David Aebischer

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David Aebischer
Date of birth February 7, 1978
place of birth Geneva , Switzerland
Size 189 cm
Weight 85 kg
position goalkeeper
number # 29
Catch hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1997 , 6th lap, 161st position
Colorado Avalanche
Career stations
1996-1997 Friborg-Gottéron
1997-1998 Chesapeake Icebreakers
Wheeling Nailers
1998-2000 Hershey Bears
2000-2006 Colorado Avalanche
2004-2005 HC Lugano
2006-2007 Montréal Canadiens
2007 Phoenix Coyotes
2007-2011 HC Lugano
2011–2012 St. John's IceCaps
2012-2014 Rapperswil-Jona Lakers

David Aebischer (born February 7, 1978 in Geneva ) is a former Swiss ice hockey goalkeeper who played in the course of his active career for the Colorado Avalanche in the National Hockey League , where he won the Stanley Cup in 2001 in the Avalanche jersey . In Switzerland he was active for Friborg-Gottéron , HC Lugano and Rapperswil-Jona Lakers in the top Swiss league.

He also represented the Swiss national team at five world championships and two Olympic Winter Games . He made a total of 65 international matches for Switzerland.

Career

Aebischer was selected in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft at number 161 by the Colorado Avalanche . Until his first NHL game on October 18, 2000 against the Columbus Blue Jackets , Aebischer played with the Hershey Bears in the lower class American Hockey League . He previously played with the Chesapeake Icebreakers and the Wheeling Nailers in the East Coast Hockey League . From the 2003/04 season Aebischer was the Avalanche goalkeeper, where he replaced the legendary Patrick Roy .

Aebischer in the jersey of the Swiss national team

His successes include the bronze medal with Switzerland at the Junior World Championship in 1998 and the Stanley Cup victory with the Colorado Avalanche in 2001.

Because the 2004/05 NHL season was canceled due to disputes between players and team owners about payment, a so-called lockout , Aebischer played alternatively in Switzerland at HC Lugano . At the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin , he and his goalkeeping partner Martin Gerber played a key role in the Swiss performance. Along with Jonas Hiller, David Aebischer and Martin Gerber are the only Swiss goalkeepers who have been able to assert themselves in the NHL for a long time.

On March 9, 2006, Aebischer was exchanged for José Théodore from the Montreal Canadiens in a so-called mega-deal . On July 12, 2006, his contract with the Canadiens was extended by one year. In Montreal at the beginning of the 2006/07 season he formed an equal goalkeeper team with the Frenchman Cristobal Huet , but during the season Huet prevailed as number one because Aebischer did not bring the desired performance. In February 2007, Huet was injured and Aebischer took the post of goalkeeper, but was later ousted by the 21-year-old Jaroslav Halák .

Aebischer's contract was not extended after the end of the season and he switched to the Phoenix Coyotes , where he had Mikael Tellqvist and Alex Auld as competitors for the regular place in goal. The Coyotes started the 2007/08 season with all three goalkeepers, but after three weeks they opted for Auld and Tellqvist as a goalkeeper team and sent Aebischer to the San Antonio Rampage , the Phoenix farm team in the lower class AHL.

Aebischer in August 2008

After Aebischer was eliminated from the squad at San Antonio Rampage and Phoenix had signed another goalkeeper in Ilja Brysgalow , he moved back to Switzerland for HC Lugano on November 21, 2007 and signed a contract until 2012. In the summer of 2011, Aebischer took participated in the training camp of the Winnipeg Jets , but was not given a place in the NHL roster and was instead signed by the farm team St. John's IceCaps for a year. For the 2012/13 season David Aebischer was signed by the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers .

