Lance Ward
Lance Ward ( born June 2, 1978 in Lloydminster, Alberta ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played in the HV71 in Elitserien on the position of the defender.
Career
Lance Ward first played hockey in his hometown of Lloydminster, before the defensive player from 1994 for four seasons for the Red Deer Rebels in the Canadian junior Western Hockey League walked out onto the ice. NHL Entry Draft 1996, he was selected by the New Jersey Devils in the first round in the tenth place. Because it but do not put the contract is signed and he instead continues aground for the Red Deer Rebels of the Western Hockey League, the Canadians in the NHL Entry Draft in 1998 was again available, where he eventually 63 of the Florida Panthers in the third round in place was drawn.
After Ward was from 1998 to 2000 for various teams in the East Coast Hockey League, International Hockey League and American Hockey League active and also was in the service of the Louisville Panthers, a farm team of the Florida Panthers, with whom he in the 1999/2000 season first round of the playoffs reached. During the season 2000/ 01 Ward came to his debut in the National Hockey League. It ran from 2001 to 2003 for the Florida Panthers and came to a total of 134 games in which the right-handed shooter came up four goals, seven assists, 254 penalty minutes and eleven points. During the season 2002/ 03, on 30 January 2003, the Panthers transferred the defender together with Sandis Ozoliòš in exchange for Pavel Trnka, Matt Cullen and a fourth -round vote in NHL Entry Draft 2003 on the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, for the he completed a total of 75 games, it did not score and only had five assists. In the 2004/05 season Ward played due to the lockout not in the NHL and signed in the summer of 2005, a contract with the Ottawa Senators, the / 06 put him in the course of the 2005 exclusively in Farm Team Binghamton Senators of the American Hockey League.
On June 5, 2006 Ward signed a one-year contract with the Swedish Elitserien club HV71. There, the Canadians fell on mainly through his hard play and was also often involved in confrontations with opposing players. With 273 penalty minutes in the season 2006/ 07, the Canadian holds the record for most penalty minutes in a season in the highest Swedish league. After this season, the defender had already signed a two year deal with EC Graz 99ers of Austria, but Graz broke the contract before the start of the season, after the Canadians returned to Sweden with his former club in Jönköping, where he again received a one-year contract. In the 2007 /08 season Ward was the first time the Swedish championship and then signed a contract for the following season with the Frankfurt Lions of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. For the season 2009/10 Ward returned to the HV71, with which the Canadian end of the season for the second time in his career, won the Swedish championship. After End of contract in the summer of 2011 Ward became available as a loose association actor.
Awards and achievements
- 2008 Swedish Champion with HV71
- 2010 Swedish Champion with HV71
Career Stats
( 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 )