Jan Alston

Jan Alston


Date of birth	April 14, 1969
place of birth	Granby , Quebec , Canada
size	176 cm
Weight	80 kg

position	center
Shot hand	Right

Career stations

1986-1989	Saint-Jean Castors
1989-1990	Saint-Jean Lynx
1990-1991	HC Eppan
1991-1992	WSV Sterzing
1992	Lausanne HC
1992-1993	EV Bruneck
1993-1994	HC Varese
1994-1995	EHC Biel
1995-1996	HC Davos
1996-1997	HC La Chaux-de-Fonds
1997-1998	Berlin Capitals
1998-2001	Adler Mannheim
2001-2010	ZSC Lions
2010-2011	Lausanne HC

Jan Alston (born April 14, 1969 in Granby , Québec ) is a former Canadian - Swiss ice hockey player and current coach and functionary. Alston was sports director at Lausanne HC for a long time .

He received Swiss citizenship in 2002 after marrying a Swiss woman. His father, Tom Alston, was a professional baseball player for the St. Louis Cardinals in Major League Baseball .

Player career

The 1.80 m tall center began his career with the Saint-Jean Castors and Saint-Jean Lynx in the Canadian junior league QMJHL before moving to Italy , where he first worked for HC Eppan , later for WSV Sterzing , EV Bruneck and HC Varese played.

For the 1994/95 season , the right-handed player moved to the National League A for EHC Biel , further stations in Switzerland were initially HC Davos and HC La Chaux-de-Fonds . he moved to the German Ice Hockey League for the Berlin Capitals , which he left after one season in the direction of Adler Mannheim .

With the Adler, Alston was German champion in 1999 and 2001 , he was also the 2000 DEL top scorer with 74 points in 55 season games and was named DEL player of the year. After his last championship season in Mannheim, he moved back to the National League A, to the ZSC Lions. There he was the highest-paid player in the league with an annual salary of 550,000 Swiss francs , after initially receiving only 12,000 US dollars in Italy for the 1991/92 season.

With the Zurich team he was runner- up in the 2001/02 and 2004/05 seasons, and in the 2007/08 season he won the championship title, thanks in part to his good performance in the playoffs. In 2009 Alston also won the Champions Hockey League title with the Lions .

In the 2010/11 season, Alston played for Lausanne HC in the National League B . At the same time he was the team's assistant coach.

Alston was considered a fast player who was flexible in use (center and wing). The all-rounder was also an important player in the outnumbered game of the ZSC Lions; His stubbornness was highlighted negatively.

Managerial career

From 2011 he was sports director at Lausanne HC. At the end of February 2020, he was released for sporting reasons.

Achievements and Awards

Top scorer in the 1999/2000 DEL season
DEL player of the year 2000
All-Star Team DEL season 2000/01
Champions Hockey League winner 2008/09
Victoria Cup winner 2009
German champion with Adler Mannheim 1999, 2001
Swiss champion with the ZSC Lions 2008

