Ryan Kraft

{{Short description|American ice hockey player (born 1975)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox ice hockey player

| image=Ryan Kraft (30805300934) (cropped).jpg

| image_size = 230px

| caption=Kraft in 2001

| played_for = San Jose Sharks
Kassel Huskies

| position = Left wing

| shoots = Left

| height_ft = 5

| height_in = 7

| weight_lb = 194

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1975|11|07}}

| birth_place = Bottineau, North Dakota, U.S.

| ntl_team = USA

| draft = 194th overall

| draft_year = 1995

| draft_team = San Jose Sharks

| career_start = 1998

| career_end = 2010

}}

Ryan Kraft (born November 7, 1975) is an American former professional ice hockey Winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the San Jose Sharks. He is currently the head coach for the Moorhead Spuds girls hockey team.

Playing career

Kraft played collegiate hockey with the University of Minnesota in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) before he was selected in the eighth round, 194th overall, in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft by the San Jose Sharks.

As a member of the Sharks' ECHL affiliate, the Richmond Renegades, Kraft was named to the ECHL All-Star Team during the 1998–99 season and the 1999–2000 season.{{cite web |url=http://www.echl.com/upload_images/2007AllStarMediaNotes.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2009-11-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011023030/http://www.echl.com/upload_images/2007AllStarMediaNotes.pdf |archivedate=2007-10-11 }} Kraft would finish his rookie season as a point-per-game player, scoring 64 points in 63 games during the regular season. Kraft would also go on to score 20 points in 18 post-season games in that same season. Richmond would go on to lose to eventual Kelly Cup Champion Mississippi in overtime of the seventh and deciding game of the Finals.

Kraft had previously played for the San Jose Sharks of the NHL, scoring one assist in seven games.

Coaching career

On January 29, 2013, it was announced that Kraft would serve as assistant coach of the Minnesota Magicians in the North American Hockey League. On June 24, 2019 Kraft was named head coach of the Moorhead Minnesota High School girls varsity hockey team.{{cite web | url=http://nahl.com/news/story.cfm?id=7611 | title=Magicians announce coaching staff | publisher=North American Hockey League | date=January 29, 2013 | accessdate=July 31, 2013}}

Personal

Kraft was born in Bottineau, North Dakota and raised and currently resides in Moorhead, Minnesota.

Career statistics

=Regular season and playoffs=

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! colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff" |

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

! colspan="5" | Regular season

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

! colspan="5" | Playoffs

bgcolor="#e0e0e0"

! Season

! Team

! League

! GP

! G

! A

! Pts

! PIM

! GP

! G

! A

! Pts

! PIM

1991–92

| Moorhead High School

| HS-MN

| —

| —

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| 1993–94

| Moorhead High School

| HS-MN

| 25

404585

| —

1994–95

| University of Minnesota

| WCHA

| 44

13334644

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1995–96

| University of Minnesota

| WCHA

| 41

13243724

| —

1996–97

| University of Minnesota

| WCHA

| 42

25214637

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1997–98

| University of Minnesota

| WCHA

| 32

11263716

| —

1998–99

| Richmond Renegades

| ECHL

| 63

28366435

| 18

1010204
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1999–2000

| Richmond Renegades

| ECHL

| 44

32356732

| —

1999–2000

| Kentucky Thoroughblades

| AHL

| 15

76132

| 5

3140
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1999–2000

| Cleveland Lumberjacks

| IHL

| 1

0110

| —

2000–01

| Kentucky Thoroughblades

| AHL

| 77

38508836

| 3

2020
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2001–02

| Cleveland Barons

| AHL

| 63

19416042

| —

2002–03

| San Jose Sharks

| NHL

| 7

0110

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2002–03

| Cleveland Barons

| AHL

| 53

14274112

| —

2003–04

| Bridgeport Sound Tigers

| AHL

| 74

15213620

| 6

2240
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2004–05

| Bridgeport Sound Tigers

| AHL

| 38

991812

| —

2005–06

| Kassel Huskies

| DEL

| 49

17314834

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2006–07

| Kassel Huskies

| DEU.2

| 50

18224060

| 10

481212
2007–08

| Kassel Huskies

| DEU.2

| 49

23305336

| 14

35812
bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 2008–09

| Kassel Huskies

| DEL

| 47

14203438

| —

2009–10

| Kassel Huskies

| DEL

| 52

12142628

| —

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! colspan="3" | AHL totals

! 320

! 102

! 154

! 256

! 124

! 14

! 7

! 3

! 10

! 0

bgcolor="#e0e0e0"

! colspan="3" | NHL totals

! 7

! 0

! 1

! 1

! 0

! —

! —

! —

! —

! —

bgcolor="#e0e0e0"

! colspan="3" | DEL totals

! 148

! 43

! 65

! 108

! 100

! —

! —

! —

! —

! —

=International=

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! Year

! Team

! Event

! Result

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

! GP

! G

! A

! Pts

! PIM

2001

| United States

| WC

| 4th

| 9

| 0

| 2

| 2

| 0

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! colspan="4" | Senior totals

! 9

! 0

! 2

! 2

! 0

Awards and honors

class="wikitable"

! Award

! Year

!

ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#e0e0e0"

| colspan="3" | College

All-WCHA Rookie Team

| 1994–95

|

WCHA All-Tournament Team

| 1995, 1997

| {{cite news|title=WCHA Tourney History|url=http://wcha.com/men/tourney/history.php|publisher=WCHA|accessdate=2014-06-26}}

All-WCHA Third Team

| 1996–97

|

ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#e0e0e0"

| colspan="3" | AHL

All-Star Game

| 2001, 2002

| {{cite web| url = https://theahl.com/stats/game-summary/1005940 | title = Canadian All-Stars 11, Planet USA All-Stars 10 | publisher = American Hockey League | date = 2001-01-15 | accessdate = 2019-02-01}}

All-Rookie Team

| 2001

|

Red Garrett Memorial Award

| 2001

|

Second all-star team

| 2001

|

References

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