Miha Verlič

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Miha Verlič
Date of birth August 21, 1991
place of birth Maribor , Slovenia
Nickname Verla
size 194 cm
Weight 82 kg
position center
number # 91
Shot hand Left
Career stations
until 2009 HDK Maribor
2009-2011 HC Slezan Opava
2011-2014 HDD Olimpija Ljubljana
2014-2015 EC Graz 99ers
2015-2018 Villacher SV
2018 JYP Jyväskylä
since 2018 Fish town penguins

Miha Verlič (born August 21, 1991 in Maribor ) is a Slovenian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Fischtown Pinguins in the German Ice Hockey League since 2018 . His father Andrej is an official in ice hockey, his brother Jure is an ice hockey goalkeeper .

Career

Miha Verlič learned to play ice hockey in his hometown of Maribor. There he passed through the youth department of the HDK Maribor and was in action for its U20 team from 2005.

After playing increasingly in the club's (semi) professional team from 2007 onwards, he decided to move to the Czech Republic in 2009 . There he was active for HC Slezan Opava , both in the U20 extra league and in the third-class 2nd division .

As a professional player

In 2011 Verlič returned to Slovenia with a trial contract with HDD Olimpija Ljubljana , which was initially extended to the end of the season in September 2011. In order to gain first match practice, he was then loaned for a few games to his home club, which was participating in the Slohokej League at that time .

In the course of the 2011/12 season he earned a regular place at HDD Olimpija and won the Slovenian championship with it in 2012 , after the club had participated in the regular season in the Austrian ice hockey league . Verlič also mastered the leap into this professional league with success - while there were still 6 scorer points in the 2011/12 season, he scored 16 points in the following season. After the main round of the 2013/14 season he was one of the most successful players in the capital city club with 37 scorer points.

In the summer of 2014 he moved within the ÖEHL to the EC Graz 99ers , a year later - together with Matt Kelly - to Villacher SV .

In March 2018, Verlič left the Carinthians and moved to JYP Jyväskylä in the Finnish Liiga , where he ended the season. For the following season he joined the Fischtown Pinguins from the German Ice Hockey League .

International

Miha Verlič was a member of the Slovenian junior national team from the mid-2000s. In 2008 he took part in the U18 World Junior Championship of Division I with the country's U18 selection , with his team being relegated to Division II as last-placed. A year later, in the U18 tournament of Division II , which was held in Verlič's hometown Maribor, he finished second with the U18 selection of his home country and thus missed the direct promotion.

He had other assignments in the youth field at the U20 World Championships in Division I in 2010 and 2011 .

Due to his achievements in the Austrian ice hockey league, he was nominated for the Olympic squad of the Slovenian men's national team for the Olympic Winter Games , although he had not previously played a major tournament for the men's team. After taking a surprising seventh place with the Slovenians at the Winter Games in Sochi , he was also nominated for the 2014 World Cup , in which he and his team were promoted from Division I to the top division, in which he won the 2015 World Cup played. After the direct relegation, he played again in Division I in 2016. At the 2017 World Cup , he again failed to stay in the top division with the Slovenes. That is why he played at the 2018 World Cup , when he achieved the best plus / minus balance and, after Kazakhs Roman Startschenko, the second highest scorer points of the tournament, again in Division I.

In addition, he qualified in the Olympic qualification for the 2018 Games for the Olympic tournament in Pyeongchang , in which he also took part.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Club competitions

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2005/06 HDK Maribor U20 Slovenia
2006/07 HDK Maribor U20 Slovenia 16 4th 2 6th 8th 1 0 0 0 0
2006/07 HDK Maribor Slovenia 4th 0 0 0 0
2007/08 HDK Maribor U20 Slovenia 22nd 7th 9 16 39 5 4th 2 6th 6th
2007/08 HDK Maribor Slovenia 26th 3 8th 11 6th 5 0 0 0 0
2008/09 HDK Maribor U20 Slovenia 20th 13 20th 33 22nd 5 2 3 5 2
2008/09 HDK Maribor Slovenia 31 7th 13 20th 10 7th 0 0 0 2
2009/10 HC Slezan Opava U20 extra league 29 7th 13 20th 14th
2009/10 HC Slezan Opava 2nd league 8th 0 0 0 0
2010/11 HC Slezan Opava U20 extra league 50 15th 8th 23 26th
2011/12 HDK Maribor Slohokej League 3 3 2 5 0
2011/12 Olimpija Ljubljana ÖEHL 35 3 3 6th 39 11 0 0 0 5
2011/12 Olimpija Ljubljana Slovenia 5 1 3 4th 2
2012/13 Olimpija Ljubljana ÖEHL 54 7th 9 16 12
2013/14 Olimpija Ljubljana Slovenia 4th 1 1 2 2
2013/14 Olimpija Ljubljana ÖEHL 50 20th 20th 40 16
2014/15 EC Graz 99ers ÖEHL 28 6th 5 11 31
2015/16 Villacher SV ÖEHL 52 12 15th 27 15th 11 0 3 3 2
2016/17 Villacher SV ÖEHL 53 21st 11 32 9
2017/18 Villacher SV ÖEHL 48 15th 18th 33 16
2017/18 JYP Jyväskylä Liiga 3 1 1 2 2 6th 0 2 2 2
2018/19 Fish town penguins DEL 52 14th 15th 29 36 3 0 1 1 0

International

year team event Sp T V Pt +/- SM result
2008 Slovenia U18 World Championship Div. I. 5 0 1 1 −3 0 6th place, relegation
2009 Slovenia U18 World Championship Div. II 5 3 3 6th +4 0 2nd place
2010 Slovenia U20 World Cup Div. I. 5 1 1 2 −1 2 3rd place
2011 Slovenia U20 World Cup Div. I. 5 3 2 5 +5 2 2nd place
2014 Slovenia Olympia 1 0 0 0 ± 0 0 7th place
2014 Slovenia WM Div. I. 5 1 0 1 +1 0 1st place, promotion
2015 Slovenia WM 5 0 0 0 -2 0 16th place, relegation
2016 Slovenia WM Div. I. 5 2 2 4th +3 6th 1st place, promotion
2016 Slovenia Olympic qualification 3 0 1 1 +2 2 1st place, qualification
2017 Slovenia WM 7th 1 1 2 –6 0 15th place, relegation
2018 Slovenia Olympia 4th 0 2 2 -2 0 9th place
2018 Slovenia WM Div. I. 5 3 4th 7th +4 2 5th place, relegation

( 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 )

Web links

Commons : Miha Verlič  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sportreport.biz, Miha Verlic changes from Graz 99ers to VSV , April 27, 2015, accessed on June 15, 2015
Squad of the Fischtown Pinguins Bremerhaven in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME Verlič, Miha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Verlic, Miha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Maribor