Ryan Getzlaf
Ryan Getzlaf ( born May 10, 1985 in Regina, Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player on the position of the center, who plays for the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League since 2005. His brother Chris is a professional Canadian football player in the Canadian Football League.
After the Canadians had initially spent his junior time mainly in his hometown of Regina, he was active from 2001 to 2005 for the Calgary Hitmen of the Western Hockey League to win without particular success. The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim Erstrundenpick of the calendar year 2003 that debuted during the 2005/06 season for Californians in the National Hockey League. Quickly, the center forward has developed into a cornerstone of the team and won with the Ducks in 2007 the prestigious Stanley Cup. In October 2008, he promoted the management of Californians as assistant captain; about two years later, Getzlaf took over after the resignation of Triple Gold Club member Scott Niedermayer finally the Office of the team captain.
The Center represented the Canadian national team in international tournaments at both junior as well as senior citizens level. As a junior player, he won the Team Canada won two gold medals in the Senior World Championships 2009, Getzlaf secured the vice-championship with the national team of his native country, and a year later, at the 2010 Winter Olympics, won the attacker Olympic gold medal. Also in 2014 he was with the Canadian National Team Olympic champion.
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Career
The 1.93 m wide center began at the age of four years with the skating. As a child, he filled out a wide range of sporting activities and dealt next to the hockey games with Canadian football and the baseball sport. These activities practiced Getzlaf also with his two years older brother Chris from. As Ryan Getzlaf Active played at club level first junior hockey in his hometown of Regina, Saskatchewan. In 1998, he also represented as a catcher of Regina White Sox the province of Saskatchewan with the Canadian Baseball Championships peewee level and won several times the award for Most Valuable Player of an encounter. The 2000/01 season, the striker spent in Regina Saskatchewan Bantam AA Rangers Hockey League and the Regina Pat Canadians in Saskatchewan Midget AAA Hockey League. During this time, the Calgary Hitmen selected from the WHL Bantam Draft offensive player in the 2000 in the third round to 54th position.
The ways of Getzlaf brothers parted in the calendar year 2001, when Ryan for season 2001 /02 for the first time aground for the Calgary Hitmen of the Western Hockey League and Chris a university in Regina attended to after a career as a professional Canadian football player pursue. His rookie season in the WHL finished the striker with 18 points in 63 games scorer of the regular season. In the following season succeeded the right-handed shooters to significantly increase his points total. The Canadians contributed 29 goals and 39 Assists - the second best value for the internal team scorer Fredrik Sjöström with 77 points - in the playoff arrival of the Calgary Hitmen. As a season before arbitration Getzlaf with the team in the first playoff round and defeated this time the Red Deer Rebels in five games after the team had a season previously lost Erstrundenserie against the Swift Current Broncos in defeat at the decisive seventh game.
NHL Entry Draft 2003, he was in the first round, selected in 19th position for his current team, which was then called the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. In the fall of 2003, the Canadians took part in the training camp of Californians and was the beginning of October in competition with Joffrey Lupul to the last place in the NHL squad Mighty Ducks. Finally, Lupul prevailed, so Getzlaf time being no contract was awarded and was ordered to the Calgary Hitmen in the Western Hockey League. In the course of the season 2003/ 04 he acted at times with Andrew Ladd and Brandon Segal in a forward line. With 75 points in the regular season he had in common with Andrew Ladd best scorer of the Hitmen, although Getzlaf only 49 WHL games - had done, since the start of the season at the training camp of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and around it the - 22 games less than winger Ladd turn of the year had also taken part in the U20 world Youth Championship in 2004. Getzlaf finished with a plus / minus score of 32 the league in fourth place; its yield by an average of 1.53 points per game scorer were the peak value in this WHL season. Nevertheless, the subsequent playoff round was again not successful, so he missed the catchment into the Eastern Conference semifinals for the third time in series with the Calgary Hitmen.
For the season 2004 /05, the center forward was appointed as the successor of defender Patrick Wellar for the ninth captain in the history of the Calgary Hitmen. During that season the offensive athlete suffered in a collision with Red Deer Rebels defenseman Dion Phaneuf a traumatic brain injury and was in consequence one months playing unfit. This was the first serious injury that had suffered in the course of his career of Canadians. During the AHL playoffs the season 2004/ 05 the right shooter came first for the Anaheim farm team, the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks, are used. The following season he played for both the Portland Pirates, another AHL farm team the Mighty Ducks, and Anaheim himself in the NHL.
2007 Getzlaf was nominated for the taking place in the framework program of the NHL All-Star Game Young Stars game in which he ran aground on the team in the Western Conference. In the same year he won with the Anaheim Ducks for the first time in his career, the Stanley Cup. In November 2007, the attacker extended his contract by five years with a total content of a total of 26.625 million U.S. dollars and a term until the end of season 2012/13. Following the resignation of Scott Niedermayer in the summer of 2010 promoted him the management of Californians for season 2010/11 as the new team captain of the Ducks. In March 2013 he signed a new eight -year contract with the Anaheim Ducks with a total value of 66 million U.S. dollars, which aims to provide him an annual average salary of 8.25 million dollars.
Getzlaf is one of the strongest offensive players in the National Hockey League, however, is not so much as a pure scorer, but acts generally as a two -way forward. Another strength of his physical presence is considered, also because the striker a form-fitting Hockey preferred. He tends to frequently leave out promising income opportunities and instead to play a teammate.
Internationally
With the Canadian U20 national Getzlaf won at the U20 World Youth Championship 2005, the gold medal and three years later with the Senior Selection silver. In 2010, he won the gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. In the final, the Canadians prevailed 3-2 after extra time against the United States.
Awards and achievements
- 2003 CHL Top Prospects Game
- 2004 WHL East First All-Star Team
- 2005 WHL East Second All-Star Team
- 2007 NHL Young Stars Game
- 2007 Stanley Cup win with the Anaheim Ducks
- 2008 NHL All-Star Game
- 2009 NHL All-Star Game
Internationally
- 2003 Gold medal at the U18 World Youth Championship
- 2004 Silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championships
- 2005 Gold medal at the U20 World Junior Championships
- 2005 Top assist provider of the U20 World Junior Championships
- 2005 Best Plus / Minus balance the U20 World Youth Championship
- 2008 Silver medal at the World Championships
- 2008 Best original donor of the World Cup
- 2010 Gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games
- 2014 Gold Medal at the Olympic Winter Games
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Canada at:
- World U -17 Hockey Challenge in 2002
- U18 Junior World Championship 2003
- U20 Junior World Championship 2004
- U20 World Junior Championships 2005
- World Championship 2008
- 2010 Winter Olympics
- World Cup 2012
- 2014 Winter Olympics
( 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 )