Brian Lebler

Brian Lebler
Date of birth	July 16, 1988
place of birth	Klagenfurt , Austria
size	191 cm
Weight	96 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 7
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2004-2006	Penticton Vees
2006-2010	University of Michigan
2010-2011	Syracuse Crunch Elmira Jackals
2011-2015	EHC Linz
2015-2016	ERC Ingolstadt
since 2016	EHC Linz

Brian Lebler (born July 16, 1988 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian - Canadian ice hockey player who is under contract with the EHC Linz in the first Austrian league. His father Edward and brother Michael were also ice hockey players.

Career

Brian Lebler was born in Klagenfurt and went back to Canada with his family at the age of four. There he began his career as an ice hockey player with the Penticton Vees, for which he was active from 2004 to 2006 in the junior league British Columbia Hockey League . He then attended the University of Michigan for four years , for whose ice hockey team he played parallel to his studies in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association . With the University of Michigan, he won the CCHA championship in 2008 and 2010. In the 2010/11 season , the winger made his professional ice hockey debut when he was on the ice for the Syracuse Crunch from the American Hockey League and their cooperation partner Elmira Jackals from the ECHL . For the 2011/12 season he and his brother Michael moved to EHC Linz from the Austrian ice hockey league . With the team he won the national championship title straight away .

After being named top scorer in the Austrian league for the 2014/15 season, he moved from EHC Black Wings Linz to the panthers of ERC Ingolstadt in May 2015 , drawing a release clause in his contract that made him move Abroad made possible. After a season in Ingolstadt, he returned to Linz. Back in Linz in 2017 he was again top scorer of the Austrian ice hockey league.

International

Lebler made his debut on November 8, 2013 in a 2-0 win against Slovenia in Innsbruck in the national team of his country of birth and was on the ice for the first time at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi at a major tournament. In the same year he then took part in Division I of the Ice Hockey World Championship 2014 and achieved promotion to the top division with the Austrian team. At this tournament he was the top scorer and after his teammate Thomas Koch also the second best scorer and was consequently elected to the All-Star team. After he missed relegation with the Alpine nationals at the 2015 World Cup , he played again in Division I in 2016 and 2017. He also represented his colors in the Olympic qualification for the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang .

Achievements and Awards

• 2008 CCHA Championship with the University of Michigan
• 2010 CCHA Championship with the University of Michigan
• 2012 Austrian champion with the EHC Linz
• 2015 top scorer and most valuable player in the Austrian ice hockey league
• 2017 top scorer in the Austrian ice hockey league

International

• 2014 Promotion to the top division at the World Championship Division I, Group A.
• 2014 World Cup Division I, Group A top scorer
• 2014 All-Star Team of the World Championship Division I, Group A.
• 2017 Promotion to the top division at the World Championship of Division I, Group A.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2004/05	Penticton Vees	BCHL		56	21st	10	31	58		10	2	3	5	8th
2005/06	Penticton Vees	BCHL		54	23	12	35	97		15th	3	5	8th	33
2006/07	University of Michigan	CCHA		37	7th	4th	11	34		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	University of Michigan	CCHA		29	3	5	8th	52		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	University of Michigan	CCHA		37	9	7th	16	71		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	University of Michigan	CCHA		42	14th	10	24	59		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Syracuse crunch	AHL		11	0	0	0	22nd		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Elmira Jackals	ECHL		20th	2	3	5	45		4th	0	1	1	14th
2011/12	EHC Linz	EBEL		39	11	8th	19th	81		13	4th	7th	11	6th
2012/13	EHC Linz	EBEL		52	31	22nd	53	79		10	2	7th	9	8th
2013/14	EHC Linz	EBEL		47	27	17th	44	78		8th	6th	4th	10	18th
2014/15	EHC Linz	EBEL		54	35	18th	53	64		12	6th	7th	13	12
2015/16	ERC Ingolstadt	DEL		47	10	15th	25th	73		2	0	0	0	2
2016/17	EHC Linz	EBEL		51	32	25th	57	48		5	1	1	2	2
2017/18	EHC Linz	EBEL		54	38	27	65	70		12	8th	6th	14th	10
2018/19	EHC Linz	EBEL
BCHL total				110	44	22nd	66	155		25th	5	8th	13	41
CCHA total				145	33	26th	59	216		-	-	-	-	-
EBEL total				297	174	117	291	420		60	27	32	59	56

( 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

• Brian Lebler at hockeydb.com (English)
• Brian Lebler at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ del.org, Ingolstadt brings in Austrian national striker Brian Lebler ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , May 27, 2015 
2. ↑ Brian Lebler returns to Linz. (No longer available online.) In: EHC Liwest Black Wings Linz. Archived from the original on March 27, 2016 ; accessed on March 25, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.