Dwayne Roloson

Albert Dwayne Roloson ( born October 12, 1969 in Simcoe, Ontario ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the Tampa Bay Lightning in the National Hockey League.

Career

Dwayne Roloson started his career in lower leagues of Canada and the U.S., rising only very late in the game higher classes. Unlike most NHL pros, he was not drafted, but signed his first contract in 1994 with the Calgary Flames as so-called free agent. He spent his first two years at the farm team of Calgary, in the American Hockey League to collect the Saint John Flames to experience. During his first year he was taken to the Team Canada for the IIHF World Championships 1995, which took place at the end of 3, but Dwayne Roloson was not a single minute on the ice. In the season 1996/97 he came for the first time in the NHL to use and brought it forward to 31 games total as number 2 behind Trevor Kidd. The following season he shared the position as the No. 1 Calgary Flames with Rick Tabaracci and played 39 times.

After his contract expired at the end of the season, he signed with the Buffalo Sabres, where he had to Dominik Hašek the best goalkeeper of the decade as a competitor against whom he could not prevail. While he was still the number 2 in the 1998/99 season, he was forced out in the following season by Martin Biron on the position of the third goalkeeper. In the fierce competition, there was no prospect for Dwayne Roloson in Buffalo and so he left after his second year, the team and signed a one -year contract with the St. Louis Blues.

The move to St. Louis was a good and a bad side. He did not play during the entire 2000/01 season in the NHL. But he played a very good season with the farm team of the St. Louis Blues, the Worcester IceCats in the AHL and was awarded the Aldege " Baz " Bastien Award as the best goalkeeper of the American Hockey League.

By the power in the AHL he got in the summer of 2001, a contract in the NHL with the Minnesota Wild, where he still had to share the post as number 1 in the first year with Manny Fernandez, in the following two seasons, but by excellence the sole goalkeeper was. He was elected to the NHL All-Star Game in 2004 and got after the 2003/ 04 season, the Roger Crozier Saving Grace Award as a goalkeeper with the best fishing quota.

While the NHL season 2004/ 05 failed because of the lockout, he played with Lukko Rauma of the Finnish SM- liiga in.

After the return of Dwayne Roloson at the beginning of the 2005/06 season he was replaced by Manny Fernandez as the number 1 at the Minnesota Wild. Towards the end of the regular season in March 2006 we transferred him to the Edmonton Oilers. He immediately sat down as goalkeeper by and took Edmonton very successfully in the playoffs for the championship. Thanks to its outstanding performance managed the team to the Stanley Cup Finals. But five minutes before the end of the first final game against the Carolina Hurricanes Dwayne Roloson injured in registry of 4-4 and had to be replaced. He was replaced by Ty Conklin, who made ​​mistakes but 30 seconds before the end, which meant the first defeat. Rolosons injury was so serious that he could no longer be used in the final series. After Ty Conklin's heavy Jussi Markkanen Patzer took the post in a goal, which also showed good performance, but in the end won Carolina to seven games with 4-3 the Stanley Cup. It would have been the crowning achievement of Rolosons roller-coaster career.

After the season, his contract ran out, but the Edmonton Oilers extended him for three years, for which he received a total of eleven million dollars.

The 2006/07 season was initially positive for Roloson and the Oilers, but the end of December began the descent to the team. The height of the crisis was reached when they could pick up just one win in 17 games within five weeks from 25 February 2007 and finally far behind missed the playoffs. Roloson but still one of the positive signs in the team, while the offensive department of the Oilers mainly disappointed.

After the premature end of the season Roloson took the Team Canada participated in the IIHF World Men's Championship in 2007 and won the world title.

In the 2007 /08 season he plays in the goalkeeper Mathieu Garon with sidecar. Shortly after the start of the season he was ousted by Garon in goal and only came back positive in appearance than Garon injured had to pause at the end of the season. However, the Oilers missed the playoffs again.

In the final season of his three-year contract with the Oilers to Roloson first announced the goal with two other good goalkeepers: Mathieu Garon, whose contract expired also in 2009, and the young goalkeeper Jeff Drouin - Deslauriers competed alongside Roloson for the post of master goalkeeper. During the 2008/ 09 season, however, Roloson was able to prevail without much difficulty, so that Mathieu Garon was released to the Pittsburgh Penguins and Jeff Drouin - Deslauriers was his substitute goalkeeper.

In summer 2009, Roloson was engaged as Unrestricted free agent for two seasons of the New York Islanders, where he was to replace the injured Rick DiPietro as the No. 1 goal. On 1 January 2011, the New York Islanders him transferred in exchange for Ty Wishart to the Tampa Bay Lightning.

With his new team Roloson solved right away the goalie problem. Alone in his first month at the Lightning managed Roloson a catch rate of over 93 % and four shutouts.

Awards and achievements

Internationally

Career Stats

( Key to the goalkeeper stats: GP or Sp = Total Games; W or W = Wins, L = Losses, or N, T or D = Draw or shootout defeat, min = minutes; SOG or ZAT = Shots on goal, GA or GT = Goals against; SO = shutouts, GAA or GTS = Gegentorschnitt; Sv % or SVS % = quota, EN = Empty Net Goal; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )