Andre Savage Explained

Position:Centre
Played For:Boston Bruins
Philadelphia Flyers
Malmö Redhawks
Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers
Shoots:Right
Height Ft:6
Height In:0
Weight Lb:195
Birth Date:27 May 1975
Birth Place:Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Draft:Undrafted
Career Start:1998
Career End:2010

Andre Ronald Savage (born May 27, 1975) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played 66 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) between the Boston Bruins and the Philadelphia Flyers. He completed his professional career in Germany with the Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL).

Playing career

Savage played collegiate hockey with the Michigan Tech Huskies of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. At the completion of his senior season and having gone undrafted in the NHL Entry Draft he signed with the Boston Bruins as a free agent in 1998 and spent three seasons splitting his time between Boston and the Providence Bruins. He signed with the Vancouver Canucks in 2001, but spent the entire season with the club's American Hockey League affiliate in the Manitoba Moose . He then signed with the Philadelphia Flyers in 2002 where he played 16 games. It would be Savage's last season in the NHL as he spent the rest of his Flyers spell with the Philadelphia Phantoms and was loaned back to the Providence Bruins in 2003.

On July 22, 2004, he signed a one-year contract with the Colorado Avalanche, but he never played for the Avalanche thanks to the NHL lockout.[1] Instead he played in the AHL with the Avalanche's affiliate in the Hershey Bears before being loaned out to the San Antonio Rampage.

In 2005, Savage embarked on a career abroad and moved to Sweden, signing with the Malmö Redhawks in the second tier HockeyAllsvenskan for one season before moving to the Sinupret Ice Tigers in Germany's Deutsche Eishockey Liga.[2] He retired from professional hockey upon completing his fourth season with the Ice Tigers in 2009–10.

Career statistics

Team League GP GPG A Pts PIM
1991–92Gloucester RangersCJHL5331326316
1992–93Gloucester RangersCJHL5434346838
1993–94Gloucester RangersCJHL57437411744
1994–95Michigan TechWCHA397172456
1995–96Michigan TechWCHA4013274042
1996–97Michigan TechWCHA3718203834
1997–98Michigan TechWCHA3314274134
1998–99Providence BruinsAHL632742695450110
1998–99Boston BruinsNHL61010
1999–00Providence BruinsAHL301517322214671322
1999–00Boston BruinsNHL437132010
2000–01Providence BruinsAHL35131528471734718
2000–01Boston BruinsNHL10000
2001–02Manitoba MooseAHL76352661115623516
2002–03Philadelphia PhantomsAHL6411314266
2002–03Philadelphia FlyersNHL162134
2003–04Philadelphia PhantomsAHL810112
2003–04Providence BruinsAHL631630469410002
2004–05Hershey BearsAHL537233036
2004–05San Antonio RampageAHL2014512
2005–06Malmö RedhawksAllsv39131629541043710
2006–07Sinupret Ice TigersDEL36161834261335812
2007–08Sinupret Ice TigersDEL531829475451122
2008–09Sinupret Ice TigersDEL511423377851342
2009–10Thomas Sabo Ice TigersDEL531727445950332
NHL totals6610142414

Awards and honors

AwardYear
All-WCHA Third Team1996–97
All-WCHA First Team1997–98

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Colorado Avalanche transactions 2004–05 . hockeynut.com . 2005-07-18 . 2015-10-02.
  2. Web site: Andre Savage signs one-year extension with the Ice Tigers . . 2009-07-24 . 2009-07-24 . German . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090726063921/http://www.icetigers.de/ICETIGERS/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=155%3Aandre-savage-bleibt-bei-den-ice-tigers&catid=1%3Aaktuelle-nachrichten&Itemid=76 . 2009-07-26 .