Playing career Ryan Malone

1 playing career

1.1 pittsburgh penguins
1.2 tampa bay lightning
1.3 new york rangers
1.4 return hockey

playing career
pittsburgh penguins

malone drafted in fourth round, 115th overall, pittsburgh penguins in 1999 nhl entry draft.

malone member of penguins

malone born near pittsburgh, attended upper st. clair high school in suburban pittsburgh 2 years. played hockey during junior year @ shattuck-st. mary s in faribault, minnesota, school later attended zach parise , sidney crosby. during senior year, malone played omaha lancers of ushl , attended millard north high school.

malone drafted shortly after graduating high school, , went on play @ st. cloud state university 4 seasons. malone played 3 games of 2002–03 ahl season wilkes-barre/scranton penguins after last season @ st. cloud state. played 81 games of rookie season pittsburgh penguins during 2003–04 season. malone finished third on team in scoring behind dick tärnström , aleksey morozov. malone did not play penguins again until 2005–06 season, spending time during 2004–05 lockout in finland, italy , switzerland.

playing on line sidney crosby , mark recchi during 2006–07 season, malone notched first four-point nhl game on december 13, 2006, against philadelphia flyers. 2 days later, scored first nhl hat trick, against new york islanders. feat, malone , father became second father-son duo in nhl history score hat-tricks same team, along ken hodge, sr. , ken hodge, jr.

malone achieved career oddity against islanders on february 19, 2007, when recorded second career hat trick scoring goal in first minute of 3 periods.

in january 2008, malone , defenceman darryl sydor named alternate captains penguins, following departure of mark recchi , long-term injury gary roberts.

in game 1 of 2008 stanley cup finals, niklas kronwall checked malone , broke nose. in game five, took hal gill slapshot in face, opening gash on cheek , damaging nose again. returned rest of game.

tampa bay lightning

malone member of lightning

on june 28, 2008, tampa bay lightning acquired exclusive negotiation rights malone , gary roberts penguins third-round draft pick in 2009. 1 day later, lightning signed malone seven-year contract worth $31.5 million, paid him $6 million first season. roberts signed one-year deal next day.

on january 1, 2010, malone named united states olympic ice hockey team, , went on win silver medal @ 2010 winter olympics.

on april 11, 2014, malone arrested dui , cocaine possession in tampa, fl. arrest occurred 1 game left in regular season.

on june 25, 2014, tampa bay lightning exercised final compliance buyout buy out final year of malone s contract, making him unrestricted free agent.

on august 18, 2014, malone pleaded no contest charges stemming arrest in april.

new york rangers

on september 11, 2014, new york rangers announced had signed malone one-year, two-way contract worth $700,000. on november 2, 2014, rangers placed malone on waivers. due injury mats zuccarello, rangers able avoid emergency call-up , use malone game. rangers had 30 days before malone must placed on waivers again. on november 10, 2014, malone officially assigned american hockey league affiliate, hartford wolf pack. in 6 games rangers, malone recorded 6 shots on goal , credited 14 hits.

on february 3, 2015 new york rangers placed malone on waivers purpose of terminating contract, after malone told team no longer interested in playing. cleared waivers on february 4, , contract terminated, making him free agent.

return hockey

on august 31, 2017, malone signalled comeback professional hockey in signing pto agreement minnesota wild attend training camp. malone last played professional hockey during 2014–15 season, opted return hope of making u.s. olympic team 2018 winter olympics. after successful camp wild, malone released try-out , joined ahl affiliate, iowa wild on pto begin 2017–18 season on october 5, 2017.