Douglas Irwin (ice hockey player)

Douglas Irwin
Date of birth	January 15, 1959
place of birth	Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
size	172 cm
Weight	76 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1979-1980	Royal York Royals
1980-1988	Acadia University Ohio University
1988-1992	EC Peiting
1992-1993	ERC Sonthofen
1993-1995	Nuremberg Ice Tigers
1995-1996	Ratinger lions
1996-1997	ERC Sonthofen

Douglas Irwin (born January 15, 1959 in Edmonton , Alberta ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach . Until November 2017 he worked as a trainer for Füchsen Duisburg in the Oberliga Nord .

Career

As a player

Irwin's career began in 1979 in the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League with the Royal York Royals . After a few years in the ice hockey team of Acadia University and Ohio University , the EC Peiting brought him to Germany for the 1988/89 season , where he was one of the league's top defenders in his debut season . After another three years with Upper Bavaria, Irwin came to ERC Sonthofen in 1992 . A season later, the upper house teams became aware of the performance of the defensive player, who was only 1.72 meters tall, and so he moved to the EHC 80 Nuremberg in the 2nd Bundesliga in the 1993/94 season , which was a year later in the German ice hockey League should play.

After a one-season guest appearance at the Ratinger Löwen , Irwin returned to ERC Sonthofen in the former 1st League South for the 1996/97 season , where he ended his playing career after one season.

As a trainer

After finishing his playing career, Irwin returned to Canada and initially coached the Calgary Royals from the Alberta Junior Hockey League . He then coached the University of Lethbridge's ice hockey team from 1998 to 2002 , with whom he became SAIT Eye Opener Champions in the 1999/00 and 2001/02 seasons .

His first coaching station in Germany was in the 2002/03 season of ESV Bayreuth in the major league . After two years in Bayreuth, HC Gherdëina signed him from the Italian A2 series. In 2006 he switched to league rivals HC Eppan Pirates and led the team to fourth place in the final ranking.

In the 2008/09 season , Irwin trained the Eispiraten Crimmitschau from the 2nd Bundesliga from September to November .

In May 2010 Irwin was introduced as the new trainer and junior coordinator at EHC Klostersee .

Four years later he left this station and signed a contract with EV Regensburg in April 2014 .

From April 2017 Doug Irwin was under contract with EV Duisburg in the Oberliga , where he formed a coaching team with Reemt Pyka . On November 22, 2017, Irwin was dismissed due to the inadequate sporting success from the point of view of the club management.

statistics

Player statistics

The statistics only include games for German teams.

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		GP	G	A.	Pts	PIM		GP	G	A.	Pts	PIM
1986/87	EC Peiting	OIL		13	5	8th	13	23		-	-	-	-	-
1988/89	EC Peiting	OIL		38	18th	36	54	51		-	-	-	-	-
1989/90	EC Peiting	OIL		19th	6th	11	17th	16		-	-	-	-	-
1992/93	ERC Sonthofen	OIL		8th	1	5	6th	4th		13	3	13	16	6th
1993/94	EHC 80 Nuremberg	2nd BL		53	4th	13	17th	28		8th	2	4th	6th	10
1994/95	EHC 80 Nuremberg	DEL		40	4th	9	13	38		5	0	0	0	4th
1995/96	EC Ratingen	DEL		49	1	15th	16	28		3	0	0	0	2
1996/97	ERC Sonthofen	2nd BL		30th	3	7th	10	18th		-	-	-	-	-
DEL total				89	5	24	29	66		8th	0	0	0	6th
2nd BL total				83	7th	20th	27	46		8th	2	4th	6th	10
OL total				78	30th	60	90	94		13	3	13	16	6th

( 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 )

Coach statistics

				Whole season
season	team	league		Sp	G	V	U	Pct
2002/03	ESV Bayreuth	OIL		54	34	14th	0	68.5
2003/04	ESV Bayreuth	OIL		54	25th	22nd	4th	52.8
2004/05	HC Gherdeina	Series A2 (ITA)		36	15th	19th	2
2005/06	HC Gherdeina	Series A2 (ITA)		36	18th	15th	3
2006/07	HC Eppan Pirates	Series A2 (ITA)		32	14th	14th	4th	50.0
2007/08	HC Eppan Pirates	Series A2 (ITA)		12	6th	2	4th	66.6
2008/09	Ice pirates Crimmitschau	2nd BL		15th	3	12	0
2009/10	Peterborough Phantoms	EPIHL (ENG)
2010/11	EHC Klostersee	OIL
2011/12	EHC Klostersee	OIL
2012/13	EHC Klostersee	OIL
2013/14	EHC Klostersee	OIL
2014/15	EV Regensburg	OIL

Legend to the coach statistics :
(Sp = games, W = won, V = lost, U = draw, Pct = ratio win-loss in%)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ sz-online: Doug Irwin coach successor to Swetlow in Crimmitschau. In: sz-online.de. September 10, 2008, accessed June 16, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Eispiraten Crimmitschau: Change of coach in Crimmitschau - Wayne Hynes replaces Doug Irwin. In: eishockey.info. November 17, 2008, accessed June 16, 2017 . 
3. ^ Homepage of the EHC Klostersee, Douglas Irwin becomes head trainer
4. ^ Homepage of EV Regensburg Doug Irwin will be the new trainer of EVR ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ First course - Doug Irwin becomes the new head coach of Füchse Duisburg. Retrieved May 29, 2017 . 
6. ↑ https://fuechse-duisburg.de/2017/11/22/fuechse-duisburg-trennen-sich-von-doug-irwin/

Web links

• Douglas Irwin at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Douglas Irwin at hockeydb.com (English)