Patrick Rissmiller
Patrick Rissmiller ( born October 26, 1978 in Belmont, Massachusetts) is an American professional ice hockey player in the position of left winger who stands in July, 2011 at the Colorado Avalanche in the National Hockey League contract.
Career
Rissmiller started his career in 1998 at Holy Cross College in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, a league game in the operation of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The Americans remained in college four years faithfully and was one of the leading players of the team. Already in his first game year he managed to get elected it into the rookie team in the league, 41 points after he had succeeded in 34 games. This was followed by two adult seasons in which he could achieve no improvement compared to his first year in the league in the categories of points and templates. Only in his last season in the MAAC is increased Rissmiller and scored 46 points in 33 matches, which he was voted the best offensive player of the year.
After his final season at the College of ungedraftete Americans moved to the Cincinnati Cyclones in the East Coast Hockey League. DC in his first two games for the team reach him four points scorer, making him the Cleveland Barons, which at that time - as well as the Cyclones - acted as a farm team of the San Jose Sharks, brought in the American Hockey League. There Rissmiller also added a well and closed the season with 40 points as the seventh best scorer of the team from. In the following season concluded the striker to its good performance in the Barons and was first appointed in the course of the 2003/04 season in the NHL squad of the San Jose Sharks after they offered him in the summer of 2003, a professional contract with validity for the NHL had. Overall Rissmiller ran four times for the Sharks, however, be recorded without a single point.
In the following two seasons Rissmiller collected, due to the lockout in the NHL season 2004/ 05 and the well-staffed squad of Sharks, more experience in the AHL with the Cleveland Barons and set with 117 assists and 181 scorer points franchise records for most Assists and points scorer in the jersey of the Cleveland Barons on. Only at the end of the 2005/06 season he was once again the squad of NHL teams, where he established himself eventually. In the seasons 2006 /07 and 2007/ 08, in the Rissmiller each 79 of 82 games of the season completed and scored a total of 39 points, trained him the coaching staff to a defensively oriented forward to. After the end of the playing time of the contract by the American ran out, after which he joined as a free agent with the New York Rangers. Here, however, the attacker could not prevail, and found himself at an early stage in the season in the stands again. Finally, he was in the AHL farm team of the Rangers, the Hartford Wolf Pack sent. He finished the season 2008/ 09 and also began the following before he was hired by the league rivals Grand Rapids Griffins.
On 1 August 2010 he was released along with Donald Brashear to the Atlanta Thrashers. End of February 2011, he was given just before the trade deadline in a transfer business to the Florida Panthers.
In July 2011, Rissmiller signed a contract for one year with the Colorado Avalanche.
Awards and achievements
- 2006 Cleveland Barons Most Valuable Player
- 2008 Victoria Cup win with the New York Rangers
- 2010 AHL All- Star Classic
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 )