Martin Gerber

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Martin Gerber
Date of birth 3rd September 1974
place of birth Burgdorf , Switzerland
Nickname Darth Gerber
Size 180 cm
Weight 91 kg
position goalkeeper
number # 29
Catch hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2001 , 8th round, 232nd position
Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
Career stations
1994-2001 SC Langnau
2001-2002 Färjestad BK
2002-2004 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
2004-2005 SC Langnau
Färjestad BK
2005-2006 Carolina Hurricanes
2006-2009 Ottawa Senators
2009 Toronto Maple Leafs
2009-2010 Atlant Mytishchi
2010-2011 Oklahoma City Barons
2011–2012 Växjö Lakers Hockey
2012-2013 Rögle BK
2013-2017 EHC Kloten

Martin Gerber (born September 3, 1974 in Burgdorf ) is a former Swiss ice hockey goalkeeper who was under contract in the four most important ice hockey leagues in the world ( National Hockey League , Continental Hockey League , Svenska Hockeyligan and National League A ). The greatest successes of his career include winning the Stanley Cup in 2006 and winning the silver medal at the 2013 World Cup .

Career

Beginnings in Langnau

Gerber grew up in Schangnau and played as a teenager with the SCL Tigers in Langnau . He made his senior debut on October 26, 1991 at the age of 17 with SC Signau, an amateur team in the 2nd division. For the 1993/94 season he moved to SC Thun in the 1st league, the then highest amateur division in Switzerland. For the 1994/95 season he switched to SC Langnau as a substitute goalkeeper, who had previously been promoted from the 1st division to the NLB. In his first season in Langnau he was used a total of 222 minutes and allowed 18 goals against. First he played with his team in the second Swiss league ( National League B ). In the 1997 play-offs he was the first goalkeeper to score a goal in Switzerland (against HC Martigny in the final minute into an empty goal). His first career highlight was on April 7, 1998, when he was promoted to the NLA , the highest Swiss league, with SC Langnau .

National Hockey League

Martin Gerber was selected by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the eighth round at position 232 in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft , he was already 26 years old at this time. He did not immediately move to the NHL , but played in the 2001/02 season at Färjestad BK ( Sweden ). There he was a regular goalkeeper and showed very good performances, so that he was awarded as the "best new foreign player" in the top Swedish league. At the beginning of the 2002/03 season he was appointed to the NHL to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, where he was back-up from Jean-Sébastien Giguère . The season was very positive. Gerber played 22 games, had a first-class catch rate and a very good average conceded goal and the team made it to the Stanley Cup final . In the play-offs he only came on the ice twice for a short time. The 2003/04 season completed Gerber again as number 2 and came to a total of 32 games. After the season he was transferred to the Carolina Hurricanes in an exchange deal .

Martin Gerber in the Ottawa Senators Jersey (2007)

In the 2004/05 season he should have made his debut with the Carolina Hurricanes. But after the NHL season had to be canceled due to disputes between players and team owners about payment (a so-called lockout ), he first played for his old club, the SCL Tigers, but moved to Färjestad during the season. In the 2005/06 season , Gerber was a first-choice goalkeeper for the Carolina Hurricanes.

In the NHL he came to 60 games. And his team made it to third place in the regular season. They started the play-offs under these good conditions, but Martin Gerber made a mistake and did not show a good performance in the first games, so that he was replaced by the 22-year-old Cam Ward as number one. In the Eastern Conference final against the Buffalo Sabers Gerber returned to goal and managed a shutout . But he did not manage to prevail against his younger goalkeeper colleague. The Hurricanes moved into the Stanley Cup final against the Edmonton Oilers and won the Stanley Cup for the first time in the seventh and decisive game. After his contract in Carolina he completed the 2006/07 season with the Ottawa Senators . There he shared the working hours with Ray Emery .

Martin Gerber in September 2010

The Ottawa Senators won the Prince of Wales Trophy , but lost to the Anaheim Ducks in the Stanley Cup final . In the following season Gerber prevailed over Emery and completed most of the season's games. But again a year later he was only a substitute behind Alex Auld and Brian Elliott , so that he was temporarily deported to the farm team in Binghamton . Finally, the Senators placed him in the waiver in January 2009 , after which he was signed by the Toronto Maple Leafs in March . But also in Toronto he had strong competition with Vesa Toskala and Curtis Joseph , so that his contract was not renewed at the end of the season. He then decided to move to the KHL, where he was under contract with Atlant Mytishchi from July 2009 . A year later he did not receive a new KHL contract and was initially without a club.

