Dennis Seidenberg
Dennis Seidenberg ( born July 18, 1981 in Villingen -Schwenningen ) is a German ice hockey player. Since March 2010, he plays for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League on the position of the defender. With the Bruins he won in the 2010/11 season the Stanley Cup. His brother Yannic is also a professional hockey player.
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Career
Seidenberg played during his junior time in the youth department of his home club Schwenningen ERC. At the age of 16, he was in the 1997/98 season his debut in the amateur squad of Schwenningen in the then second division. For the season 1999/2000 he moved to the Adler Mannheim in the German Hockey League. It was first used in the junior team at the young eagles in the German junior league, but came in the course of the season and his first three DEL inserts. From the Game 2000 / 01, in which the Mannheim won the German championship, the defender was fixed for Senior Squad. It was followed by another DEL season in which he significantly improved his stats compared to last year.
After being selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2001 in the sixth round to 172 instead of the Philadelphia Flyers, he went to North America in summer 2002. There, he managed to get a place in the squad of the Flyers and played 58 season games in which he scored 13 points. In addition, he completed 19 games for the Flyers farm team, the Philadelphia Phantoms of the American Hockey League and the nomination for the NHL Young Stars Game confirmed silk Berg's good rookie season. The following season the German spent mainly in the AHL and was nominated for the AHL All-Star Classic. A training accident in January 2004, in which he broke his left leg, however, the participation prevented it. His NHL bets limited by the fact in the regular season to five, where he came to his first three playoff stakes in the jersey of the Flyers. Due to the lockout of the NHL season 2004 /05 Seidenberg ran again to the entire season for the Phantoms in the AHL. At the end of the season he won the Calder Cup with this, the championship of the AHL.
Due to the new salary structures in the NHL and the associated savings in franchises belonged Seidenberg to the beginning of the season 2005/ 06 back to the root cadres of the NHL teams. Several minor injuries put him there in the first half of the season and so he came back to mid-January 2006 to 29 games before he was transferred for Petr Nedvěd to the Phoenix Coyotes. Even with the Coyotes, who were coached by Wayne Gretzky, the defender was an integral part of the defensive department and reaching as in the season 63 games and 18 points. After his stats deteriorated in 2006/ 07, they gave him in January 2007 for Kevyn Adams to the Carolina Hurricanes from. There Seidenberg was usually the seventh defender, which he often took his seat in the stands. In the 2007 /08 season he played regularly, but fell long out due to a knee and ankle injury, which he lost his place in the squad. In the 2008 / 09 season, Seidenberg stabilized its services remained largely injury-free and became an integral part of the defense of the Hurricanes. Still not extended this to the expiring contract, as the salary expectations of both parties were too much apart. On 14 September 2009, the German therefore signed as a free agent a one-year contract for 2.25 million U.S. dollars at the Florida Panthers. Despite a solid season in which he was at the Panthers to the players with the most ice age, he was on 3 March 2010 in a barter together with Matt Bartkowski for Byron Bitz, Craig Weller and a second-round vote in NHL Entry Draft 2010 delivered to the Boston Bruins. There he played mostly beside the Slovaks Zdeno Chára in a defensive pair. After the season, he agreed with Boston on a contract extension until 2014. On June 15, 2011 Dennis Seidenberg became the second German after Uwe Krupp 1996 Stanley Cup. The Boston Bruins defeated in the decisive seventh game, the Vancouver Canucks 4-0.
For the duration of the NHL lockout period 2012/13 he played for the Adler Mannheim in the DEL. After the lockout was ended in January 2013, he returned to the Boston Bruins.
Internationally
Seidenberg took a German selection for the first time at the U18 Junior World Championship 1999 on the international stage. In the U20 age group he played with the B World Championships in 2000 and 2001. In the senior level, he represented the national team at the World Championships in 2001, 2002 and 2008, the Winter Olympic Games 2002, 2006 and 2010 and the World Cup of Hockey 2004.
Awards and achievements
- 2001 German champion with the Adler Mannheim
- 2002 DEL All-Star Game
- 2002 German runner with the Adler Mannheim
- 2003 NHL Young Stars Game
- 2004 AHL All- Star Classic
- 2005 Calder Cup win with the Philadelphia Phantoms
- 2011 Stanley Cup win with the Boston Bruins
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Germany at:
- U18 Junior World Championship 1999
- U20 Junior B World Cup 2000
- U20 World Junior Championships Division I 2001
- World Cup 2001
- 2002 Winter Olympics
- World Cup 2002
- World Cup of Hockey 2004
- 2006 Winter Olympics
- World Championship 2008
- 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 )