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
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
- 2011 All-Star-Team of the Spengler Cup
- 2012 DEL player of the year
- 2015 German champion with the Adler Mannheim
Career statistics
Regular season | Play-offs | |||||||||||||
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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
- Official website (archive versions)
- Kai Hospelt at eurohockey.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Furchner and Hospelt arrive. Kicker , February 6, 2008, accessed August 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Wolfsburg moves into the final. Der Spiegel , April 8, 2011, accessed August 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Kai Hospelt is Player of the Year - Jochen Reimer and Chris Lee also honored. Ice Hockey News , March 17, 2012, accessed August 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Hospelt is leaving Wolfsburg after this season. Heilbronner Voice , September 12, 2012, accessed on August 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Comback kings in the finals. Spox.com , April 3, 2015, accessed August 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Three strikers for the Haie. In: haie.de. Retrieved April 20, 2016 .
- ↑ Ex-KEC striker: Krefeld signs Kai Hospelt. In: ksta.de. April 17, 2019, accessed August 1, 2019 .
- ↑ kicker online, Nuremberg, Germany: Hospelt resigns from the national team . In: kicker online . ( kicker.de [accessed on July 13, 2017]).
Goalkeeper:
Sergei Below |
Marvin Cüpper
defender:
Torsten Ankert ( C ) |
Tom-Eric Bappert |
Phillip Bruggisser |
Garrett Noonan |
Philip Riefers |
Mike Schmitz |
Tom Schmitz |
Alex Trivellato |
Daniil Walitow
attacker:
Grant Besse |
Laurin Braun |
Chad Costello |
Travis Ewanyk |
Justin Hodgman |
Kai Hospelt ( A ) |
Adam Kiedewicz |
Philipp Kuhnekath |
Arturs Kruminsch |
Jacob Lagacé |
Darren Mieszkowski |
Leon Niederberger |
Ivan Petrakov |
Daniel Pietta ( A ) |
Niklas Postel |
Vinny Saponari |
Edwin Schitz |
Martin Schymainski |
Jeremy Welsh
Head Coach: Pierre Beaulieu General Manager: Matthias Roos
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hospel, Kai |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | 23rd August 1985 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |