Eric Blum

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Eric Blum
Date of birth June 13, 1986
place of birth Pfaffnau , Switzerland
Size 178 cm
Weight 82 kg
position defender
number # 58
Shot hand Left
Career stations
until 2006 GCK Lions
2006-2010 SCL Tigers
2010-2014 Kloten Flyers
since 2014 SC Bern

Template: Infobox ice hockey player / country code 2

Eric Ray Blum (born June 13, 1986 in Pfaffnau ) is a Japanese - Swiss ice hockey defender who has been under contract with SC Bern in the National League since 2014 .

Career

Eric Blum is the son of a Swiss and a Japanese woman. He began his career as an ice hockey player in the GCK Lions junior division , for whose professional team he was active in the National League B from 2003 to 2006 . The defender then moved to the SCL Tigers in the NLA . Under coach Christian Weber he developed into a national player in the Emmental and had his most productive season in his last season with eight goals and 13 assists. For sporting reasons, the left shooter joined the Kloten Flyers for the 2010/11 season . With his new club he immediately reached the playoff final, in which he lost to HC Davos with Kloten . After four seasons in Kloten, he moved to SC Bern for the 2014/15 season . With the SCB he dominated Swiss ice hockey at the end of the 2010s, when he won the title in 2019 he scored the decisive goal in the fifth final against Zug to make it 2-1.

Blum is one of the best Swiss defensive players, is a fast runner and also joins the game during offensive actions.

International

For Switzerland , Blum took part in the 2004 U18 Junior World Championship in Division 1 and rose with his team to the top division. He also took part in the U20 World Junior Championship in 2006 , with Blum scoring two goals in six games and preparing three more. At the 2013 World Cup in Stockholm and Helsinki , he was part of the men's national team for the first time and won the silver medal with it.

In April 2018, Blum announced his resignation from the national team. He took part in four World Cup tournaments and the 2018 Winter Olympics; In total, he played 89 full internationals, in which he scored five goals and gave 14 assists.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2001/02 GCK Lions Elite Jr. 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2002/03 GCK Lions Elite Jr. 15th 0 1 1 10 5 0 1 1 0
2003/04 GCK Lions NLB 39 1 3 4th 26th 6th 0 0 0 0
2003/04 GCK Lions Elite Jr. 9 1 1 2 6th - - - - -
2004/05 GCK Lions NLB 31 2 6th 8th 6th - - - - -
2005/06 GCK Lions NLB 40 3 11 14th 30th 4th 1 0 1 16
2006/07 SCL Tigers NLA 41 0 0 0 20th 9 1 1 1 2 0
2007/08 SCL Tigers NLA 42 3 5 8th 16 7 1 3 0 3 6th
2008/09 SCL Tigers NLA 36 3 1 4th 30th 7 1 0 0 0 6th
2009/10 SCL Tigers NLA 49 4th 12 16 58 12 1 4th 1 5 8th
2010/11 Kloten Flyers NLA 48 5 15th 20th 18th 18th 0 2 2 12
2011/12 Kloten Flyers NLA 39 5 12 17th 20th 5 0 0 0 0
2012/13 Kloten Flyers NLA 45 5 11 16 22nd 5 1 0 1 1 0
2013/14 Kloten Flyers NLA 46 6th 15th 21st 32 15th 3 3 6th 12
2014/15 SC Bern NLA 50 2 23 25th 26th 11 2 3 5 2
2015/16 SC Bern NLA 35 4th 24 28 12 10 2 1 3 18th
2016/17 SC Bern NLA 47 5 16 21st 6th 16 3 5 8th 2
2017/18 SC Bern NL 37 3 19th 22nd 14th 8th 0 2 2 2
2018/19 SC Bern NL 48 6th 12 18th 22nd 18th 1 6th 7th 2
2019/20 SC Bern NL 45 0 11 11 8th - - - - -
Elite juniors overall 25th 1 2 3 16 5 0 1 1 2
NLB total 110 6th 20th 26th 62 10 1 0 1 16
NLA / NL total 608 51 176 227 304 135 17th 25th 42 68

International

Represented Switzerland at:

year team event Sp T V Pt SM +/-
2004 Switzerland U18 WM Div. I. 5 1 0 1 0 +5
2006 Switzerland U20 World Cup 6th 2 3 5 0 −4
2013 Switzerland WM 9 0 1 1 2 ± 0
2014 Switzerland WM 7th 1 0 1 0 −2
2015 Switzerland WM 8th 0 2 2 2 +3
2016 Switzerland WM 7th 2 1 3 0 +4
2018 Switzerland Olympia 4th 0 0 0 0 −3
Juniors overall 11 3 3 6th 0 +1
Men overall 35 5 4th 9 4th +2

( 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. ↑ Ulrich Pickel, Bern: Eric Blum shoots SC Bern to the championship title | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . ( nzz.ch [accessed on April 23, 2019]).
  2. ↑ https://www.srf.ch/sport/eishockey/nationalmannschaft/7-scb-player-stossen-dazu-blum-tritt-aus-der-nati-zurueck
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personal data
SURNAME Blum, Eric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blum, Eric Ray (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese-Swiss ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Pfaffnau