Marian Hurtík

Marian Hurtík
Date of birth	February 23, 1951
place of birth	Bratislava , Czechoslovakia
size	180 cm
Weight	78 kg
position	striker
Career stations
1957-1973	HC Slovan Bratislava
1973-1974	MHC Plastika Nitra
1974-1976	ZVL Skalica
1976-1977	SG Nuremberg
1977-1980	VfL Bad Nauheim
1980-1981	EHC Essen-West
1981-1982	VER Same
1982-1983	ERC Freiburg

Marian Hurtík (born February 23, 1951 in Bratislava , Czechoslovakia ) is a former German - Slovak ice hockey player and current coach .

Career

As a player

Hurtík has played in Germany since the 1970s after starting his career in his hometown with HC Slovan Bratislava . His first stop was SG Nürnberg and from 1977 VfL Bad Nauheim . The striker played for the Nauheim team for three years before joining the then second division EHC Essen-West in the summer of 1980 . With the EHC Hurtík only reached the penultimate place, but was able to prevent relegation.

For the 1981/82 season he moved to league competitor VER Selb , for which he was only active for one year. Born in Slovakia, his active ice hockey career ended at the end of the 1982/83 season at ERC Freiburg . With the ERC, he was able to become champions of the 2nd Bundesliga and promotion to the Bundesliga in this season, which was also his last .

As a trainer

Marian Hurtík shaking hands with Benoît Laporte after a friendly against the Nürnberg Ice Tigers

Marian Hurtík began his coaching career in 1983 with the then second division club Augsburger EV . He supervised the AEV for two seasons and was able to achieve second place in the southern group twice with the club during this time and thus successfully qualify for the finals. There he placed himself with his team in third place in the table, which was not enough for promotion to the Bundesliga. After a one-year and a two-year engagement at EC Bad Nauheim and EV Ravensburg , he joined Eintracht Frankfurt in the summer of 1988. There he was active as a junior and assistant trainer until 1991.

This was followed by further positions at EC Bad Nauheim, at Braunlager EHC / Harz, at the Nürnberg Ice Tigers and again between 2000 and 2001 at EC Bad Nauheim. After a one-year break, he moved to Switzerland for the 2002/03 season for EHC Saastal, where he worked as a coach with the gang for a year. He then supervised the HC La Chaux-de-Fonds in the second highest Swiss league, the National League B . In 2005, Hurtík returned to Germany and signed a contract with the Kassel Huskies, where he worked as a youth coach for the Kassel ice hockey youth until 2005.

After he was in charge of the Bayern league team Pinguine Königsbrunn between 2005 and 2007 , the people in charge of the then top division club Dresdner Eislöwen transferred him to Dresden . There he was released in January 2008 and replaced by the German-Czech Jan Tábor .

From November 2009 to March 2010, Hurtík looked after the upper division EV Landsberg as head coach after Norbert Zabel had resigned there at the end of October.

Achievements and Awards

• 1983 champion of the 2nd Bundesliga with ERC Freiburg

Web links

• Marian Hurtík at rodi-db.de
• Marian Hurtík at hockeydb.com (English)