Ralph Krueger

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SwitzerlandSwitzerland  Ralph Krueger Ice hockey player
Date of birth August 31, 1959
place of birth Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada
position Right wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1978 New Westminster Bruins
1978-1979 Calgary Wranglers
1979-1982 Düsseldorfer EG
1982-1984 Schwenninger ERC
1984-1985 SC Riessersee
1985-1986 ECD Iserlohn
1986-1988 Düsseldorfer EG
1988-1989 Krefelder EV
1989-1990 Duisburg SV

Ralph Krueger (born August 31, 1959 in Winnipeg , Manitoba ) is a former German-Canadian ice hockey player and current coach with Swiss nationality. From the 1997/98 season to the 2010 Winter Olympics , he coached the Swiss national ice hockey team . He then moved to North America, where he initially worked as an assistant coach, before taking on the post of head coach at Edmonton Oilers from June 2012 , which he held until June 2013. He has been with the Buffalo Sabers since May 2019 in the same position .

From spring 2014 to the end of the 2018/19 season, Krueger was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the football club FC Southampton in the Premier League .

Career

As a player

Krueger learned to play ice hockey in his Canadian homeland before moving to the German second division Duisburger SC for the 1977/78 season. After spending the 78/79 season in Canada again, he moved back to Germany in 1980.

Ralph Krueger played 350 games as a striker in the German ice hockey Bundesliga . He scored 187 goals and posted 186 assists. In the 1980/81 season he was in the jersey of the Düsseldorfer EG with 22 points top scorer of the finals. In the 1985/86 season he reached the play-off semifinals with the ECD Iserlohn and thus the best result that an ice hockey club from the Sauerland has achieved. Krueger completed 45 games for the German national team in his career .

As a trainer

SwitzerlandSwitzerland  Ralph Krueger
Ralph Krueger
Coaching stations
1991-1998 VEU Feldkirch
1998-2010 Switzerland
2010–2012 Edmonton Oilers ( Assistant Trainer )
2012-2013 Edmonton Oilers
since 2019 Buffalo Sabers

Krueger began his coaching career as a player-coach for the German second division Duisburger SV in 1989; since he still lacked the necessary license at that time, the coaching position was "officially" held by Jiří Hanzl . Krueger left Duisburg the following year, having previously led the team into the promotion round to the Bundesliga, due to differences of opinion with the club management. Between 1994 and 1998 he won the Austrian championship five times in a row with the Austrian team VEU Feldkirch . He also won the Alpine League three times with the same team . To top it off, he won the European Hockey League in 1998 , where all the European champions of the best leagues took part. After these successes, he took over the post as national coach of the Swiss senior national team and retired as a club coach (the year before he successfully coached Switzerland as well as Feldkirch). He celebrated considerable success with this team.

In October 2009 it was announced that he will be replaced as national coach for the 2010/11 season by Sean Simpson . In the end, he handed over the office after 13 years of activity after the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in February 2010. In July 2010, Krueger was hired as Associate Coach by the Edmonton Oilers . On June 27, 2012, he was named head coach of the Oilers. After only one season, however, Krueger was dismissed from his post in June 2013.

In June 2013, Hockey Canada hired Krueger as a special advisor to prepare the Canadian men's national team for the 2014 Winter Olympics in the best possible way .

From January 2014, Krueger acted as an advisor to Southampton FC from the English Premier League before he was appointed chairman of the club at a general meeting on March 12, 2014.

In September 2016, Krueger acted as head coach of Team Europe at the World Cup of Hockey 2016 and achieved second place with the team. At the end of the 2018/19 season, he resigned as Chairman of the Board of Southampton FC.

The Buffalo Sabers then introduced him as their new head coach in May 2019, so that he returned to the NHL. There he succeeded Phil Housley .

Personal

Krueger's parents emigrated from Germany to Canada. Her son Ralph was born in the new home and grew up there.

His son Justin Krueger is a professional ice hockey player and German national player. In April 2019, Ralph Krueger and his wife and daughter took on Swiss citizenship.

