Mike Van Ryn

Michael Theodore Van Ryn ( born May 14, 1979 in London, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and current coach, who during his active career, among other things with the St. Louis Blues, Florida Panthers and Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League played.

Career

Mike Van Ryn began his career as a hockey player in the ice hockey team of the University of Michigan, where he was active from 1997 to 1999 a total of two years in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. During this time he was selected during the NHL Entry Draft in 1998 in the first round than a total of 26 players from the New Jersey Devils. After another year for the University of team he played but in the 1999/2000 season for the Sarnia Sting of the Ontario Hockey League.

Since it New Jersey had not brought the contract is signed, he was in the summer of 2000, committed as a free agent by the St. Louis Blues, for whom he played until 2003 in the National Hockey League. He also came in his three seasons in St. Louis also each for their farm team, the Worcester IceCats used.

On 11 March 2003 Van Ryn was in exchange for Valeri Bure and a fifth round selection in the NHL Entry Draft law submitted in 2004 to the Florida Panthers, for whom he played the next five years. By the end of the season 2002/ 03 he was but only for Florida at that time the farm team, the San Antonio Rampage in the American Hockey League on the ice. During the lockout in the 2004/ 05 NHL season, he paused.

On 2 September 2008, the Canadian was issued in exchange for Bryan McCabe and a fourth- round choice right in the NHL Entry Draft in 2010 by the Panthers to the Toronto Maple Leafs. In the 2008 /09 season he came to 27 inserts for the Maple Leafs, but re-injury problems put him out of action for a long time and Van Ryn was the following season without an insert in the NHL. In July 2010, he declared his playing career ended.

In the season 2010/11 Van Ryn worked as an assistant coach with the Niagara IceDogs in the OHL. For the 2011/12 season he was bound by the Houston Aeros in the same position.

Internationally

Van Ryn represented his native country at the Junior World Cup in 1998 and the U20 World Youth Championship in 1999. In the two tournaments he played a total of 14 games and recorded one assist. In the U20 World Youth Championship 1999, he was defeated in the final match with Canada against Russia and won the silver medal.

Awards and achievements

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