Niklas Treutle

Germany Niklas Treutle


Date of birth	April 29, 1991
place of birth	Nuremberg , Germany
Nickname	Turtle
size	187 cm
Weight	84 kg

position	goalkeeper
Catch hand	Left

Career stations

until 2008	Cologne EC
2008-2009	Nuremberg Ice Tigers
2009-2010	Deggendorfer SC
2010-2013	Hamburg Freezers
2013-2015	EHC Red Bull Munich
2014-2015	SC Riessersee
2015-2016	Arizona Coyotes Springfield Falcons
2016	KooKoo
2016-2017	Krefeld penguins
since 2017	Nuremberg Ice Tigers

Niklas Treutle (born April 29, 1991 in Nuremberg ) is a German ice hockey goalkeeper who has been part of the Nuremberg Ice Tigers squad since April 2017 . In the 2015/16 season he was under contract with the Arizona Coyotes in the National Hockey League and was mainly used for their farm team Springfield Falcons in the American Hockey League .

Career

Niklas Treutle began his career as an ice hockey player at the Cologne EC , for which he was active in the German junior league in the 2007/08 season . The goalkeeper then returned to his hometown, where he received a contract with the Nürnberg Ice Tigers , for which he made his DEL debut on January 23, 2009 in a 7-2 win against the Kassel Huskies . For the 2009/10 season Treutle received a license to support Deggendorfer SC in the league .

At the end of May 2010 Treutle was signed by the Hamburg Freezers, initially for two years. He also got a license to support the Eispiraten Crimmitschau . In January 2014, Treutle, who was meanwhile under contract with EHC Red Bull Munich , was given a license to support. This allowed him to replace the injured goalkeeper Bryan Hogan at SC Riessersee in the DEL2 . In the 2014/15 season, however, he established himself at the EHC and came to 30 missions there.

On July 27, 2015, he signed a contract with the Arizona Coyotes . There he was in the 2015/16 season for the time being with the Springfield Falcons farm team in the American Hockey League before he was called up to the Coyotes' NHL squad for the first time in February 2016 and made his debut in the game against the St. Louis Blues North America’s top division. He completed a total of two NHL missions for the Coyotes and 39 in the AHL for the Falcons during the season.

Treutle started the 2016/17 season at the Finnish first division club KooKoo and played four league games for the team. After his probationary period expired, his contract was not extended. At the beginning of October he switched back to the German Ice Hockey League and joined the Krefeld Penguins .

For the 2017/18 season, Treutle went back to his native Nuremberg and rejoined the Ice Tigers, for which he made his DEL debut in the 2008/09 season.

International

Treutle competed in the U20 World Junior Championship in 2011 . The goalkeeper made his debut for the German senior national team in the course of the 2016/17 season before he played his first major international tournament with the 2018 World Cup in Denmark . He was used in four of the seven games.