Dieter Kalt

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Dieter Kalt
Date of birth June 26, 1974
place of birth Klagenfurt , Austria
size 175 cm
Weight 83 kg
position Left wing
number # 74
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1978-1996 EC KAC
1996-1998 Adler Mannheim
1998-1999 EC KAC
1999-2000 Long Beach Ice Dogs
2000 EC KAC
2000-2001 Cologne Sharks
2001-2004 Färjestad BK
2004-2005 Vienna Capitals
2005-2009 EC Red Bull Salzburg
2009 Luleå HF
2009–2012 EC KAC

Dieter Kalt junior (born June 26, 1974 in Klagenfurt ) is a former Austrian ice hockey player who was most recently under contract with the EC KAC . He was the captain of the Austrian national team . He currently works for the Klagenfurt AC as Director of Hockey Operations .

Career

Training at the KAC

Dieter Kalt started his career in the youth team of the Carinthian elite club EC KAC . He went through the entire training of the club and was able to win many junior championship titles. Due to the international relations of his father, Dieter Kalt sen. , he took part in many leading training camps in the “ice hockey countries” USA , Czechoslovakia , USSR (Soviet Union) and Canada .

At the age of 14, Dieter Kalt was called up for the first time in the student team (U17) of the Austrian national team. He made his debut in Teamdress at a tournament in the Dutch Tilburg . In the following years he took part in numerous junior European and world championships in Poland , Italy , France , Norway and Romania .

Professional career

As a player

In 1990, Dieter Kalt was appointed to the senior team of the KAC for the first time, with which he won the Austrian championship in the 1990/91 season . From then on he was a regular in the professional team of the KAC. In 1992 he was drafted at the CHL Import Draft by the Oshawa Generals in the first round as the 33rd player, but did not move to North America. For the 1996/97 season , Kalt signed a contract with the German club Adler Mannheim , with which he won the German championship in 1997 and a year later .

After three successful years in the German Ice Hockey League , he returned to Carinthia and became Austrian runner-up with the Klagenfurt AC. The Klagenfurters lost the play-off final against rivals from Villach in six games 4-2. At the turn of the millennium he played in Los Angeles with the Long Beach Ice Dogs . In the spring of 2000 , Kalt returned to Austria, played for the KAC in the Austrian play-offs and shot the Carinthians to the championship title. In the playoff final, the KAC defeated last year's opponent from Villach with 4-1 victories.

After he was on the ice for the Kölner Haie in the 2000/01 season , he moved to Färjestad BK in the summer of 2001 in the Swedish Elitserien . There he was able to win the Swedish championship with his new club . In 2004, Dieter Kalt received a contract with the Vienna Capitals , where he was appointed captain and promoted to leading player. After his team won the playoff final against the AC from Klagenfurt, he won the Austrian championship again with the Capitals. It was the first championship title of a Viennese ice hockey team in 42 years.

After the title in 2005, he moved to EC Red Bull Salzburg . There Kalt was under contract for four years and won the championship title as captain in the 2006/07 and 2007/08 seasons and the runner-up title in 2008/09. In the spring of 2009 he signed a contract for the playoffs with Luleå HF . Born in Klagenfurt, he returned to his hometown in the 2009/10 season and played for his hometown club EC KAC until the 2011/12 season.

After Kalt had turned down the contract offer of the KAC for financial reasons and received no further offers, he announced the end of his career on September 20, 2012.

Dieter Kalt as assistant coach of the EC KAC , September 2013

International

In the junior division, Kalt played for Austria at the U18 B European Championships in 1990 , 1991 when he was the top scorer and top scorer of the tournament, and in 1992 and at the U20 B World Championships in 1991 , 1992 , 1993 and 1994 .

With the senior national team of Austria , in which he made his debut on November 10, 1992 in his hometown Klagenfurt in a 2: 4 friendly match against Canada , he first played at the A World Championships in 1993 , 1994 , 1995 , 1996 , 1998 , 1999 and 2000 as well as the B-World Championship 1997 . After switching to the current division system, he was at the World Championships of the top division in 2001 , 2002 , 2003 , 2004 , 2005 and 2007 as well as Division I in 2006 and 2008 , when he was the top scorer (together with his compatriot Thomas Vanek ) and top scorer ( together with his compatriot Oliver Setzinger and the Briton Greg Chambers ) was also voted the best striker of the tournament. He also represented his colors in the qualifying tournaments for the 1998 Winter Olympics, 2006 and 2010 and the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer , 1998 in Nagano and 2002 in Salt Lake City .

