André Rankel

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André Rankel
Date of birth August 27, 1985
place of birth West Berlin , Germany
size 186 cm
Weight 100 kg
position Right wing
number # 24
Shot hand Left
Career stations
2000-2003 Berlin Young Capitals
2003-2020 Polar bears Berlin

André Rankel (born August 27, 1985 in West Berlin ) is a German ice hockey player who was last under contract with the Eisbären Berlin in the German ice hockey league . With the polar bears he was involved in seven DEL championship titles and winning the European Trophy 2010 .

Career

André Rankel started his career in his hometown with what was then Berlin Capitals , of which he was used for the first time in the German junior league DNL in 2000/01 . After two years, which he spent exclusively in the DNL, ​​the attacker gained his first experience in the men's team of the Capitals in the regional league in 2002/03 . Although he had not yet received much Ice Age and special attention from the Capitals, the move to the eastern local rival Eisbären Berlin in the 2003/04 season was considered brave due to the great rivalry between the two clubs for the West Berlin Rankel. Here, the then 18-year-old initially was used even in the polar bear Juniors in the regional league, was in his first season already 56 inserts in the DEL and scored in his first game in the German top flight against the Wolves Freiburg his first DEL Goal. During this period, the polar bears pursued a youth concept which, in addition to Alexander Barta , was intended to establish more young players in the DEL team. In addition to Rankel, several players born in 1985, such as defenders Frank Hördler , Jens Baxmann , Tobias Draxinger and striker Florian Busch , were used in the club's first championship season 2004/05 . Rankel was the most successful goalscorer of these young players with five goals.

In the 2006/07 season he scored more than 20 points in one season for the first time, which he could not achieve in the following season due to a shoulder injury lasting several months . Through his achievements in the next season 2008/09 he was believed to have the potential of a high performer for the club, his coach at the time Don Jackson certified him in the NHL format and in the 2009/10 season he was the most successful goalscorer of the polar bears with 26 goals.

By 2011 Rankel was involved in four championships of his club, when he won the title in the 2010/11 season he was the player with the highest points in the play-offs and was voted the most valuable player in the finals. He was a little lucky that a check with an injury result in the play-off quarter-finals was not punished by the association. In the following season Rankel was suspended in the play-off semifinals for a similar offense for 10 games and could therefore no longer support his team in the finals of this series. For the 2012/13 season there was a change in the Berlin team - with Denis Pederson , Sven Felski and Stefan Ustorf , three long-standing top performers left the club. Rankel, who had taken over the captaincy of Ustorf, was the most successful scorer of his team with 68 points and led his team to the seventh DEL championship. The 2012/13 season was marked by the lockout in the National Hockey League until January 2013. As a result, Claude Giroux and Daniel Brière played with the polar bears until the lockout was lifted . Rankel later referred to these two players as the best Berlin players of all time.

In the 2017/18 season Rankel led his team to the play-off final and replaced Sven Felski as the club's record goal scorer this season. By the end of his active time with the polar bears, he achieved the record of 247 goals for the Berlin team. For the 2019/20 season , he and Frank Hördler were the team's oldest players. Although he continued to lead the Berliners as captain on the ice, he was assigned a more defensive role in the game of polar bears, which did not meet his requirements. Rankel was the captain of the Eisbären Berlin for eight years and after a total of 17 years in the Eisbären squad did not receive a new contract after the 2019/20 season.

International

At the U-18 World Cup in 2003 Rankel came to his first tournament appearance for a German national team. He also played regularly for the junior national team, including at the World Championships in 2004 and 2005 , where he was promoted to the A group again in 2004 with the team. Since 2006 he has also been part of the extended squad of the senior national team . In 2007 he played for the first time at a men's world championship and was also nominated for the 2010 Olympic ice hockey tournament in Vancouver . In total, he played more than 130 games for the DEB selection and took part in seven world championships with the national team.

