Dylan Wruck

Dylan Wruck
Born (1992-09-23) September 23, 1992
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Height 5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
Weight 175 lb (79 kg; 12 st 7 lb)
Position Forward
Shoots Left
DEL team
Former teams
Kölner Haie
Ontario Reign
Iserlohn Roosters
NHL Draft Undrafted
Playing career 2013present

Dylan Wruck (born September 23, 1992) is a Canadian-German professional ice hockey forward. Wruck currently plays for the Kölner Haie of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL).

Playing career

Dylan Wruck was SMHAAAL leading scorer in 2008-09 while playing for the Beardy's Blackhawks, where he was named league's Most Valuable Player. While playing for Beardy's, he attended the Mac's Tournament and was a Mac's Tournament Allstar. Wruck participated in the 2009 U17 World Tournament in Port Alberni, BC, with Team West for the tournament he had 2 goals and 2 assists.[1] Team West which placed fourth, saw Wruck named Player of the Game and of the Day against Slovakia. Wruck also won a Saskatchewan Pee Wee Provincial AA Championship in 2003-04.

Wruck spent four years with the Edmonton Oil Kings of the WHL, seeing action in a total of 259 games, in which he tallied 87 goals and 169 assists. A consistent two-way player, he put up 80 plus points in each of his last three seasons with the Oil Kings and was a plus 83 during this time. His team was the best team with most league points during the regular season. Wruck was able to confirm his good performance from the previous year and scored 80 plus points. Also in the playoffs the team remained successful and won the championship, the Ed Chynoweth Cup, and went on to the Memorial Cup. A year later, the Oil Kings again reached the finals, but they lost to the Portland Winterhawks. Wruck scored 104 points in 90 games in his last junior season.[2]

In his second professional game, Wruck scored a hat trick during the 2013–14 season with ECHL's Ontario Reign,[3] but his season was cut short by a shoulder injury. Wruck played only three games for the Ontario team.

He took up an offer from the Iserlohn Roosters of the German elite league Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL) in 2014 and had 14 goals as well as 23 assists in 51 games of the 2014–15 campaign, while being named DEL Rookie of the Year.[4] In March 2015, he put pen to paper on a new two-year deal with the Roosters.[5] In October 2015, Wruck sustained a shoulder injury which kept him out for months.[6] He spent parts of his rehab in his native Canada, before returning to Iserlohn.[7] On 16 January 2015 he recorded six points in the game against Düsseldorfer EG.[8] In the 2016-17 season, Wruck tallied eight goals and 16 assists in 52 DEL contests. He left Iserlohn after the conclusion of the season and inked a deal with fellow DEL side Kölner Haie on May 23, 2017.[9]

References

  1. "Clash With Kelowna – Edmonton Oil Kings". oilkings.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
  2. "Iserlohn Roosters". Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  3. "Player - The ECHL - Premier 'AA' Hockey League". www.echl.com. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
  4. gmbh, aliaz werbeagentur. "Iserlohn Roosters". Retrieved 2017-03-16.
  5. GmbH, SPOX Media. "Iserlohn verlängert mit Wruck – Sport – Spox.com". Spox.com. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  6. "Dylan Wruck droht das Saison-Aus". Hockeyweb. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  7. KG, Westdeutsche Verlags- und Werbegesellschaft mbH & Co. "Nach seiner schweren Schulterverletzung befindet sich Roostersstürmer Dylan Wruck auf dem Weg der Besserung". lokalkompass.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-03-17.
  8. "Roosters sind der erste „Wintergamesieger-Besieger 2015“ - 8:1 Gala gegen die DEG! - Eishockey-Magazin". eishockey-magazin.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-04-25.
  9. "Haie verpflichten Dylan Wruck | Kölner Haie". www.haie.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-05-23.
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