Rafael Rotter

Rafael Rotter
Date of birth	June 14, 1987
place of birth	Vienna , Austria
size	172 cm
Weight	80 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 6
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
2001-2004	Viennese ice lions
2004-2005	EC Red Bull Salzburg
2005-2008	Guelph Storm
since 2008	Vienna Capitals

Rafael Rotter (also Raphael Rotter ; born June 14, 1987 in Vienna ) is an Austrian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Vienna Capitals in the Austrian ice hockey league since 2008 .

Career

Rafael Rotter played from 2001 to 2004 with the Wiener Eislöwen in the Austrian National League . In the 2004/05 season he then played at EC Red Bull Salzburg , where he made his ÖEHL debut. From 2005 to 2008 he stepped for the Canadian franchise Guelph Storm , which had drawn him in the second round of the 2005 CHL Import Draft as the 67th player in the Ontario Hockey League on the ice. After an ankle injury, he moved back to his hometown Vienna in 2008, where he has been under contract with the Vienna Capitals ever since . In 2010, Rotter was suspended for 16 league games after an attack against referee Borut Lesnjak. In 2011 he achieved the best plus / minus balance of the playoffs Austrian ice hockey league .

International

Rotter represented Austria in the junior division at the U18 World Championships in Division I in 2003 , 2004 , when he was the top scorer and best preparer of the tournament, and in 2005, as well as in the U20 World Championships in the Top Division in 2004 and Division I in 2005 and 2007 , when he was , like three years earlier in the younger age group, again had the most points and assists.

In the men's national team he made his debut on April 6, 2007 in a 4-2 win in the friendly against Slovenia in Ljubljana . He and the team from the Alpine region have taken part in the 2011 and 2015 World Championships in the top division . He also represented his colors in qualifying for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi .

Achievements and Awards

• 2004 Top scorer and best preparer at the U18 World Championship in Division I, Group A.
• 2007 Top scorer and best preparer at the U20 World Cup in Division I, Group B
• 2017 Austrian champion with the Vienna Capitals
• 2018 Ron Kennedy Trophy as the most valuable player in the EBEL

In addition, Rotter received the honor of lighting the flame at the opening ceremony of the 13th European Maccabiade on July 6, 2011 on Vienna's Rathausplatz. The reason given by the chairman of the organizing committee, Oskar Deutsch , was that Rotter was one of the most successful Jewish athletes in Austria.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2001/02	Wiener Eislöwen U20	Austria U20		2	1	1	2	0		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Wiener Eislöwen U20	Austria U20		18th	18th	24	42	60		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Viennese ice lions	National league		24	16	14th	30th	45		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	EC Red Bull Salzburg U20	Austria U20		1	2	9	11	0		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	EC Red Bull Salzburg II	National league		16	9	6th	15th	46		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	EC Red Bull Salzburg	EBEL		44	9	11	20th	28		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Guelph Storm	OHL		62	11	36	47	82		15th	5	6th	11	18th
2006/07	Guelph Storm	OHL		61	16	46	62	90		4th	1	3	4th	8th
2007/08	Guelph Storm	OHL		68	13	46	59	109		10	3	7th	10	20th
2008/09	Vienna Capitals	EBEL		40	2	13	15th	44		8th	1	6th	7th	22nd
2009/10	Vienna Capitals	EBEL		35	7th	21st	28	105		12	10	5	15th	38
2010/11	Vienna Capitals	EBEL		27	10	28	38	61		10	8th	5	13	34
2011/12	Vienna Capitals	EBEL		4th	0	3	3	2		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Vienna Capitals	EBEL		46	7th	26th	33	52		15th	4th	4th	8th	26th
2013/14	Vienna Capitals	EBEL		53	12	30th	42	65		5	0	3	3	6th
2014/15	Vienna Capitals	EBEL		51	2	21st	23	65		15th	2	15th	17th	17th
2015/16	Vienna Capitals	EBEL		45	8th	31	39	72		3	1	2	3	6th
2016/17	Vienna Capitals	EBEL		54	12	29	41	90		12	3	14th	17th	26th
2017/18	Vienna Capitals	EBEL		54	30th	41	71	103		9	3	5	8th	32
2018/19	Vienna Capitals	EBEL		35	7th	13	20th	68		7th	2	2	4th	22nd
2019/20	Vienna Capitals	EBEL		21st	4th	9	13	33		3	0	1	1	4th
Austria U20 overall				21st	21st	34	55	60		-	-	-	-	-
National league overall				40	25th	20th	45	91		-	-	-	-	-
EBEL total				509	110	276	386	788		99	34	62	96	233
OHL total				191	40	128	168	280		29	9	16	25th	46

( 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 )

Web links

Commons : Rafael Rotter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kleine Zeitung : He always stood by his religion - Caps striker Rafael Rotter (26) is Austria's only ice hockey player with a Jewish faith.
• Rafael Rotter at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Netopilik: Rafael Rotter: "I really live on the ice". meinviertel.at, February 24, 2017, accessed on February 28, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Rafael Rotter absolutely banned for 16 games - UPC Vienna Capitals. Retrieved January 30, 2017 . 
3. ↑ "Maccabiade: Rafael Rotter will light a flame" , accessed on July 26, 2016.