Chad Silver

Chad Silver
Date of birth	March 12, 1969
place of birth	Brandon , Manitoba , Canada
date of death	December 3, 1998
Place of death	Zurich , Switzerland
Nickname	Sly
size	187 cm
Weight	90 kg
position	striker
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1986-1988	Brandon Wheat Kings
1988-1989	Regina Pats
1989-1991	HC Sierre
1991-1995	Friborg-Gottéron
1995-1997	EV train
1997-1998	SC Herisau
1998	ZSC Lions

Chad Silver (born March 12, 1969 in Brandon , Manitoba , † December 3, 1998 in Zurich ) was a Swiss - Canadian ice hockey player .

Career

The son of a Canadian and a Swiss woman began his career in the Canadian Junior Western Hockey League with the Brandon Wheat Kings and then played for the Regina Pats in the same league.

North American players with a Swiss passport , who brought a certain talent, did not cost a transfer fee and did not burden the foreigner contingent , were very popular with the Swiss clubs and so Silver moved to the then B-division team HC Sierre in Switzerland for the 1989/90 season . This was followed by promotion to the top division and after the immediate relegation, the move to Friborg-Gottéron . With this he reached the play-off finals three times in a row , but all of them ended in defeat for Friborg.

During the 1993/94 season, Silver also played three international matches for the Swiss national ice hockey team .

After two seasons at EV Zug and one at SC Herisau, he switched to the ZSC Lions . After he failed to show up for training on December 3, 1998, teammates went to his apartment to find him dead. As it turned out, Silver died of heart failure . On December 9, 1998, a funeral service was held in Zurich's Paulus Church, attended by over 1,500 people.

A statue with the number 23 (Silver's number on the back of the ZSC) and his nickname "Sly" by artist Kurt Laurenz-Metzler reminds of Chad Silver in front of the Zurich Hallenstadion . His shirt number is no longer issued by the ZSC.

Web links

• Chad Silver at eurohockey.com
• Chad Silver at hockeydb.com (English)