him. Match for the rest of the year in their farm team in the International Hockey League, the Cincinnati Cyclones began, In the 1998/99 season, the Panthers put the Canadians for the time being in the American Hockey League with the Kentucky Thoroughblades. There he played an outstanding season with 42 points in 53 games, which was rewarded by being appointed to the AHL All- Star Classic, the AHL All- Rookie team and the AHL Second All-Star team and the debut for the Panthers in the NHL. The final leap into the NHL squad he finally managed to 2000/ 01. After Boyle had spent the 2000/01 season and the first half of the game in 2001 /02 for the Panthers, the offensively strong defender was transferred within the State of Florida for a draft pick of the fifth round of the NHL Entry Draft 2003 League rivals Tampa Bay Lightning. In Tampa reached Boyles game in the season 2002/ 03 a new level. The Canadian recorded 53 points in 77 games after the previous best value of 22 scorer points yet dated from his rookie year with the Panthers. The following year, he also improved his game on the defensive and won with the Lightning at the end of the 2003/ 04 surprising the Stanley Cup. During the finals Boyle came involuntarily into the headlines, there was conditionally caused by an electrical short circuit, fire damage of $ 300,000 on his house.
The following year, that was affected by the lockout of the NHL season 2004/ 05, Boyle spent in the Swedish Elitserien with Djurgårdens IF, with whom he was able to advance to the playoff semifinals. To the Game 2005 /06 he returned to Tampa, where his development into one of the best offensive defenseman the league progressed. This earned him a nomination for the NHL Second All-Star Team in season 2006/07. Shortly before the beginning of the season 2007 /08, the Canadians injured by a falling of his locker ice on the left wrist. The blade severed three tendons that had to be assembled by an operation in September. As has been found by an MRI scan, the two tendons were not grown together properly again, Boyle had to undergo another operation in November, which forced him to take a break until the end of January 2008. After his return he rapidly regained foot, but could not prevent the Lightning completed the season as the worst team in the league. Although he had extended his contract until February 2008, at six years for a total of 40 million U.S. dollars, he left in July 2008, a clause from selbigem emphasize that should protect him from a business transfer. A little later, he joined together with Brad Lukowich to the San Jose Sharks, who received in return, Matt Carle, Ty Wishart and a first-round and fourth- round draft pick, as the franchise of the Lightning after the weak season and a change of ownership was in upheaval.
Boyles change paid off both for him personally and for the San Jose Sharks. Under vigorous Using him provided the Sharks a new NHL - start record after 30 games of the season, and he himself belonged to the half of the season to the point best defenders in the league. This earned him an invitation to the first-time NHL All-Star Game.
Internationally
Boyle participated with the Canadian National Team at the World Ice Hockey Championship in 2005. There he won the silver medal after a final defeat against the Czech Republic. In addition, he was in the provisional squad for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, but ultimately could not claim against strong competition and stood only as a reserve player in the squad. He has also received in the summer of 2009 as one of 46 players invited to the preparatory training camp for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. There he became one after the final squad announcement on December 30, 2009 to be in the squad and won the tournament end the gold medal.
Awards and achievements
- 2000 AHL All- Star Classic
- 2000 AHL Second All-Star Team
- 2004 Stanley Cup win with the Tampa Bay Lightning
- 2007 NHL Second All-Star Team
- 2009 NHL All-Star Game
- 2009 NHL Second All-Star Team
- 2011 NHL All-Star Game
Internationally
- 2005 Silver medal at the World Championships
- 2010 Gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Canada at:
- World Championship 2005
- 2006 Winter Olympics
- 2010 Winter Olympics
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )