Julien Sprunger

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Julien Sprunger
Date of birth 4th January 1986
place of birth Grolley , Switzerland
Size 194 cm
Weight 90 kg
position Right wing
number # 86
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2004 , 4th round, 117th position
Minnesota Wild
Career stations
since 2002 Friborg-Gottéron

Julien Sprunger (born January 4, 1986 in Grolley ) is a Swiss ice hockey player who has played for Friborg-Gottéron in the Swiss National League on the position of right winger since 2002 .

Career

Sprunger, who was born in Grolley , switched to the youth department of the nearby Friborg-Gottéron club as a junior . In the 2002/03 season, the then 16-year-old striker played for the club's elite juniors and attracted attention with 40 scorer points in 24 games. In the further course of the season he came to his debut in the first team of the club in the National League A was located. Overall, he completed two games for the team of Russian coach Yevgeny Popichin . Jumper was also active for the elite juniors in the following season , but established himself in the senior team during the course of the year under the new coach Mike McParland . In 46 encounters including the play-offs , the young attacker got five points.

Jumpers in the Friborg-Gottéron jersey

Jumper's talent was not hidden from the scouts of the North American National Hockey League and so he was selected in the fourth round in the fourth round of the Minnesota Wild during the summer break as part of the NHL Entry Draft . For the 2004/05 season he was finally an integral part of the Friborg-Gottéron squad. He came to 41 games this season, in which he more than tripled his previous year's yield and showed his qualities as a goalscorer. He also completed a game at the partner team HC La Chaux-de-Fonds in the National League B . In the following years, Sprunger developed continuously and always scored more than 20 points scorer. His final breakthrough came in the 2007/08 season . With 47 points, including 27 goals, from 49 games, he was only 14th in the league's scorer ranking, but he led coach Serge Pelletier's team back into the play-offs for the first time since 2004. In five games he contributed three points there. This earned him the appointment as the Most Valuable Player of the National League A . He confirmed the performance in the following year with 46 scorer points and ten more in as many play-off games.

Due to a serious injury to his spine that he sustained during the 2009 World Cup , the attacker was out for large parts of the 2009/10 season . Since the striker was only able to return to the game in mid-November 2009, he only played 35 games including the play-offs over the course of the season - fewer than ever in a senior season. With 32 points, however, he confirmed the performance before his injury. He did the same in the 2010/11 season . For the 2011/12 season , Sprunger was appointed assistant captain under the new coach Hans Kossmann .

Jumpers in the dress of the Swiss national team

International

Sprunger played for his home country at both junior and senior level.

For the first time he took part in the U18 junior world championship of Division I in 2004 , where he managed the sovereign promotion to the top division with the U18 selection of Switzerland. Sprunger was involved in nine of the 35 Swiss tournament goals. He scored seven of them himself. This made him the top scorer in division group A and the second best scorer of the tournament behind the Austrian Raphael Rotter . In 2005 and 2006 he played at the U20 Junior World Championships for his home country. In both years, the Confederates managed to stay in the league with the U20 selection , with Sprunger making a significant contribution as the third-best scorer within the team in 2006.

Sprunger has been a member of the Swiss national ice hockey team since 2007 and took part in the 2007 World Championships in Russia , 2008 in Canada , 2009 in Switzerland and 2011 in Slovakia . The striker also played at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada . There he reached eighth place in the tournament with the Swiss national team after they had lost the quarter-finals to the United States 2-0. The best placement at world championships was a seventh place in world championships in 2008.

