Matthias Potthoff

Germany Matthias Potthoff


Date of birth	October 26, 1987
place of birth	Schwerte , Germany
size	179 cm
Weight	92 kg

position	Left wing
number	# 14
Shot hand	Left

Career stations

2005-2008	Iserlohn Roosters
2005-2006	Territory lions Oberhausen
2008-2010	EHC Dortmund
2010-2011	Königsborner JEC
since 2011	Lippe Hockey Hamm

Matthias Potthoff (born October 26, 1987 in Schwerte ) is a German ice hockey player who has been playing for Lippe-Hockey-Hamm from the ice hockey league since the 2011/2012 season . His younger brother Philipp is an ice hockey goalkeeper .

Career

Matthias Potthoff started ice hockey around 20 km from his birthplace Schwerte in Iserlohn. Since 1993 first with the ECD Sauerland , then from 1994 with his successor club Iserlohner EC . In 1996 he moved to KJEC Unna . From the following season, the trained striker ran for EHC Dortmund. After four years in Dortmund, he changed clubs again in 2001. In the debut season with the Kölner Junghaien he played in the school league, in the next three seasons he played in the German youth league . Both in 2003 and 2004, as the fourth best scorer of the young sharks, the DNL team won the runner-up. In 2005 the team was eliminated in the play-off quarter-finals against the Eisbären Berlin .

The striker has been playing for the Iserlohn Roosters again since 2005, but was mainly used as a promotional license player in the first season for the cooperation partner of the Sauerland region, the Revierlöwen Oberhausen . In Iserlohn he also attended the Iserlohn ice hockey boarding school, where he later graduated from high school. Under the new coach Geoff Ward , Potthoff developed in 2006 in line with Martin Schymainski and Alexej Dmitriev to become a regular in the DEL. At the end of the year he was also appointed to the German U20 national team, for which he could not score at the U20 World Cup in Sweden.

The 2007/08 season was less successful for Potthoff than a year earlier. With a plus-minus value of −17, he had the team's worst value and only rarely got playing time under the new coach Rick Adduono . At the end of the season, his contract was not renewed. In July 2008, the EHC Dortmund club officially announced in a press release that Matthias Potthoff would switch to the Elchen for the 2008/2009 season. With the EHC, the German rose to the league after winning the regional league championship. His contract in Dortmund was extended for another year in May 2009. On April 25, 2013 Potthoff's move to Königsborner JEC was announced. There he stayed, however, only one game year, in which he had to accept 35 defeats with the team in 40 league games and thus formed the bottom of the table in the Oberliga West.

His previous club, the EHC, took first place in the table this season. On May 25, 2013, the 1.79 m tall winger moved within the league to Lippe-Hockey-Hamm , where he was used in all 22 preliminary round and 14 qualifying round matches of his team in the 2011/12 ice hockey league . In the final series for the qualification for the DEB-Pokal 2012/13 Potthoff and the polar bears were eliminated against his former club from Königsborn. In April 2012, Potthoff's expiring contract was extended for another year. For the 2012/13 season , the native Schwerter remained as a regular in the squad and was used again in all 36 league games of his team. While the final round was still in progress, the striker's contract, who is considered one of the top scorers in the league, was renewed for another year. In the 2013/14 season , Matthias Potthoff will continue to work as a regular.

The Potthoff family had taken on the future NHL player Sergei Samsonow , who was still playing for HK CSKA Moscow at the time, during a youth tournament in Iserlohn . After the tournament, the Russian stayed at the ECD for a good year. Today Matthias Potthoff names the Boston Bruins striker as his greatest role model.

Achievements and Awards

DNL runner-up in 2003 and 2004 with Cologne
International matches and participation in the U20 World Cup with the German national ice hockey team
Play-off quarter-finals 2008 with the Iserlohn Roosters

Career statistics

Matthias Potthoff (r.) With Nico Pyka (l.) And Collin Danielsmeier (center) at the 2007 season closing ceremony

			Regular season					Play-offs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2005/06	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL	8th	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Territory lions Oberhausen	OIL	32	6th	5	11	61	7th	1	0	1	6th
2006/07	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL	48	1	5	6th	38	-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL	55	0	4th	4th	16	7th	0	0	0	0
2008/09	EHC Dortmund	RL	21st	20th	24	44	41	22nd	21st	24	45	20th
2009/10	EHC Dortmund	OIL	40	7th	9	16	12	9	1	5	6th	4th
2010/11	Königsborner JEC	OIL	39	11	25th	36	16	8th	4th	8th	12	6th
2011/12	Lippe Hockey Hamm	OIL	36	18th	34	52	10	9	6th	9	15th	0
2012/13	Lippe Hockey Hamm	OIL	36	14th	26th	40	14th	4th	2	3	5	6th
2013/14	Lippe Hockey Hamm	OIL
DEL total			111	1	9	10	54	7th	0	0	0	0
OL total			183	56	99	155	113	37	14th	25th	39	22nd
RL total			21st	20th	24	44	41	22nd	21st	24	45	20th

International

Represented Germany at:

year	team	event	GP	G	Pts	PIM
2004	Germany	U17-WHC	5	1	1	4th
2007	Germany	U20 World Cup	6th	0	0	8th
U17 total			5	1	1	4th
Juniors overall			6th	0	0	8th

( 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 )