Manuel blade

Manuel blade
Date of birth	5th September 1984
place of birth	Kassel , Germany
size	186 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 9
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
2003-2010	Kassel Huskies
2010-2011	Adler Mannheim
since 2011	Kassel Huskies

Manuel Klinge (born September 5, 1984 in Kassel ) is a German ice hockey player who has been playing in the DEL2 for the Kassel Huskies since 2011 . However, due to a serious knee injury, he is currently not active as a player. He is currently acting in the role of team manager.

Career

The 1.86 m tall winger began his career with the Kassel Huskies, for which he completed his first DEL appearances in the 2003/04 season . In 2006 he scored his first DEL goal and was relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga with Hessen . At the end of this season, the right-handed shooter also played with a promotion license in the upper league at ETC Crimmitschau and helped them get promoted back to the 2nd Bundesliga. In the following season he made his breakthrough when he became one of the team's top scorers with 63 pts. In 2008 , the huskies made it into the DEL, so that Klinge and the North Hesse team went back to the DEL in the following seasons.

With the announcement of the takeover of the Kassel Huskies by the new owner Dennis Rossing in February 2010, Manuel Klinge extended his contract in Kassel for a further three years until 2013. Due to the insolvency of the Kassel Huskies, Klinge moved to the Adler Mannheim in August 2010 . There he played an average season. In the following season he surprisingly switched back to the huskies in the third-rate ice hockey league . This gave him the opportunity to complete an apprenticeship alongside his sporting activities. With 103 points in 38 games, Klinge quickly became a hoped-for high performer. The envisaged promotion to the DEL2 only succeeded in 2014. In the 2015/16 season he won the DEL2 championship title with Kassel.

International

In 2008 Manuel Klinge made the leap into the German national team , for which he initially played a few friendly matches. Due to an injury - caused by Josh Langfeld's unsportsmanlike behavior shortly before the end of the DEL main round in 2008/09 - Manuel Klinge had to cancel a World Cup participation in Switzerland.

In February 2010 he took part with the national team in the ice hockey tournament of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver . Here he played together with Kai Hospelt and Marcel Müller in the fourth attack row. In the quarter-final qualifier he scored a goal against the eventual Olympic champion Canada. At the end of this year he played his last games in the national team for the time being.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2003/04	Kassel Huskies	DEL		3	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	EJ Kassel	Jun-BL		5	13	12	25th	18th		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Kassel Huskies	DEL		35	0	0	0	2		4th	0	0	0	0
2005/06	Kassel Huskies	DEL		52	4th	1	5	2		5	0	0	0	2
2005/06	ETC Crimmitschau	OIL		11	8th	0	8th	10		6th	5	2	7th	8th
2006/07	Kassel Huskies	2nd BL		51	31	32	63	20th		10	5	10	15th	4th
2007/08	Kassel Huskies	2nd BL		44	16	17th	33	26th		15th	5	5	10	20th
2008/09	Kassel Huskies	DEL		31	10	14th	24	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Kassel Huskies	DEL		31	10	14th	24	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Adler Mannheim	DEL		45	2	14th	16	14th		6th	1	1	2	0
2011/12	Kassel Huskies	OIL		32	45	49	94	36		6th	8th	1	9	12
2012/13	Kassel Huskies	Oberliga		34	39	65	104	37		19th	9	22nd	31	12
2013/14	Kassel Huskies	Oberliga		34	26th	39	65	65		18th	15th	21st	36	6th
2014/15	Kassel Huskies	DEL2		43	19th	19th	38	16		5	0	0	0	2
2015/16	Kassel Huskies	DEL2		42	12	29	41	16		14th	9	7th	16	8th
2. Bundesliga overall				95	47	49	96	46		25th	10	15th	25th	24
DEL total				221	35	47	82	58		15th	1	1	2	2

International

year	team	event		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
National team overall				24	5	3	8th	4th

( 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 )

Greatest successes

• Player of the year of the Oberliga West 2011/2012
• Participation in the 2010 Olympic Games.
• Champion 2nd Bundesliga and promotion to the DEL with the Kassel Huskies 2007/08
• Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga with the ETC Crimmitschau 2005/06
• Promotion to the DEL2 with the Kassel Huskies 2013/2014
• Master of the DEL2 with the Kassel Huskies 2015/16

Web links

• Manuel Klinge at hockeydb.com (English)
• Manuel Klinge at eurohockey.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Personnel carousel at the Huskies: striker stays, assistant coach leaves, Käpitan becomes team manager. April 26, 2018. Retrieved July 23, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Adler Mannheim sign national player Klinge ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). Financial Times Germany. Retrieved February 22, 2013.
3. ↑ Huskies-Knaller: Manuel Klinge comes back - Bartman new trainer . HNA. Retrieved February 22, 2013.
4. ↑ Huskies win DEL2 championship titles. (No longer available online.) In: www.eckasselhuskies.de. Archived from the original on April 23, 2016 ; accessed on April 23, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Germany is subject to Canada in the qualifier for the quarterfinals . Hockeyweb. Retrieved February 22, 2013.
6. ↑ Statistics for international matches ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . DEB. Retrieved February 22, 2013. 
7. ↑ Manuel Klinge, Player of the Year in the Oberliga West: "Life completely changed" . Ice Hockey News. Retrieved February 22, 2013.