| Ryan Kavanagh | |
| Played For: | EC Red Bull Salzburg EHC München Reading Royals Tønsberg Vikings Braehead Clan HC Pustertal Wölfe |
| Position: | Defence |
| Height Ft: | 5 |
| Height In: | 8 |
| Weight Lb: | 180 |
| Shoots: | Right |
| Birth Date: | 12 February 1991 |
| Birth Place: | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Draft: | Undrafted |
| Career Start: | 2011 |
| Career End: | 2016 |
Ryan Kavanagh (born February 12, 1991) is a Canadian former ice hockey defenceman.
Kavanagh played junior hockey in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League for the Rimouski Océanic and the Shawinigan Cataractes between 2008 and 2011. He began his professional career in 2011 in the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga in Austria for EC Red Bull Salzburg and then moved to Germany's Deutsche Eishockey Liga to play for EHC München. He returned to North America in 2013 and signed for the Reading Royals of the ECHL but the tenure only lasted 19 games before moving to the Tønsberg Vikings in Norway's GET-ligaen in the tail-end of their season. In 2014, Kavanagh moved the United Kingdom's Elite Ice Hockey League and signed for Glasgow-based team the Braehead Clan.[1] In 2016, he moved to Italy and signed for HC Pustertal Wölfe before retiring.
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 2007–08 | Lac-St-Louis Lions | QMAAA | 40 | 14 | 29 | 43 | 30 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 10 | ||
| 2008–09 | Rimouski Océanic | QMJHL | 38 | 4 | 12 | 19 | 18 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2009–10 | Rimouski Océanic | QMJHL | 58 | 18 | 39 | 57 | 26 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 6 | ||
| 2010–11 | Rimouski Océanic | QMJHL | 40 | 11 | 31 | 42 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2010–11 | Shawinigan Cataractes | QMJHL | 28 | 6 | 22 | 28 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | ||
| 2011–12 | EC Red Bull Salzburg | EBEL | 33 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 2012–13 | EHC München | DEL | 41 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| EBEL totals | 33 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Award | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| QMJHL | ||
| First Team All-Star | 2011 | [2] |