Peter Scharf (ice hockey player)

Peter Scharf
Date of birth	July 15, 1953
place of birth	Bad Toelz , Germany
size	178 cm
position	defender
Career stations
until 1976	EC Bad Toelz
1976-1988	Berliner SC
1978-1987	DJK SB Rosenheim
1987-1989	EC Bad Toelz
1990-1991	EHC Straubing

Peter Scharf (born July 15, 1953 in Bad Tölz ) is a former German ice hockey player and coach who played in the Bundesliga from 1972 to 1991 for EC Bad Tölz , Berliner SC and DJK SB Rosenheim .

Career

Coming from the offspring of SC Reichersbeuern , he moved to EC Bad Tölz as a youngster and played there for four years in the Bundesliga for his team from the 1972/73 season . When the Tölzer began their way into the second division, he moved to the 1976/77 season for Berliner SC . There he made the leap into the German national ice hockey team and played his first international tournament in 1977 and was henceforth an integral part of the German selection. After two seasons in Berlin, he went back to Bavaria - the SB DJK Rosenheim signed him and Peter Scharf won the German championship title with the Sportbund twice in the following nine seasons (1982 and 1985). During this time he took part in the Olympic Games in Lake Placid in 1980 and in Sarajevo in 1984 .

At the age of 35, Scharf took a little sportier step and switched back to EC Bad Tölz, where he spent two years in the second division team. In the 1990/91 season he played for EHC Straubing in the Regionalliga before ending his career.

After retiring, he ran a kiosk in Bad Tölz. At EC Bad Tölz he coached the youth teams and the 1b team.

The 138-time national player is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame Germany .

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
1st National League	15th	595	91	116	207	732
2nd Bundesliga	2	54	14th	19th	33	62
National team	9	138	5

Web links

• Peter Scharf at hockeydb.com (English)
• Peter Scharf in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Chronicle of the SC Reichersbeuern