Kyle Wanvig

Kyle Wanvig ( born January 29, 1981 in Calgary, Alberta ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who played in the course of his career, including for the Minnesota Wild and Tampa Bay Lightning in the National Hockey League.

Career

Kyle Wanvig began his career as a hockey player in Canadian junior Western Hockey League in which he was active until 2001 from 1997 for Edmonton Ice, Kootenay Ice and the Red Deer Rebels. He had his most successful season in the 2000/01 season, his last junior year, when he first won the Ed Chynoweth Cup, the WHL Championship and then the Memorial Cup, the championship of the Canadian Hockey League with the Red Deer Rebels. In addition, he was awarded the Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy as Most Valuable Player of the Memorial Cup tournament. In his WHL time the winger was initially selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1999 in the third round than a total of 89 players from the Boston Bruins. Since not subsequently took him under contract, he could be drafted in the NHL Entry Draft in 2001 in the second round than a total of 36 players from the Minnesota Wild.

The franchise of the Minnesota Wild Wanvig stood from 2001 to 2006 a total of five years under the contract, whereby he in the season 2001/ 02 and during the lockout in the season 2004/ 05 exclusively for their farm team Houston Aeros in the American Hockey League on the ice stood. From 2006 to 2008, the right-handed shooter came almost exclusively in the AHL for use, in which he ran aground for the Chicago Wolves, Springfield Falcons and Norfolk Admirals. In addition, it was used in eleven games of the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League. For the 2008/09 season the Canadians first went to Europe, where he was active for Amur Khabarovsk in the newly formed Kontinental Hockey League and Brynäs IF in the Swedish Elitserien.

After he returned for the 2009/10 season to North America, where he was taken by the Portland Pirates of the AHL under contract, committed him to the following season, the Augsburger Panther of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. In January 2011 Wanvig was hired by HK Poprad from the Extraliga. In the following season, he completed due to injury just 16 games for the EC VSV, before he ended his career in December 2011 and fireman in Canada.

Awards and achievements

  • 2001 President's Cup win with the Red Deer Rebels
  • 2001 CHL Second All-Star Team
  • 2001 Memorial Cup win with the Red Deer Rebels
  • 2001 Memorial Cup All-Star Team
  • 2001 Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy
  • 2008 AHL All- Star Classic

Statistics

(End of season 2010/11)

1999 NHL Entry Draft 2001 NHL Entry Draft Sports franchising 2001–02 AHL season 2004–05 NHL lockout 2004–05 AHL season Farmteam Houston Aeros (1994–2013) 2008–09 KHL season Swedish Hockey League 2009–10 AHL season 2010–11 DEL season Slovak Extraliga
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