Alexander Engel (ice hockey player, 1962)

Alexander Engel
Date of birth	April 25, 1962
place of birth	Ust-Kamenogorsk , Kazakh SSR
size	180 cm
Weight	90 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1980-1990	Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
1990-1994	EC Ratingen
1994-1997	Kassel Huskies
1997-1999	GEC Nordhorn
1999-2000	Crocodiles Hamburg
2000-2001	EC Wilhelmshaven-Stickhausen
2003-2005	Ratinger Ice Aliens

Alexander Engel ( Russian Александр Энгель ; born April 25, 1962 in Ust-Kamenogorsk , Kazakh SSR ) is a former German - Kazakh ice hockey player .

Career

Engel began his career in the 1984/85 season in the second highest Soviet league at Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk , for which he was active in sports for a total of seven years before moving to Germany . In the 1991/92 season he played for EC Ratingen in the 2nd Bundesliga and was promoted to the 1st Bundesliga in the same season. To found the German Ice Hockey League for the 1994/95 season , he then moved to the Kassel Huskies .

He was the first national player for Kassel and was also active in the 1994 Deutschland Cup . He celebrated his greatest success with the Huskies in 1997, when he and the Huskies celebrated the runner-up for the first time, until he moved to the then GEC Nordhorn in the second-class 1st League North in the following season . After two years he then moved to the Hamburg Crocodiles until he ended his career in the 2nd division at EC Wilhelmshaven-Stickhausen in 2001 .

His son of the same name is active in sports with the Lausitzer Füchsen for the 2008/09 season .

Web links

• Alexander Engel at hockeydb.com (English)
• Alexander Engel at eurohockey.com