After two seasons with the Lakers, he officially ended his active career in January 2015.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league GP MIN GA SO ATM SV% GP MIN GA SO ATM SV%
1996/97 HC Friborg-Gottéron NLA 10 34 1 3.54 3 13 0 4.24
1997/98 HC Friborg-Gottéron NLA 1 60 1 0 1.00 4th 240 17th 0 4.25
1997/98 Chesapeake Icebreakers ECHL 17th 930 52 0 3.35 89.7 - - - - - -
1997/98 Wheeling Nailers ECHL 10 564 30th 1 5.54 85.8 - - - - - -
1997/98 Hershey Bears AHL 2 79 5 0 3.76 85.3 - - - - - -
1998/99 Hershey Bears AHL 38 1932 79 2 2.45 92.0 3 152 6th 0 2.37 92.5
1999/00 Hershey Bears AHL 58 3259 180 1 3.31 90.2 14th 788 40 2 3.05 91.7
2000/01 Colorado Avalanche NHL 26th 1393 52 3 2.24 90.3 1 1 0 0 0.00
2001/02 Colorado Avalanche NHL 21st 1184 37 2 1.88 93.1 1 34 1 0 1.79 92.9
2002/03 Colorado Avalanche NHL 22nd 1235 50 1 2.43 91.6 - - - - - -
2003/04 Colorado Avalanche NHL 62 3702 129 4th 2.09 92.4 11 662 23 1 2.08 92.2
2004/05 HC Lugano NLA 18th 1019 41 0 2.41 93.2 4th 240 10 0 2.50 93.8
2005/06 Colorado Avalanche NHL 43 2476 123 3 2.98 90.0 - - - - - -
2005/06 Montréal Canadiens NHL 7th 418 26th 0 3.73 89.2 - - - - - -
2006/07 Montréal Canadiens NHL 32 1760 93 0 3.17 90.0 - - - - - -
2007/08 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 1 60 3 0 3.00 90.9 - - - - - -
2007/08 San Antonio Rampage AHL 5 302 13 0 2.58 89.8 - - - - - -
2007/08 HC Lugano NLA 26th 1576 69 2 2.63 92.0 5 301 14th 0 2.79 89.2
2008/09 HC Lugano NLA 49 2953 140 2 2.84 92.2 7th 452 26th 0 3.45 89.4
2009/10 HC Lugano NLA 46 2751 139 2 3.03 90.8 4th 237 22nd 0 5.57 83.5
2010/11 HC Lugano NLA 36 2088 108 3 3.10 88.5 - - - - - -
2011/12 St. John's IceCaps AHL 31 1722 82 1 2.86 89.5 1 26th 2 0 4.56 83.3
2012/13 Rapperswil-Jona Lakers NLA 41 2258 146 2 3.88 89.8 12 1 747 43 0 3.45 91.3
NLA total 227 678 12 27 102 0 4.00
ECHL total 27 1494 82 1 4.40 87.8 - - - - - -
AHL total 134 7294 359 4th 2.95 90.5 18th 966 48 2 2.98 91.6
NHL overall 214 12229 513 13 2.52 91.2 13 697 24 1 2.07 92.2

International

year team event GP MIN GA SO ATM SV%
1997 Switzerland J-WM 5 300 10 0 2.00
1998 Switzerland J-WM 6th 379 10 0 1.58
1998 Switzerland WM 7th 376 18th 0 2.87
1999 Switzerland WM 4th 173 13 1 4.51
2002 Switzerland Olympia 2 81 6th 0 4.44 80.6
2005 Switzerland WM 1 60 3 0 3.00 90.3
2006 Switzerland Olympia 4th 200 7th 0 2.10 94.0
2006 Switzerland WM 6th 359 16 0 2.67 88.2
2007 Switzerland WM 1 60 6th 0 6.00 79.3
Juniors overall 11 679 20th 0 1.76
Men overall 25th 1309 69 1 3.16

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; 1  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

literature

  • Alain Thévoz, David Aebischer: David Aebischer - The story of a conquest . Freiburg im Üechtland 2001, ISBN 2-9700313-0-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alain Thévoz, David Aebischer: David Aebischer - The story of a conquest . Freiburg i. Üe. 2001, p. 196.
  2. ↑ sihf.ch, player statistics, completed international matches
  3. ↑ hockeyfans.ch, David Aebischer to Lugano
  4. ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Aebischer zu den St. John's IceCaps , accessed on October 21, 2011
  5. ↑ Southeastern Switzerland , Rapperswil-Jona Lakers bring goalie David Aebischer , accessed on June 1, 2012
  6. ↑ swisshockeynews.ch: "David Aebischer has decided to put an end to his professional career" (English, January 24, 2015, accessed on February 4, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Aebischer, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ice hockey goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg