Martin Walter

Martin Walter
Date of birth	October 23, 1983
place of birth	Ostrava , ČSSR
size	186 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
2000-2001	Starbulls Rosenheim
2001-2002	EHC Bad Aibling
2002-2008	Hamburg Freezers
2008-2009	HC Litvínov
2009-2010	Hamburg Freezers
2010	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg
2010–2012	Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers
2012-2013	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg
2013-2014	Fishtown Penguins

Martin Walter (born October 23, 1983 in Ostrava , Czechoslovakia ) is a German - Czech ice hockey player who was most recently under contract with the Fishtown Pinguins in the DEL2 .

Career

Martin Walter, who moved to Germany with his family at the age of five, after starting out at EHC Waldkraiburg, played in the offspring of Rosenheim, where he started in 1999 for the junior team and since the 2000/01 season for the DNL team the Starbulls Rosenheim took over. After that, the defense moved for a year in the league for EHC Bad Aibling . In spring 2002, the right-wing shooter signed a contract with the Munich Barons from the DEL and moved with them when they became the Hamburg Freezers . In the 2002/03 season Walter played mainly not for the Freezers, but with a license to support in the 2nd Bundesliga , where he won the championship with the EHC Freiburg and rose to the German ice hockey league. While fulfilling his contract in Hamburg, the native Czech stayed with the Hamburg Freezers, where he became a regular player straight away.

With the Freezers, the defender always reached the play-offs , but the greatest success was reaching the semi-finals in 2004. In the 2008/09 season, Martin Walter played at HC Litvínov in the Czech extra league . With Litvínov he reached third place in the table after the main round, but then retired with the club in the play-off quarter-finals with 0: 4 defeats against eventual champions HC Energie Karlovy Vary . The right-shooter completed 52 main round games and scored four points. In the summer of 2009 he returned to Hamburg, where he signed a contract until 2011. In July 2010, his contract with the Freezers was terminated by mutual agreement after Stéphane Richer had announced in March that he was not planning with Walter.

In August 2010 Walter completed a trial training session at KLH Chomutov , where he injured his hand in the second preparation game. On October 29, 2010 Walter received a short-term contract until November 18 with the Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg , who reacted to injuries to two defenders. On December 30, 2010, the Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers signed Martin Walter. His contract expired in 2012 and in September 2012 Walter was signed again by Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg, initially limited to the end of November 2012, later until the end of the season. At the end of the season, Walter did not receive a new contract offer in Wolfsburg. In November 2013 he signed a contract with the Fishtown Pinguins from the DEL2 until the end of the season. After Walter won the DEL2 championship with the Penguins, he ended his active professional career after the season.

International

In 2003 Walter played for the first time for a selection of the DEB at the Junior World Championship . He also played for the senior national team at the Division I World Championship , where he made promotion with Uwe Krupp's team.

statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		GP	G	A.	Pts	PIM		GP	G	A.	Pts	PIM
2000/01	Starbulls Rosenheim	DNL		40	12	32	44	60		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	EHC Bad Aibling	OIL		48	0	4th	4th	30th		10	2	1	3	4th
2001/02	SC Bietigheim-Bissingen	2nd BL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Landshut cannibals	2nd BL		11	0	0	0	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	EHC Freiburg	2nd BL		29	0	5	5	18th		12	0	1	1	16
2002/03	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		51	0	9	9	12		11	0	1	1	2
2004/05	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		52	1	7th	8th	36		6th	0	0	0	6th
2005/06	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		44	2	9	11	22nd		6th	0	1	1	0
2006/07	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		52	3	6th	9	32		2	0	0	0	0
2007/08	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		39	2	3	5	30th		8th	0	1	1	2
2008/09	HC Litvínov	CZE		52	1	3	4th	48		4th	0	0	0	4th
2009/10	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		44	0	5	5	32		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg	DEL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		13	0	2	2	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2. Bundesliga overall				30th	0	5	5	26th		12	0	1	1	16
DEL total				297	8th	41	49	170		33	0	3	3	10

( 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 )

Personal

In the Czech Republic, Martin Walter took a distance learning course in sports management , which he successfully completed as a sports specialist in 2009 .

Web links

• Martin Walter at eurohockey.com
• Martin Walter at hockeydb.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ kicker.de, Martin Walter returns home
2. ↑ eishockey.info, Ice Tigers test Martin Walter - four-week trial phase
3. ↑ ehc-wolfsburg.de, EHC brings defender Martin Walter
4. ↑ Personnel decisions at the Grizzly Adams. In: Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg . April 15, 2013, accessed April 15, 2013 . 
5. ↑ [1]