Len Soccio

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Flag of Canada and Germany.svg  Len Soccio Ice hockey player
Date of birth May 28, 1967
place of birth St. Catharines , Ontario , Canada
size 181 cm
Weight 85 kg
position Left wing
number # 20
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1984-1988 North Bay Centennials
1988-1989 Fort Wayne Comet
1989-1990 Winston-Salem Thunderbirds
1990-1991 Greensboro Monarchs
1991-1992 Columbus Chill
1992-1993 St. Thomas Wildcats
1994-1997 ESC Wedemark Scorpions
1997-2005 Hanover Scorpions
2007–2012 SC Langenhagen Jets

Leonard "Len" Soccio (born May 28, 1967 in St. Catharines , Ontario ) is a former Canadian- German ice hockey player who was active during his career for the Hannover Scorpions in the German ice hockey league . He is currently active as a coach at Hannover Indians in the ice hockey league .

Career as a player

After Soccio had played in various North American minor leagues since 1984 , but without making the breakthrough and getting into a team of the National Hockey League , he moved to ESC Wedemark in the third class German Oberliga Nord in the summer of 1993 . There he was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga with Wedemark and, under the new name "ESC Wedemark Wildcats", two years later made the jump into the German Ice Hockey League .

Len Soccio's banned jersey number 20

Soccio played from 1996 to 2006 exclusively for the Hanover Scorpions or their predecessor club ESC Wedemark Scorpions in the DEL. He completed a total of 504 DEL games, in which he scored 492 points scorer (156 goals / 336 assists) and collected 760 penalty minutes. This put him in third place in the all-time scorer ranking before the start of the 2006/07 season . He is also the second best template provider in the history of the DEL. At the Hannover Scorpions, he leads all leaderboards (scorer points, games, goals, assists, penalty minutes).

After the 2004/05 season he ended his career because of an injury. The shirt number 20, which Soccio wore during his career, is no longer given by the Hannover Scorpions. An oversized jersey with the number 20 hung over the ice surface in the TUI Arena from 2006 until the Scorpions moved out in 2013 to honor Soccio's services to the Hanover Scorpions. On February 11, 2006 there was also a farewell game for Leonard Soccio in the Icehouse Mellendorf in front of over 3500 spectators.

Career as a coach

After the end of his professional career, Soccio sought a career as a coach. Initially, he was junior coordinator of the Hannover Scorpions and managing director of the Lenny Soccio Ice & Event Center . Soccio published its plans for the construction of an ice rink in August 2006 and the completion of the sports facility was in autumn 2008. In spring 2009, the operating company of the ice arena went into bankruptcy, but initially remained open with a new company in which Soccio also participates.

For the 2007/08 season, Soccio returned to the ice and took on a double role at the ESC Hannover Scorpions as a striker and coach. The team rose from the Association League to the Regionalliga Nord and took part in the Regionalliga Nord under the new name Langenhagen Jets in the 2008/09 season . The club's venue is the Lenny Soccio Ice & Event Center in Langenhagen. Soccio subsequently remained the first team's player-coach.

From August 1, 2011, Soccio was the assistant coach of the German women's national team .

From July 31, 2013 Soccio was the head coach of the Hanover Scorpions in the league, on May 3, 2016 Hanover's relay competitor ECC Preussen Berlin announced his commitment as head coach.

After just one season, Soccio returned to Hanover, this time as head coach of the EC Hanover Indians .

Achievements and Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DEL record book. Numbers, data and facts from twelve years of DEL , in: DEL. The 1st Bundesliga. Special issue season 06/07, ice hockey news episode 01/06, pp. 155–178 (deadline August 10, 2006)
  2. ↑ Hanover Scorpions. Club records , in: DEL. The 1st Bundesliga. Special issue season 06/07, ice hockey news, episode 01/06, p. 91 (deadline August 10, 2006)
  3. ↑ http://www.hockeyweb.de/artikel.php?a=38428
  4. ↑ Lenny Soccio new assistant coach. In: Frauen-eishockey.com. March 2, 2011, accessed December 11, 2017 .
  5. ^ Soccio to help German women. In: iihf.com. August 4, 2011, accessed December 11, 2017 .
  6. ^ The ECC Preussen Berlin proudly presents Lenny Soccio. In: eccpreussen.de. Retrieved May 3, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Len Soccio is the new coach with the Indians. Retrieved May 25, 2017 .

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personal data
SURNAME Soccio, Len
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Soccio, Leonard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Catharines , Ontario , Canada