Christian Wohlwend

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Flag of Canada and Switzerland.png  Christian Wohlwend
Coaching stations
2006-2007 HC Thurgau
2007-2009 EHC Wallisellen
2009-2013 EHC Bülach
2013-2016 HC Lugano (assistant coach)
2016-2019 U20 national team Switzerland
National team Switzerland (assistant coach)
since 2019 HC Davos

Template: Infobox ice hockey player / file type

Christian Wohlwend (born January 4, 1977 in Montréal , Québec ) is a Canadian - Swiss ice hockey coach and former player. He has been the head coach of HC Davos since April 2019 .

Player career

Wohlwend completed a total of 47 appearances in the National League A (NLA) for SC Rapperswil-Jona and the Kloten Flyers in the 1996/97 and 1999/2000 seasons . In the course of his career he also played for HC Thurgau , Grasshopper Club Zurich and EHC Chur in the second Swiss league, National League B (NLB). He was appointed to the Swiss national teams in the U18 and U20 age groups.

Coaching career

Christian Wohlwend (left) and Peter Andersson (October 2014)

He began his coaching career in the youth department of HC Thurgau , before starting in 2007 as head coach for two years at EHC Wallisellen in the second division (fourth highest Swiss division) and then for four years at EHC Bülach in the first division (third highest Swiss division). In 2013 Wohlwend moved to HC Lugano , where he was a youth coach and assistant coach in the NLA team. During the 2015/16 season, after Patrick Fischer's dismissal in October 2015, he temporarily took over the post of head coach before Doug Shedden was signed. At several tournaments, Wohlwend was part of the coaching staff of the Swiss U19 and U20 national team (as an assistant coach for the U20s and sometimes as head coach for the U19s).

For the 2016/17 season he was hired as head coach by the NLB club HC Thurgau , but the agreement was resolved in early summer 2016. Wohlwend was introduced in June 2016 as the new head coach of the Swiss U20 national team, previously there had been an "amicable solution" with HC Thurgau. In addition to his job as head coach of the U20 national team, he was also assistant coach of the senior national team. In April 2019 he was introduced as the new coach of HC Davos .

Achievements and Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Player details Christian Wohlwend. In: www.hockeyfans.ch. Retrieved March 27, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Mike Gadient: sport-fan.ch - Christian Wohlwend takes over at HC Lugano - Ice Hockey News. In: sport-fan.ch. Retrieved March 27, 2016 .
  3. ^ Il Lugano ad interim a Wohlwend. In: ticinonews.ch. October 22, 2015, accessed April 16, 2020 (Italian).
  4. ^ Christian Wohlwend, un entraîneur au corps meurtri par le hockey. In: Planète Hockey. Retrieved March 27, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Wohlwend takes over in Thurgau. In: www.suedostschweiz.ch. Retrieved March 27, 2016 .
  6. ↑ News. In: www.sihf.ch. Retrieved June 21, 2016 .
  7. ↑ The new coach at HC Davos is Christian Wohlwend. Retrieved April 19, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Christian Wohlwend and Waltteri Immonen are the names of the new HCD trainers. In: HC Davos. April 18, 2019, accessed April 19, 2019 .
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Squad HC Davos in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME Wohlwend, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-Swiss ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Montréal , Québec