Mike Pellegrims

Mike Pellegrims


Date of birth	April 1, 1968
place of birth	Antwerp , Belgium
size	178 cm
Weight	82 kg

position	defender
Shot hand	Left

Career stations

1985-1987	Olympia Heist op den Berg
1987-1990	Eaters Geleen
1990-1991	IJshockey Club Utrecht
1991-1994	Eaters Geleen
1994-1996	Brest Albatross Hockey
1996-1999	Adler Mannheim
1999-2001	Berlin Capitals
2001-2006	DEG Metro Stars
2006-2009	Kassel Huskies
2009	EC KAC

Mike Pellegrims (born April 1, 1968 in Antwerp ) is a former Belgian ice hockey player with German nationality . Since the 2018/19 season he has been assistant trainer for the Adler Mannheim in the German Ice Hockey League (DEL). Before that, he worked as a trainer at Düsseldorfer EG and Klagenfurt AC and between 2010 and 2016 was under contract as assistant trainer for Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg in the DEL.

His nephew Maxime is also a Belgian international.

Career

Mike Pellegrims began his career as an ice hockey player in his Belgian homeland at Olympia Heist op den Berg , for which he was active in the Belgian Eredivisie from 1985 to 1987 and with whom he won the national championship title in his first two seasons . The defender then played for Eaters Geleen in the Dutch Eredivisie for three years . There, too, he was able to convince directly, so that he was signed for the 1990/91 season by the top team IJshockey Club Utrecht , with whom he won the Dutch championship title in his first season . Following this success he returned to Geleen and won the Dutch Cup for the first time with his team in 1993. From 1994 to 1996 he was under contract with Brest Albatros Hockey in the French Ligue Magnus and was one of the top scorers of his team in both seasons. In the 1995/96 season he became French champions with the Albatros .

After his successes in lower class European leagues, Pellegrims was signed in 1996 by Adler Mannheim from the German Ice Hockey League . With these he immediately won the German championship title three times in a row and as a regular player he was able to prove with the Adler that he could also keep up in top European ice hockey. From 1999 to 2001 he played for Mannheim's league rivals Berlin Capitals . He then moved within the DEL to the DEG Metro Stars , for whom he was on the ice for a total of five years. During this period he took part in the DEL All-Star Game three times (2002, 2004 and 2005). For the 2006/07 season , the Belgian with German nationality joined the Kassel Huskies from the 2nd Bundesliga ice hockey . With the North Hesse he succeeded in the second attempt in the 2007/08 season as a second division champion in the German ice hockey league. There he started the following season, but ended the 2008/09 season at EC KAC in the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga . In these he was a regular player in the playoffs and contributed to winning the Austrian championship with one goal and one assist in twelve playoff games . He then ended his active career.

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Belgian ice hockey, he was named a member of the Belgian team of the century together with Björn Steijlen , Jef Lekens , Willy Kreitz , Bob Moris senior and Bob Moris junior in November 2008 .

For the 2009/10 season Pellegrims took over a position as head coach for the first time and led his former Dutch club Eaters Geleen in his first season behind the gang to win the national cup competition. He was then assistant coach of the Serbian national ice hockey team at the World Cup of Division I under Canadian Mark Pederson in 2010 , he was assistant coach in 2014/15 and national coach of the Dutch national ice hockey team in the 2015/16 season .

Between 2010 and 2016 Pellegrims was under contract with the Grizzlys Wolfsburg in the DEL as an assistant trainer under the German-Czech Pavel Gross .

From April 2016 to April 2017 Pellegrim was the head coach of the EC KAC , with which he was runner-up.

In April 2017, the Düsseldorfer EG announced the engagement of Pellegrims as the new head coach. At the end of January 2018, he was dismissed in Düsseldorf in a series with seven defeats from nine games. From the beginning of the 2018/19 game year, he worked as an assistant trainer at the Adler Mannheim and worked there, as in Wolfsburg, under Pavel Gross.

International

With the Belgian national team Pellegrims took part in the D World Championship in 1989 and the C World Championship in 1990 , 1992 , 1993 , 2002 and 2003 and the B World Championship in 2004 . In a total of 35 World Cup games, he scored 14 goals and provided 33 templates. At the World Championships in 1989, 1990, 1992 and 2002, he was voted the best defender in the Belgian World Cup group. At the World Cup of Division II in 2003, he was both top scorer and best assists in group B.

