Ryan Malone
Ryan Malone ( born December 1, 1979 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American professional ice hockey player who is currently at the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League contract.
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Career
The 1.93 m wide winger played for several U.S. junior teams during his college days he was in the team of the St. Cloud State University, which competes in the game operation of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. NHL Entry Draft 1999 Malone was finally selected as the 115th in the fourth round of the Penguins ( drafted ).
Towards the end of the season 2002/ 03 the Americans first stood in the squad of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, a farm team of the Pittsburgh Penguins in the American Hockey League. Already in the following season Malone managed the leap into the NHL roster of franchises from Pittsburgh, behind Dick Tärnström Alexei Morozov and he immediately became the third best scorer of the Penguins. The lockout in the season 2004/ 05 spent the attacker with the Espoo Blues of the Finnish SM- liiga, the SV Ritten from the Italian Serie A1 as well as the HC Ambri -Piotta in the Swiss National League A 2005 Ryan Malone returned to the squad of Pittsburgh Penguins returned, with whom he 2008 Stanley Cup finals reached, but there the Detroit Red Wings defeated in six games. At the end of the season Malone became a free agent. Since Pittsburgh but could not agree on a new contract with him, they transferred the initial negotiating rights to the Tampa Bay Lightning, who brought him a little later to signing a doped with 31.5 million U.S. dollars seven year contract.
Internationally
With the U.S. National Team Ryan Malone won at the World Ice Hockey Championship 2004, Bronze Medal, 2006, he took the " Team USA " to seventh place. In the previous 16 World Cup matches, the striker scored four goals and two assists. Malone participated with Team USA at the 2010 Winter Olympics and won the silver medal with the team.
Awards and achievements
- 2004 NHL Young Stars Game
- 2004 NHL All- Rookie Team
Internationally
- 2004 bronze medal at the World Championships
- 2010 Silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented the U.S. at:
- World Cup 2004
- World Cup 2006
- 2010 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 )
Family
His father, Greg Malone, was also a hockey player and was active in the Pittsburgh Penguins, Hartford Whalers and Quebec Nordiques in the NHL, where he came to 501 points scorer in 704 games. 1991 and 1992, he won a talent scout of the Pittsburgh Penguins Stanley Cup and worked in the following years as chief scout of the team, before joining in the organization of the Phoenix Coyotes in 2006. Ryan Malone's uncle, Jim Malone, was selected in the 1980 NHL Entry Draft in the first round, but never came into the NHL used.