David Longstaff

David Longstaff
Date of birth	August 26, 1974
place of birth	Whitley Bay , England , UK
size	188 cm
Weight	102 kg
position	striker
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1989-1995	Whitley Warriors
1995-2001	Sheffield Steelers
2001-2002	Djurgården Hockey
2002	Manchester Storm HC Sierre
2002-2010	Newcastle Vipers
2010-2015	Guildford Flames
since 2015	Whitley Warriors

David Longstaff (born August 26, 1974 in Whitley Bay , England ) is a British ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Whitley Warriors in the National Ice Hockey League as a player- coach since 2015 .

Career

David Longstaff began his career as a hockey player with the Whitley Warriors in his hometown, for which he played as a 15-year-old in the British Hockey League , the top British division at the time. After the first match days of the 1995/96 season , he left his home club, which was now called Newcastle Warriors , and switched to league rivals Sheffield Steelers , for whom he played in the Ice Hockey Superleague , the top British league, from 1996 . With the Steelers he was British champion in 1996, 1997 and 2001 . In 1999, 2000 and 2001 he also won the Challenge Cup with the team. After these successes he was committed for the 2001/02 season by Djurgården Hockey from the Swedish Elitserien , the top division of the Scandinavian country.

In 2002 he returned to Great Britain and initially played for Manchester Storm in the Superleague. After just a few game days, however, he moved abroad again. This time the goal was Switzerland, where he played seven games at HC Sierre in the National League B. The second half of the season he spent with the Newcastle Vipers in the second-rate British National League , for which he should play until 2010 (from 2005 in the Elite Ice Hockey League ) and whose team captain he was from 2007. With the Vipers he first won the Findus Cup in 2003 and 2004 and the playoffs there in the first season of the EIHL 2006. In 2005 he was elected to the BNL All Star Team. After his time in Newcastle, he moved to the Guildford Flames in the second-rate English Premier Ice Hockey League and also acted there as team captain. With the team from Surrey he was able to win the main round of the EPIHL in 2012 and 2013, the playoffs in 2011 and the English Premier Cup in 2012 . In 2012, when he was the league's best goal-maker, he was elected to the EPIHL's second all-star team, and a year later he even made it to the first-all-star team. In 2015, after 20 years, he returned to his home club, for which he is now active as a player- coach in the third-rate National Ice Hockey League .

International

For Great Britain Longstaff took part in the junior division at the U18-C-European championships in 1991 and the U18-B-European championships in 1992 as well as the U20-C-world championships in 1993 and 1994 .

In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad at the A World Cup in 1994 , when the British played first-class for the last time to date, the B World Championships in 1995 , when he was voted the best player on his team, 1996 , 1997 , 1998 , 1999 and 2000 and - after changing over to the current division system - the title fights of Division I in 2001 , 2002 , 2003 , 2004 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2011 and 2012 . He was also on the ice for his colors at the qualifying tournaments for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , 2010 in Vancouver and 2014 in Sochi .

family

David Longstaff is the father of two soccer players, Matthew and Sean Longstaff . He is Alan Thompson's cousin .

Achievements and Awards

• 1991 Promotion to the B group at the U18-C European Championship
• 1996 British Champion with the Sheffield Steelers
• 1997 British Champion with the Sheffield Steelers
• 1999 Challenge Cup winner with the Sheffield Steelers
• 2000 Challenge Cup winner with the Sheffield Steelers
• 2001 British Champion and Challenge Cup winner with the Sheffield Steelers
• 2003 Findus Cup winner with the Newcastle Vipers
• 2004 Findus Cup winner with the Newcastle Vipers
• 2005 BNL All Star Team
• 2006 Elite Ice Hockey League playoff champions with the Newcastle Vipers
• 2011 English Premier Ice Hockey League playoff winner with the Guildford Flames
• 2012 main round winner of the English Premier Ice Hockey League and win of the English Premier Cup with the Guildford Flames
• 2012 Best Preparer of EPIHL and Second All Star Team
• 2013 main round winner of the English Premier Ice Hockey League with the Guildford Flames
• 2013 EPIHL First All Star Team

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Elitserien Regular Season	1	45	9	11	20th	55
Elitserien Playoffs	1	5	0	1	1	4th
BHL regular season	7th	189	125	153	278	395
BHL playoffs	4th	27	15th	13	28	79
BISL regular season	5	221	75	93	168	140
BISL playoffs	5	38	6th	21st	27	48
EIHL regular season	5	244	84	154	238	306
EIHL playoffs	4th	14th	2	14th	16	10

(Status: end of the 2009/10 season)

Web links

• David Longstaff at eliteprospects.com (English)