Ryan O'Reilly (ice hockey)
Ryan O'Reilly ( born February 7, 1991, Clinton, Ontario ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who plays in the position of center for the Colorado Avalanche in the National Hockey League since October 2009. His older brother Cal is also hockey players.
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Career
Ryan O'Reilly was in the Ontario Hockey League Priority Selection selected in 2007 at a total first position of the Erie Otters. In the 2007 /08 OHL season O'Reilly came in 61 games for the Otters used, thereby pass him 19 goals and 52 points scorer. Following the season he was voted the best rookie team internally as well as sporty fairest player of the team. In recognition of his playful and educational performance, he was also nominated by the Otters for the Bobby Smith Trophy; However, the award went to Ryan Ellis.
In his second OHL season in which he ran aground as assistant captain of the Erie Otters, O'Reilly was able to continue his achievements from the previous year and reached in 68 games 66 points. This season, he established himself as a good two-way player both offensively for danger caused, as also impressed on the defensive by good performance. The coach of the OHL Western Conference chose Ryan O'Reilly after the 2008/ 09 season, among other things, the best outnumbered players in the Conference.
NHL Entry Draft 2009, an annual event in which teams of the National Hockey League can secure the rights to promising young players to the Canadians was selected in the second round by a total of 33 positions from the Colorado Avalanche. After more than pointing performance in pre-season training camp Avalanche O'Reilly was on 1 October 2009 his debut in the National Hockey League with the Colorado 5-2 home victory over the San Jose Sharks. The nomination in the NHL squad of Avalanche was surprising to many. O'Reilly, 2003 was the first player who managed to jump directly to the NHL and was not selected in the first round of Entry Drafts since Dan Fritsche and Patrice Bergeron. In this game, Colorado was the youngest player ever at 18 years and 236 days.
In his NHL debut, the attacker was a template, followed his first goal in a game against the Montreal Canadiens two weeks later. The striker completed his rookie season total of 81 games in the regular season, thereby pass him 26 points scorer. In the subsequent play-offs he forged in overtime of game three of the Western Conference quarter-final of the best- of-seven series against the San Jose Sharks a liberation of Sharks defenseman Dan Boyle in the San Jose gate is down. Due to the special rules in hockey, the gate was attributed to him.
In the NHL season 2010/11 he was able to confirm the performance of the preseason. Like last year, the Canadians scored 26 points; However, for the Colorado game time was after the regular season to an end after the team finished in last place in the Western Conference. In the following game time O'Reilly has established itself as one of the best two-way forward for the National Hockey League and was the middle of this season as a possible winner of the Frank J. Selke Trophy, which is awarded annually by the NHL to the best defensive forward. At the end of the season was the most successful center with 55 points points scorer of the Colorado Avalanche.
After the season 2011/12 started his contract ran out and the player was initially known as a restricted free agent. During the NHL lockout before the start of the 2012/13 season he played for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Kontinental Hockey League ( KHL ). After completion of the lockout, he could not agree with Colorado on a new contract and remained first in the KHL. On January 24, his contract was finally terminated by mutual agreement with Magnitogorsk to an ankle injury.
After the Colorado Avalanche and Ryan O'Reilly could not agree on a contract in the following weeks, submitted to the Calgary Flames players on 28 February 2013, a so-called " Offer Sheet ", a kind of contract offer. The contract had a term of two years and said O'Reilly a salary of 10 million U.S. dollars. Due to the conditions laid down in the NHL regulations binding on the current club as a restricted free agent, the Colorado Avalanche had a week to make an equivalent offer in order to keep the players in the team, which they did a few hours later. As a result, O'Reilly graduated yet 29 NHL games for Colorado, scoring 20 points scorer.
Internationally
The attacker made his international debut at the 2008 World U -17 Hockey Challenge, where he ran aground as captain for Team Ontario and won the gold medal. Also gold he reached in 2008 at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament. He gained when he led his country at the U18 World Youth Championship as captain and achieved a fourth place greater attention. In the men's World Championships in 2012 and 2013 O'Reilly finished with the Canadian national team in each fifth.
Awards and achievements
- 2007 Jack Ferguson Award
- 2009 CHL Top Prospects Game
Internationally
- 2008 Gold medal at the World U -17 Hockey Challenge
- 2008 Gold medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament
Career Stats
Internationally
( 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 )