Ian Wood (ice hockey player)

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Flag of Canada and Germany.svg  Ian Wood Ice hockey player
Date of birth February 10, 1964
place of birth Rotherham , England , UK
size 177 cm
Weight 77 kg
position goalkeeper
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1982 , 9th lap, 188th position
Edmonton Oilers
Career stations
1980-1981 Penticton Knights
1981-1984 Portland Winter Hawks
1984-1985 Team Canada
Nova Scotia Oilers
1986-1989 Krefelder EV
1989-1990 ESV Kaufbeuren
1990-1991 EV Duisburg
1991-1994 Augsburg EV
1994-1996 EC Ratingen
1996-2000 Iserlohner EC

Ian Wood (born February 10, 1964 in Rotherham , England ) is a former Canadian - German ice hockey goalkeeper .

Career

In 1980, Ian Wood's ice hockey career began in the youth league of the Canadian state of British Columbia . In the two years he also convinced those in charge of the NHL club Edmonton Oilers , who thereupon; as the first 17-year-old goalkeeper from the BCJHL , in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft in 188th position (9th round). He stayed for three years with the Portland Winter Hawks in the WHL . In 1985 he won the silver medal with the Canadian national ice hockey team in Prague. But he no longer saw an NHL chance, so he moved to Germany. In the second division he played from 1986 for the Krefeld EV . After the 1989/90 season at ESV Kaufbeuren , he stayed with Duisburger SV for two years . He played for Augsburg EV for three years . In 1994 Ian Wood got a chance in the newly created DEL , in which he played for the Ratinger Löwen . In his third year he said goodbye after ten games in the Sauerland for the Iserlohner EC . The then second division had a changeable season in which the goalie brought stability. He stayed in Iserlohn for over three and a half years before ending his career due to an injury.

In 1999 Wood in Iserlohn opened a 270 m² branch of the "Louisiana" restaurant chain as a franchise partner in the Iserlohn cinema center together with a business partner. The operation has meanwhile been stopped again.

Since then, the audience favorite and two-time "Sportsman of the Year" of the Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger has not been on the ice, but has been a member of the ECD tradition team since February 2006.

Wood, who still lives in Iserlohn, has been responsible for the German national para-ice hockey team as General Manager since 2016 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Newspaper article in Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger from June 23, 1999 and in Iserlohner Rundschau from June 19, 1999
  2. ^ [1] Rheinische Post article from November 6, 2018, accessed on December 26, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Wood, Ian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Woody
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-German ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotherham , England