Ryan Kraft

Ryan force ( born November 7, 1975 in Bottineau, North Dakota ) is an American professional ice hockey player. In the National Hockey League, he was active for the San Jose Sharks.

Career

Force first played from 1994 to 1998 at the University of Minnesota in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, a league in the play mode of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. There he won at the end of the 1995/96 season the championship of the WCHA. After him, the San Jose Sharks had already selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1995 in the eighth round at 194th place, the Americans changed after his training in the organization of the franchises in California, where he was first in East Coast Hockey League for the Richmond Renegades was on the ice.

Over the next three years playing the Center exclusively in the minor leagues at the Farm Teams San Jose, the. Thoroughblades Kentucky from the International Hockey League and the Cleveland Barons of the American Hockey League After his first full season in the American Hockey League 2000 /01 power with the Dudley "Red" Garrett Memorial Award was awarded for the best rookie of the season and also appointed to the Second All-Star Team and All- Rookie Team in the AHL. As a result, the attacker was nominated for the squad of the U.S. national team at the IIHF World Men's Championship in 2001 and played in the 2002 /03 his first seven NHL games for the San Jose Sharks. After the season, Kraft's contract expired and he signed a new contract with the New York Islanders, but let him play in the Bridgeport Sound Tigers in the AHL exclusively in the summer of 2003.

For the 2005/06 season, the center forward moved to Europe in the German Hockey League to the Kassel Huskies. Despite the decline of the Huskies in the second Bundesliga power remained with the northern Hesse and celebrated with them after two years of the resurgence in the DEL.

Awards and achievements

  • 2001 AHL Second All-Star Team
  • 2001 AHL All- Rookie Team
  • 2001 Dudley "Red" Garrett Memorial Award
  • 2002 AHL All- Star Classic

Career Stats

Internationally

Represented the U.S. at:

  • World Cup 2001

( 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 )

1995 NHL Entry Draft Richmond Renegades (ECHL) Kentucky Thoroughblades Sports franchising Farmteam International Hockey League (1945–2001) 2001 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships 2002–03 NHL season 2005–06 DEL season Broadmoor Trophy Cleveland Lumberjacks Point (ice hockey) Plus/Minus
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