Martin Reichel

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Flag of the Czech Republic and Germany.svg  Martin Reichel Ice hockey player
Date of birth 7th November 1973
place of birth Most , Czechoslovakia
size 187 cm
Weight 86 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1992 , 2nd lap, 37th position
Edmonton Oilers
Career stations
1990-1993 EHC Freiburg
1993-1997 Starbulls Rosenheim
1997-2003 Nuremberg Ice Tigers
2003-2008 Frankfurt Lions
2008-2010 Starbulls Rosenheim

Martin Reichel (born November 7, 1973 in Most , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech - German ice hockey player . He is the brother of the Czech ice hockey player Robert Reichel and a member of the "Hall of Fame" of German ice hockey .

Career

Martin Reichel began his career in 1990 at EHC Freiburg in the 1st Bundesliga . In his first years as a professional, he already proved that he is not an outstanding, but a solid scorer, which is why he was selected in the second round of the Edmonton Oilers in the second round at position 37 in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft . In 1993 the license was withdrawn from the EHC Freiburg and the team had to relegate to the Regionalliga Süd .

Reichel wanted to stay in the top German league and joined the Starbulls Rosenheim, with whom he was active in the German ice hockey league . In Rosenheim , the German-Czech was one of the strikers with the highest points in his team. His most successful season was the 1995/96 season , when he was able to achieve 48 scorer points in a total of 54 league games. After four years he left Rosenheim and joined the Nürnberg Ice Tigers . With Nuremberg he was able to move into the final of the playoffs in 1999 , but lost there to the Adler Mannheim .

In the following years he was unable to build on this success and in 2003 he switched to the Frankfurt Lions . In his first season he was able to win the German championship with the Lions after a 3-1 final victory after games against the Eisbären Berlin . Reichel, who scored 27 times in the main round in 52 completed games and scored a goal in four games in the subsequent play-offs, played a not insignificant role in this success. In 2004/05 the National Hockey League paused due to a players strike, which is why many players from North America came to Europe. The Lions wanted to defend the title with NHL veterans Stéphane Robidas and Doug Weight , but they failed in the semifinals.

In the 2005/06 season Reichel, meanwhile alternative captain in Frankfurt, narrowly missed the playoffs with the Lions. In the DEL he has played a total of 638 games since 1994, in which he scored 361 points (128 goals / 233 assists) and collected 431 penalty minutes. Before the start of the 2006/07 season he was in third place in the list of DEL record players behind the still active Mirko Lüdemann and Andreas Renz . In the all-time scorer ranking, he was in 16th place.

In the summer of 2008, Lions officials did not renew his expiring contract. The offensive player, however, received a contract offer from Starbulls Rosenheim a little later, for which he was already active between 1993 and 1997. Reichel then moved to Rosenheim. With the Starbulls he reached the semi-finals of the Oberliga Süd play-offs, which they lost with 1: 3 defeats against ESV Kaufbeuren .

In 2010 he won the Oberliga championship with the Starbulls with three wins in the playoff final against EC Peiting . After the 2009/2010 season he ended his active career and was assistant coach at Starbulls Rosenheim from 2012 to 2015 . Since then he has been employed in the youth division of the same club.

In March 2017 Reichel was inducted into the "Hall of Fame" of German ice hockey .

International

Reichel was nominated for the first time in 1994 for the German national team , with which he took part in the World Cup in Italy in the same year . This was followed by eight other participations in various world championships and one nomination for the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City . In total, the left shooter played 165 international A matches, in which he was able to achieve 17 points scorer.

Achievements and Awards

Family members

Brother robert

Martin Reichel was selected in 37th place in the NHL Entry Draft , but was never used in the NHL. His brother Robert Reichel was only drafted in 70th position, but was able to prevail in the NHL. Another difference between the two brothers is their nationality. Robert became Olympic champion with the Czech Republic in 1998, Martin played 165 times for the German team. They do have one thing in common. Both played for the Frankfurt Lions, Robert in the mid-1990s and Martin between 2003 and 2008.

Son Thomas

Martin Reichel's son Thomas, born in 1999, was trained as a striker's ice hockey player at Starbulls Rosenheim. Between 2015 and 2017 he was part of he completed ten games in the DEB's U18 selection. At the age of 17, he gained his first experience in the first team at the DEL2 level in the 2016/17 season. A move to North America was not yet possible at the end of the season at the age of 18. After the Starbulls Rosenheim were relegated to the league, Thomas Reichel established himself as a top performer there in the course of the 2017/18 season and was able to score 21 points in the first 28 games, although he also tied the curves for the DNL team at the same time. In the game against the Eisbären Regensburg on December 22, 2017, he scored his first hat trick.

DEL statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Main round 14th 658 122 229 351 404
Playoffs 12 83 12 15th 27 82

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DEL record book. Numbers, data and facts from twelve years of DEL , in: DEL. The 1st Bundesliga. Special issue season 06/07, ice hockey news episode 01/06, pp. 155–178 (deadline August 10, 2006)
  2. ↑ http://www.sport1.de/eishockey/del/2017/03/eishockey-patrick-reimer-von-den-ice-tigers-ist-player-des-jahres
  3. ↑ Christoph Schneider: Interview with Thomas Reichel from the Starbulls Rosenheim. Retrieved January 9, 2018 (German).
  4. ↑ Thomas Reichel at Eliteprospects. Retrieved January 9, 2018 .
  5. ↑ With Reichel hat trick: Starbulls win double-digit! In: https://www.rosenheim24.de . December 23, 2017 ( rosenheim24.de [accessed January 9, 2018]).

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personal data
SURNAME Reichel, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Czech ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 7th November 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Most (Czech Republic) , Czechoslovakia