Mark Szücs

Mark Szücs
Date of birth	4th November 1976
place of birth	Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size	176 cm
Weight	78 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1995-1999	Union College
1999-2000	VEU Feldkirch
2000-2010	Black Wings Linz

Mark Szücs (born November 4, 1976 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a former Canadian - Austrian ice hockey player and current - coach , who played for most of his career with the Black Wings Linz in the Austrian ice hockey league and has been there since 2010 as co- Coach is under contract.

Career

The son of a native Viennese and a Hungarian who emigrated to Canada was already on the ice at the age of two. By the age of three and a half he had already developed good technique and it was increasingly difficult for his mother to get her son off the ice. Szucs himself once said that before school, after school, he actually always stood on the ice.

At the age of 18 he began his professional hockey career at the 1995 Union College in Schenectady , New York and thus played within the ECAC Hockey - Division . A year later he also began to coach children in an ice hockey school in the summer. After four seasons he moved to Austria in 1999 and played one season for VEU Feldkirch . After this went bankrupt in 2000 , he moved with his teammates Rick Nasheim , Philipp Lukas , Christian Perthaler and Markus Peintner to Black Wings Linz , where he was able to achieve the club's first Bundesliga goal. He also succeeded in the 2002/03 season , in which the Black Wings were Austrian champions for the first time , the game winning goal against the EC VSV to win the championship. With the Black Wings he ended his career as an active player in 2010 .

Mark Szücs has had dual citizenship ( Canada , Austria ) since he was born , and can therefore also storm for the Austrian national team . Between 2002 and 2006 he was part of the team of Team Austria at four world championships.

After the 2009/10 season , the EHC Liwest Black Wings Linz announced that Szücs will take over the position of assistant coach as the successor to Rick Nasheim . In the 2011/12 season he was in the steel city after 2003 as a player and assistant coach of Austrian champions .

Achievements and Awards

• 2003 Austrian champion with the EHC Linz
• 2006 Promotion to the top division at the World Championship of Division I.

Career statistics

				Regular season							Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-
1995/96	Union College	NCAA		20th	7th	1	8th	10
1996/97	Union College	NCAA		31	6th	14th	20th	14th
1997/98	Union College	NCAA		29	10	7th	17th	20th
1998/99	Union College	NCAA		30th	9	5	14th	39
1999/2000	VEU Feldkirch	ÖEHL		39	12	25th	36	46	+12
2000/01	EHC Black Wings Linz	ÖEHL		44	19th	29	48	89	+29
2001/02	EHC Black Wings Linz	ÖEHL		28	18th	19th	37	24	+25		13	4th	9	13	26th	+5
2002/03	EHC Black Wings Linz	ÖEHL		52	25th	34	59	42	+31
2003/04	EHC Black Wings Linz	ÖEHL		12	6th	4th	10	8th	+8
2004/05	EHC Black Wings Linz	ÖEHL		35	16	16	32	53	−2
2005/06	EHC Black Wings Linz	ÖEHL		48	19th	11	30th	81	−7
2006/07	EHC Black Wings Linz	ÖEHL		46	9	25th	34	97	+4		3	1	1	2	12	−1
2007/08	EHC Black Wings Linz	ÖEHL		37	5	9	14th	42	−1		11	0	5	5	2	+2
2008/09	EHC Black Wings Linz	ÖEHL		30th	7th	5	12	48	+1
2009/10	EHC Black Wings Linz	ÖEHL		61	6th	14th	20th	95	+3
total				542	174	218	392	708	+91		27	5	15th	20th	40	+6

( 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 )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: Mark Szücs in an interview with maxima ), accessed in September 2003
2. ↑ A Linz legend becomes assistant coach - First goal for Linz ( Memento from April 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), April 20, 2010, accessed on April 15, 2014
3. ^ Szücs new assistant trainer accessed on April 20, 2010

Web links

• Mark Szücs at hockeydb.com (English)
• Mark Szücs at eurohockey.com
• Mark Szücs at eliteprospects.com (English)