Reemt Pyka

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GermanyGermany  Reemt Pyka Ice hockey player
Date of birth January 11, 1969
place of birth Bremerhaven , Germany
size 186 cm
position Right wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1986-1992 Rosenheim Sports Association
1992-2000 Krefeld penguins
2000-2001 Augsburg panther
2001-2004 EC Bad Nauheim
2004-2005 REV Bremerhaven

Reemt Pyka (born January 11, 1969 in Bremerhaven ) is a former German ice hockey player and current coach. Most recently he was head coach of the Füchse Duisburg in the ice hockey league in the 2018/19 season .

Career as a player

Pyka's first station as a professional ice hockey player was SB Rosenheim , where he was in the squad in the ice hockey Bundesliga in the 1987/88 season and German champion in the 1988/89 season . From 1987 to 1992 he played 178 games for Upper Bavaria, in which he scored 41 goals and 73 points. When SB Rosenheim voluntarily withdrew his team to the 2nd division in the summer of 1992 , Pyka switched to Krefeld EV, with whom he was also active in the Bundesliga. For the KEV he played eight seasons, from 1992 to 2000. He came to over 400 games with 85 goals and 160 points.

During this time he took part with the German national team in three ice hockey world championships (1995, 1997, 1998), the World Cup of Hockey in 1996 and the Olympic Games in 1998 . After qualifying for the 2002 Olympic Games in 2000 , he said goodbye to the selection of the German Ice Hockey Federation after a total of 90 appearances and twelve goals .

After his time with the penguins, Pyka moved to Augsburg for the 2000/01 season . During his second season in Fuggerstadt, the former striker joined the second division club EC Bad Nauheim . His last career as a player was the REV Bremerhaven in the 2004/2005 season .

Career as a coach

In the following season 2005/06 he took over the post of assistant coach next to head coach Igor Pavlov and gained his first experience behind the gang. He then moved back to Krefeld, where he worked as an assistant coach in the 2006/07 season, first alongside Jiří Ehrenberger , at the beginning of the 2009/10 season alongside the German-Canadian Martin Jiranek , and after Jiranek's dismissal in November 2009, Rick Adduono and his successor Franz-David Fritzmeier assisted. In April 2016 he became assistant trainer at Füchsen Duisburg . In the 2018/19 season, Pyka was appointed head coach after several coach changes in Duisburg, during which he repeatedly served as a substitute coach and was supposed to lead the Duisburg Füchse with the help of sporting director Lance Nethery . At the end of the main round of the 2018/19 season, Pyka was released as the Foxes trainer.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New assistant coach: Foxes get Reemt Pyka. In: Foxes Duisburg. April 28, 2016. Retrieved December 22, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Füchse Duisburg make their first personnel decisions: Reemt Pyka becomes head coach - Sebastian Staudt is the new No. 1 - Björn Barta changes to management. April 7, 2018. Retrieved April 28, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Füchse Duisburg part with trainer Reemt Pyka. In: waz.de. February 9, 2019, accessed April 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Pyka, Reemt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerhaven , Germany