Pavel Gross

Pavel Gross
Date of birth	May 11, 1968
place of birth	Ústí nad Labem , Czechoslovakia
size	186 cm
Weight	87 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1988 , 6th round, 111th position New York Islanders
Career stations
1987-1990	HC Sparta Prague
1990-1993	EHC Freiburg
1993-1999	Adler Mannheim
1999-2004	Berlin Capitals

Pavel Gross (born May 11, 1968 in Ústí nad Labem , Czechoslovakia ) is a former German - Czech ice hockey player and today's coach. Since the 2018/19 season he has been under contract as head coach with the Adler Mannheim in the DEL , for which he was already active as a player and was German champion three times in a row . Before that, he worked for the Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg for ten years , including the last eight as head coach. As head coach, Gross has a win rate of 56.2 percent in the DEL and has won 326 of his 580 games so far (as of August 2019). After the Swede Niklas Sundblad, Gross is the second person in DEL history to become German champions both as a player (1997–1999) and as a coach (2019).

Career

As a player

From the 1987/88 season he played at Sparta Prague . In the 1988 NHL Entry Draft , the National Hockey League also had its eye on Gross. The New York Islanders secured the rights to him in the sixth round at position 111. However, there was never a move overseas.

In the summer of 1990 he moved to Germany for EHC Freiburg in the Bundesliga . After relegation from Freiburg to the season 1992/93 he joined the Mannheimer ERC of the season 1993/94 and remained there even in the Adler Mannheim to DEL - 1998-99 season and was in time for three consecutive times champion. He then moved to Berlin for the Berlin Capitals , where he played until the 2001/02 season. After the expulsion of the Capitals from the DEL after the 2001/02 season, he played for the Berlin Capitals club in the Regionalliga Nord-Ost 2002/03 and rose with him to the top division . In the 2003/04 season he had a contract, but no longer played a game.

As a trainer

Pavel Gross
Coaching stations
2001	Berlin Capitals
2004-2005	Wolves Freiburg
2005-2008	Frankfurt Lions ( Co-Trainer )
2008-2010	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg (Assistant Trainer)
2010-2018	Grizzlies Wolfsburg
since 2018	Adler Mannheim

Gross worked for the first time as a coach in the 2000/01 season at Berlin Capitals during an injury break before he worked as head coach at EHC Freiburg in the 2004/05 season . He then worked as an assistant coach with the Frankfurt Lions between 2005 and 2008 .

From the 2008/09 season on, Pavel Gross was assistant coach at the Grizzlys Wolfsburg . After Toni Krinner left for league competitor Hannover Scorpions , he was head coach from the 2010/11 season . He led Lower Saxony into the DEL final series in 2011 , 2016 and 2017 , but the title was missed in each case and Gross only won one of his twelve finals. In January 2018 it was announced that Gross would switch to the Adlers Mannheim for the 2018/2019 season. He finished the preliminary round 2018/19 with his Mannheim team with 116 points as first in the table; the point average of 2.23 was the highest since the introduction of the three-point rule in the 1998/99 season . In the subsequent playoffs, he won his first German championship as head coach when his team defeated EHC Red Bull Munich in five games of the best-of-seven series. He won the final series against the team of DEL record coach Don Jackson after his team had to admit defeat Jackson's team in 2011, 2016 and 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ice Hockey News special edition 2019/20, page 42
2. ↑ ehc-wolfsburg.de: Trainer of the EHC Wolfsburg , accessed on September 3, 2010
3. ↑ Christian Otto: The eagle's lure. In: FAZ.net . January 9, 2018, accessed May 16, 2018 . 
4. ↑ After the DEL season: Wolfsburg's successful coach Pavel Gross takes over Adler Mannheim. In: kicker.de . January 9, 2018, accessed May 16, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Ice Hockey News from March 5, 2019, page 9
6. ^ WORLD: Ice hockey: Adler Mannheim end Munich's championship series . April 26, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed April 26, 2019]).

Web links

• Pavel Gross at eurohockey.com
• Pavel Gross at eliteprospects.com (English)