Ryan Kavanagh (born February 12, 1991) is a Canadian former ice hockey defenceman.

Ryan Kavanagh
Born (1991-02-12) February 12, 1991 (age 33)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Height 5 ft 8 in (173 cm)
Weight 180 lb (82 kg; 12 st 12 lb)
Position Defence
Shot Right
Played for EC Red Bull Salzburg
EHC München
Reading Royals
Tønsberg Vikings
Braehead Clan
HC Pustertal Wölfe
NHL draft Undrafted
Playing career 2011–2016

Career

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Kavanagh played junior hockey in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League for the Rimouski Océanic and the Shawinigan Cataractes between 2008 and 2011. He began his professional career in 2011 in the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga in Austria for EC Red Bull Salzburg and then moved to Germany's Deutsche Eishockey Liga to play for EHC München. He returned to North America in 2013 and signed for the Reading Royals of the ECHL but the tenure only lasted 19 games before moving to the Tønsberg Vikings in Norway's GET-ligaen in the tail-end of their season. In 2014, Kavanagh moved the United Kingdom's Elite Ice Hockey League and signed for Glasgow-based team the Braehead Clan.[1] In 2016, he moved to Italy and signed for HC Pustertal Wölfe before retiring.

Career statistics

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Regular season and playoffs

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Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
2007–08 Lac-St-Louis Lions QMAAA 40 14 29 43 30 10 2 6 8 10
2008–09 Rimouski Océanic QMJHL 38 4 12 19 18 9 0 1 1 0
2009–10 Rimouski Océanic QMJHL 58 18 39 57 26 12 7 6 13 6
2010–11 Rimouski Océanic QMJHL 40 11 31 42 8  —  —  —  —  —
2010–11 Shawinigan Cataractes QMJHL 28 6 22 28 10 10 3 3 6 4
2011–12 EC Red Bull Salzburg EBEL 33 7 11 18 14 6 0 2 2 2
2012–13 EHC München DEL 41 4 8 12 10  —  —  —  —  —
EBEL totals 33 7 11 18 14 6 0 2 2 2

International

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Year Team Comp   GP G A Pts PIM
2007 Quebec U17 5 1 4 5 2
Junior I'ntl totals 5 1 4 5 2

Awards and honours

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Award Year
QMJHL
First Team All-Star 2011 [2]

References

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  1. ^ "Kavanagh Pleased to Be Purple". braeheadclan.com. August 6, 2014. Retrieved August 27, 2014.
  2. ^ "QMJHL All-Star Teams announced". The Chronicle Herald. 2011-04-07. Retrieved 2012-04-03.
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