Kai Hospelt

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Kai Hospelt
Date of birth 23rd August 1985
place of birth Cologne , Germany
size 185 cm
Weight 85 kg
position wing
number # 18
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2003 , 7th lap, 216th position
San Jose Sharks
Career stations
until 2003 Young Cologne sharks
2003-2008 Cologne Sharks
2008-2013 Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg
2013-2016 Adler Mannheim
2016-2019 Cologne Sharks
since 2019 Krefeld penguins

Kai Hospelt (born August 23, 1985 in Cologne ) is a German ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Krefeld Penguins in the German Ice Hockey League since 2019 .

Career

Hospels in a duel with a Frankfurt Lions player

Youth and career start in Cologne

The winger began ice hockey in the youth of the Kölner Haie , where his father Wim Hospelt played from 1972 to 1978 and became German champion in 1977 . In the 2000/01 season, Kai Hospelt came to the junior team of the KEC in the German junior league for the first time , where he immediately rose to become a regular player. In his second season, the left-handed shooter impressed with 106 points in 40 games. Thanks to this achievement, he was also appointed to the DEB selection for the 2002 U18 Junior World Championship . A year later, the attacker was again top scorer of the DNL, ​​although he could not take part in some games because he came to his first appearances in the professional team of the Haie. At the end of the 2002/03 season , Hospelt was also able to celebrate the runner-up in the German ice hockey league with the Haien. In 2003 the striker played again for the junior national team - he wore the DEB jersey at both the U18 World Cup and the U20 Junior World Cup . In the summer, Hospelt was finally selected by the San Jose Sharks in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft in 216th place.

After this transition year, the offensive player should only play in the first team of the KEC from the 2003/04 season . He established himself as a fourth-row striker, which allowed him regular ice ages. In 2004 , as in the following year, Hospelt again took part in the U20 Junior World Championship for the DEB. Before the 2004/05 season , the attacker suffered a cruciate ligament rupture , so he missed a large part of the season and therefore did not reach his scoring rate from the previous year. In the 2005/06 season , Hospelt scored a total of twelve points and reached the semi-finals of the play-offs with the Haien . At the beginning of the 2007/08 season , the left-shooter tore a cruciate ligament again in the first game of the season, but came back to the KEC squad four months later.

During the 2007/08 season he announced that he wanted to look for a new challenge and that he and his teammate Sebastian Furchner would switch to the Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg for the new season .

Leading player in Wolfsburg, championship with Mannheim

In the case of the DEL newcomer from Lower Saxony , who only got promoted in the previous season, Hospelt developed in a series of attacks with Furchner and Norm Milley to become a national player, top performer and leading player. He was able to score more than 40 points for Wolfsburg in his second season . In the following season 2010/11 , which was one of the most successful of the club with first place after the preliminary round and reaching the play-off final, he scored the decisive goal for the semi-finals against the Krefeld Penguins . In the next season 2011/12 he was elected the top scorer of the DEL preliminary round and DEL player of the year with 25 goals. Although he announced at the beginning of the next season that he wanted to leave the club after the current 2012/13 season , he was appointed captain of the Grizzlys and scored more than 40 points for his team.

From the 2013/14 season on, Hospelt played for three years for Adler Mannheim , with whom he reached first place in the table after the regular season in the 2014/15 season and won the German championship in the subsequent play-offs . Here, too, he scored the goal to reach the final in the semifinals against his former club Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg.

Return to the Rhineland

In April 2016, the Kölner Haie Hospelt announced their return to their hometown club. After three years with the Haien, he switched to the Krefeld Penguins for the 2019/20 season .

International

Hospelt took part with the German national team several times in the Germany Cup , the World Championships 2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2014 and 2015 as well as the 2010 Winter Olympics. In July 2017, he announced his retirement from the national team after 115 international matches.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2000/01 Young Cologne sharks DNL 35 25th 18th 43 16 - - - - -
2001/02 Young Cologne sharks DNL 40 51 55 106 10 5 6th 2 8th 4th
2002/03 Young Cologne sharks DNL 29 39 42 81 20th 3 2 5 7th 2
2002/03 Cologne Sharks DEL 21st 0 2 2 0 6th 0 1 1 0
2003/04 Cologne Sharks DEL 47 2 2 4th 18th 6th 0 0 0 2
2004/05 Cologne Sharks DEL 23 1 1 2 6th - - - - -
2005/06 Cologne Sharks DEL 47 5 5 10 12 9 1 1 2 0
2006/07 Cologne Sharks DEL 50 6th 9 15th 20th 9 0 0 0 4th
2007/08 Cologne Sharks DEL 17th 2 4th 6th 4th 14th 0 1 1 2
2008/09 Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg DEL 52 11 16 27 42 10 1 2 3 4th
2009/10 Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg DEL 53 20th 21st 41 14th 7th 4th 4th 8th 4th
2010/11 Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg DEL 52 13 16 29 30th 9 4th 3 7th 2
2011/12 Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg DEL 52 25th 25th 50 35 4th 1 2 3 0
2012/13 Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg DEL 51 21st 20th 41 14th 12 2 1 3 8th
2013/14 Adler Mannheim DEL 30th 8th 9 17th 8th 5 3 0 3 0
2014/15 Adler Mannheim DEL 52 11 20th 31 10 15th 5 9 14th 10
DNL total 104 115 115 230 46 8th 8th 7th 15th 6th
DEL total 547 125 150 275 213 106 21st 24 45 36

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Furchner and Hospelt arrive. Kicker , February 6, 2008, accessed August 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Wolfsburg moves into the final. Der Spiegel , April 8, 2011, accessed August 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Kai Hospelt is Player of the Year - Jochen Reimer and Chris Lee also honored. Ice Hockey News , March 17, 2012, accessed August 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Hospelt is leaving Wolfsburg after this season. Heilbronner Voice , September 12, 2012, accessed on August 4, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Comback kings in the finals. Spox.com , April 3, 2015, accessed August 4, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Three strikers for the Haie. In: haie.de. Retrieved April 20, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Ex-KEC striker: Krefeld signs Kai Hospelt. In: ksta.de. April 17, 2019, accessed August 1, 2019 .
  8. ↑ kicker online, Nuremberg, Germany: Hospelt resigns from the national team . In: kicker online . ( kicker.de [accessed on July 13, 2017]).
Squad of the Krefeld Penguins in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME Hospel, Kai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd August 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne