Daisuke Obara

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JapanJapan  Daisuke Obara Ice hockey player
Date of birth 4th June 1981
place of birth Kushiro , Japan
size 176 cm
Weight 82 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1999-2001 Komazawa University Tomakomai High School
2002-2003 Waseda University
2003-2004 Peoria Rivermen
Charlotte Checkers
Augusta Lynx
2004-2006 Kokudo Ice Hockey Club
2006-2009 Seibu Prince Rabbits
2009-2014 Nippon Paper Cranes
since 2014 Ōji Eagles

Daisuke Obara ( Japanese 小 原 大 輔 , Obara Daisuke ; born June 4, 1981 in Kushiro , Hokkaidō ) is a Japanese ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Ōji Eagles from the Asia League Ice Hockey since 2014 .

Career

Daisuke Obara began ice hockey in second grade at Ashino Elementary School in Kushiro and then moved to Keiun Middle School in another school district because of their strong ice hockey team. He then attended the high school in Tomakomai , which is more than 200 km away and is more than 200 km away from Komazawa University , which has regularly won the national high school championships since the 1970s.

In the 2002/03 season, the striker played for the Waseda University team . He then moved to North America, where he was on the ice for various teams in the East Coast Hockey League in the following season . In 2004 he moved to the Asia League Ice Hockey, founded a year earlier, for the Kokudo Ice Hockey Club, whose professional team has been called Seibu Prince Rabbits since a merger in 2006 . With Kokudo he won the Asia League in 2005 and 2006 . In 2007 and 2009 he reached the play-off finals with the Seibu Prince Rabbits, which were lost. For this he won the Japanese championship title with the Rabbits in 2008 and 2009 . After the team from Nishitōkyō was disbanded in 2009 for financial reasons, he switched to Nippon Paper Cranes from his hometown Kushiro, with whom he won the Japanese national championship title in 2010 and 2011 and the Asia League in 2014. After this success he was drawn to the Ōji Eagles , for whom he has been on the ice ever since.

International

For Japan, Obara took part in the junior division of the U20 C World Cup in 2000 and Division II of the U20 World Cup in 2001 . He played for the Japanese men's team at the 2003 and 2004 World Championships . After the Asians were relegated from the top division, he was active in Division I for Japan in 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 and 2017 when he was the top scorer and top scorer of the tournament.

In 2006 and 2007 Obara took part in the Germany Cup , but only finished sixth and last with the Japanese selection. At the Winter Asian Games 2007 in Changchun , he and his team won the title with a 3-2 win in the decisive game against Kazakhstan . He also took part in both qualifying tournaments for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver . After the Japanese won the first qualifying round in Sanok , Poland , they had to recognize the superiority of the Germans and the Austrians in the second round in Hanover and only finished third ahead of Slovenia. Obara was also on the ice during the Olympic qualifications for the 2014 Games in Sochi and 2018 in Pyeongchang . At the 2007 Germany Cup he finished fifth with the Japanese selection.

Achievements and Awards

International

Asia League statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Regular season 14th 498 201 304 505 278
Playoffs 13 74 31 24 55 32

(Status: end of the 2017/18 season)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. 景雲 中学 へ 越境 入学 . (No longer available online.) In: In the crease. Nikkan Sports as of December 27, 2005, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved April 29, 2014 (Japanese). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blog.nikkansports.com
  2. Member Profile. In: Nippon Paper Cranes Official Site. Retrieved April 29, 2014 (Japanese).