Ryan Kavanagh

{{Short description|Canadian ice hockey player (born 1991)}}

{{distinguish|text=film financier Ryan Kavanaugh or the Australian cyclist Ryan Cavanagh}}

{{Infobox ice hockey player

| name = Ryan Kavanagh

| team =

| league =

| played_for = EC Red Bull Salzburg
EHC München
Reading Royals
Tønsberg Vikings
Braehead Clan
HC Pustertal Wölfe

| position = Defence

| image =

| image_size = 230px

| height_ft = 5

| height_in = 8

| weight_lb = 180

| shoots = Right

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1991|2|12}}

| birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada

| draft = Undrafted

| draft_team =

| draft_year =

| career_start = 2011

| career_end = 2016

}}

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

Career

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.{{Cite web|url = http://www.braeheadclan.com/news/428/news-kavanagh-pleased-to-be-purple.html#.U-IOSfl_uYI|title = Kavanagh Pleased to Be Purple|date = August 6, 2014|accessdate = August 27, 2014|website = braeheadclan.com|publisher = |last = |first = }} In 2016, he moved to Italy and signed for HC Pustertal Wölfe before retiring.

Career statistics

=Regular season and playoffs=

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! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" |

! colspan="5" | Regular season

! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" |

! colspan="5" | Playoffs

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! Season

! Team

! League

! GP

! G

! A

! Pts

! PIM

! GP

! G

! A

! Pts

! PIM

2007–08

| Lac-St-Louis Lions

| QMAAA

| 40

14294330

| 10

26810
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| 2008–09

| Rimouski Océanic

| QMJHL

| 38

4121918

| 9

0110
2009–10

| Rimouski Océanic

| QMJHL

| 58

18395726

| 12

76136
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| 2010–11

| Rimouski Océanic

| QMJHL

| 40

1131428

| —

 — — — —
2010–11

| Shawinigan Cataractes

| QMJHL

| 28

6222810

| 10

3364
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| 2011–12

| EC Red Bull Salzburg

| EBEL

| 33

7111814

| 6

0222
2012–13

| EHC München

| DEL

| 41

481210

| —

 — — — —
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! colspan="3" | EBEL totals

! 33

! 7

! 11

! 18

! 14

! 6

! 0

! 2

! 2

! 2

=International=

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! Year

! Team

! Comp

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! GP

! G

! A

! Pts

! PIM

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| 2007

| Quebec

| U17

| 5

1452
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! colspan="3" | Junior I'ntl totals

! 5

! 1

! 4

! 5

! 2

Awards and honours

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! Award

! Year

!

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| colspan="3" | QMJHL

First Team All-Star

| 2011

| {{cite news| url = http://thechronicleherald.ca/Sports/1237141.html | newspaper = The Chronicle Herald | date = 2011-04-07 | accessdate = 2012-04-03 | title = QMJHL All-Star Teams announced}}

References

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