page_title: Ryan Suter
section_title: Nashville Predators
hierarchical_section_title: Ryan Suter / Playing career / Nashville Predators
caption_attribution_description: 20, Ryan Suter, D, NSH San Jose Sharks at Nashville Predators, February 6, 2010
context_page_description: Ryan Suter is an American professional ice hockey defenseman and alternate captain with the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League. He has also played for the Nashville Predators.
  Ryan's father, Bob Suter, was a member of the historic gold medal-winning 1980 United States Olympic hockey team that defeated the Soviet Union in the famous "Miracle on Ice" game. Ryan's uncle Gary Suter was also a longtime standout in the NHL. Ryan was alternate captain for the U.S. national team, earning a silver medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
context_section_description: Suter played for the Madison Capitols, Culver Military Academy and then went on to the USA Hockey's National Development Team in Ann Arbor, Michigan, before he was drafted seventh overall by the Nashville Predators in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft. He then played one year with the Wisconsin Badgers (Western Collegiate Hockey Association in NCAA Division I) before joining the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League (AHL) during the 2004–05 season. He played his rookie season in the NHL with the Predators in 2005–06.
  On June 16, 2008, Suter signed a four-year, $14 million contract extension with the Predators which commenced for the 2008–09 NHL season.
caption: Suter with the Nashville Predators in February 2010.
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