Achievements and Awards

  • 2005 German champion with the Eisbären Berlin
  • 2006 German champion with the Eisbären Berlin
  • 2008 German champion with the Eisbären Berlin
  • 2009 German champion with the Eisbären Berlin
  • 2010 European Trophy win with the Eisbären Berlin
  • 2011 German champion with the Eisbären Berlin
  • 2011 MVP DEL play-offs
  • 2012 German champion with the Eisbären Berlin
  • 2013 German champion with the Eisbären Berlin

statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T A. Pt SM Sp T A. Pt SM
2000/01 Berlin Young Capitals DNL 32 13 17th 30th 45 - - - - -
2001/02 Berlin Young Capitals DNL 34 31 28 59 48 - - - - -
2002/03 Berlin Young Capitals DNL 24 25th 19th 44 72 - - - - -
2002/03 Berlin Capitals Regional league 9 8th 10 18th 8th 12 3 4th 7th 4th
2003/04 Eisbären Berlin Juniors Regional league - - - - - 8th 4th 1 5 20th
2003/04 Polar bears Berlin DEL 48 4th 3 7th 40 8th 0 0 0 2
2004/05 Eisbären Berlin Juniors Oberliga 11 8th 12 20th 26th - - - - -
2004/05 Polar bears Berlin DEL 42 5 3 8th 28 12 0 2 2 2
2005/06 Eisbären Berlin Juniors Oberliga 9 4th 0 4th 10 - - - - -
2005/06 Polar bears Berlin DEL 39 5 7th 12 32 11 1 1 2 2
2006/07 Polar bears Berlin DEL 52 12 15th 27 28 3 1 1 2 8th
2007/08 Polar bears Berlin DEL 18th 6th 7th 13 36 14th 5 2 7th 30th
2008/09 Polar bears Berlin DEL 47 14th 18th 32 65 12 6th 2 8th 22nd
2009/10 Polar bears Berlin DEL 54 25th 22nd 47 62 5 1 2 3 6th
2010/11 Polar bears Berlin DEL 37 12 14th 26th 91 12 9 9 18th 14th
2011/12 Polar bears Berlin DEL 38 11 18th 29 56 6th 2 4th 6th 41
2012/13 Polar bears Berlin DEL 48 20th 34 54 44 13 4th 10 14th 16
2013/14 Polar bears Berlin DEL 30th 17th 14th 31 22nd 3 1 0 1 0
2014/15 Polar bears Berlin DEL 45 20th 18th 38 34 3 0 1 1 4th
2015/16 Polar bears Berlin DEL 48 17th 13 30th 18th 7th 2 1 3 6th
2016/17 Polar bears Berlin DEL 47 12 8th 20th 36 13 3 2 5 4th
2017/18 Polar bears Berlin DEL 34 11 8th 19th 28 18th 5 5 10 2
2018/19 Polar bears Berlin DEL 43 10 9 19th 20th 8th 2 2 4th 2
2019/20 Polar bears Berlin DEL 47 4th 13 17th 14th - - - - -
DNL total 90 69 64 133 165
DEL total 717 205 224 429 654 148 42 44 86 161

( 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

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  2. a b As a Prussian one never wanted to be a polar bear. BZ , March 19, 2020, accessed May 2, 2020 .
  3. Andre Rankel: Once Charlottenburg - Hohenschönhausen. BZ , March 19, 2020, accessed May 2, 2020 .
  4. Long break for Berlin's Rankel. Handelsblatt , October 10, 2007, accessed on May 8, 2020 .
  5. In Felski's footsteps. Der Tagesspiegel , September 29, 2009, accessed on May 8, 2020 .
  6. Andre Rankel is MVP of the Playoffs 2011. hockeyweb.de, April 26, 2011, accessed on May 10, 2020 .
  7. Procedure discontinued: Andre Rankel is allowed to play. Der Tagesspiegel, March 25, 2011, accessed on May 10, 2020 .
  8. Eisbär Rankel blocked for 10 games. BZ , April 11, 2012, accessed May 10, 2020 .
  9. a b Back to the title feeling. Der Spiegel , April 13, 2013, accessed on May 10, 2020 .
  10. Polar bears celebrate championship titles - that's incredible. Heilbronner Voice , April 21, 2013, accessed on May 10, 2020 .
  11. Interview with the captain of the Berlin polar bears Andre Rankel. Hockey-online.com, accessed May 10, 2020 .
  12. Polar Bear Captain Rankel: The battery is full again. Märkische Allgemeine , March 27, 2018, accessed on May 10, 2020 .
  13. When a plan works perfectly. Berliner Morgenpost , December 24, 2019, accessed on May 10, 2020 .
  14. "I am extremely proud to have left something behind". In: rbb24.de. March 22, 2020, accessed March 30, 2020 .