Alex Hicks

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CanadaCanada  Alex Hicks Ice hockey player
Date of birth 4th September 1969
place of birth Calgary , Alberta , Canada
size 180 cm
position striker
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1989-1992 University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
1992-1994 Toledo Storm
1994-1995 Las Vegas Thunder
1995-1996 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
1996-1998 Pittsburgh Penguins
1998-2000 Florida panthers
2000-2001 Polar bears Berlin
2001-2006 Cologne Sharks

Alexander "Alex" Hicks (born September 4, 1969 in Calgary , Alberta ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player . In the 2001/02 season he was German champion with the Kölner Haien . His father Wayne Hicks was also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Alex Hicks started ice hockey at an early age in his hockey-crazy hometown of Calgary . In 1988 he moved to the United States at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire , where he played for four years. The left-shooting winger made with excellent scoring values attention to themselves - in three of his four seasons at the University, he scored more than twice as many points as he played games. Still, he was never drafted by an NHL club. So he went to Toledo Storm in the East Coast Hockey League in 1992 for two years . There he played a large part of the games, but already got sporadic appearances in the American Hockey League with the Adirondack Red Wings , the then farm team of the Detroit Red Wings .

In 1994/95 he played one season for Las Vegas Thunder before starting his NHL career for the Anaheim Mighty Ducks the following year . In his first season in the best league in the world, he was a regular at the Disney Club and only played a few games on its farm team in the AHL. During the 1996/97 season , Hicks was transferred after a few games from the Mighty Ducks to the Pittsburgh Penguins , where he played the rest of the season and the following on the side of Mario Lemieux and Jaromír Jágr . He started the 1998/99 season with the San Jose Sharks , but moved to the Panthers after only four games in Florida . After spending another year with the Panthers, during which he was frequently deported to the AHL, he turned his back on the NHL.

Alex Hicks (r.) With Jeremy Adduono after a game of the Kölner Haie , 2006

In the 2000/01 season he moved to the German Ice Hockey League for the Eisbären Berlin . There he played very strongly and successfully, but the year was not crowned with success for the polar bears. He decided to leave the capital and signed a contract with the Kölner Haien . In his first season on the Rhine, he won the German championship with the Haien and thus his first major title. That he played a major role in the success is shown by his 52 scorer points from 58 preliminary round games and the fact that he was the most successful player in the play-offs . In 2003 Hicks was runner-up with the Domstadt team and in 2004 he won the DEB Cup with the team. In both seasons, as in 2004/05 , he was one of the Haie’s best players, with injuries more often in the last two seasons. In the 2005/06 DEL season , Hicks struggled with an injury for a long time, which is why he missed much of the main round. After he failed in the semifinals with the Sharks, he ended his active career and returned to the USA ( Phoenix , Arizona ).

Alex Hicks is married and has three children with his wife Sarah: Madison, Logan and Luke.

Alex Hicks initiative

In October 2003, Alex Hicks and his wife Sarah founded the Alex Hicks Initiative . The idea of ​​the initiative is to enable children with health and social disadvantages to attend an ice hockey game or to make them happy through activities. Hicks founded the initiative in his own words, because his family feels very at home in Cologne and he wants to give something back to the people in the city who are not doing as well as they are. After Hicks' resignation from active ice hockey in 2006, the Haie decided to continue the initiative anyway.

As part of the Alex Hicks Initiative , free tickets have been distributed several times in children's homes and children's hospitals since 2003. In addition, toy collection campaigns have been carried out in recent years during the Christmas season, where fans could donate toys to home games in the Kölnarena . These were packaged by the Haie players and distributed in homes or hospitals. In the 2005/06 season, the fan web magazine Haimspiel.de auctioned ten jerseys, among others by the former Haie players Chris Rogles , Collin Danielsmeier , Dieter Kalt and Leonhard Wild , which were donated by the respective clubs.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1992/93 Toledo Storm ECHL 52 26th 34 60 100 16 5 10 15th 79
1992/93 Adirondack Red Wings AHL 3 0 0 0 0
1993/94 Toledo Storm ECHL 60 31 49 80 240 14th 10 10 20th 56
1993/94 Adirondack Red Wings AHL 8th 1 3 4th 2 5 0 2 2 2
1994/95 Las Vegas Thunder IHL 78 24 42 66 212 9 2 4th 6th 47
1995/96 Baltimore Bandits AHL 13 2 10 12 23
1995/96 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 64 10 11 21st 37
1996/97 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 18th 2 6th 8th 14th
1996/97 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 55 5 15th 20th 76 5 0 1 1 2
1997/98 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 58 7th 13 20th 54 6th 0 0 0 2
1998/99 San Jose Sharks NHL 4th 0 1 1 4th
1998/99 Florida panthers NHL 51 0 6th 6th 58
1999/2000 Louisville Panthers AHL 17th 6th 5 11 23
1999/2000 Florida panthers NHL 8th 1 2 3 4th 4th 0 1 1 4th
2000/01 Polar bears Berlin DEL 56 27 31 58 189
2001/02 Cologne Sharks DEL 58 26th 26th 52 130 13 7th 7th 14th 32
2002/03 Cologne Sharks DEL 46 21st 17th 38 132 15th 7th 10 17th 20th
2003/04 Cologne Sharks DEL 41 14th 16 30th 122 4th 0 0 0 16
2004/05 Cologne Sharks DEL 40 11 19th 30th 106 6th 4th 2 6th 10
2005/06 Cologne Sharks DEL 26th 8th 6th 14th 63 8th 5 3 8th 55
DEL total 267 107 115 222 742 46 23 22nd 45 133
NHL overall 258 25th 54 79 247 15th 0 2 2 8th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alex Hicks Initiative "lives on. In: haie.de. Retrieved on February 14, 2017 .
  2. ↑ "Alex Hicks Initiative" launched. In: hockeyweb.de. Retrieved February 14, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Kölner Haie: Alex Hicks Initiative: Toy collection campaign on Sunday - players distribute toys in the children's hospital. In: eishockey.info. December 11, 2003, accessed February 14, 2017 .
  4. ^ Del: For the third time: Alex Hicks Initiative. In: hockeyweb.de. August 25, 2010. Retrieved February 14, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Hicks, Alex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hicks, Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Calgary , Alberta , Canada