Heinz Ehlers

Denmark Heinz Ehlers


Date of birth	January 25, 1966
place of birth	Aalborg , Denmark
size	182 cm
Weight	86 kg

position	center
Shot hand	Left

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	1984 , 9th lap, 188th position New York Rangers

Career stations

1981-1984	AaB ishockey
1984-1989	Leksands IF
1989-1991	AIK Solna
1991-1993	Rögle BK
1993-1994	EHC Biel
1994-1995	EC KAC
1995-1997	Augsburg panther
1997-2002	Berlin Capitals
2002-2004	AaB ishockey

Heinz Ehlers (born January 25, 1966 in Aalborg ) is a former Danish ice hockey player and today's coach . Since October 2016 he has been head coach of the SCL Tigers in the National League A . He is a member of the Hall of Fame of Danish Ice Hockey.

His sons Sebastian Ehlers and Nikolaj Ehlers are also professional ice hockey players.

Career

As a player

Heinz Ehlers began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown with AaB Ishockey , for which he was on the ice for the first time in the top Danish league in 1981 . In the 1984 NHL Entry Draft , the attacker was selected as the 188th player in the ninth round by the New York Rangers , but did not move to North America, but to the Swedish Elitserien , where he played for Leksands IF for five years , with whom he was in the 1988/89 season was runner-up. Then the Dane signed a contract with league competitor AIK Solna , for which he spent two more seasons in the Elitserien from 1989 to 1991. With the second division club Rögle BK , the striker made it into the Elitserien in the 1991/92 season, but eventually returned to his home club AaB Ishockey after a year of first class.

During the current season 1993/94 Ehlers joined the EHC Biel from the Swiss National League A , but moved to Austria at the end of the season to the EC KAC . He stayed with this for a year and a half before joining the Augsburg Panthers from the German Ice Hockey League at the beginning of the 1995/96 season, for which he was active in the top German division for two years. From 1997 to 2002 the Dane was a regular with the Berlin Capitals (and temporarily also team captain), which he then left for Aalborg, where he ended his active career in 2004 with his home club.

International

Ehlers made 104 international appearances (60 goals, 103 assists) for the Danish national team between 1983 and 2001 . He participated in the C World Championships in 1987 , 1990 and 1991 and in the B World Championships in 1989 , 1992 , 1993 , 1994 , 1998 and 1999 . The striker scored 45 goals and 72 assists in a total of 61 World Cup games .

As a trainer

After the end of his career, Heinz Ehlers took over the coaching position of his last club as a player, at AaB Ishockey . In the first season as head coach, the Dane was runner-up with AaB after the team lost 2: 4 games in SønderjyskE Ishockey . After he was able to repeat this success in the following year, changed Ehlers to Switzerland, where he as coach of EHC Biel took over and this 2007/08 season in the first-class National League A resulted. After the club threatened to fail in the play-outs of the 2008/09 season , the Dane was dismissed during the ongoing relegation round, the so-called league qualification , in April 2009 and replaced by Kent Ruhnke .

From November 2009 Ehlers was behind the gang at NLB participant SC Langenthal and won the championship title in the National League B with this in 2012 . For the 2013/14 season, he accepted an offer from the NLA promoted Lausanne HC . In the 2013/14 season, the Vaudois sensationally qualified for the playoffs. In the playoff quarter-finals, the outsider was only defeated by the sovereign qualifying winner ZSC Lions in the decisive seventh game of the series with 3: 4 victories and only just missed another surprise. Also in the following season 2014/15 Ehlers LHC led into the playoffs, where they were eliminated in the first round against Bern. In 2015/16 Lausanne finished ninth in the main round and missed the playoffs when they were tied with Eighth Bern. After the season, the club announced the separation from Ehlers despite the current contract. About a month before the announcement, Lausanne's president had questioned Ehlers' gaming system in an interview.

At the beginning of October 2016, Ehlers took over the post of head coach at the SCL Tigers after the NLA club had separated from Scott Beattie . In addition, he became the assistant coach of the Danish national team in autumn 2017. In the 2018/19 season he led SCL to the quarter-finals of the NLA and in this way achieved the club's greatest success in years. According to the NZZ, he “got almost the best out of the possibilities” in Langnau .

Achievements and Awards

1989 Swedish runner-up with Leksands IF
1992 Promotion to the Elitserien with Rögle BK
1992 Best assists in Division 1, South
2008 master of the NLB with the EHC Biel (as head coach)
2012 master of the NLB with the SC Langenthal (as head coach)
2014 induction into the Hall of Fame of Danish Ice Hockey

International

1987 Best striker of the C World Championship
1987 All-Star Team of the C World Championship
1990 Best assists in the C World Championship
1991 Best striker in the C World Championship

1991 top scorer of the C World Championship
1991 Best assists in the C World Championship
1999 Best striker in the B World Championship
1999 All-Star Team of the B World Championship

Career statistics

			Regular season					Play-offs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1981/82	AaB ishockey	THE	26th	17th	32	49	28	-	-	-	-	-
1982/83	AaB ishockey	THE
1983/84	AaB ishockey	THE	28	37	26th	63	22nd	-	-	-	-	-
1984/85	Leksands IF	SEL	31	10	6th	16	10	-	-	-	-	-
1985/86	Leksands IF	SEL	36	11	16	27	18th	-	-	-	-	-
1986/87	Leksands IF	SEL	36	14th	21st	35	32	-	-	-	-	-
1987/88	Leksands IF	SEL	35	20th	12	32	42	3	1	0	1	2
1988/89	Leksands IF	SEL	33	13	27	40	40	3	1	1	2	18th
1989/90	AIK Solna	SEL	27	11	16	27	44	3	1	3	4th	2
1990/91	AIK Solna	SEL	28	7th	14th	21st	26th	-	-	-	-	-
1991/92	Rögle BK	Division 1	35	28	46	74	68	5	3	3	6th	6th
1992/93	Rögle BK	SEL	38	7th	26th	33	97	-	-	-	-	-
1993/94	AaB ishockey	THE	9	8th	21st	29	19th	-	-	-	-	-
1993/94	EHC Biel	NLA	22nd	7th	20th	27	12	-	-	-	-	-
1994/95	EC KAC	OIL	14th	7th	9	16	18th	-	-	-	-	-
1995/96	EC KAC	OIL	9	1	5	6th	8th	-	-	-	-	-
1995/96	Augsburg panther	DEL	22nd	5	15th	20th	63	7th	1	6th	7th	8th
1996/97	Augsburg panther	DEL	38	10	31	41	58	4th	0	4th	4th	12
1997/98	Berlin Capitals	DEL	47	9	24	33	40	-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	Berlin Capitals	DEL	50	8th	30th	38	46	-	-	-	-	-
1999/00	Berlin Capitals	DEL	46	6th	30th	36	56	3	0	0	0	2
2000/01	Berlin Capitals	DEL	34	9	24	33	30th	5	0	1	1	4th
2001/02	Berlin Capitals	DEL	47	6th	30th	36	62	-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	AaB ishockey	THE	24	7th	19th	26th	94	6th	2	1	3	4th
2003/04	AaB ishockey	THE	35	12	19th	31	109	-	-	-	-	-
THE total			122	81	117	198	272	6th	2	1	3	4th
Elitserien total			264	93	138	231	304	9	3	4th	7th	22nd
Total oil			23	8th	14th	22nd	26th	-	-	-	-	-
DEL total			284	53	184	237	355	19th	1	11	12	26th

( 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 )