Richard Mueller

This article is about ice hockey player Richard Mueller. For other people see Richard Müller .

Richard Mueller
Date of birth	May 6, 1982
place of birth	Richmond , British Columbia , Canada
size	179 cm
Weight	83 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 61
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1998-2002	Brandon Wheat Kings
2002	Saskatoon Blades
2002-2003	Calgary Hitmen
2003-2004	University of Calgary
2004-2007	Polar bears Berlin
2007	Foxes Duisburg
2007-2008	Polar bears Berlin
2008-2010	Hamburg Freezers
2010	ERC Ingolstadt
2011	Ice pirates Crimmitschau
2011	Straubing Tigers
2011–2012	Tingsryd's AIF
2012-2013	Lusatian foxes
2013-2017	Löwen Frankfurt
2017-2018	SC Riessersee
since 2018	Kassel Huskies

Richard Mueller (born May 6, 1982 in Richmond , British Columbia ) is a German - Canadian ice hockey player who is currently under contract with the Kassel Huskies in the DEL2 . In his career he played with Eisbären Berlin and Hamburg Freezers in the DEL as well as in Canada and Sweden.

Career

The 1.79 meter tall winger began his career in the Canadian Junior League WHL , where he was on the ice for the Brandon Wheat Kings , the Saskatoon Blades and the Calgary Hitmen . After a year in the team of the University of Calgary in the Canadian college game operation of the CIS , the right-handed shooter moved to the Eisbären Berlin Juniors in the Oberliga Nord-Ost for the 2004/05 season .

After good performance, the Canadian was appointed to the DEL squad of the Eisbären Berlin, with which he was three times German champion ( 2005 , 2006 and 2008 ) and once German cup winner ( 2008 ). When the Eisbären Berlin signed Richard Mueller in 2004, they probably expected, because of his German father, that he would soon no longer be covered by the foreign contingent. However, Mueller only received German citizenship in 2007.

For the 2008/09 season , Mueller moved to league rivals Hamburg Freezers , where he signed a two-year contract. His good performance in his first year in Hamburg (18 goals) led to his appointment to the German national ice hockey team , in his second season in Hamburg he was unable to continue this performance due to injuries and the Freezers also ended the season on a disappointing penultimate Table position.

For the 2010/11 season he signed a contract with the DEL club Kassel Huskies , but after Kassel had to file for bankruptcy and received no license for the season, he started the season at ERC Ingolstadt , which Mueller had with a contract for the longer injured Thomas Greilinger at the end of the year. After a generally bad season for the Audistädter, his contract was not renewed after a record of 3 goals in 18 league games, and he ended the season in the 2nd ice hockey Bundesliga with the Eispiraten Crimmitschau , with whom he played especially in the relegation games Relegation could secure.

The German-Canadian started the 2011/12 season with a trial contract with the Straubing Tigers from the DEL, but could not recommend himself and played the rest of the season in the 2nd Swedish Ice Hockey League at Tingsryds AIF .

For the 2012/13 season he returned to Germany and signed a contract with Lausitzer Füchsen from the 2nd Bundesliga ice hockey. Here he was able to excel as a preparer with 27 assists, but the 8 goals in 50 games of the season remained below expectations.

For the 2013/14 season he moved to the third-highest German ice hockey league and joined the top division squad of the ambitious Löwen Frankfurt, which also made it to the second-highest German ice hockey league - DEL2 at the end of the season. In his first second division season for Frankfurt he was the top scorer in the league with 40 goals and extended his contract with the Lions prematurely. In the 2015/16 season , Mueller was the third top scorer in the DEL2 with 36 goals in 47 games after the main round. In the 2016/17 season he won the DEL2 championship title with the Lions. On the way to this triumph he scored 34 hits in 59 games and prepared 24 more goals, with his 28 hits in the main round this time meant fourth place in the DEL2's list of goalscorers.

As early as the summer of 2016, Mueller agreed a two-year collaboration with Bavarian league competitor SC Riessersee , which after his contract with the Frankfurter Löwen, which expired in spring 2017, for which he had scored 261 points of 153 goals in a total of 219 games, with the DEL2- The 2017/18 season came into force. With SC Riessersee he was runner-up in the DEL2 and contributed 46 goals and 49 assists in 69 games during the 2017/18 season. After Riessersee withdrew from the DEL2, he switched to the Kassel Huskies within the league at the beginning of June 2018 .

International

In 2008, Mueller was appointed to the German national ice hockey team for the first time by the then national coach Uwe Krupp . In total, he scored 5 goals for the national team in 7 games - at the 2010 Winter Olympics, which took place near his birthplace in Vancouver, he was not nominated due to a previous injury.

