Gerald Kuhn

Gerald Kuhn
Date of birth	March 20, 1986
place of birth	Southgate , Michigan , USA
size	180 cm
Weight	87 kg
position	goalkeeper
number	# 35
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2002-2003	Compuware Ambassadors
2004-2005	Youngstown Phantoms
2005-2006	Wasilla Spirit
2005-2007	Sioux City Musketeers
2007-2011	Western Michigan University
2011–2012	Idaho steelheads
2012-2014	HDD Olimpija Ljubljana
2014-2015	HC Pustertal
2015-2017	Fish town penguins
2017-2019	Grizzlies Wolfsburg
since 2019	EC Kassel Huskies

Gerald Vale "Jerry" Kuhn (born March 20, 1986 in Southgate , Michigan ) is a German-American ice hockey goalkeeper . He has been under contract with the Kassel Huskies since February 2019 .

Player career

Kuhn played in the North American Hockey League and the United States Hockey League before moving to Western Michigan University in 2007 . He played for the "Broncos" for four years and also completed a business degree.

Kuhn made his first experiences as a professional ice hockey player in the ECHL in the 2010/11 season wearing the Idaho Steelheads jersey . Also in the following season 2011/12 he played again for the Steelheads after an interlude with the Greenville Road Warriors .

For the 2012/13 season, Kuhn moved to Europe and signed a contract with the Slovenian club HDD Olimpija Ljubljana , which played in the Austrian Erste Bank Ice Hockey League (EBEL). He stayed with Olimpija for two years and shortly before the playoffs of the 2013/14 season accepted an offer from the Krefeld Penguins from the German Ice Hockey League (DEL).

For the 2014/15 season, Kuhn moved to South Tyrol for HC Pustertal and for the 2015/16 season he moved on to the Fischtown Pinguins from the second-highest German league DEL2 . For the 2016/17 season, Bremerhaven received a gaming license for the German Ice Hockey League (DEL), Kuhn was also part of the Penguins squad in the top German division and reached the playoffs with the team in the first DEL season. He contributed to the success of the penguins with a catch rate of 92.0 percent, he conceded 2.68 goals per game in the main round.

Kuhn left Bremerhaven after the 2016/17 season and moved to the Grizzlys Wolfsburg within the DEL . There he received a total of 64 assignments in the DEL before he was handed over to the Kassel Huskies  from the DEL2 in February 2019 in exchange for Marcel Melicherčík .

Inline hockey

At the IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship 2013 he won the gold medal with the US national team. A year later he took part with the national team in the world championship in Pardubice and won the bronze medal.

Achievements and Awards

• 2013 Slovenian champion with HDD Olimpija Ljubljana
• 2013 gold medal at the Inline Hockey World Championship
• 2014 bronze medal at the inline hockey world championship

Personal

Kuhn has German citizenship. His great-grandfather was German.

Web links

• Gerald Kuhn at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jerry Kuhn. In: WMUBroncos.com. Retrieved March 27, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Olimpija Ljubljana signs US goalie Jerry Kuhn. In: sportreport.biz. Retrieved March 27, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Jerry Kuhn leaves Olimpija Ljubljana in the direction of Krefeld. In: sportreport.biz. Retrieved March 27, 2016 . 
4. ↑ HC Pustertal Wolves. In: hcpustertal.com. Retrieved March 27, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Fischtown Pinguins: Kuhn is coming - Meisner is going. (No longer available online.) In: fischtown-pinguins.de. Archived from the original on March 27, 2016 ; accessed on March 27, 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.  
6. ↑ Jerry Kuhn: The DEL will be tough, but great fun. July 2, 2016, accessed July 2, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Bremerhaveners reach pre-playoffs in the DEL - Fischtown Pinguins. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 28, 2017 ; Retrieved April 25, 2017 . 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.  
8. ↑ grizzlys.de: Grizzlys sign goalkeeper Jerry Kuhn. In: grizzlys.de. April 25, 2017. Retrieved February 12, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Kassel Huskies pick up Jerry Kuhn from Wolfsburg and give Marcel Melichercik to the Grizzlys. In: eishockeynews .de. February 12, 2019, accessed February 12, 2019 . 
10. ^ IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship 2014 → Rosters. (No longer available online.) In: inlinehockey2014.com. Archived from the original on March 30, 2016 ; Retrieved March 30, 2016 (Czech). 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.  
11. ↑ A playing field in the basement. (No longer available online.) In: Hafenradar. Archived from the original on March 27, 2016 ; accessed on March 27, 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.