Ryan Jardine

Ryan Jardine (born March 15, 1980) is a Canadian former professional Ice Hockey forward. He played 8 games in the National Hockey League with the Florida Panthers during the 2001–02 season. The rest of his career, which lasted from 2000 to 2014, was spent in the minor American Hockey League and later in several European leagues.

Playing career Jardine was born in Carleton Place, Ontario, and played major junior with the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League and his Junior A with the Kanata Stallions of the Canadian Junior Hockey League. Jardine was drafted 89th overall in the 1998 NHL entry draft by the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League.

After spending the 2000–01 AHL season with the Louisville Panthers of the American Hockey League (AHL), Jardine played eight games for the Panthers during the 2001–02 NHL season with two assists. Jardine played in 64 regular season games and four playoff games for the Utah Grizzlies of the AHL during the 2001–02 AHL season and then spent the next three seasons with the San Antonio Rampage, also of the AHL.

On September 3, 2011, Jardine signed with Lørenskog IK of GET-ligaen. On September 21, 2011, after playing two games and accumulating 2 Assists for Lørenskog IK, Jardine was granted his request to be released by the team for familial reasons. On October 2, 2011, Jardine signed with the Chicago Wolves of the AHL, and was reassigned to the Mavericks, the Wolves' new CHL affiliate, the next day.

On August 1, 2013, Jardine signed with the Cornwall River Kings of Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey.

In July 2014, Missouri Mavericks fans voted Jardine the fourth-greatest Mavericks player in a poll of the Top-10 Mavericks players from the first 5 years of the team's existence.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs Regular seasonPlayoffs Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM 1995–96 Ottawa Valley Titans U15 HEU U15 — — — — — — — — — — 1996–97 Kanata Valley Lasers CJHL 52 30 27 57 76 — — — — — 1997–98 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds OHL 65 28 32 60 16 — — — — — 1998–99 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds OHL 68 27 34 61 56 5 0 1 1 6 1999–00 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds OHL 65 43 34 77 58 17 11 8 19 16 2000–01 Louisville Panthers AHL 77 12 14 26 38 — — — — — 2001–02 Florida Panthers NHL 8 0 2 2 2 — — — — — 2001–02 Utah Grizzlies AHL 64 16 16 32 56 4 1 1 2 0 2002–03 San Antonio Rampage AHL 64 14 17 31 37 3 1 0 1 0 2003–04 San Antonio Rampage AHL 22 6 1 7 12 — — — — — 2004–05 San Antonio Rampage AHL 77 14 20 34 72 — — — — — 2005–06 Hamburg Freezers DEL 31 5 6 11 22 6 0 0 0 2 2006–07 Mora IK SWE 51 1 8 9 28 4 0 0 0 8 2007–08 Olimpija Ljubljana EBEL 27 5 8 13 65 — — — — — 2007–08 HC Bolzano ITA 18 4 9 13 12 12 4 4 8 8 2008–09 HC Bolzano ITA 42 12 29 41 20 6 1 3 4 6 2009–10 HC Bolzano ITA 38 16 13 29 24 13 6 5 11 6 2010–11 Missouri Mavericks CHL 66 23 31 54 65 9 5 6 11 6 2011–12 Lørenskog IK NOR 2 0 1 1 0 — — — — — 2011–12 Missouri Mavericks CHL 31 11 11 22 17 11 2 6 8 2 2012–13 Missouri Mavericks CHL 48 12 22 34 37 13 1 10 11 4 2013–14 Cornwall River Kings LNAH 26 12 10 22 8 2 0 0 0 2 AHL totals 304 62 68 130 215 7 2 1 3 0 NHL totals 8 0 2 2 2 — — — — —