As a trainer and functionary

In September 2012, Kalt took over the post of assistant coach for the Austrian U20 national team . Head coach at that time was Jason O'Leary . In addition, he was co-trainer of the KAC before he was appointed junior manager of the KAC in summer 2014. After two years as Director of Player Development at KAC, he has been Director of Hockey Operations there since 2016 .

At the 2014 Junior World Championship he was the head coach of the Austrian U20s . At various world championship tournaments he also worked as an assistant coach for the men's selection team.

Achievements and Awards

Others

  • Dieter Kalt has a half-brother, Lukas Kalt, who plays for EC Red Bull Salzburg and in the U15 national team.
  • Dieter Kalt's father is the President of the ÖEHV , Dieter Kalt senior
  • In 2005 Christine Rettl's book "Kalt - eiskalt " was published, in which she describes the career and life of Dieter Kalt.
  • With 197 games, Dieter Kalt is right behind Martin Ulrich (228) in second place, the player with the most senior international games.

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1990/91 EC KAC Austria 18th 1 1 2 - - 1 - - - -
1991/92 EC KAC Austria 37 5 4th 9 - - 1 - - - -
1992/93 EC KAC Austria 45 10 14th 24 - - - - - -
1993/94 EC KAC Austria 47 22nd 23 45 32 - 1 - - - -
1994/95 EC KAC Austria 34 23 22nd 45 28 - 1 - - - -
1995/96 EC KAC Austria 38 34 28 62 14th - 1 - - - -
1996/97 Adler Mannheim DEL 49 14th 20th 34 20th 9 3 4th 7th 4th
1997/98 Adler Mannheim DEL 43 18th 13 31 38 10 2 2 4th 0
1998/99 EC KAC Austria 50 27 32 59 52 - 1 - - - -
1999/00 Long Beach Ice Dogs IHL 54 11 14th 25th 20th - - - - -
1999/00 EC KAC Austria 11 4th 7th 11 10 - 1 - - - -
2000/01 Cologne Sharks DEL 36 11 10 21st 25th 3 2 0 2 2
2001/02 Färjestad BK SHL 49 21st 18th 39 43 10 6th 3 9 6th
2002/03 Färjestad BK SHL 49 18th 14th 32 59 14th 4th 1 5 10
2003/04 Färjestad BK SHL 45 2 9 11 26th 17th 2 0 2 12
2004/05 Vienna Capitals EBEL 48 24 30th 54 40 10 6th 4th 10 18th
2005/06 EC Red Bull Salzburg EBEL 40 25th 18th 43 48 11 3 4th 7th 18th
2006/07 EC Red Bull Salzburg EBEL 50 24 33 57 20th 8th 3 5 8th 10
2007/08 EC Red Bull Salzburg EBEL 43 22nd 16 38 46 15th 5 10 15th 6th
2008/09 EC Red Bull Salzburg EBEL 32 9 16 25th 36 - - - - -
2008/09 Luleå HF SHL 7th 2 0 2 4th 5 0 0 0 2
2009/10 EC KAC EBEL 50 14th 18th 32 38 6th 3 4th 7th 4th
2010/11 EC KAC EBEL 42 16 18th 34 32 16 3 3 6th 8th
2011/12 EC KAC EBEL 42 4th 17th 21st 16 16 3 5 8th 10
Austria as a whole 280 126 131 257 136 - - - - -
DEL total 128 43 43 86 83 22nd 7th 6th 13 6th
EBEL total 347 138 166 304 276 82 26th 35 61 74
SHL total 150 43 41 84 132 46 12 4th 16 30th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Kalt says quietly Servus kurier.at on September 20, 2012
  2. ↑ Dieter Kalt is the new assistant coach in the U20 national team - hockeyfans.at. In: hockeyfans.at. December 15, 2012, accessed December 11, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Ex-KAC professional Dieter Kalt is the new assistant trainer at the Klagenfurt AC. In: eishockeynews .de. January 2, 2013, accessed December 11, 2015 .
  4. ^ Carinthian of the day - The outstanding career of Dieter Kalt. In: kleinezeitung.at . December 11, 2015, accessed December 11, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Cold, Dieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dieter Kalt jun.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt , Carinthia