Career statistics

Statistics as a player

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1978/79 New Westminster Bruins WHL 3 2 0 2 10 - - - - -
1978/79 Calgary Wranglers WHL 62 28 55 83 79 14th 7th 5 12 4th
1979/80 Düsseldorfer EG 1st BL 42 17th 16 33 34 - - - - -
1980/81 Düsseldorfer EG 1st BL 36 42 39 81 35 11 10 12 22nd 6th
1981/82 Düsseldorfer EG 1st BL 38 26th 40 66 57 2 1 1 2 0
1982/83 Schwenninger ERC 1st BL 36 20th 20th 40 50 - - - - -
1983/84 Schwenninger ERC 1st BL 36 18th 19th 37 18th - - - - -
1984/85 SC Riessersee 1st BL 35 16 13 29 28 18 1 25th 14th 39 24
1985/86 ECD Iserlohn 1st BL 45 36 29 65 44 - - - - -
1986/87 Düsseldorfer EG 1st BL 44 26th 24 50 40 - - - - -
1987/88 Düsseldorfer EG 1st BL 43 14th 22nd 36 32 - - - - -
1988/89 Krefelder EV 2nd BL 33 30th 30th 60 54 - - - - -
1989/90 Duisburg SV 2nd BL 35 41 36 77 20th - - - - -
WHL overall 65 30th 55 85 89 14th 7th 5 12 4th
1st Bundesliga overall 355 215 222 437 338 13 11 13 24 6th
2. Bundesliga overall 68 71 66 137 74 - - - - -

( 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 )

Coach statistics

Ralph Krueger achieved the following places with the Swiss national team at the respective tournaments:

year competition place rank
1998 WM Basel & Zurich , Switzerland 4th
1999 WM Lillehammer & Oslo , Norway 8th.
2000 WM Saint Petersburg & Moscow , Russia 5.
2001 WM Nuremberg & Cologne & Hanover , Germany 9.
2002 Olympia Salt Lake City , USA 11.
2002 WM Göteborg & Karlstad & Jönköping , Sweden 10.
2003 WM Helsinki & Tampere & Turku , Finland 8th.
2004 WM Prague , Czech Republic 8th.
2005 WM Vienna & Innsbruck , Austria 8th.
2006 Olympia Turin , Italy 6th
2006 WM Riga , Latvia 9.
2007 WM Moscow & Mytishchi , Russia 8th.
2008 WM Halifax & Quebec , Canada 7th
2009 WM Bern & Kloten , Switzerland 9.
2010 Olympia Vancouver , Canada 8th.

literature

  • Ralph Krueger: Teamlife - From defeat to success ; Werd Verlag, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-85932-357-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Krueger in the Premier League - a logical step . Blick , January 24, 2014, accessed February 14, 2014
  2. ↑ "Thanks for the trip": Krueger leaves Southampton. Retrieved April 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ View online from February 25, 2010: Much praise after Ralph Krueger's last honorable defeat: Reversed world? Fans celebrate Nati-Out against USA. Retrieved July 12, 2019 .
  4. ↑ "I want to live 100 percent in Switzerland again". In: NZZ Online from November 10, 2011
  5. ↑ The Canadian Press : Oilers expected to introduce Krueger as next head coach. The Sports Network , June 27, 2012, accessed June 27, 2012 .
  6. ↑ canada.com, Krueger hopes his work has made Canada 'best-prepared country' in Olympics ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , February 10, 2014, accessed February 14, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.canada.com
  7. ↑ David Hytner: Southampton look to ice hockey's Ralph Krueger for motivation . In: The Guardian . January 21, 2014, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed April 26, 2019]).
  8. ^ New Chairman appointed
  9. ↑ "Thanks for the trip": Krueger leaves Southampton. Retrieved April 26, 2019 .
  10. ^ Sabers name Ralph Krueger head coach. Retrieved May 15, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Thomas Klemm: NHL Kruegers Mission with the Oilers . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 7, 2013, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed March 9, 2016]).
  12. ↑ Felix Bingesser: Ice Hockey: Ex-Nati-Coach Ralph Krueger is now Swiss! April 25, 2019. Retrieved April 26, 2019 .
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personal data
SURNAME Krueger, Ralph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnipeg , Canada