Nico Pyka

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GermanyGermany  Nico Pyka Ice hockey player
Date of birth July 22, 1977
place of birth Berlin , GDR
size 188 cm
Weight 88 kg
position defender
number # 4
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1994-1997 Polar bears Berlin
1998-1999 Memphis Riverkings
1999-2003 Polar bears Berlin
2003-2006 Adler Mannheim
2006-2008 Iserlohn Roosters
2008-2009 Heilbronn falcon
2009-2010 Dresden Ice Lions

Nico Pyka (born July 22, 1977 in Berlin , GDR ) is a former German ice hockey player .

Career

In 1994 Nico Pyka made his debut in the DEL team of his home club, the Eisbären Berlin . However, his working hours with the Hohenschönhausen team became shorter and shorter in the following three years, so that in 1997 he decided to move to North America and sign a sponsorship agreement with the polar bears.

In the first season he played in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League for the Winkler Flyers . In 1998 he tried to get a contract with the Dayton Bombers from the East Coast Hockey League , but failed. Finally he decided to get involved with the Mobile Mysticks , which he left after only one game. Then the Memphis Riverkings took him from the lower class Central Hockey League under contract. In 1999 he returned to Germany to join the polar bears.

In the following four seasons he ran for the polar bears. In the DEL he was on the ice 215 times in the DEL, for two games he was sent to the Eisbären Juniors Berlin in the major league in the 2000/01 season . In 2003 Adler Mannheim gave him a two-year contract.

His first year in Mannheim went well, he scored two goals and scored a total of eight points. In addition, he regularly received Ice Age again. In the 2004/05 season he reached the final of the DEL play-offs with the Adler, of all things against his home club Berlin. During the season, he struggled with a cheekbone , a broken jaw and four destroyed teeth when he was hit in the face by a puck while training.

Nico Pyka in the jersey of the Dresden Ice Lions

He missed the 2005/06 season almost completely due to two serious injuries. In the following season he did not find his way back to the Mannheim team and was often banished to the stands by coach Greg Poss . On December 12, 2006, he therefore asked the Adlers to terminate his contract and moved to league competitor Iserlohn Roosters , for whom he scored the first goal in the first game.

The defender signed a contract with the Sauerland until the end of the 2007/08 season to strengthen the stability of the defense and then moved to the Heilbronner Falken in the 2nd Bundesliga . In April 2009 he was signed by the Dresden Ice Lions and met his brother Daniel there . At the end of December of the same year, Pyka suffered a rubble fracture above his right ring finger, so that he missed the second half of the 2009/10 season.

In September 2010 he ended his active career due to the injuries suffered in the previous year and was subsequently employed as a team supervisor in Dresden. From May 2011 he was supposed to work as assistant trainer for the Dresdner Eislöwen, but decided in June to go back to Berlin and start an apprenticeship.

Nico Pyka is married and has a daughter (* February 2005).

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1994/95 Polar bears Berlin DEL 13 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1995/96 Polar bears Berlin DEL 34 0 0 0 26th - - - - -
1996/97 Polar bears Berlin DEL 8th 0 0 0 0
1997/98 Winkler Flyers MJHL 88 22nd 34 56 89
1998/99 Mobile mysticks ECHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1998/99 Memphis Riverkings CHL 66 9 35 44 149 4th 1 0 1 16
1999/00 Polar bears Berlin DEL 54 1 5 6th 148 - - - - -
2000/01 Polar bears Berlin DEL 51 0 5 5 142 - - - - -
2000/01 Eisbären Juniors Berlin OIL 2 0 0 0 6th - - - - -
2001/02 Polar bears Berlin DEL 58 3 7th 10 76 4th 0 0 0 2
2002/03 Polar bears Berlin DEL 52 1 7th 8th 66 9 0 0 0 10
2003/04 Adler Mannheim DEL 49 2 6th 8th 78 6th 0 2 2 2
2004/05 Adler Mannheim DEL 51 0 9 9 109 14th 0 3 3 22nd
2005/06 Adler Mannheim DEL 1 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
2006/07 Adler Mannheim DEL 26th 0 2 2 42 - - - - -
2006/07 Iserlohn Roosters DEL 11 1 0 1 14th - - - - -
2007/08 Iserlohn Roosters DEL 47 1 9 10 93 5 0 0 0 2
2008/09 Heilbronn falcon 2nd BL 22nd 2 4th 6th 51 6th 1 1 2 16
2009/10 Dresden Ice Lions 2nd BL 28 1 8th 9 65 - - - - -
DEL total 455 9 52 61 796 38 0 5 5 38

( 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Pyka, Nico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , German Democratic Republic