Evan Kaufmann
Date of birth | October 31, 1984 |
place of birth | Tonka Bay , Minnesota , USA |
size | 179 cm |
Weight | 79 kg |
position | striker |
number | # 9 |
Shot hand | Right |
Career stations | |
2003-2004 | River City Lancers |
2004-2008 | University of Minnesota |
2008–2012 | DEG Metro Stars |
2012-2015 | Nuremberg Ice Tigers |
Evan Kaufmann (born October 31, 1984 in Tonka Bay , Minnesota ) is a former American- German ice hockey player who was active in the DEL for the Düsseldorfer EG and the Nürnberg Ice Tigers . He is the first Jewish player to appear for the German national team after the Second World War .
Career
Kaufmann began his career in 2003 in the United States Hockey League with the River City Lancers . After a good first season, in which he was able to score 50 scorer points in 60 games, he got a scholarship at the University of Minnesota in the summer of 2004 , for which he was henceforth in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association , a US college league in the NCAA game operations stood on the ice. Four years later, in 2008, the right-shooter finished his studies and then concentrated on a professional ice hockey career.
During the 2008/09 season , those in charge of the DEG Metro Stars became aware of the 23-year-old winger. Kaufmann's grandfather was born in Lösnich ( Mosel ), survived the Stutthof concentration camp and emigrated to the USA after the Second World War . Kaufmann's great-grandfather was murdered in the Lodz ghetto and his great-grandmother in Auschwitz . Kaufmann took on German citizenship and switched to the DEG Metro Stars. It was initially given a one-year contract that was later extended. After four seasons he left the Rhinelander, with the finals in the 2008/09 season being the greatest success. The striker joined the Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers , with whom he stayed for three years but never got past the quarter-finals. In 2015, Kaufmann ended his sporting career at the age of 30 despite an ongoing contract.
Kaufmann took part in the 2012 World Cup in Sweden and Finland for the German national ice hockey team.
Achievements and Awards
- 2007 Broadmoor Trophy win with the University of Minnesota
Career statistics
Regular season | Play-offs | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
season | team | league | Sp | T | A. | Pt | SM | Sp | T | A. | Pt | SM | ||
2003/04 | River City Lancers | USHL | 60 | 20th | 30th | 50 | 33 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
2004/05 | University of Minnesota | NCAA | 29 | 7th | 6th | 13 | 10 | |||||||
2005/06 | University of Minnesota | NCAA | 40 | 5 | 8th | 13 | 22nd | |||||||
2006/07 | University of Minnesota | NCAA | 32 | 11 | 6th | 17th | 14th | |||||||
2007/08 | University of Minnesota | NCAA | 45 | 9 | 10 | 19th | 58 | |||||||
2008/09 | DEG Metro Stars | DEL | 44 | 9 | 17th | 26th | 24 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8th | ||
2009/10 | DEG Metro Stars | DEL | 56 | 11 | 23 | 34 | 30th | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4th | ||
2010/11 | DEG Metro Stars | DEL | 52 | 21st | 24 | 45 | 22nd | 9 | 1 | 3 | 4th | 6th | ||
2011/12 | DEG Metro Stars | DEL | 52 | 19th | 23 | 42 | 42 | 7th | 6th | 5 | 11 | 6th | ||
2012/13 | Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers | DEL | 16 | 4th | 7th | 11 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||
2013/14 | Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers | DEL | 48 | 16 | 24 | 40 | 20th | 6th | 4th | 1 | 5 | 6th | ||
2014/15 | Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers | DEL | 47 | 12 | 16 | 28 | 22nd | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4th | ||
NCAA overall | 146 | 32 | 30th | 62 | 104 | |||||||||
DEL total | 315 | 92 | 134 | 226 | 172 | 49 | 14th | 11 | 25th | 36 |
( 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
- ↑ Michael Neudecker: Against the past. The Nazis murdered or expelled his Jewish ancestors - but Evan Kaufmann still plays ice hockey for Germany , Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 12, 2012
- ↑ rp-online.de, interview with Evan Kaufmann ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ icetigers.de Evan Kaufmann ends his career
Web links
- Evan Kaufmann at hockeydb.com (English)
- Evan Kaufmann at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Evan Kaufmann at eurohockey.com
personal data | |
---|---|
SURNAME | Merchant, Evan |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American-German ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1984 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Tonka Bay , Minnesota |