Name: Dennis Seidenberg
Date of birth: 18.07.1981
Age: 37
Size: 183 cm
Weight 95 kg
Place of birth: Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany
Youth team: Schwenninger ERC
Position: Verteidiger
Weft: Links
Career:
1999 - 2002: Adler Mannheim
2002-2006: Philadelphia Flyers
2006-2007: Phoenix Coyotes
2007-2009: Carolina Hurricanes
2009-2010: Florida Panthers
2010-2016: Boston Bruins
2012: Adler Mannheim
2016-2018: New York Islanders
Since 2019: New York Islanders
Dennis Seidenberg
With currently 859 games and 246 points in the NHL, Dennis Seidenberg is one of the greatest exceptional talents in the history of German ice hockey and one of the most successful German players in the history of the NHL. He also won the Stanley Cup with the Boston Bruins in 2011. He had two assists in the 4-0 win in the decisive seventh game of the final series against the Vancouver Canucks.
During his junior year, Seidenberg played in the young talent department of his hometown club Schwenninger ERC. He moved to the 1999/2000 season Adler Mannheim in the German Ice Hockey League. From the 2000/01 season, in which the Mannheim team won the German championship, the defender was a permanent member of the professional squad. The defender made his NHL debut in 2002 for the Philadelphia Flyers, who had selected him at number 172 overall in the draft a year earlier. In 2006, Seidenberg was finally transferred to the Phoenix Coyotes. The defender was also an integral part of the Coyotes' defensive department, playing in a total of 63 games and scoring 18 points that season. After just one season, Seidenberg moved on to the Carolina Hurricanes. On September 14, 2009, the German signed with the Florida Panthers.
Despite a solid season in which he was one of the Panthers' players with the most ice time, he was traded to the Bosten Bruins on March 3, 2010. On June 15, 2011, Dennis Seidenberg became the second German to win the Stanley Cup after Uwe Krupp in 1996. The Boston Bruins defeated the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 in the decisive seventh game. At the end of September 2016, Seidenberg moved to the New York Islanders. The defender was active with the Islanders until the end of the 2017/18 season, when his expiring contract was not extended. Nevertheless, the veteran stayed fit with the Islanders until the end.
In February 2019, Dennis Seidenberg received a new contract in the NHL. The 37-year-old national ice hockey player will play for the New York Islanders for the remainder of the current season.
For the national team, he wore the “C” on his chest at the last World Cup and led the team through the tournament as captain. It was his fifth World Cup participation for his home country. To date, the 37-year-old has played a total of 75 international matches, in which he scored five times and prepared 15 more goals. In his international career, his greatest successes include second place with “Team Europe” at the World Cup of Hockey in the 2016/17 season and the award for best defender at the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in Cologne.