Garrett Festerling

Garrett Festerling
Date of birth	March 3, 1986
place of birth	Quesnel , British Columbia , Canada
size	177 cm
Weight	78 kg
position	center
number	# 14
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
2002-2003	Vernon Vipers
2003-2004	Portland Winter Hawks
2005-2007	Regina Pats
2007	Oklahoma City Blazers
2007-2008	EV Füssen
2008-2010	Hanover Scorpions
2010-2016	Hamburg Freezers
2016-2019	Adler Mannheim
since 2019	Grizzlies Wolfsburg

Garrett Festerling (born March 3, 1986 in Quesnel , British Columbia ) is a Canadian - German ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Grizzlys Wolfsburg in the German Ice Hockey League since 2019 .

Career

Festerling began his career in 2000 with the Vernon Vipers in the British Columbia Hockey League and moved in the summer of 2001 to the Portland Winter Hawks in the Canadian Junior Western Hockey League . At the Winter Hawks, the center was part of the regular squad and was able to continuously increase its points. During the 2004/05 season, the Canadian joined league rivals Regina Pats , which he left after three years for an engagement with the Oklahoma City Blazers from the Central Hockey League .

In 2007 Festerling moved to the German top division EV Füssen , where he finally made his breakthrough with 133 points scorer in 56 games. With this quota, the attacker was awarded the top scorer of the 2007/08 season and was named Best Center and Oberliga MVP 2008 by the ice hockey specialist magazine Eishockey News . With EV Füssen, Festerling was able to advance to the play-off semi-finals after finishing third in the main round.

Due to the performances shown, the Canadian finally signed a three-year contract with the Hanover Scorpions from the German Ice Hockey League in summer 2008 . After Festerling won the championship with the Scorpions in the 2009/10 season , he moved to the Hamburg Freezers in the run-up to the 2010/11 season in exchange with Paul Manning within the league . In the following years, the attacker advanced to an attacking and strong center and formed one of the best strikings in the league with Jerome Flaake and David Wolf over several seasons, so that his contract was prematurely extended by three more years until 2018. In May 2016, the Freezers did not apply for a DEL license for the 2016/17 season, so Festerling's employment in Hamburg ended. A few days later the Adler Mannheim announced its commitment. At the end of the 2018/19 season he won his second German championship title with the Adler . After this success he moved to the Grizzlys Wolfsburg within the DEL and received a two-year contract there, which he had already signed in January 2019.

Achievements and Awards

• 2010 German champion with the Hannover Scorpions
• 2019 German champion with the Adler Mannheim

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2001/02	Quesnel Millionaires	BCHL		8th	2	1	3	2
2002/03	Vernon Vipers	BCHL		43	7th	5	12	10
2003/04	Portland Winter Hawks	WHL		37	4th	12	16	37		5	0	1	1	0
2004/05	Portland Winter Hawks	WHL		72	14th	20th	34	45		7th	1	1	2	4th
2005/06	Regina Pats	WHL		72	22nd	36	58	51		6th	3	4th	7th	6th
2006/07	Regina Pats	WHL		67	22nd	51	73	46		10	5	7th	12	16
2006/07	Oklahoma City Blazers	CHL		-	-	-	-	-		1	0	0	0	0
2007/08	EV Füssen	OIL		45	50	70	120	0
2008/09	Hanover Scorpions	DEL		43	1	4th	5	14th		8th	0	2	2	4th
2009/10	Hanover Scorpions	DEL		18th	2	3	5	2		11	1	0	1	0
2010/11	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		50	4th	15th	19th	18th		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		52	11	22nd	33	40		5	0	0	0	14th
2012/13	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		52	14th	22nd	36	24		6th	2	1	3	0
2013/14	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		52	8th	29	37	14th
2014/15	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		40	14th	18th	32	45		7th	1	2	3	6th
2015/16	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		30th	7th	16	23	33
BCHL total				51	9	6th	15th	12		-	-	-	-	-
WHL overall				248	62	119	181	179		28	9	13	22nd	26th
DEL total				337	61	129	190	190		37	4th	5	9	24

( 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

• Garrett Festerling at eurohockey.com
• Garrett Festerling at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ welt.de The German top series makes the Freezers dream of the title
2. ↑ hamburg-freezers.de Garrett Festerling extended until 2018 ( memento of the original from March 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
3. ↑ All employees terminated - The Freezers-Aus came by email. In: BILD.de. Retrieved May 29, 2016 . 
4. ↑ ADLER Mannheim. (No longer available online.) In: www.adler-mannheim.de. Archived from the original on May 30, 2016 ; accessed on May 30, 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.  
5. ↑ DEL: Adler Mannheim hand in Garrett Festerling and get Lean Bergmann. In: sport1 .de. January 17, 2019, accessed June 18, 2019 .