Martin Jiranek (ice hockey player)

Martin Jiranek
Date of birth	3rd October 1969
place of birth	Bashaw , Alberta , Canada
size	181 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Supplemental Draft	1990 , 1st round, 13th position Washington Capitals
Career stations
1988-1992	Bowling Green State University
1992-1993	Baltimore Skipjacks
1993-1994	Portland Pirates
1994-1995	Kapfenberger SV
1995-1996	HC Val Gardena
1996-2004	Nuremberg Ice Tigers
2004-2006	ERC Ingolstadt
2006-2007	Nuremberg Ice Tigers
2007-2008	EHC 80 Nuremberg
2010-2011	EHC 80 Nuremberg

Martin Jiranek (born October 3, 1969 in Bashaw , Alberta ) is a former German - Canadian ice hockey player who has worked as a coach since retiring. Since the 2019/20 season he has been working as an assistant trainer at the Fischtown Pinguins Bremerhaven .

Career

As a junior, he played in the NCAA for Bowling Green State University. The Washington Capitals secured the rights to him during the 1990 NHL Supplemental Draft when they picked him 13th in the first round. This was followed by three seasons in the American Hockey League , the Baltimore Skipjacks and the Portland Pirates , before moving to Europe in 1994.

His first stop was in the 1994/95 season at Kapfenberger SV in Austria , and the following year he played in Italy for HC Val Gardena . In the summer of 1996 he moved to the German Ice Hockey League. He spent eight years on the ice for the Nürnberg Ice Tigers and was able to confidently take first place after the preliminary round with his team with a 15-point lead in the 1998/99 season and was runner-up in the subsequent playoffs . The final was lost with 2: 3 wins against Adler Mannheim . For the seasons 2004/05 and 2005/06 he left Nuremberg and was active for the ERC Ingolstadt . For the 2006/07 season he moved back to Nuremberg to the Ice Tigers and signed a one-year contract. He finished third with the team after the preliminary round and reached a DEL final for the second time in his career, which he lost - as in 1999 - against Adler Mannheim, this time with 0: 3 wins.

Before the 2007/08 season he moved from the DEL to the home club of the Ice Tigers, the EHC 80 Nuremberg , in the ice hockey Bavarian league, in which he led the promoted team to the play-offs. There he contracted a double broken jaw, however, which ended his career as a player. In the 2010/11 season Jiranek made his comeback in the first team of EHC 80 Nuremberg in the Bavarian ice hockey national league.

DEL records

Until March 2020, Jiranek was the player with the most scorer points (426) in the history of the Nürnberg Ice Tigers since they were accepted into the DEL. He was replaced by Patrick Reimer , who had 431 points scorer after the 2019/20 DEL main round . Throughout the league, Jiranek is ranked 24th among the most successful scorers in league history with a total of 480 scorer points (as of September 2018).

Coaching career

He then joined the Nürnberg Ice Tigers as assistant coach for the 2008/2009 season , and on May 6, 2009 he surprisingly announced his resignation as assistant coach of the Ice Tigers and was hired as head coach for the Krefeld Penguins . After three months, Jiranek was on leave until the end of the season due to the poor placement of the Krefeld Penguins. In 2010 he became assistant trainer at Adler Mannheim . At the beginning of the 2010/11 season he returned to EHC 80 Nuremberg as coach of the youth team.

On February 21, 2013 he was introduced to the Löwen Frankfurt as the successor to the trainer Frank Gentges , who resigned the day before .

In the 2013/14 season he returned to the Nürnberg Ice Tigers as sports director. After Tray Tuomie was dismissed as head coach of the Ice Tigers in December 2014, Jiranek took over his successor. He stayed in office until the end of the 2014/15 season and then returned to his post as sports director and assistant coach when Rob Wilson rose to head coach. When the Franks parted ways with coach Kevin Gaudet at the end of September 2018 , Jiranek took over the post of head coach in addition to his position as sports director. In April 2019, the Nuremberg-based company announced a realignment, in the course of which the cooperation with Jiranek was ended. After Andrew McPherson resigned from the Fischtown Pinguins shortly before the 2019/20 season, he was hired to replace the assistant coach.

Achievements and Awards

• 1994 Calder Cup win with the Portland Pirates
• 1999 top scorer of the DEL
• 2000 DEL All-Star Game

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ice Hockey News Review 2019/20, page 58
2. ↑ Ice Hockey News Special Issue 2018/19, page 210
3. ^ Westdeutsche Zeitung , Martin Jiranek new trainer in Krefeld
4. ↑ The new trainer Martin Jiranek wants to lead penguins into the play-offs ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2013 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. 
5. ↑ That was it, Martin Jiranek!
6. ↑ rp-online.de, Mannheim: Jiranek is the new co-trainer of the Adler
7. ↑ op-online.de: New trainer for the lions, new trainer for the lions
8. ↑ Wilson remains as head coach with the Ice Tigers. Retrieved December 27, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Sports director Martin Jiranek takes over and says: "At the moment I'm the head coach". Retrieved December 27, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Kurt Kleinendorst takes on coaching positions at the Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers, André Dietzsch becomes sports director, Martin Jiranek has to leave. Retrieved April 26, 2019 . 
11. ↑ More than a replacement. In: Fischtown Pinguins. July 25, 2019, accessed on August 1, 2019 (German). 

Web links

• Martin Jiranek at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Martin Jiranek at hockeydb.com (English)