Frank Gentges

Frank Gentges
Date of birth	February 25, 1965
place of birth	Kempen , Germany
size	194 cm
Weight	101 kg
position	defender
number	# 4
Career stations
1982-1985	Krefelder EV
1985-1986	EC Bad Nauheim
1986-1987	ECD Sauerland
1987-1989	ESC Wolfsburg
1989-1990	EV Stuttgart
1990-1992	EHC Essen-West
1992-1993	Polar bears Berlin
1994-1995	1. EV Weiden
1995-1996	Deggendorfer EC
1996-1997	EV Ravensburg
1997-2004	Grefrather EC

Frank Gentges (born February 25, 1965 in Kempen ) is a former German ice hockey player and coach. During his career he was active in the 1. Bundesliga for the Düsseldorfer EG , the ECD Sauerland and the Eisbären Berlin .

Career

As a player

Gentges began his career at Krefelder EV , for which he was under contract for three seasons, with the exception of a brief interlude with the Rhenish rival, Düsseldorfer EG. The defensive player played his first 15 games for DEG in what was then the highest German ice hockey league, the 1st Bundesliga. In the summer of 1985 he moved to EC Bad Nauheim , before he left the club after only one year and joined the ECD Sauerland, which was then active in the 1st Bundesliga. In Iserlohn he was one of the regular players and scored eight assists in 32 league games . About the ESC Wolfsburg in the coming season, Gentges signed a contract with the then first division club ESV Kaufbeuren at the beginning of the 1988/89 season . There he was only used 25 times and returned to the 2nd Bundesliga in Wolfsburg during the current season .

The 194 cm tall defender left the EHC at the end of the 1989/90 game year and then went on the ice for EV Stuttgart , Krefeld EV and EHC Essen-West . After his contract in Essen expired in 1992 and the German had previously shown good performances, he was used in 75 games and scored 73 points, those responsible at EHC Dynamo Berlin became aware of the then 27-year-old and transferred him to the capital . Gentges played 43 games for the Berlin team and was able to score 13 times. After his engagement at the EHC, from 1994 to 1997 he tied his ice skates for the 1st EV Weiden , the Deggendorfer EC and the EV Ravensburg .

At the beginning of the 1997/98 season he moved to Grefrather EC , which was active in the then second highest German league, the 1st division. Gentges was under contract with Grefrather EC for seven years and was one of the top performers within the team. He also remained loyal to the club when financial difficulties arose during the 1999/00 season , the club stopped playing and from then on the previous second team in the regional league functioned as the first senior team. The defensive player, weighing 104 kg, was now active with the Grefrathers in the regional league. His best points season was the Regionalliga season 2002/03, when he was able to achieve 91 points in 40 league games. After the main round was over in the 2003/04 season , Gentges joined the then league rivals Herner EG for a few months , for whom he played six games in the regional league play-offs. He then ended his active ice hockey career at the age of 39.

As a trainer

Gentges first worked as a coach at Grefrather EC, for which he had previously worked as a player. With the ice hockey club he was able to win the regional league championship three times in a row. For the 2004/05 season the Blue Lions Leipzig took him from the league under contract, with whom he reached the play-off semi-finals as head coach. There he failed with the Blue Lions in the semifinals after losing 3-1 to EHC Munich . After the club had to file for bankruptcy at the end of the season , he left the club and joined the Krefelder EV, where he then worked as a coach of the junior team in the German junior league .

At KEV he then stood behind the gang for three years before accepting a contract offer from Nijmegen Devils from the Dutch Eredivisie in summer 2008 . Gentges signed a three-year contract, which was terminated after only one season. Despite good results in the sporting as well as in the economic area, he left the former Dutch champion and moved back to Germany to the EHC Dortmund . The former defender received a contract with the league club until 2011. His contract was extended in January 2011 by two years. At EHC Dortmund, in addition to his work as head coach, he also worked as a sports manager. On April 5, 2012 he was introduced as the head coach of the Löwen Frankfurt . On February 20, 2013 Frank Gentges resigned from his coaching post after quarrels had occurred in the team environment in the days before. Since the 2013/2014 season, Frank Gentges has been the head coach and sports manager of the upper division Königsborn Bulldogs, with whom he signed a three-year contract. Since the season 14/15 he is coach of the upper division ESC Moskitos Essen.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		GP	G	A.	Pts	PIM		GP	G	A.	Pts	PIM
1982/83	Krefelder EV	2nd BL		45	9	12	21st	4th
1983/84	Krefelder EV	2nd BL		19th	2	8th	10	16
	Düsseldorfer EG	BL		15th	0	0	0	0
1984/85	Krefelder EV	2nd BL		34	6th	5	11	38
1985/86	EC Bad Nauheim	2nd BL		42	6th	26th	32	54
1986/87	ECD Sauerland	BL		32	0	8th	8th	8th
1987/88	ESC Wolfsburg	2nd BL		36	16	39	55	45
1988/89	ESV Kaufbeuren	BL		25th	5	5	10	10
	ESC Wolfsburg	2nd BL		8th	4th	10	14th	10
1989/90	ESC Wolfsburg	2nd BL		23	18th	26th	44	26th
	EV Stuttgart	2nd BL		13	5	12	17th	32
1990/91	Krefelder EV	2nd BL
	EHC Essen-West	2nd BL		31	6th	15th	21st	24
1991/92	EHC Essen-West	2nd BL		44	13	39	52	63
1992/93	EHC Dynamo Berlin	BL		43	2	11	13	16
1994/95	1. EV Weiden	1 TBSP		40	9	34	43	63
1995/96	Deggendorfer EC	1 TBSP		43	18th	59	77	18th
1996/97	Smoke Eaters Geleen	CC		4th	0	3	3	18th
	Hoek Dragons Utrecht	E (NL)		4th	4th	9	13	6th
	EV Ravensburg	1 TBSP		20th	1	17th	18th	22nd
1997/98	Grefrather EC	1 TBSP		37	2	20th	22nd	20th
1998/99	Grefrather EC	1st BL		53	14th	20th	34	48
1999/00	Grefrather EC	2nd BL		11	1	3	4th	8th
	Grefrather EC	RL								15th	11	40	51	79
2000/01	Grefrather EC	RL		25th	10	52	62	53		13	6th	19th	25th	42
2001/02	Grefrather EC	RL		34	13	52	65	34		11	4th	7th	11	10
2002/03	Grefrather EC	RL		33	24	52	76	46		7th	4th	11	15th	0
2003/04	Grefrather EC	RL		29	11	38	49	42		-	-	-	-	-
	Herner EG	RL		-	-	-	-	-		6th	1	3	4th	2
BL total				115	7th	24	31	62
1st BL overall				53	14th	20th	34	48
2nd BL total				306	86	196	282	320
1st tbsp total				140	30th	130	160	123
E (NL) total				4th	4th	9	13	6th
CC total				4th	0	3	3	18th
RL total				121	58	194	252	195		52	26th	80	106	133

( 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. ↑ ^{a b} löwen-frankfurt.de, Frank Gentges is the new trainer of Löwen Frankfurt
2. ↑ rp-online.de, Frank Gentges goes to Nijmegen  ( 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.  
3. ↑ ehcdortmund.de, new head coach and sports manager at the Elchen ( memento of the original from October 8, 2007 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. 
4. ↑ rp-online.de, Frank Gentges remains EHC trainer

Web links

• Frank Gentges at hockeydb.com (English)
• Frank Gentges at eurohockey.com