Johannes Bischofberger

Johannes Bischofberger
Date of birth	July 13, 1994
place of birth	Dornbirn , Austria
size	172 cm
Weight	67 kg
position	striker
number	# 46
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 2011	SC Rheintal EHC Uzwil EHC Oberthurgau
2011	Dornbirner EC HC Innsbruck
2011-2013	EC Red Bull Salzburg
2013-2014	HC Davos
2014-2016	Hockey Thurgau
since 2016	EC KAC

Johannes Bischofberger (born July 13, 1994 in Dornbirn ) is an Austrian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the EC KAC in the multinational Erste Bank Ice Hockey League (EBEL) since 2016 and plays in the position of striker .

Career

Johannes Bischofberger went through the junior stations of the Swiss clubs SC Rheintal, EHC Uzwil and EHC Oberthurgau and played in the Dornbirner EC in the national league in 2011 as well as in the farm team and the U20 of HC Innsbruck .

Then he was at EC Red Bull Salzburg until 2013 , where he not only made his debut in the U18 and the farm team, but also at the age of 17 in the EBEL. For the combat team, he came to 45 missions with five goals and eight assists. He was also involved in winning the European Trophy 2011 . In 2013/14 he ran for the U20s of the Swiss club HC Davos and moved to Hockey Thurgau in the National League B , the second highest division in Switzerland , for the next two seasons . There he came in 72 missions on 16 goals and 12 assists.

In the summer of 2016, Bischofberger was signed by the EBEL club EC KAC and won the election as an EBEL YoungStar in January 2017 . In February 2017, his contract was extended until the end of the 2018/19 season.

International

Bischofberger played for the Austrian U18 national team at the U18 World Cup 2010 of Division IA , the U18 World Cup 2011 of Division IIA and the U18 World Cup 2012 of Division IB . After the Austrians were promoted to the IB in 2011 by winning the IIA gold medal, Bischofberger was the top scorer of the Austrians at the 2012 World Cup and was voted the best striker of the IB by the officials. He also had the highest percentage of face-offs won in the group.

He then took part with the U20 national team in the U20 World Cup 2012 in Division IA , where he was voted the team's best player in two games. He was also the strongest Austrian in the face-offs and was the second best scorer in his team. At the U20 World Cup 2013 of Division IA , Bischofberger was the top scorer of the Austrian team as well as the IA's top scorer and was once again voted best player of a game twice. At the U20 World Cup 2014 in Division IA , he was also the captain and was again the strongest Austrian in the face-offs.

He made his debut in the men's national team in February 2017 in a preparatory tournament for the 2017 Ice Hockey World Championship .

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2005/06	Dornbirner EC U17	Novices A		-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Rhine Valley U15	Mini A		2	1	0	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Rhine Valley U17	Novices A		1	1	0	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Rhine Valley U15	Mini A		7th	20th	5	25th	2		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Rhine Valley U17	Novices A		17th	25th	20th	45	12		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Rhine Valley U15	Top mini		24	51	18th	69	32		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Rhine Valley U17	Novices A		14th	24	27	51	28		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Rhine Valley U20	Juniors A		2	1	7th	8th	2		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Uzwil U17	Top novices		2	1	2	3	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Pikes Oberthurgau U17	Elite novices		18th	23	19th	42	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Uzwil U20	Elite Jr. B		1	0	0	0	0		6th	4th	2	6th	4th
2010/11	Pikes Oberthurgau U17	Elite novices		18th	23	19th	42	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Dornbirn EC	Austria2		9	1	2	3	4th		5	0	0	0	0
2010/11	HC Innsbruck U20	Austria U20		3	3	3	6th	2		5	2	1	3	4th
2010/11	HC Innsbruck II	Austria4		4th	1	1	2	2		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	RB Hockey Academy	RBHRC U18		3	2	2	4th	10		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	RB Hockey Juniors	RBHRC U20		7th	3	0	3	2		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	EC Red Bull Salzburg	EBEL		10	0	4th	4th	18th		5	1	0	1	0
2012/13	RB Hockey Juniors	RBHRC U20		4th	0	1	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	EC Red Bull Salzburg	EBEL		26th	4th	4th	8th	4th		4th	0	0	0	0
2013/14	Davos U20	Elite Jr. A		29	17th	9	26th	14th		3	1	1	2	2
2014/15	Hockey Thurgau	NLB		24	4th	5	9	8th		1	0	0	0	0
2015/16	Hockey Thurgau	NLB		40	10	5	15th	8th		7th	2	2	4th	6th
2016/17	EC-KAC	EBEL		44	12	6th	18th	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	EC-KAC	EBEL		50	16	20th	36	30th		6th	1	1	2	4th
2018/19	EC-KAC	EBEL		52	12	20th	32	18th
2019/20	EC-KAC	EBEL
EBEL total				182	44	54	98	78		15th	2	1	3	4th
NLB total				64	14th	10	24	16		8th	2	2	4th	6th

( 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

• Johannes Bischofberger at eliteprospects.com (English)