Philipp Gunkel

Philipp Gunkel
Date of birth	July 11, 1988
place of birth	Friedrichroda , GDR
size	186 cm
Weight	95 kg
position	striker
number	# 19
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2004-2007	ETC young pirates
2007-2010	ETC Crimmitschau
2010–2012	Hanover Indians
2012-2014	ETC Crimmitschau

Philipp Gunkel (born July 11, 1988 in Friedrichroda ) is a German ice hockey player who last played for the Eispiraten Crimmitschau in the DEL2 .

Career

Philipp Gunkel started his career at ESC Erfurt , but came to the ETC Crimmitschau early on , where he went through other youth departments and was junior runner-up in 2004 with the ETC Young Pirates and German junior runner-up in 2006. In the 2006/07 season he was used for the first time in the professional team and was able to establish himself there as a regular player. For the 2008/09 season he was also given a license from cooperation partner Kassel Huskies and was on the DEL team three times.

Before the 2010/11 season , Gunkel moved to league rivals Hannover Indians . After two years in the capital of Lower Saxony, he returned to the Eispiraten Crimmitschau at the beginning of the 2012/13 season , where he initially received a trial contract until the end of November. This was extended to the end of the season due to the good performance.

Career statistics

				Whole season
season	team	league		GP	G	A.	Pts	PIM
2004/05	ETC young pirates	Junior BL		30th	12	15th	27	20th
2005/06	ETC Crimmitschau	OIL		2	0	0	0	0
2005/06	ETC young pirates	Junior BL		19th	13	9	22nd	18th
2006/07	ETC Crimmitschau	2nd BL		25th	2	1	3	4th
2006/07	ETC young pirates	Junior BL		17th	8th	20th	28	32
2007/08	Ice pirates Crimmitschau	2nd BL		52	0	0	0	12
2008/09	Ice pirates Crimmitschau	2nd BL		41	4th	7th	11	42
2008/09	Kassel Huskies	DEL		3	0	0	0	2
2009/10	Ice pirates Crimmitschau	2nd BL		55	16	10	26th	46
2010/11	Hanover Indians	2nd BL

( 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 )

successes

• German junior runner-up 2003/04
• German junior runner-up 2005/06

Web links

• Philipp Gunkel at hockeydb.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ esgb.de: [1] striker Philipp Gunkel reinforced Crimmitschauer Eispiraten squad called away on January 15, 2013