Elias Vorlicek

Elias Vorlicek
Date of birth	March 12, 1951
place of birth	Lindau , Germany
size	168 cm
Weight	75 kg
position	striker
Career stations
1970-1974	Michigan Technological University
1979-1981	Mannheim ERC
1981-1982	ERC Freiburg
1982-1983	RSC Bremerhaven
1983-1984	EA Kempten
1984-1987	Eintracht Frankfurt
1987-1988	EC Kassel
1988-1989	EHC Essen-West

Elias Vorlicek (born March 12, 1951 in Lindau ) is a former German - Canadian ice hockey player . Among other things, he was active in Germany for the Mannheim ERC .

Career

Canada

Born in the Allgäu, Vorlicek grew up in Canada after his parents emigrated. He played as a striker during his career and began this at Michigan Technological University in the NCAA . Due to his small height of 168 cm, he was probably denied a career in the NHL .

Germany

After four seasons in Canada in which he scored a total of 21 goals and 40 assists in 112 games, he moved to Germany in the ice hockey Bundesliga at EV Füssen . However, Vorlicek had his most successful time at the Mannheim ERC . There he played three outstanding seasons from 1978 to 1981. In 172 games he scored 72 goals and 80 assists. With the team he became German champion in the 1979/1980 season under coach Heinz Weisenbach . After leaving Mannheim in 1981, he first played one season for ERC Freiburg . Here, too, he was able to achieve a total of 41 scorer points in 45 games (10 goals and 31 assists). Then he moved to Frankfurt for three years via REV Bremerhaven and EA Kempten in 1984, to the then ice hockey department of Eintracht Frankfurt , the current Frankfurt Lions . With this team, he was promoted to the ice hockey Bundesliga in the 1986/1987 season. In the following season he made 54 games for Frankfurt, scoring 19 goals and providing 28 templates. In the next two rounds he played for the EC Kassel , now Kassel Huskies and the EHC Essen-West in the 2nd ice hockey Bundesliga . With these two teams, too, he showed himself to be a hard-working point collector and scored 63 times in the opposing goal in 68 games. There were also 80 assists. The points hunter Elias Vorlicek, who scored almost one point per game in his career, ended his active career in 1989.

After the active career

Vorlicek has been Director of Hockey Operations and trainer at the Okanagan Hockey School, based in St. Pölten, Austria, since 2008.

Web links

• Elias Vorlicek at rodi-db.de
• Elias Vorlicek at hockeydb.com (English)