Return to Europe

It was not until August 2010 that he received a two-way contract with the Edmonton Oilers, who used him with the Oklahoma City Barons in the AHL. In the course of the season Gerber came to individual missions with the Oilers in the NHL, in which he was able to convince. In July 2011 Gerber signed a one-year contract with Växjö Lakers Hockey . For the 2012/13 season he was obliged by Rögle BK , who had previously also been promoted to the highest Swedish league level. Gerber could not prevent the direct relegation, however. In April 2013 it was announced that Gerber will play for the first time in Switzerland again in the coming season since the 2004/05 lockout. He signed a two-year contract with Kloten Flyers .

He ended his career after the 2016/17 season.

International

Martin Gerber (left) at the final of the 2013 World Cup

At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Gerber and David Aebischer were mainly involved in the good performance of the Swiss. He was also between the posts in the Swiss historic 2-0 win over Canada and shone there with a shutout . At the 2013 World Cup in Stockholm and Helsinki he was again part of the national team and won the silver medal with it. He was also one of the statistically best goalkeepers in the tournament.

Others

  • At the beginning of the 2007/08 season, Martin Gerber used a black helmet. The plan was to replace it with one painted with the new Senators logo. After he had a very successful start to the season with the black one and he classified it as more comfortable, he continued with this one. This earned him the nickname "Darth Gerber" .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp GT SO GTS Sv% Sp GT SO GTS Sv%
1994/95 SC Langnau NLB 5 - - 5.93 - 1 - - 4.50 -
1995/96 SC Langnau NLB 0 - - - - 0 - - - -
1996/97 SC Langnau NLB 36 - - 3.18 - 8th - - 3.57 -
1997/98 SC Langnau NLB 40 - - 3.48 - 16 - - 2.62 -
1998/99 SC Langnau NLA 40 - - 4.83 - 11 - - 4.54 -
1999/00 SC Langnau NLA 42 161 3 3.64 - 6th 13 2 2.17 -
2000/01 SC Langnau NLA 44 114 3 2.56 . ??? 5 7th 1 1.32 . ???
2001/02 Färjestad BK Elitserien 44 87 4th 1.96 .922 10 18th 2 1.64 .941
2002/03 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 22nd 39 1 1.94 .929 2 1 0 3.00 .833
2003/04 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 32 64 2 2.26 .918 - - - - -
2004/05 SCL Tigers NLA 20th 59 0 2.90 . ??? - - - - -
2004/05 Färjestad BK Elitserien 30th 58 4th 1.90 .929 15th 36 1 2.40 .925
2005/06 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 60 162 3 2.78 .906 6th 13 1 3.53 .856
2006/07 Ottawa Senators NHL 29 74 1 2.78 .906 - - - - -
2007/08 Ottawa Senators NHL 57 145 2 2.72 .910 4th 14th 0 3.53 0.912
2008/09 Ottawa Senators NHL 14th 40 1 2.86 .899 - - - - -
2008/09 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 12 38 0 3.23 .905 - - - - -
2009/10 Atlant Mytishchi KHL 30th 64 2 2.19 .914 - - - - -
2010/11 Edmonton Oilers NHL 3 4th 0 1.30 .958 - - - - -
2010/11 Oklahoma City Barons AHL 42 107 4th 2.60 .911 6th 10 1 1.79 .931
2011/12 Växjö Lakers Hockey Elitserien 42 88 4th 2.18 .928 - - - - -
2012/13 Rögle BK Elitserien 43 116 1 2.83 .916 - - - - -
NHL overall 229 566 10 2.63 .911 12 28 1 3.50 .890

International

year team event Sp S. N U Min GT SO GTS Sv%
2000 Switzerland WM 2 1 1 0 120 7th 0 3.50 87.3
2001 Switzerland WM 6th 2 4th 0 358 16 0 2.68 91.9
2002 Switzerland Olympia 3 1 1 1 158 4th 0 1.52 95.8
2002 Switzerland WM 4th 1 3 0 240 12 0 3.00 89.4
2004 Switzerland WM 6th 2 2 2 258 11 2 1.84 93.2
2005 Switzerland WM 6th 3 3 0 359 10 1 1.67 94.6
2006 Switzerland Olympia 3 1 2 0 160 11 1 4.13 89.0
2008 Switzerland WM 5 3 2 0 266 14th 0 3.16 87.9
2009 Switzerland WM 6th 3 3 0 364 14th 1 2.31 89.6
2010 Switzerland WM 5 3 2 0 298 7th 1 1.41 93.6
2013 Switzerland WM 6th 5 1 0 365 12 0 1.97 91.6
Men overall 52 25th 24 3 2946 118 6th 2.40

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; 1  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ slapshot.ch, Martin Gerber descended with Rögle
  2. ↑ Klaus Zaugg: One of the greatest hockey careers is over: Martin Gerber is quitting. In: watson.ch. April 26, 2017. Retrieved August 4, 2017 .

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Commons : Martin Gerber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Gerber, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ice hockey goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd September 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgdorf , Switzerland