Marcel Linke

Marcel Linke
Date of birth	April 23, 1981
place of birth	Berlin , GDR
Nickname	Tilla
size	184 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	defender
number	# 3
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 2002	ES white water
2002-2003	SC Mittelrhein-Neuwied
2003-2005	Lusatian foxes
2005-2009	Dresden Ice Lions
2009-2011	Lusatian foxes
since 2011	ELV Tornado Niesky

Marcel Linke (born April 23, 1981 in Berlin , GDR ) is a German ice hockey player who has been playing for the ELV Tornado Niesky in the Oberliga Ost since 2011 .

Career

Linke learned to play ice hockey in the youth area of ​​the ES Weißwasser and went through all youth teams there, with which he won several German championships in the youth area. As a junior player he was able to attract the attention of the young DEB coaches, so that he was part of the German U16 and U18 squad for two years. He played his first international tournament at the U18 World Championship in Füssen in 1999 (the squad included Dennis Seidenberg and Christian Ehrhoff ). Even then, he was not only able to convince with his defensive and offensive qualities, which his two goals in six games prove.

In the following season he became part of the professional team of ES Weißwasser and was able to contribute 2 assists in 19 games. Linke already counted as a two-way player back then, as he could be used both in defense and in attack. Under coach Weissgerber he was therefore always pushed back and forth between attack and defense, whereby he was never able to exhaust his real capabilities. Therefore, he decided in 2002 to move to the Oberliga in Neuwied . After a very successful year in Neuwied, the call of ES Weißwasser, now renamed Lausitzer Füchse , followed, where Horymir Sekera was now on the gang. From coach Sekera he got a firm commitment for the 2003/04 season to only be used in defense, which should also give him security and encourage him to perform well. The Füchsen then succeeded in being promoted back to the 2nd Bundesliga , as EC Bad Nauheim withdrew for financial reasons and Weißwasser exercised the right to promotion as a successor.

The promotion season was quite successful for Marcel - the Füchse reached the play-offs , but after the season he decided to move to Dresden. In his first season in Dresden he was able to convince as a solid defender who has his strengths especially in the underpowered game and in power play . At the side of Sjarhej Stas , he developed into an absolute top performer of the team, who also knows how to use his goal threat again and again. Linke stayed with the Ice Lions until 2009 before returning to the Lausitzer Füchsen. After the 2011 playdowns, he ended his professional career due to health problems and began commercial training. At the same time, he has since played in the top league for ELV Tornado Niesky .

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1999/2000	ES white water	2nd BL		19th	0	2	2	2		-	-	-	-	-
2000/2001	ES white water	2nd BL		41	0	2	2	16		-	-	-	-	-
2001/2002	ES white water	2nd BL		51	3	2	5	6th		3	0	0	0	0
2003/03	SC Middle Rhine	OIL		49	5	6th	11	57		3	0	1	1	2
2003/04	Lusatian foxes	OIL		54	5	22nd	27	26th		4th	0	0	0	0
2004/2004	Lusatian foxes	2nd BL		49	6th	6th	12	71		-	-	-	-	-
2005/2006	Dresden Ice Lions	2nd BL		52	5	8th	13	42		10	2	3	5	8th
2006/2007	Dresden Ice Lions	2nd BL		43	4th	7th	11	34		6th	0	0	0	8th
2007/08	Dresden Ice Lions	OIL		51	5	17th	22nd	75		10	2	4th	6th	8th
2008/09	Dresden Ice Lions	2nd BL		37	0	2	2	24		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Lusatian foxes	2nd BL		46	5	12	17th	26th		7th	1	2	3	2
2010/11	Lusatian foxes	2nd BL		48	3	7th	10	36		8 1	2	5	7th	0
2011/12	ELV Tornado Niesky	Oberliga		27	9	22nd	31	14th		8 1	11	12	23	16
2012/13	ELV Tornado Niesky	Oberliga		30th	14th	11	25th	51		8th	4th	4th	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 ) ,

International

Linke represented Germany at the U18 World Cup in 1999

year	team	event		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-
1999	Germany U18	U18 World Cup		6th	2	0	2	2	0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lausitzer Rundschau , Foxes defender Linke ended his hockey career
2. ↑ icehockeypage.net, Marcel Linke is coming and Jens Schwabe will be a trainer ( memento of the original from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Marcel Linke at eurohockey.com
• Marcel Linke at hockeydb.com (English)