Ryan Callahan

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Position Right Wing
Shoots Right
Height
Weight		 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
185 lb (84 kg/13 st 3 lb)
NHL Team New York Rangers
Nationality Flag of the United States United States
Born March 21, 1985 (1985-03-21) (age 23),
Rochester, NY
NHL Draft 127th overall, 2004
New York Rangers
Pro career 2006 – present

Ryan Callahan (born March 21, 1985 in Rochester, New York) is an American ice hockey right wing with the New York Rangers of the NHL. He played one year of high school hockey for Hilton High School. He began his junior career with the Rochester Junior Americans of the Empire Junior B Hockey League where he played for two seasons, 1999-2001, then moving on to the Syracuse Jr. Crunch and Buffalo Lightning of the OPJHL before moving onto a four-year OHL stint with the Guelph Storm, where he played alongside future Ranger teammate Daniel Girardi. Callahan played on the Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League for most of the 2006-07 season.

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Callahan received his first NHL call-up to the Rangers on November 28, 2006,[1] making his NHL debut on December 1, but he would only play in that one game before being sent back down to the Wolf Pack. He was called up for a second time on December 19,[2] but would again only play in one NHL game in that stint. Towards the end of the season, Callahan was called up for the third and final time on March 15, 2007, after scoring 35 goals in 60 AHL games, and he would stay with the Rangers through the postseason.[3] Two days later, on March 17, he scored his first two NHL goals against Joey MacDonald of the Boston Bruins. He scored his first career assist on March 21 and first career game-winning goal on April 1. He scored his first two NHL playoff goals in a 7-0 win in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals against the Atlanta Thrashers on April 17, 2007.

After scoring one goal in the first eight games of the 2007-08 season with the Rangers, Callahan was out for a month with a Grade 2 knee sprain.[4] He never gained his full strength back at the NHL level, going his next 16 games without a goal, so the Rangers sent him back to the Wolf Pack on January 7, 2008.[5] After 11 games in Hartford, He was called up on February 3 to replace an injured Brendan Shanahan in the Rangers' line-up against the Montreal Canadiens.[6] Callahan tallied his second career two-goal game against the San Jose Sharks on February 17.

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    Regular Season   Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
2000-01 Syracuse Jr. Crunch OPJHL 3 4 2 6 0 – – – – –
2001-02 Buffalo Lightning OPJHL 47 13 23 36 75 – – – – –
2002-03 Guelph Storm OHL 59 14 17 31 47 11 0 3 3 2
2003-04 Guelph Storm OHL 68 36 32 38 86 22 13 8 21 20
2004-05 Guelph Storm OHL 60 28 26 54 108 4 1 1 2 6
2005-06 Guelph Storm OHL 62 52 32 84 126 13 7 17 24 20
2006-07 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 60 35 20 55 74 – – – – –
2006-07 New York Rangers NHL 14 4 2 6 9 10 2 1 3 6
2007-08 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 11 7 8 15 27 – – – – –
2007-08 New York Rangers NHL 52 8 5 13 31 10 2 2 4 10
OPJHL Totals 50 17 25 42 75 – – – – –
OHL Totals 249 130 107 237 367 50 21 29 50 48
AHL Totals 71 42 28 70 101 – – – – –
NHL Totals 66 12 7 19 40 20 4 3 7 16

[edit] References

  1. ^ Berlet, Bruce. "Callahan Gets Call to Join Rangers", Hartford Courant, 2006-11-29. Retrieved on 2008-02-17. 
  2. ^ Dellapina, John. "Shanahan, Lundqvist Latest Flu Victims", Daily News, 2006-12-19. Retrieved on 2008-02-17. 
  3. ^ Zinser, Lynn. "Two Rangers Rookies Are Providing Exuberance Amid Experience", The New York Times, 2007-04-22. Retrieved on 2008-02-17. 
  4. ^ "Rangers RW Ryan Callahan out indefinitely with sprained knee", Associated Press, 2007-10-24. Retrieved on 2008-02-17. 
  5. ^ New York Rangers (2008-01-07). "Dawes, Moore recalled from Hartford". Press release. Retrieved on 2008-02-17.
  6. ^ Zipay, Steve. "Rangers rally to beat Canadiens, 5-3", Newsday, 2008-02-04. Retrieved on 2008-02-17. 

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