Melvin Nyffeler

Melvin Nyffeler
Date of birth	December 16, 1994
place of birth	Volketswil , Switzerland
Size	178 cm
Weight	85 kg
position	goalkeeper
Catch hand	Left
Career stations
2007-2008	Urdorf
2007-2011	ZSC Lions
2010-2014	GCK Lions
2013-2014	ZSC Lions
2014-2015	HC Friborg-Gottéron
2015-2016	SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers
2016-2017	EHC Kloten
since 2017	SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers

Melvin Nyffeler (born December 16, 1994 in Volketswil ) is a Swiss ice hockey goalkeeper who has been under contract with the SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers in the National League again since January 2017 .

Career

Melvin Nyffeler began his career in the junior division of EHC Illnau-Effretikon and moved to Urdorf in 2007. He then played in the junior division for both the ZSC Lions and the GCK Lions , with whom he became Swiss A junior champion in 2010, 2012, when he scored the lowest goals against the Elite Jr. A, and in 2013. In the 2012/13 season he made his debut for the GCK Lions in the National League B . A season later he made his debut for the ZSC Lions in the National League A , but continued to play for the GCK Lions in the NLB. In 2014 he moved to HC Friborg-Gottéron in the NLA. After he was unable to assert himself there as a regular goalkeeper, he returned to the NLB in 2015, where he was now in goal for SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers . There he advanced to a pillar of the team from the canton of St. Gallen with the lowest number of goals conceded in the league . Then he started another attempt in the NLA at EHC Kloten . There he did not get beyond the role of substitute goalkeeper - as with the Zürcher Löwen - and so he returned to Rapperswil in January 2017 and was promoted to the National League with the Lakers at the end of the 2017/18 season.

International

Nyffeler represented his home country in the junior division at the U18 World Cup in 2012 and the U20 World Cup in 2013 and 2014 .

Achievements and Awards

• 2010 Swiss A-Junior Champion with the GCK Lions
• 2012 Swiss A-Junior Champion with the GCK Lions
• 2012 Lowest conceded goals against the Elite Jr.A
• 2013 Swiss A-Junior Champion with the GCK Lions
• 2014 Lowest conceded goals in the National League B
• 2018 Swiss Cup winner with the SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers
• 2018 Swiss League champions with the SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers
• 2018 promotion to the National League with the SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers

Web links

• Melvin Nyffeler at eliteprospects.com (English)