Ryan Callahan

Infobox Ice Hockey Player


team=New York Rangers
prospect_team =
prospect_league =
league = NHL
position = Right Wing
shoots = Right
height_ft = 5
height_in = 11
weight_lb = 185
nickname =
nationality = USA
birth_date = birth date and age|1985|3|21
birth_place = Rochester, NY
draft = 127th overall
draft_year = 2004
draft_team = New York Rangers
career_start = 2006

Ryan Callahan (born March 21, 1985 in Rochester, New York) is an American ice hockey right wing with the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Playing career

Callahan 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. Ryan turned professional with the Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League where he played most of the 2006-07 season.

Callahan received his first NHL call-up to the Rangers on November 28, 2006, [cite news| url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-28362047_ITM | title=Callahan Gets Call to Join Rangers | publisher="Hartford Courant" | last=Berlet | first=Bruce | date=2006-11-29 | accessdate=2008-02-17] 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, [cite news| url=http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/rangers/2006/12/shanahan-lundqvist-latest-flu.html | title=Shanahan, Lundqvist Latest Flu Victims | publisher="Daily News" | last=Dellapina | first=John | date=2006-12-19 | accessdate=2008-02-17] 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. [cite news| url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/sports/hockey/22rangers.html | title=Two Rangers Rookies Are Providing Exuberance Amid Experience | publisher="The New York Times" | last=Zinser | first=Lynn | date=2007-04-22 | accessdate=2008-02-17] 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. [cite news| url=http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=nhl&id=3077740 | title=Rangers RW Ryan Callahan out indefinitely with sprained knee | publisher=Associated Press | date=2007-10-24 | accessdate=2008-02-17] 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. [cite press release| url=http://rangers.nhl.com/team/app?articleid=349076&page=NewsPage&service=page | title=Dawes, Moore recalled from Hartford | publisher=New York Rangers | date=2008-01-07 | accessdate=2008-02-17] 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. [cite news| url=http://www.newsday.com/sports/hockey/rangers/ny-sprang045563797feb04,0,7834508.story | title=Rangers rally to beat Canadiens, 5-3 | publisher="Newsday" | last=Zipay | first=Steve | date=2008-02-04 | accessdate=2008-02-17] Callahan tallied his second career two-goal game against the San Jose Sharks on February 17.Ryan scored the game winning goal with 20 seconds remaining to help clinch the Victoria Cup for the Rangers during an exhibition game in Switzerland.

Transactions

* June 27, 2004 - Drafted by the New York Rangers in the fourth round, 127th overall.

Awards

*2004–05: Third All-Star Team (OHL)
*2005–06: Second All-Star Team (OHL)
*2005–06: Leo Lalonde Memorial Trophy (OHL)
*2006–07: All-Rookie Team (AHL)

Career statistics

References

External links

*hockeydb|71756
*TSN-NHL-profile|4529
* [http://rangers.nhl.com/team/app?page=PlayerDetail&playerId=8471339&service=page Ryan Callahan] at rangers.nhl.com