During the 2009 World Cup, Sprunger suffered a serious injury. In the second round match against the United States he was checked into the gang by David Backes - while trying to get back on his feet after a previous body check - and was brought off the ice without moving. The result was an operation on the fourth and fifth cervical vertebrae , due to which he missed large parts of the 2009/10 NLA season.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Sprunger in January 2010 during a league game against the SCL Tigers
Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2002/03 Friborg-Gottéron Elite Juniors B 24 21st 19th 40 32
2002/03 Friborg-Gottéron NLA 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - - -
2003/04 Friborg-Gottéron Elite Juniors A 13 7th 8th 15th 24
2003/04 Friborg-Gottéron NLA 42 2 3 5 14th 4th 0 0 0 4th
2004/05 Friborg-Gottéron NLA 41 9 7th 16 35 11 1 2 1 3 - 14th
2004/05 HC La Chaux-de-Fonds NLB 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - - -
2005/06 Friborg-Gottéron NLA 38 19th 14th 33 36 15 1 7th 3 10 29
2006/07 Friborg-Gottéron NLA 34 10 10 20th 46 - - - - - -
2007/08 Friborg-Gottéron NLA 49 27 20th 47 ± 0 34 5 2 1 3 +1 20th
2008/09 Friborg-Gottéron NLA 47 25th 21st 46 +14 56 10 6th 4th 10 +6 6th
2009/10 Friborg-Gottéron NLA 28 9 17th 26th +9 10 7th 4th 2 6th +5 2
2010/11 Friborg-Gottéron NLA 50 16 26th 42 +7 42 4th 0 2 2 −3 4th
2011/12 Friborg-Gottéron NLA 49 27 24 51 +24 22nd 11 2 4th 6th −7 6th
2012/13 Friborg-Gottéron NLA 32 19th 14th 33 +14 18th 16 5 8th 13 +5 10
2013/14 Friborg-Gottéron NLA 49 12 21st 33 −3 32 10 6th 4th 10 −3 4th
2014/15 Friborg-Gottéron NLA 50 14th 26th 40 −3 18th 6 1 3 5 8th +1 0
2015/16 Friborg-Gottéron NLA 43 25th 11 36 ± 0 20th 5 1 0 1 −7 2
2016/17 Friborg-Gottéron NLA 50 26th 25th 51 −2 16 10 1 9 5 14th +3 4th
2017/18 Friborg-Gottéron NLA 20th 7th 6th 13 −3 4th 5 1 3 4th -3 4th
Total elite juniors 37 28 27 55 56
NLB total 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - - -
NLA total 624 247 245 492 403 119 41 39 80 70

International

Represented Switzerland at:

year team event Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2004 Switzerland U18 World Cup Div.I 5 7th 2 9 +7 0
2005 Switzerland U20 World Cup 6th 0 0 0 −1 2
2006 Switzerland U20 World Cup 6th 2 3 5 −4 12
2007 Switzerland WM 7th 2 0 2 −2 4th
2008 Switzerland WM 7th 3 2 5 ± 0 6th
2009 Switzerland WM 5 0 0 0 −2 0
2010 Switzerland Olympia 5 2 0 2 ± 0 2
2011 Switzerland WM 6th 0 1 1 −3 2
Juniors overall 17th 9 5 14th +2 14th
Men overall 30th 7th 3 10 −7 14th

( 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 ) ; 1 play-downs / relegation

Web links

Commons : Julien Sprunger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Risto Pakarinen: A cursed night. Switzerland beats USA but misses final round. iihf.com , May 4, 2009, accessed September 29, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Dream comeback for Julien Sprunger. Swiss television , November 14, 2009, accessed on September 29, 2011 (German).
  3. ↑ Player Statistics by Team - SUI - Switzerland. ( PDF ) iihf.com , September 15, 2006, accessed on September 29, 2011 (English).
  4. ↑ Goal Scoring Leaders. (PDF) iihf.com , September 15, 2006, accessed on September 29, 2011 (English).
  5. ^ Scoring Leaders. (PDF; 53 kB) iihf.com , September 15, 2006, accessed on September 29, 2011 (English).
  6. ↑ Player Statistics by Team - SUI - Switzerland. (PDF; 45 kB) iihf.com , January 5, 2006, accessed on September 29, 2011 (English).
  7. ↑ Sprunger had to be operated on. Operations on the cervical vertebra jump. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , May 5, 2009, accessed on September 29, 2011 (German).
  8. ↑ Sean Leahy: Inglourious Backes denies allegation from Swiss opponent. Yahoo! Sports , February 17, 2010, accessed September 29, 2011 .
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personal data
SURNAME Sprunger, Julien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Grolley , Switzerland