Alexander Dück

Alexander Dück
Date of birth	April 22, 1980
place of birth	Karaganda , Kazakh SSR
size	185 cm
Weight	83 kg
position	defender
number	# 52
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1997-2003	SERC Wild Wings
2003-2007	Krefeld penguins
2007-2009	Iserlohn Roosters
2009-2010	HK Jesenice
2010-2011	Hamburg Freezers
2011–2012	Krefeld penguins
2012-2015	Schwenninger Wild Wings
2015-2017	Ravensburg tower stars
since 2017	Schwenninger ERC

Alexander Dück (born April 22, 1980 in Karaganda , Kazakh SSR ) is a German - Kazakh ice hockey player who has been playing for the amateur team of the Schwenningen ERC since 2017 .

Career

After coming to Germany as an emigrant at a young age , the defender began his career in the youth team of the Schwenningen ERC , where he was one of the most talented players and, at the age of 17, was promoted to the second team of the SERC for the 1997/98 season. In 27 league games this year, Dück scored two goals and five points , after which he was appointed to the German junior national team for the first time . At the U20 World Cup , the defender played six games for Germany, in which he was one of the main pillars of the team with one goal, 3 points and 8 penalty minutes - mainly due to his defensive strength. In addition, the Kazakh German was first used by the then Schwenningen trainer Ron Ivany in the professional team in the German ice hockey league and was able to score his first point in the highest German ice hockey league with an assist in 10 games .

After he had spent the rest of the season back with the juniors, Dück got under the new coach Rich Chernomaz in the 1999/2000 season more ice time in the DEL, where he clearly missed the play-offs with the previously highly bet Wild Wings . In the relegation round, the defender was finally used more and recorded his second DEL assist and four penalty minutes in eight games.

In a team of the "young wild ones" with players like Marcel Goc , Thomas Greilinger or Markus Janka , Dück played his best season to date in the following year and was able to score two goals and four assists in 60 games. The defender even brought his performance into the field of vision of the then national coach Hans Zach , but in the following two years and in an increasingly weaker team that lost top players such as Marcel Goc, Patrik Augusta , Brad Schlegel or Mark MacKay , Dück was also able to show his performance with only two goals and four points from 119 games in the following two years.

For the 2003/04 season , the German-Kazakh moved to the Krefeld Penguins , where he was rarely on the ice in the following years , but still managed to score eight goals and 22 assists. After Dück's contract expired at the end of the 2006/07 season , he was obliged by league competitor Iserlohn Roosters , with whom he signed a contract until 2009. In his second season in the Sauerland , Dück was temporarily only used as seventh defender by coach Steve Stirling . After his release, he played his way back into the team. After the season, the Roosters submitted a new, lower-endowment contract offer to Dück, which he refused. For the 2009/10 season he then moved to the Slovenian club HK Jesenice in the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga , with which he took part in the Slovenian ice hockey league at the end of the season and won the national championship . In July 2010 he switched to the Kassel Huskies from the German Ice Hockey League . After the Kassel Huskies filed for bankruptcy and then did not get a license for the DEL, he switched to the Hamburg Freezers . In May 2011 Dück signed a contract for the 2011/12 season with the Krefeld Pinguine with a clause for one more season. After his contract was not renewed, he moved back to Schwenningen, because his former team partner Andreas Renz ended his career with an eye injury and he took his place.

Between 2015 and 2017 he played for EV Ravensburg in the DEL2 . In the early summer of 2017, Dück ended his professional career and became a junior coach at Schwenningen ERC.

Inline hockey

Dück took part with the German national inline hockey team at the IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship 2006 in Budapest in July .

Achievements and Awards

• 2010 Slovenian champion with the HK Jesenice

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1997/98	Schwenninger Wild Wings	2nd BL		27	2	3	5	16
1998/99	Schwenninger Wild Wings	DEL		28	0	1	1	2
1999/00	Schwenninger Wild Wings	DEL		27	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	Schwenninger Wild Wings	DEL		60	2	7th	9	36		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Schwenninger Wild Wings	DEL		60	0	1	1	38		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Schwenninger Wild Wings	DEL		52	2	0	2	26th		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Krefeld penguins	DEL		51	0	2	2	10		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Krefeld penguins	DEL		50	1	0	1	33		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Krefeld penguins	DEL		52	2	5	7th	46		5	0	0	0	4th
2006/07	Krefeld penguins	DEL		52	5	15th	20th	40		2	0	0	0	0
2007/08	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL		55	1	10	11	38		7th	0	0	0	2
2008/09	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL		52	0	5	5	28		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	HK Jesenice	EBEL		50	6th	22nd	28	129
2010/11	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		52	1	5	6th	10		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Krefeld penguins	DEL		52	1	5	6th	34		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Schwenninger Wild Wings	2nd BL		48	2	15th	17th	67
2013/14	Schwenninger Wild Wings	DEL		52	1	8th	9	42
2nd BL total				75	4th	18th	22nd	83		-	-	-	-	-
DEL total				695	16	64	80	383		14th	0	0	0	6th

( 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

• Alexander Dück at eurohockey.com
• Alexander Dück at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. Jump up ↑ Ice hockey: Alex Dück becomes a junior coach. In: schwarzwaelder-bote.de. May 17, 2017. Retrieved August 17, 2017 .