Elvis Bešlagič

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Flag of Slovenia and Germany.svg  Elvis Bešlagič Ice hockey player
Date of birth 4th July 1973
place of birth Jesenice , Yugoslavia
date of death April 24, 2013
Place of death Munich , Germany
size 180 cm
Weight 85 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1991-1995 HK Jesenice
1995-1997 Olimpija Hertz Ljubljana
1997-2000 HK Jesenice
1999-2000 Iserlohn Roosters
2000-2001 Ratinger Ice Aliens
2001-2003 ERC Selb
2003-2004 Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg
2004-2005 SC Bietigheim-Bissingen
2005-2006 REV Bremerhaven
2006-2007 Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg
2007-2008 ESC eating mosquitoes
2008-2009 EHC Munich
2009-2011 EC Pfaffenhofen
2011–2012 EV Moosburg

Elvis Bešlagič (born July 4, 1973 in Jesenice , SR Slovenia , Yugoslavia ; † April 24, 2013 in Munich , Germany ) was a Slovenian ice hockey player and coach .

Career

Elvis Bešlagič began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of HK Jesenice , for whose professional team he made his debut in the Slovenian ice hockey league in the 1991/92 season . With the team he became Slovenian champion straight away in his rookie year . He was able to repeat this success with Jesenice in the following two years. He then moved to HDD Olimpija Ljubljana within Slovenia , with whom he also won the national championship title in 1996 and 1997. For the 1997/98 season , the defender returned to Jesenice. After he had spent the 1999/2000 season for Jesenice initially exclusively in the multinational Interliga , he moved to Germany for the Iserlohn Roosters in the 2nd Bundesliga ice hockey in the further course of the season .

From 2000 to 2003 Bešlagič was in the third-class ice hockey league with the Ratinger Ice Aliens and the ERC Selb under contract. He then spent one season each with the second division clubs Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg , SC Bietigheim-Bissingen and REV Bremerhaven . For the 2006/07 season he returned to Wolfsburg and rose with the Grizzly Adams as second division champions in the German ice hockey league . However, he himself stayed in the 2nd Bundesliga and began the 2007/08 season with Moskitos Essen , which he left after six months to play for their league rivals EHC Munich for the following year and a half . In 2009 he ended his professional career, but in December of the same year he joined the Bayern league club EC Pfaffenhofen . At Bayern he was one of the top scorers for the next two years. After two years in Pfaffenhofen, he became player-coach at the fifth division EV Moosburg in 2011 .

In the 2012/2013 season he was a coach at EHC Waldkraiburg , where he was on leave in November 2012. He then moved back to the player camp and was active for SE Freising.

Bešlagič was married and had a son born in 2012. He took his wife's name and was called Elvis Reese since December 2012 . After the end of his professional career, he ran a fitness company in Munich with his wife. Elvis Bešlagič died on April 23, 2013 at the age of 39. Nothing is known about the cause of death.

International

For Yugoslavia , Bešlagič took part in the junior division in the U18 Junior B European Championships in 1990 and 1991 and the U20 Junior C World Championship in 1991 . After the division of the country, he was part of the newly established Slovenian national team at the C World Championships in 1993 , 1995 and 1997, as well as at the B World Cup in 2000 and the A World Championships in 2002 and 2003 . In total, he took part in eight World Cup tournaments and played 115 times for the Slovenian national team. In 2012 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Slovenian ice hockey.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league GP G A. Pts PIM GP G A. Pts PIM
1991/92 Acroni Jesenice SLO
1992/93 Acroni Jesenice SLO
1993/94 Acroni Jesenice SLO
1994/95 Acroni Jesenice SLO
1995/96 Olimpija Hertz Ljubljana SLO 42 11 15th 26th 48
1996/97 Olimpija Hertz Ljubljana SLO 62 9 21st 30th 86
1997/98 Acroni Jesenice SLO 47 12 31 43 152
1998/99 Acroni Jesenice SLO 26th 0 3 3 47
1999/00 Acroni Jesenice Interliga 31 10 18th 28 62
1999/00 Iserlohn Roosters 2nd BL 17th 2 2 4th 34
2000/01 Ratinger Ice Aliens OIL 38 19th 21st 40 69
2001/02 ERC Selb OIL 49 10 28 38 97 5 2 6th 8th 12
2002/03 ERC Selb OIL 31 12 19th 31 60
2003/04 Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg 2nd BL 47 3 9 12 82 12 1 4th 5 20th
2004/05 SC Bietigheim-Bissingen 2nd BL 51 5 21st 26th 103 6th 0 0 0 8th
2005/06 REV Bremerhaven 2nd BL 52 15th 30th 45 102 13 2 5 7th 18th
2006/07 Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg 2nd BL 52 16 24 40 56 10 0 4th 4th 10
2007/08 Mosquitoes eat 2nd BL 25th 1 11 12 18th
2007/08 EHC Munich 2nd BL 27 5 10 15th 46
2008/09 EHC Munich 2nd BL 39 2 6th 8th 38
2009/10 EC Pfaffenhofen BEL 13 8th 15th 23 34 6th 6th 4th 10 2
2010/11 EC Pfaffenhofen BEL 28 22nd 25th 47 93 6th 3 1 4th 12
2. Bundesliga overall 310 49 113 162 479 41 3 13 16 56

( 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 )

International

year team event GP G A. Pts PIM
1990 Yugoslavia Jun.-B-EM 7th 0 2 2 6th
1991 Yugoslavia Jun.-C-WM 7th 4th 2 6th 8th
1991 Yugoslavia Jun.-B-EM 5 0 2 2 8th
1993 Slovenia C-WM 7th 0 2 2 4th
1995 Slovenia C-WM 4th 1 1 2 8th
1997 Slovenia C-WM 5 0 0 0 8th
2000 Slovenia B-WM 7th 1 1 2 34
2002 Slovenia WM 6th 0 1 1 6th
2003 Slovenia WM 6th 0 1 1 10
Juniors overall 19th 4th 6th 10 22nd
Men overall 35 2 6th 8th 70

( 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 )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elvis Beslagic is dead! (No longer available online.) In: pafunddu.de. April 26, 2013, archived from the original on January 14, 2016 ; accessed on January 14, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pafunddu.de
  2. ↑ a b Elvis Beslagic passes away. In: iihf.com. April 26, 2013, accessed January 14, 2016 .
  3. ↑ EHC promotion hero: Elvis Beslagic is dead. In: Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung . April 25, 2013. Retrieved April 26, 2013 .

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personal data
SURNAME Bešlagič, Elvis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reese, Elvis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Jesenice , SR Slovenia , Yugoslavia
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 2013
Place of death Munich , Germany