Achievements and Awards

• 2005 DEL champion with the Eisbären Berlin
• 2006 DEL master with the Eisbären Berlin
• 2008 DEL master with the Eisbären Berlin
• 2014 Champion Oberliga-West with the Löwen Frankfurt and qualification for the DEL2
• 2015 top scorer in the DEL2 with 40 goals
• 2016 "Sportsman of the Year of the City of Frankfurt"
• 2017 DEL2 champion with the Frankfurt Lions
• 2018 top scorer of the DEL2 main round 2017/18 (80 points)

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1998/99	Brandon Wheat Kings	WHL		39	7th	2	9	14th		2	0	0	0	0
1999/00	Brandon Wheat Kings	WHL		7th	2	3	5	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	Brandon Wheat Kings	WHL		34	5	10	15th	16		6th	0	2	2	4th
2001/02	Saskatoon Blades	WHL		66	25th	33	58	22nd		7th	0	0	0	4th
2002/03	Saskatoon Blades	WHL		27	7th	11	18th	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Calgary Hitmen	WHL		45	23	19th	42	16		5	2	1	3	2
2003/04	University of Calgary	CIS		34	15th	18th	33	20th
2004/05	Eisbären Juniors Berlin	OIL		32	26th	16	42	41		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Polar bears Berlin	DEL		1	0	0	0	2		7th	0	0	0	2
2005/06	Polar bears Berlin	DEL		52	15th	8th	23	16		10	0	1	1	4th
2006/07	Eisbären Juniors Berlin	OIL		38	28	15th	43	0		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Polar bears Berlin	DEL		5	2	2	4th	4th		3	0	1	1	2
2007/08	EV Duisburg	DEL		8th	2	2	4th	2		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Polar bears Berlin	DEL		42	6th	10	16	20th		14th	2	2	4th	0
2008/09	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		49	16	6th	22nd	26th		9	2	0	2	4th
2009/10	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		23	2	6th	8th	12		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	ERC Ingolstadt	DEL		18th	3	1	4th	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Ice pirates Crimmitschau	2nd BL		15th	5	5	10	16		8th	2	6th	8th	6th
2011/12	Straubing Tigers	DEL		7th	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Lusatian foxes	2nd BL		45	8th	27	35	41		5	0	0	0	0
2013/14	Löwen Frankfurt	OIL		30th	20th	30th	50	10		19th	17th	7th	24	39
2014/15	Löwen Frankfurt	DEL2		50	40	22nd	62	26th		10	5	4th	9	4th
WHL overall				218	69	78	147	76		20th	2	3	5	10
Oberliga overall				100	74	61	135	111		19th	17th	7th	24	39
2nd BL total				60	13	32	45	57		13	2	6th	8th	6th
DEL total				205	46	35	81	88		43	4th	4th	8th	12
DEL2 total				50	40	22nd	62	26th		10	5	4th	9	4th

( 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 )

Personal

His father Maximilian comes from near Augsburg and emigrated to Canada. There he changed the German spelling of his surname Müller to Mueller.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ EHC player Richard Mueller is waiting for the German passport: from forefathers and mother tongue , Berliner Zeitung , September 16, 2005, accessed on October 18, 2015
2. ↑ Freezers get Mueller and Schmidle , Handelsblatt , May 1, 2008, accessed on November 8, 2015
3. ↑ Kassel reports two well-known new additions , Hockeyweb, August 25, 2010, accessed on November 8, 2015
4. ↑ ERC Ingolstadt commits Richard Mueller , Augsburger Allgemeine , September 29, 2010, accessed on November 8, 2015
5. ↑ The closed season is over , Donaukurier , December 22, 2010, accessed on December 31, 2010
6. ↑ Richard Mueller comes from the DEL , Hockeyweb, January 18, 2011, accessed on November 8, 2015
7. ↑ Straubing obliges Richard Mueller  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Handelsblatt, September 21, 2011, accessed on November 8, 2015  
8. ^ No contract for Richard Mueller , Straubinger Tagblatt , October 16, 2011, accessed on November 8, 2015
9. ↑ Richard Mueller supports Lausitzer Füchse , Niederlausitz aktuell, 29 August 2012
10. ↑ Reunion with Richard Mueller ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. , Lausitzer Füchse, October 30, 2014, accessed on November 8, 2015 
11. ↑ Bargain on right wing , Offenbach-Post , December 13, 2013, accessed on November 8, 2015
12. ↑ Speedy Gonzales the Lion , Offenbacher-Post, January 23, 2015
13. ^ Richard Mueller extends his contract in Frankfurt , Ice Hockey News , January 29, 2015, accessed on November 8, 2015
14. ↑ DEL2-Topscorer , del-2.org, March 3, 2016, accessed on March 6, 2016
15. ↑ DEL2 top scorer - season 2016/17 , del-2.org, March 3, 2017, accessed on May 1, 2017
16. ↑ SC Riessersee News , SC Riessersee Facebook, April 30, 2017, accessed on May 1, 2017
17. ↑ Top striker Mueller on the SCR - Whirl around salary , Münchner Merkur , May 1, 2017, accessed on May 1, 2017
18. ↑ Richard Mueller provides a surprise with the change from SC Riessersee to the Kassel Huskies , Ice Hockey News , June 7, 2018, accessed on December 29, 2018
19. ↑ Krupp opens his lucky bag - brilliant debut by Richard Mueller , Münchner Merkur , November 6, 2008, accessed on November 8, 2015
20. ↑ Mueller dreams of the home game , Hamburger Abendblatt , February 5, 2009, accessed on November 8, 2015
21. ↑ Missile Mueller - the very last hope of Freezers , January 12, 2010, accessed on November 8, 2015
22. ↑ hessenschau.de, Frankfurt, Germany: Löwe Mueller is Frankfurt's Sportsman of the Year | hessenschau.de | More sport . In: hessenschau.de . November 20, 2016 ( hessenschau.de [accessed November 20, 2016]).
23. ↑ Ice Hockey News Review 2017/18, page 96
24. ↑ National ice hockey team: Much applause for Mueller and Butenschön. In: www.handelsblatt.com. Retrieved March 9, 2016 . 

Web links

• Richard Mueller at hockeydb.com (English)
• Richard Mueller at eurohockey.com