Maximilian Gläßl

Germany Maximilian Gläßl


Date of birth	March 13, 1997
place of birth	Marktredwitz , Germany
size	188 cm
Weight	89 kg

position	defender
number	# 54
Shot hand	Left

Career stations

to 2012	EV Regensburg
2012-2013	Espoo Blues
2013-2014	HIFK Helsinki
2014-2015	EC Red Bull Salzburg
2015-2016	Moncton Wildcats Baie-Comeau Drakkar
2016-2018	Löwen Frankfurt
since 2018	Straubing Tigers

Maximilian Gläßl (born March 13, 1997 in Marktredwitz ) is a German ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Straubing Tigers of the German Ice Hockey League since August 2016 .

Career

society

Maximilian Gläßl comes from the municipality of Waldershof in the Upper Palatinate . He learned to play ice hockey at EHC Stiftland Mitterteich . After stints at VER Selb and EV Regensburg , the teenager took a rather unusual path for young German players and moved to Finland. In the local junior leagues, the defender ran for Espoo Blues and HIFK Helsinki . During this time Gläßl lived with the family of the former Finnish national player and DEL player Niklas Hede . Sven Gerike , the then junior trainer in Regensburg, made the contact . Then scouts placed him on the junior team from EC Red Bull Salzburg , where he was on the ice in the multinational junior league MHL .

In the CHL Import Draft on June 30, 2015, the Moncton Wildcats selected the striker in 109th position in the second round. He left Austria and played for the Wildcats in the QMJHL at the beginning of the 2015/16 season . There he occupied one of the two permissible foreigner positions alongside Manuel Wiederer . However, Gläßl was transferred to the Baie-Comeau Drakkar for the Czech Václav Karabáček in the same year . For the following season, the Straubing Tigers signed him from the DEL and loaned him to the Löwen Frankfurt from the DEL2 with a support license . In his first season Gläßl won the second division championship with the lions. After another year in Frankfurt, he moved permanently to Straubing and is now in the squad for the 2018/19 season.

National team

Gläßl led the German U17 national team onto the ice as assistant captain at the World U17 Challenge in January 2014 . He then played with the German U18 team at the 2015 World Cup in the top division. In 2016 and 2017 , the defender for the German U20 national team in Division I was on the ice.

Style of play

Maximilian Gläßl is described as a two-way defensman who ensures order in front of his own goal, is able to play a good build-up pass and also set offensive accents. He is also considered a physically strong player and very ambitious.

Achievements and Awards

2012 youth Bundesliga champion with EV Regensburg
2015 Austrian U18 champion with the EC Red Bull Salzburg
2017 Winning the DEL2 with the Löwen Frankfurt

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2016/17 season

			Regular season					Play-offs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2015/16	Moncton Wildcats	LHJMQ	29	2	4th	6th	14th	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Baie-Comeau Drakkar	LHJMQ	31	1	5	6th	12	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Löwen Frankfurt	DEL2	46	4th	4th	8th	14th	14th	2	0	2	2
2017/18	Löwen Frankfurt	DEL2	52	4th	6th	10	22nd	10	0	1	1	2
2018/19	Straubing Tigers	DEL
LHJMQ total			60	3	9	12	26th	-	-	-	-	-
DEL2 total			98	8th	10	18th	36	24	2	1	3	4th

International

Represented Germany at:

year	team	event	result	Sp	V	Pt	SM
2015	Germany	U18 World Cup	10th place	6th	1	1	2
2016	Germany	U20 World Cup Div. IA	5th place	5	0	0	4th
2017	Germany	U20 World Cup Div. IA	2nd place	5	1	1	4th
Juniors overall				16	2	2	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 )