Career statistics

			Regular season					Play-offs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1986/87	Saint-Jean Castors	QMJHL	68	20th	32	52	30th	8th	4th	3	7th	9
1987/88	Saint-Jean Castors	QMJHL	69	39	38	77	46	7th	5	0	5	10
1988/89	Saint-Jean Castors	QMJHL	69	58	86	144	115	4th	6th	9	15th	0
1989/90	Saint-Jean Lynx	QMJHL	65	61	74	135	137	-	-	-	-	-
1990/91	HC Eppan	Ser B2						-	-	-	-	-
1991/92	WSV Sterzing	Ser A2 / B1	24	47	36	83	28	-	-	-	-	-
1991/92	HC Lausanne	Nat B	4th	8th	7th	15th	2	10	11	14th	25th	4th
1992/93	EV Bruneck	Ser A	19th	25th	15th	40	22nd	3	4th	0	4th	8th
1993/94	HC Varese	Ser A	26th	27	28	55	26th	-	-	-	-	-
1994/95	EHC Biel	Nat A	36	28	23	51	48	-	-	-	-	-
1995/96	HC Davos	Nat A	35	29	20th	49	42	-	-	-	-	-
1996/97	HC La Chaux-de-Fonds	Nat A	20th	9	10	19th	36	-	-	-	-	-
1997/98	Berlin Capitals	DEL	41	16	23	39	51	-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	Adler Mannheim	DEL	45	33	20th	53	32	12	4th	7th	11	10
1999/2000	Adler Mannheim	DEL	55	31	43	74	36	5	2	4th	6th	4th
2000/01	Adler Mannheim	DEL	59	26th	28	54	32	12	10	15th	25th	4th
2001/02	ZSC Lions	Nat A	31	8th	10	18th	22nd	15th	7th	1	8th	12
2001/02	GCK Lions	Nat B	3	3	2	5	16	-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	ZSC Lions	NLA	43	15th	28	43	45	12	5	3	8th	16
2003/04	ZSC Lions	NLA	45	22nd	31	53	36	13	5	4th	9	8th
2004/05	ZSC Lions	NLA	37	15th	24	39	28	15th	11	13	24	10
2005/06	ZSC Lions	NLA	37	15th	29	44	32	-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	ZSC Lions	NLA	40	11	15th	26th	64	7th	3	3	6th	4th
2007/08	ZSC Lions	NLA	42	7th	19th	26th	20th	17th	7th	8th	15th	31
2008/09	ZSC Lions	NLA	50	14th	20th	34	46	4th	1	2	3	4th
2009/10	ZSC Lions	NLA	49	21st	24	45	48	7th	2	4th	6th	12
2010/11	Lausanne HC	NLB	45	16	28	44	47	17th	1	3	4th	4th
QMJHL total			206	117	156	273	191	19th	15th	12	27	19th
Series A overall			45	52	43	95	48	3	4th	0	4th	8th
National League B total			52	27	37	64	65	27	12	17th	29	8th
National League A overall			465	194	254	448	467	107	45	48	93	135
DEL total			200	106	114	220	151	29	16	26th	42	18th

( 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 )

literature

Simon Graf, Urs Keel, Klaus Zaugg: Ice Hockey Stars 2002 , Auswil 2001, ISBN 3-9521803-3-5 , p. 299
Simon Graf, Urs Keel, Klaus Zaugg: Ice Hockey Stars 2004 , Au 2003, ISBN 3-9521170-8-0 , p. 299

Web links

Jan Alston at hockeydb.com (English)
Jan Alston at eurohockey.com
Jan Alston at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

^ Jan Alston: "Nous faisons beaucoup trop d'erreurs de concentration". Retrieved July 8, 2020 (Swiss French).
^ Christian Diepold: DEL record goal scorers. (No longer available online.) In: www.eishockey-online.com. Archived from the original on February 28, 2016 ; accessed on March 15, 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. @1@ 2
↑ The ice hockey professional Jan Alston about the ZSC Lions and himself: Triumph on thin ice. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Retrieved March 15, 2016 .
↑ Two rounds before the end of qualification: Lausanne is separating from the coach and head of sport with immediate effect. Retrieved July 8, 2020 .

Squad Lausanne HC in the season 2020/21

personal data
SURNAME	Alston, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian-Swiss ice hockey player, coach and official
DATE OF BIRTH	April 14, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH	Granby , Quebec, Canada

[1] Jan Alston: "Nous faisons beaucoup trop d'erreurs de concentration". Retrieved July 8, 2020 (Swiss French).

[2] Christian Diepold: DEL record goal scorers. (No longer available online.) In: www.eishockey-online.com. Archived from the original on February 28, 2016 ; accessed on March 15, 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. @1@ 2

[3] The ice hockey professional Jan Alston about the ZSC Lions and himself: Triumph on thin ice. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Retrieved March 15, 2016 .

[4] Two rounds before the end of qualification: Lausanne is separating from the coach and head of sport with immediate effect. Retrieved July 8, 2020 .