Ian White (ice hockey)

Ian White ( born June 4, 1984 in Steinbach, Manitoba ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for the Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League on the position of the defender.

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Career

White began his career as a hockey player in 1999 at the Eastman Selects in the Manitoba Amateur Hockey Association. After only a year there and 62 scorer points in 32 games, he joined the following season to the Swift Current Broncos in the Western Hockey League, who had selected him in the WHL Bantam Draft already in 1999 in the fifth round at 83rd place. For the Broncos played the defender until the end of the season 2003/04. In his rookie season, he immediately reached 43 points scorer before he in the next game year - was top scorer with 79 points the entire team - at the age of 17 years. Moreover, it was the defender with 32 hits at the same time leading scorer Swift Currents. His performances this season were finally rewarded with the Brad Hornung Trophy for the sporty fairest player and the election to the East Second All-Star Team of the WHL. In the following summer he was selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the sixth round of the NHL Entry Draft in 2002 when a total of 191 players. However, the Canadians stayed two more years with the Broncos, in which he with the election to the East First All-Star team of the Western Hockey League and was considered the Second All-Star Team of the Canadian Hockey League. 2003 These again remarkable 68 points scorer had contributed for the offensively gifted defender, which he reached in spite of the participation in the U20 Junior World Championship 2003 in 64 games. Before the start of the 2003/04 season the Maple Leafs took their draft pick under contract. White participated in the sequence for the second time after 2002 on a seasonally preparatory training camp of the Maple Leafs, but was returned back to his junior team, respectively. In October 2004, the defender left ankle, making him a limited edition of 43 season games and take part in the U20 World Youth Championship in 2004 prevented broke.

Towards the end of the season 2003 /04 after the Swift Current Broncos were excreted in the WHL playoffs, White made ​​his debut in professional hockey when he made ​​the squad of former farm team of the Toronto Maple Leafs, the St. John 's Maple Leafs of the American Hockey League, was appointed. In eight games, he prepared it in front of four gates. Since St. John's missed the playoffs, the season of the Canadian ended early on in early April. Due to the lockout in the 2004/ 05 NHL season White spent the entire game year continue in the AHL. He completed 78 games for the St. John 's Maple Leafs and posted it 26 points scorer. For the 2005/06 season, the Toronto Maple Leafs moved their farm team to Toronto, which White then on went for the Toronto Marlies on the ice. After he had been active until the end of March for the Marlies in 59 encounters, he received first appointed to the NHL squad Toronto. By the end of the season in April he ran to twelve times for the Leafs. He was also able to score his first goal in addition to five assists. As the Maple Leafs in contrast to the Marlies missed a place in the playoffs, White returned again in mid-April in the AHL back to deny five playoff games. In addition, the Canadians had taken the end of 2005 with Team Canada at the traditional Spengler Cup in Davos, Switzerland. The selection team lost the final, despite the first place in the preliminary round, the Russian representative HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk clearly with 3:8.

With the start of season 2006/ 07 the defender was an integral part of the defense of the Toronto Maple Leafs. In his NHL rookie season, he achieved remarkable 26 points scorer, so he was the third most successful Leafs defenseman of the season behind the established Tomáš Kaberle and Bryan McCabe. At the same time he offered to the third-best plus / minus rating of the team. In the following season White confirmed at least on the offensive approximate the values ​​of the previous season. The expiring contract extended the Maple Leafs in the summer but a further three years until 2010. The defensive play of the defensive player improved in the game of 2008 /09, and as he pointed at the end of the season along with striker Olexij Ponikarowskyj the best plus / minus statistics of the team on. With ten goals and 26 points again his offensive qualities suffered not one of them. White had suspended due to the oversupply of defenders in the squad, the first eleven games of the season and was then often used as a striker in the third row attack before he returned again a little later in his former position on the defensive. With just one year duration of the existing contract with the Leafs White went into the 2009/10 season. However, it did his contract, though the - do not meet best year of his career, - statistically speaking. Despite 26 scorer points in 56 matches, he was transferred on 31 January 2010 on the Calgary Flames. In one of the largest transfer business in the NHL since the lockout ending nearly five years earlier, Matt Stajan, Niklas Hagman and Jamal Mayers alternated with him to Calgary, Dion Phaneuf during, Fredrik Sjostrom and Keith Aulie competed the way to Toronto in return. The White Flames played until the end of season another 27 games in which he contributed twelve points. In addition thus he graduated with 38 points scorer had hitherto been his best NHL season.

Before the start of the 2010/11 season, it took a long time to the restricted free agent could agree on a new contract with the Flames. Only the path in front of the arbitrator gave him end of July 2010 a new, endowed with three million dollars one-year contract. However, the residence time of the defender in the Olympic city of 1988 did not last long. After 16 games, he was issued on 17 November 2010, together with Brett Sutter for Anton and Tom Kostopoulos Babtschuk to the Carolina Hurricanes. But even with the Hurricanes found White not long-term commitment. In only 38 games, he came to Carolina used because he was sent to San Jose Sharks on 18 February 2011 in exchange for a second-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 2012. In addition, the Sharks announced on the same day in a further transfer business Derek Joslin from in exchange for future consideration by Carolina. With the commitment of White San Jose revealed the need for a defender with qualities in the game design, Rob Blake had left with his resignation in the summer of 2010 there.

On July 2, 2011 Whitehouse signed a contract for two years with the Detroit Red Wings.

Internationally

White represented his native country twice in total in international tournaments. He received his first nomination squad for the U20 World Youth Championship 2003, held in the Canadian cities of Halifax and Sydney. The defender won with Canada to a 2:3 - final defeat by Russia the silver medal. In six tournament missions he scored two goals, and prepared for another four before. In the games, he acted mostly as a renowned specialist in the powerplay and belonged - on the part of Canadians - the surprises of the tournament. Six years later he was nominated for the 2009 World Cup in Switzerland. There, too, won a silver medal White, as the Canadians again Russia documents with 1:2. In five appearances of Defense came up with three points scorer, including the winning goal in the group stage match against Slovakia.

Awards and achievements

  • 2002 Brad Hornung Trophy
  • 2002 WHL East Second All-Star Team
  • 2003 WHL East First All-Star Team
  • 2003 CHL Second All-Star Team

Internationally

  • 2003 Silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championships
  • 2009 Silver medal at the World Championships

Career Stats

Internationally

Represented Canada at:

  • U20 Junior World Championship 2003
  • World Cup 2009

( 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 )

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