Dieter Hegen

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IIHF Hall of Fame , 2010
Dieter Hegen
Date of birth April 29, 1962
place of birth Kaufbeuren , Germany
Nickname Didi
size 183 cm
Weight 90 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1981 , 3rd lap, 46th position
Montréal Canadiens
Career stations
1979-1986 ESV Kaufbeuren
1986-1989 Cologne EC
1989-1992 Düsseldorfer EG
1992-1994 EC Hedos Munich
1994 Mad Dogs Munich
1994-1998 Düsseldorfer EG
1998-2000 Starbulls Rosenheim
2000-2002 ESV Kaufbeuren

Dieter "Didi" Hegen (born April 29, 1962 in Kaufbeuren ) is a German ice hockey coach and former player.

Career as a player

societies

Already at the age of 17 it became clear that he would one day be one of the most successful German ice hockey players of all time. In the 1979/80 season he made his debut in the first team of his home club, the ESV Kaufbeuren . In the 2nd Bundesliga South he scored 60 goals and 64 assists in 42 games and was instrumental in the rise of the ESVK. In his first year in the 1st Bundesliga, he was the top scorer straight away with 54 goals. The NHL also became aware of him. In the 1981 NHL Entry Draft, the Montréal Canadiens secured the rights to him in the third round as 46th. After six years in the first division with ESVK, he moved to the defending champion in 1986, the Cologne EC .

In his first year at the KEC he became German Champion - the first of a total of seven championships that Didi Hegen was able to celebrate. In Cologne he met his congenial playing partner, Landshut Gerd Truntschka , with whom he was to form one of the most successful and best duos in German ice hockey history from now on, with Truntschka as a technically strong, ingenious template provider who provided the assists and Hegen scored goals on the assembly line. In 1989 they both moved to Düsseldorfer EG , where an all-star ensemble knocked on the door of the championship. Together with cracks like Peter-John Lee , Chris Valentine , Uli Hiemer , Mike Schmidt and goalkeeper Helmut de Raaf , they managed to win the German championship title three times in a row (1990, 1991, 1992).

They also moved to the next station together. The EC Hedos Munich bought a top team from the stocks of the ailing SB Rosenheim , which withdrew from the Bundesliga, and other top players such as Hegen and his DEG colleagues Truntschka and Schmidt. In the first year in Munich, the championship was not yet successful because the DEG was still too strong, but the following year nobody could stop this team. In the final of the 1993/1994 season , DEG was defeated by EC Hedos Munich, meanwhile for the sixth time in a row in the final.

Gerd Truntschka ended his career with this championship title. Hegen, however, stayed the following season with the Munich team, now renamed Maddogs, but they went bankrupt at the beginning of the season and signed off from the game. He then moved back to DEG, where he stayed for the rest of this season and another three years and became German champion in 1996. After DEG withdrew from the DEL , he moved to Starbulls Rosenheim for two less successful years and finally to his home club, ESV Kaufbeuren, in 2000. Here he ended his active career in 2002.

National team

In the German national team , he played 106 World Cup games , in which he scored 39 goals and 21 assists. There were also five Olympic Games with 33 games, 16 goals and seven assists. Overall, the best German left winger of the 20th century came to 290 international matches, in which he scored 111 goals.

Achievements and Awards

He was three times top scorer in the 1st Bundesliga : 1981 (for ESV Kaufbeuren), 1989 (Cologne) and 1992 (Düsseldorf), seven times he was elected to the All-Star-Team of the Bundesliga. In the Bundesliga history he scored the second most goals (after Erich Kühnhackl ).

German championships as a player

IIHF Hall of Fame

Dieter Hegen has been a member of the IIHF Hall of Fame since May 23, 2010 .

Stations as a trainer

EV Duisburg with Didi Hegen, 2005

In 2002 Hegen switched to coaching and took over the second division EV Duisburg . In 2005 he led the Füchse to promotion to the DEL , the highest German division. Didi Hegen also left the ice as the winner in his eighth play-off final - this time as a coach. As second in the preliminary round of the 2nd Bundesliga, the EVD had defeated the first, the Straubing Tigers , with a sweep (play-off series without defeat), as he did as a player in Düsseldorf (1992) and Munich (1994) .

In October 2007 he was dismissed from EV Duisburg for lack of success; his successors were initially sports director Franz Fritzmeier as an interim solution. He then signed Peter Draisaitl for the season , who was released in January 2008 (despite a very successful quota) and so Karel Lang was finally appointed head coach of the Füchse. After an unsuccessful start of the EV Duisburg in the 08/09 season, Karel Lang resigned from the coaching office and recommended the EVD to return Didi Hegen to his old place of work. On September 16, 2008 Dieter Hegen was officially introduced as the new trainer. On January 7, 2009, Hegen resigned - along with the entire Füchse sports management.

Dieter Hegen got involved in the social aid project We Help Africa for the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa, where he acted as city sponsor for his birthplace Kaufbeuren .

Dieter Hegen has been a member of the IIHF Hall of Fame since May 23, 2010.

On April 22, 2011 Dieter Hegen became national coach in street hockey .

In June 2013, Hegen took over the position of head coach at ESV Kaufbeuren . On January 20, 2014, he was replaced by Ulrich Egen . He then worked at the Kaufbeurer club as a sporting director until he was released from the board of ESV Kaufbeuren on November 17, 2014 after 14 defeats in a row together with Ulrich Egen.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hegen is the new national coach - in street hockey
  2. ↑ Dieter Hegen new trainer of the ESV Kaufbeuren
  3. ↑ Uli Egen new trainer at ESV Kaufbeuren
  4. ↑ Philippe Bader: ESVK separates from Dieter Hegen and Uli Egen. ESV Kaufbeuren, November 17, 2014, accessed on November 17, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Hegen, Dieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hegen, Didi (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaufbeuren , Germany