Jeff Tomlinson

Jeff Tomlinson
Date of birth	April 23, 1970
place of birth	Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada
size	177 cm
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1987-1990	Prince Albert Raiders
1991-1993	Raleigh IceCaps
1993-1997	ETC Timmendorfer Strand
1997-2000	Manchester Storm
2000-2004	Polar bears Berlin

Jeffrey Tomlinson (born April 23, 1970 in Winnipeg , Manitoba ) is a former German - Canadian ice hockey player who played for the Eisbären Berlin in the German Ice Hockey League during his career . After the end of his playing career, he became a coach.

Career

Tomlinson began his career in 1987 in the Canadian Junior Western Hockey League with the Prince Albert Raiders , where he was able to improve continuously and was one of the strikers with the highest points in his second year . He scored 42 scorer points in 55 games that he played. After another very successful season with the Raiders, he moved to the East Coast Hockey League for the Roanoke Valley Rebels for the 1991/92 season , where he was only under contract for a short time and after only six missions, the league competitor Raleigh IceCaps connected. At the IceCaps he was one of the top performers and scored 76 points in 66 games.

During the 1992/93 season, those in charge of ETC Timmendorfer Strand were able to convince him of a commitment in Germany and transferred him to the Oberliga Nord . After a short interlude in the German ice hockey league with the Berlin Capitals , which lasted only a few months, he decided in 1997 to move to the highest British league, the Ice Hockey Superleague , where he was now on the ice for the Manchester Storm club went. With his new employer he took part in the European Hockey League .

Due to the good performance that he showed, some clubs from other and especially stronger European leagues became aware of the left-shooter. In the end, he joined the Eisbären Berlin from the DEL for the 2000/01 season , for which he was active until 2004. He then ended his playing career at the age of 34.

DEL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	4th	121	12	22nd	34	75
Playoffs	1	4th	0	1	1	2

Coaching career

Jeff Tomlinson
Coaching stations
2004-2007	Eisbären Juniors Berlin
2007-2010	Eisbären Berlin ( assistant trainer )
2010–2012	Düsseldorfer EG
2012	Nuremberg Ice Tigers
2013-2014	Polar bears Berlin
since 2015	Rapperswil-Jona Lakers

From the 2004/05 season Tomlinson worked as a trainer for the Eisbären Juniors Berlin , with whom he was able to secure relegation twice in the league. He later took over the post of assistant coach of the Eisbären Berlin in the German Ice Hockey League, where he held this position until the 2009/10 season .

From the 2010/11 season Tomlinson worked as head coach for the DEG Metro Stars . After a weak start with six defeats from the first ten games, his team stabilized in October and at the end of 2010 was the best team in the entire DEL with 17: 3 wins. The team was able to work its way up from the penultimate place in the table to the top of the table. During a losing streak of six games in a row, DEG managing director Lance Nethery extended Tomlinson's contract for another season in order to express his confidence in him. The team later won nine of the last thirteen games of the season, securing second place in the table after the main round. Tomlinson's team won the playoff series against Adler Mannheim 3-1 and qualified for the semi-finals, which were lost in five games of the best-of-five series against the eventual champions Eisbären Berlin. For the 2012/13 season Tomlinson left DEG to act as the new head coach of the Nürnberg Ice Tigers . In December 2012 he was dismissed due to an ongoing series of defeats and replaced by Bengt-Åke Gustafsson .

On July 4th, 2013 the Eisbären Berlin hired Tomlinson as their new head coach. At the Germany Cup in November 2014, he was the head coach of the Canadian national team. On December 16, 2014, Tomlinson's contract with the Berliners was terminated. At the beginning of June 2015, the Swiss B division team Rapperswil-Jona Lakers announced that Tomlinson was signed as the new coach. He signed a contract for one season, which was extended prematurely in November 2015 for two more years until the end of the 2017/18 season. In the 2015/16 season Tomlinson led the Lakers to the NLB runner-up. Also in 2016/17 they made it into the final series of the NLB, but again the championship title was missed (3: 4 wins against Langenthal).

In the 2017/18 season, Tomlinson Rapperswil won the championship title in the second Swiss league (now called the Swiss League) and thus made it into the relegation round against Kloten. There his team prevailed, Tomlinson consequently rose to the National League with Rapperswil. In the 2018/19 season he had to go with the team in the relegation round of the first Swiss league. Before the crucial games against Davos began, his contract was extended to 2020.

Web links

• Jeff Tomlinson at hockeydb.com (English)
• Jeff Tomlinson at eurohockey.com
• Jeff Tomlinson at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.express.de/deg-metro-stars/brittig-kehrt-als-coach-zurueck-tomlinson-nach-nuernberg---deg-neustart-mit--muff-,9305084,11932096.html
2. ↑ Der Tagesspiegel , New Polar Bear Trainer Jeff Tomlinson - Man, the Family
3. ↑ Canada's National Men's Team roster announced for 2014 Deutschland Cup. In: www.hockeycanada.ca. Retrieved February 8, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Berlin DEL Club: Krupp replaces Tomlinson as a polar bear trainer. In: Spiegel Online . December 16, 2014, accessed November 3, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Canadian trainer for the Lakers. In: landbote.ch/. Retrieved February 8, 2016 . 
6. ↑ tfr: SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers >> Season 2015/16 - Ajoie is NLB champion. In: www.lakers.ch. Retrieved April 2, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Tomlinson: "I was impressed by our fighting spirit" . ( suedostschweiz.ch [accessed on April 6, 2017]).
8. ↑ https://www.blick.ch/sport/eishockey/nlb/nun-wartet-kloten-in-der-liga-quali-lakers-kroenen-sich-gegen-olten-zum-swiss-league-meister-id8218619 .html
9. ↑ https://www.langenthalertagblatt.ch/sport/hockey/Mosimann-schiesst-Rapperswil-ins-Glueck/story/29941972
10. ^ Rapperswil-Jona Lakers extend with coach Tomlinson. Retrieved March 24, 2019 .