Andy tone
Date of birth | September 21, 1962 |
Nickname | Mister playoff |
size | 178 cm |
Weight | 80 kg |
position | Right wing |
number | # 22 |
Shot hand | Left |
Career stations | |
until 1982 | EHC Uzwil |
1983-1984 | EHC Kloten |
1984-1985 | EHC Chur |
1985-1992 | HC Lugano |
1992-1994 | Zurich SC |
1994-1998 | HC Lugano |
Andreas "Andy" Ton (born September 21, 1962 ) is a former Italo - Swiss ice hockey player who won the Swiss championship four times during his career with HC Lugano .
Career
Ton started his career in the youngsters of the EHC Uzwil , for whom he soon came to his first assignments in the Fanion team in the first division . In the 1982/83 season he was the top scorer in the league, whereupon he was obliged by the EHC Kloten from the National League A. After just one season he moved to the EHC Chur , where he, however, also not traversed could and therefore the 1985/86 season for HC Lugano changed. There he developed into the club's figurehead and was instrumental in the upswing of the Grande Lugano in the eighties. Between 1986 and 1990 he won the Swiss championship title four times with the club . He got his nickname Mister Playoff because of his many goals during the playoffs, with which he contributed his share to the championship series Lugano. For the 1992/93 season he moved to the league rivals Zürcher SC . He stayed there for two seasons, one of which he played as assistant captain, before moving back to HC Lugano. At Lugano he played four more seasons, in 1998 he retired from active ice hockey. The impressive result: 532 points in 579 NLA missions. After his career, Ton played for various lower-class teams.
International
Ton played his first game for the Swiss national team in 1988, shortly after his naturalization, at the Nissan Cup in Bern. Finland was the name of the opponent, peppered with stars like the Finnish defenders Kari Eloranta and Reijo Ruotsalainen . It took Ton just 17 seconds to mark his first hit in the Eisgenossen dress . In addition to six participations in world championships, clay was used at the 1992 Olympics in Albertville . The highlights of his career were the victories against the ice hockey major powers Canada, Czechoslovakia, Sweden and the CIS. But Ton also had low points: the Olympic debacle at the Olympic Games, when Switzerland only placed tenth place, or the 1993 World Cup in Munich , and in Stockholm in 1995 , when after a disappointing tournament you stepped into the B group had to compete.
Achievements and Awards
- 1986 Swiss champion with HC Lugano
- 1987 Swiss champion with HC Lugano
- 1988 Swiss champion with HC Lugano
- 1990 Swiss champion with HC Lugano
Career statistics
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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season | team | team | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
1983/84 | EHC Kloten | NLA | 31 | 3 | ||||||||||
1984/85 | EHC Chur | NLA | ||||||||||||
1985/86 | HC Lugano | NLA | 35 | 14th | 14th | 28 | 14th | 4th | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | ||
1986/87 | HC Lugano | NLA | 36 | 11 | 18th | 29 | 13 | 6th | 3 | 1 | 4th | 2 | ||
1987/88 | HC Lugano | NLA | 35 | 18th | 14th | 32 | 12 | 7th | 4th | 4th | 8th | 0 | ||
1988/89 | HC Lugano | NLA | 35 | 18th | 30th | 48 | 12 | 10 | 8th | 7th | 15th | 0 | ||
1989/90 | HC Lugano | NLA | 36 | 18th | 26th | 44 | 28 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 23 | 6th | ||
1990/91 | HC Lugano | NLA | 36 | 17th | 26th | 43 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 4th | 6th | 4th | ||
1991/92 | HC Lugano | NLA | 35 | 10 | 17th | 27 | 18th | 4th | 3 | 1 | 4th | 4th | ||
1992/93 | Zurich SC | NLA | 34 | 12 | 18th | 30th | 16 | 4th | 5 | 4th | 9 | 6th | ||
1993/94 | Zurich SC | NLA | 35 | 16 | 12 | 28 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4th | 5 | 2 | ||
1994/95 | HC Lugano | NLA | 36 | 20th | 28 | 48 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4th | 5 | 2 | ||
1995/96 | HC Lugano | NLA | 28 | 14th | 18th | 32 | 6th | 4th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
1996/97 | HC Lugano | NLA | 46 | 17th | 24 | 41 | 12 | 8th | 3 | 5 | 8th | 0 | ||
1997/98 | HC Lugano | NLA | 39 | 0 | 8th | 8th | 6th | 7th | 1 | 3 | 4th | 2 | ||
NLA total | 497 | 188 | 253 | 438 | 167 | 82 | 45 | 49 | 94 | 32 |
International
Represented Switzerland at:
- World Championship 1989
- World Cup 1990
- World Championship 1991
- Olympic Games 1992
- World Championship 1992
- World Championship 1993
- World Championship 1995
year | team | event | result | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | +/- | |
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1989 | Switzerland | B-WM | 4th Place | 7th | 5 | 4th | 9 | 2 | −1 | |
1990 | Switzerland | B-WM | 1st place | 7th | 3 | 8th | 11 | 0 | 13 | |
1991 | Switzerland | WM | 7th place | 10 | 3 | 6th | 9 | 2 | −3 | |
1992 | Switzerland | Olympia | 10th place | 7th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | |
1992 | Switzerland | WM | 4th Place | 4th | 2 | 2 | 4th | 0 | ||
1993 | Switzerland | WM | 12th place | 7th | 1 | 3 | 4th | 4th | ||
1995 | Switzerland | WM | 12th place | 7th | 5 | 0 | 5 | 2 | −6 | |
Men overall | 42 | 19th | 23 | 42 | 8th | +3 |
( 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
- Andy Ton at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Andy Ton at hockeydb.com (English)
- Andy Ton at eurohockey.com
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Sound, Andy |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ton, Andreas |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italo-Swiss ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1962 |