Hans Kossmann

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Flag of Canada and Switzerland.png  Hans Kossmann Ice hockey player
Date of birth March 14, 1962
place of birth Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada
size 183 cm
Weight 85 kg
position defender
Career stations
1985-1986 Genève-Servette HC
1986-1987 SC Küsnacht
1988-1989 EHC Dübendorf
1989-1992 EHC Bülach
1992-1994 SC Rapperswil-Jona
1994-1995 Lausanne HC
1995-1996 HC Ajoie

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  Hans Kossmann
Coaching stations
1995-1996 HC Ajoie
1996 SC Lucerne
1997-1999 EHC Biel (assistant trainer)
1999-2000 Friborg-Gottéron (assistant coach)
2000-2001 HC Sierre
2001-2008 Genève-Servette HC (assistant trainer)
2008-2009 Lausanne HC (assistant coach)
2009-2011 SC Bern (assistant coach)
2011-2014 Friborg-Gottéron
2015-2017 HC Ambrì-Piotta
2017-2018 ZSC Lions
2018-2019 Grizzlies Wolfsburg
2020 SC Bern

Hans Kossmann (born March 14, 1962 in Vancouver , British Columbia ) is a former Swiss - Canadian ice hockey player and current coach.

Career

Kossmann, who played on the position of the defense, was in the course of his playing career in the National League B and the first league for the Genève-Servette HC , SC Küsnacht , EHC Dübendorf , EHC Bülach , SC Rapperswil-Jona , Lausanne HC and HC Ajoie active . In a total of 232 NLB games, he scored 209 points scorer .

After finishing his active career, he became head coach of HC Ajoie during the 1995/96 season. The following season he was in the same position at HC Luzern behind the gang. From 1997 to 1999 he supported his compatriot Paul-André Cadieux as an assistant coach at the NLB club EHC Biel . It was followed by a season at that function in Friborg-Gottéron in the National League A . In the 2000/01 season , Kossmann was head coach at HC Sierre , and in the following seven years he worked as an assistant coach at Genève-Servette HC. During this time he supported Servette head coach and club co-owner Chris McSorley .

He was then hired by Lausanne HC and worked there with head coach Dany Gélinas . Another station as assistant coach was from 2009 to 2011 at SC Bern , with whom he won the Swiss championship in 2010 under Larry Huras . In April 2011 he was hired by Friborg-Gottéron as head coach. There he replaced René Matte , who was active on an interim basis and who became Kossmann's assistant. At the same time, Kossmann took over the position of sports director and reached the semi-finals twice and the playoff final once with Gottéron. In October 2014 he was fired from his club after a series of losses.

After Serge Pelletier's dismissal , Hans Kossmann was hired as the new coach of HC Ambrì-Piotta in October 2015 . On January 30, 2017, Ambrì Kossmann resigned from his duties after six defeats in a row, the team was at the last NLA standings at that time.

At the end of December 2017, he took over  the position of transition coach at the ZSC Lions . The Zurich-based company had previously  dismissed Hans Wallson and gave Kossmann the task of looking after the team until the end of the 2017/18 season before Serge Aubin took up  the post of ZSC coach in summer 2018. Kossmann led the ZSC to win the Swiss championship in spring 2018. In the final series against Lugano, his team prevailed with 4-3 wins.

On October 23, 2018, Kossmann was signed by the Grizzlys Wolfsburg ( German Ice Hockey League ), who at that time were in penultimate place in the league. He did not manage to lead Lower Saxony into the play-offs, at the end of the 2018/19 season Kossmann and Wolfsburg split. At the end of January 2020, he signed a contract that was limited to the end of the 2019/20 season as the new head coach of SC Bern and thus became the successor to the dismissed Kari Jalonen . After the 2019/20 season he was replaced by Don Nachbaur .

Achievements and Awards

Personal

Kossmann was born in Vancouver and grew up in Smithers in the Canadian province of British Columbia . At the age of 22 he went to Switzerland. His father comes from Schaffhausen and emigrated to Canada when he was 23.

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1985/86 Genève-Servette HC NLB 7th 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
1986/87 SC Küsnacht 1st League
1988/89 EHC Dübendorf 1st League
1989/80 EHC Bülach 1st League
1990/91 EHC Bülach NLB 36 20th 21st 41 46 10 7th 2 9 11
1991/92 EHC Bülach NLB 36 35 22nd 57 46 6th 2 3 5 6th
1992/93 SC Rapperswil-Jona NLB 36 12 8th 20th 76 7th 3 3 6th 16
1993/94 SC Rapperswil-Jona NLB 36 19th 8th 27 63 11 4th 6th 10 35
1994/95 Lausanne HC NLB 36 10 14th 24 30th 10 3 6th 9 6th
1995/96 HC Ajoie 1st League 22nd 4th 3 7th - - - - -
NLB total 187 96 74 170 263 44 19th 20th 39 74

( 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. ↑ Hans Kossmann new coach from Friborg. SF Sport Online , April 11, 2011, accessed March 19, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Klaus Zaugg: Hans Kossmann fired - when lonely coaches rage too much. In: watson.ch. October 13, 2014, accessed September 30, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Ambri dismisses Pelletier - Kossmann takes over. In: srf.ch . October 25, 2015, accessed October 28, 2015 .
  4. ^ National League A: Ambri dismisses Kossmann . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . January 30, 2017, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed January 30, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Kossmann no longer coach of Ambri-Piotta . In: fm1today.ch . ( fm1today.ch [accessed January 30, 2017]).
  6. ↑ https://www.zsclions.ch/news/detail/trainerwechsel-bei-den-zsc-lions/
  7. ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/sport/play-off-final-die-finalissima-in-lugano-ld.1381457?reduced=true
  8. ↑ Braunschweiger Zeitung, Braunschweig, Germany: Hans Kossmann is the new coach for the Wolfsburg Grizzlys . ( braunschweiger-zeitung.de [accessed on October 23, 2018]).
  9. ↑ sos-media.de: GRIZZLYS WOLFSBURG - News. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Hans Kossmann takes over - Kari Jalonen is dismissed from SC Bern. In: srf.ch. January 28, 2020, accessed January 28, 2020 .
  11. ↑ «I can get loud once in a while». In: Freiburger Nachrichten - News from Freiburg. Retrieved March 23, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Kossmann, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Vancouver , British Columbia