Achievements and Awards

1986 Belgian champion with Olympia Heist op den Berg
1987 Belgian champion with Olympia Heist op den Berg
1991 Dutch champion with the IJshockey Club Utrecht
1993 Dutch cup winner with the Eaters Geleen
1996 French champion with the Brest Albatros Hockey
1997 German champion with the Adler Mannheim
1998 German champion with the Adler Mannheim
1999 German champion with the Adler Mannheim
2002 DEL All-Star Game

2004 DEL All-Star Game
2005 DEL All-Star Game
2006 German cup winner with the DEG Metro Stars
2008 Champion of the 2nd Bundesliga and promotion to the DEL with the Kassel Huskies
2008 member of the Belgian team of the century
2009 DEL All-Star Game
2009 Austrian champion with the EC KAC
2010 Dutch cup winner with the Eaters Geleen (as head coach)

International

1989 best defender of the D World Championship
1990 Best Defender of the C World Championship
1992 Best Defender of the C World Championship
2002 Best Defender of the World Championship Division II, Group A.

2003 Promotion to Division I at the World Championship Division II, Group B
2003 Topscorer of the World Championship Division II, Group B
2003 Best assists in the World Championship of Division II, Group B

Career statistics

			Regular season					Play-offs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1985/86	Olympia Heist op den Berg	BEL	17th	9	24	33	34
1986/87	Olympia Heist op den Berg	BEL	23	11	26th	37	52	12	8th	3	11	4th
1987/88	Smoke Eaters Geleen	NED	28	8th	19th	27	30th	14th	3	12	15th	20th
1988/89	Smoke Eaters Geleen	NED	26th	10	17th	27	54	17th	5	12	17th	28
1989/90	Smoke Eaters Geleen	NED	28	11	14th	25th	26th	12	5	6th	11	14th
1990/91	IJshockey Club Utrecht	NED	24	6th	29	35	64	10	2	6th	8th	12
1991/92	Smoke Eaters Geleen	NED	30th	15th	22nd	37	68	8th	2	6th	8th	12
1992/93	Smoke Eaters Geleen	NED	24	12	26th	38	46	16	7th	9	16	18th
1993/94	Smoke Eaters Geleen	NED	17th	15th	33	48	24	22nd	14th	25th	39	68
1994/95	HC Brest	FRA	28	3	14th	17th	28	9	4th	4th	8th	33
1995/96	HC Brest	FRA	23	11	14th	25th	17th	12	3	8th	11	24
1996/97	Adler Mannheim	DEL	50	9	19th	28	42	9	1	5	6th	14th
1997/98	Adler Mannheim	DEL	45	12	14th	26th	52	10	4th	3	7th	6th
1998/99	Adler Mannheim	DEL	51	8th	23	31	85	11	0	9	9	0
1999/00	Berlin Capitals	DEL	56	11	25th	36	111	6th	2	0	2	57
2000/01	Berlin Capitals	DEL	37	7th	12	19th	34	5	0	1	1	8th
2001/02	DEG Metro Stars	DEL	59	5	32	37	68	-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	DEG Metro Stars	DEL	48	7th	15th	22nd	69	5	0	1	1	16
2003/04	DEG Metro Stars	DEL	52	8th	31	39	82	4th	0	1	1	6th
2004/05	DEG Metro Stars	DEL	52	5	12	17th	48	-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	DEG Metro Stars	DEL	52	3	16	19th	68	13	0	1	1	35
2006/07	Kassel Huskies	2nd BL	49	8th	42	50	84	10	3	2	5	6th
2007/08	Kassel Huskies	2nd BL	46	6th	24	30th	74	15th	3	9	12	16
2008/09	Kassel Huskies	DEL	36	1	12	13	26th	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	EC Klagenfurt AC	EBEL	2	0	0	0	0	12	1	1	2	14th
Eredivisie (BEL) total			40	20th	50	70	86	12	8th	3	11	4th
Eredivisie (NED) total			177	77	160	237	312	99	38	76	114	172
Elite Ligue (FRA) overall			51	14th	28	42	45	21st	7th	12	19th	57
2. Bundesliga overall			95	14th	66	80	158	25th	6th	11	17th	22nd
DEL total			538	76	212	288	675	63	7th	21st	28	142

( 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 )