Ryan McDonagh
Ryan McDonagh was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States on June 13th, 1989 and is the Hockey Player. At the age of 34, Ryan McDonagh biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Ryan Patrick McDonagh, born June 13, 1989), is an American ice hockey defenseman and alternate captain with the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League (NHL).
He was selected in the first round, 12th overall, by the Montreal Canadiens in 2007, he played college hockey for the Badgers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He also played for the New York Rangers, for whom he served as team captain from October 2014 until being traded to the Lightning in 2018. McDonagh has also competed internationally for the United States, and he was a member of the men's ice hockey team in Sochi at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Personal life
McDonagh married Kaylee Keys, a long-time girlfriend, at Our Lady of Victory Chapel in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on July 19, 2013. In October 2016, the couple had their first child together. Steve Walsh, the former National Football League quarterback, is his uncle.
McDonagh, a draftee, starred with the University of Wisconsin-Madison for three seasons before moving to the Rangers for the third year. McDonagh re-enrolled in January 2021, taking online classes to complete his final 18 credits and graduate with a degree in Personal Finance. McDonagh's classes were not available online on days he did not have NHL games and said he had always intended to return to school to graduate, but core courses were not accessible online when he played professionally, and he was able to attend again after courses he was interested in were relocated online during the school's reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic in Wisconsin.
Playing career
McDonagh attended Cretin-Derham Hall High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he led his team to the school's first state hockey championship as a student. He received the 2007 Minnesota Mr. Hockey award, which is given to the state's top senior high school hockey player.
In the 2007 NHL Entry Draft, McDonagh was then drafted in the first round, 12th overall, by the Montreal Canadiens on June 22, 2007. At the 2007 IIHF World U18 Championships in the United States, he also earned a silver medal.
At the 2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, McDonagh starred for the United States.
McDonagh, alongside Chris Higgins, Pavel Valentenko, and Doug Janik, was sold by the New York Rangers in exchange for Scott Gomez, Tom Pyatt, and Michael Busto on June 30, 2009.
McDonagh completed an entry-level deal with the Rangers on July 6, 2010, after missing his senior season at Wisconsin and joining childhood friend and former Wisconsin teammate Derek Stepan in New York.
He was promoted to the Rangers on January 3, 2011 after beginning the 2010–11 season with the Rangers' American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Hartford Wolf Pack. He appeared in his first NHL game against the Dallas Stars on January 7, 2011. On January 20, he earned his first NHL point on his support for a Brandon Prust goal against the Carolina Hurricanes. McDonagh, the 2011 Stanley Cup playoffs' fourth round kicker, was suspended for the remainder of the regular season and the first round.
McDonagh scored the game-winning goal against the New Jersey Devils on April 9, 2011, his first goal of his career, earning the Rangers their eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.
McDonagh has joined Barys Astana of the Kontinental Hockey League as a result of the 2012-2013 NHL lockout. He became the first American NHL player to play in the KHL as a result of the lockout.
McDonagh recently agreed to a new six-year, $28.2 million contract with New York, which was announced on July 8, 2013. As the Rangers finished fifth in the Eastern Conference, he led all Rangers defensemen with 43 points in the 2013-14 season. The team advanced to the 2014 Stanley Cup Finals against the Los Angeles Kings, where the Rangers lost the series 4–1. McDonagh was tied for the top amongst defensemen in assists (13) and second in points (17). McDonagh was named Rangers' MVP and recipient of the Players' Player Award, which is given to the Ranger "who best exemplifies what it means to be a team player" for his season's efforts. Since Brian Leetch did so in the 2002-03 season, he became the second Rangers defenseman to win both awards.
McDonagh was named the 27th captain in Rangers history on October 6, 2014, filling the void left by Ryan Callahan the previous season. He had been given alternates for Martin St. Louis, Marc Staal, Dan Girardi, and Derek Stepan. McDonagh was the fourth-youngest Ranger captain and 11th defenseman to hold the award. In his first season as captain, he led his team to the President's Trophy and then lost by the Tampa Bay Lightning in seven games. McDonagh had missed the final three games of the series with a broken foot as a result of his injury on May 30, 2015.
McDonagh's strong play and leadership into the 2015-16 season, his second as team captain in 2015. However, McDonagh sustained a concussion after being slapped by Flyers' forward Wayne Simmonds after McDonagh cross-checked Simmonds during a Philadelphia Flyers' game on February 6, 2016. As a result, McDonagh's debutant defenseman Dylan McIlrath defeated Simmonds on February 14 in a rematch between the two teams. McDonagh was stumbling for two games of the Rangers' first round playoff series against the Pittsburgh Penguins, which the Rangers then lost in five games as the Penguins went on to win the Stanley Cup.
McDonagh, along with J. T. Miller, was traded to the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for Libor Hájek, Brett Howden, Vladislav Namestnikov, a first-round pick in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft, and a conditional second-round pick in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft. Following weeks of trade rumors fueled by a team letter from Rangers fans on February 8, 2018, a rebuild was announced. McDonagh played in his 100th appearance in a single NHL playoff game on April 18, 2018.
Ryan McDonagh signed a seven-year, $47.25 million contract extension with the Lightning on June 1, 2018. McDonagh's first full season in Tampa Bay would feature 9 goals and 46 points, finishing 8th in Norris Trophy voting. In Tampa Bay's first-round upset loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets, McDonagh was held pointless.
McDonagh, along with his defensive partner Erik ernák, as Tampa Bay's shutdown defensive pairing in the 2019-20 season. McDonagh, a member of the Rangers, will return to the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time since 2014. This time, the Lightning were victorious, winning McDonagh's first Stanley Cup championship.
In the COVID-delayed 2020–21 season, McDonagh continued his career as one of Tampa Bay's shutdown defenders. McDonagh played in his 150th Stanley Cup playoff game against the Carolina Hurricanes on June 8, 2021. In 2021, the Lightning will qualify as champions again, winning McDonagh's second straight championship. During the 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs, McDonagh led all skaters in plus–minus at +18.
McDonagh was traded to the Nashville Predators in exchange for defenseman Philippe Myers and forward Grant Mismash on July 3, 2022.