Robert Farmer

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Robert Farmer Ice hockey player
Date of birth March 21, 1991
place of birth Nottingham , England , UK
size 190 cm
Weight 80 kg
position striker
Shot hand Left
Career stations
2002-2005 Nottingham Cougars
2005-2007 Sheffield Rapiers
2005-2009 Sheffield Steelhawks
2005-2006 Steel City Scorpions
2006-2010 Sheffield Scimitars
2006-2007 Sheffield Spartans
2009-2010 Sheffield Steelers
2010-2011 Ottawa 67's
2010–2012 Coventry Blaze
2012-2013 Braehead clan
2013 Alaska Aces
2013-2019 Nottingham Panthers
since 2019 Lusatian foxes

Robert Farmer (born March 21, 1991 in Nottingham , England ) is a British ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Lausitzer Füchsen in the DEL2 since July 2019 .

Career

Robert Farmer began his career as a hockey player in 2002 with the Nottingham Cougars, a youth team from his hometown. At the age of 14 he moved to Sheffield , where he played in various youth teams. As early as the 2005/06 season, the striker also gave his calling card to the senior division when he played for the Sheffield Scimitars in the third-class English Premier Ice Hockey League and for the Sheffield Spartans in the lower-class English National League . In 2009 he became English U18 champions with the Sheffield Steelhawks.

He made his debut in the Elite Ice Hockey League , the top British league, in the 2009/10 season with the Sheffield Steelers , who had become the British champions in the previous two years . With the team from Yorkshire he took third place at the IIHF Continental Cup 2009/10 behind the EC Red Bull Salzburg and HK Junost Minsk . After he was drawn in the first round by the Ottawa 67’s in the 2010 CHL Import Draft as the 44th player, he moved to the team from the Canadian capital in the Ontario Hockey League . With the Canadians, however, he could not prevail and only came to a single use, which is why he went back to the Elite Ice Hockey League that same season and signed a contract with the Coventry Blaze . There he came in two years to a total of 114 games in which he scored 40 goals. After being voted Best Young British Player of the Year in 2012, he moved to Renfrewshire, Scotland, to join the Braehead Clan . But already a year later he went back to North America where he signed a contract with the Alaska Aces from the ECHL in Anchorage . But already after four games he left the Aces and returned to his native Nottingham, where he has since played with the Panthers there in the EIHL, with which he won the EIHL Challenge Cup in 2014 and 2016 and the EIHL Playoffs in 2016. In 2015 he was voted the EIHL's best striker. In 2017 he won the Continental Cup with the Panthers .

After six years with the Panthers, Farmer left his home country and signed a contract with the Lausitzer Füchsen from the DEL2 , where he met his former club and national coach Corey Neilson .

International

For Great Britain , Farmer took part in the junior division in Division II of the U18 World Junior Championship in 2009 , Division II of the U20 World Junior Championship in 2009 and 2010 and Division I of the U-20 World Junior Championship in 2011 . In the senior division, he was in his country's squad at the Division I World Championships in 2012 , 2013 , when he was voted best player of his team, in 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 and 2018 . His two goals in the games against Italy and Japan at the 2013 World Cup could not prevent relegation to Group B of Division I. In 2018, however, Farmer scored the 2-2 equalizer against Hungary 15 seconds before the end of the third period , which, 24 years after relegation in 1994, ensured the British return to the top tier of the World Cup.

He was also on the ice for his colors at the qualifying tournaments for the 2014 Winter Olympics . First, the first qualifying round in November 2012 in Nikkō, Japan, was won by a 2-1 win against the Japanese team . In the second round, which took place in Riga, Latvia, in February 2013 , the British had to pay hardship to Farmer and lost all three games.

Achievements and Awards

  • 2009 English U18 champions with the Sheffield Steelhawks
  • 2010 Third place at the IIHF Continental Cup 2009/10 with the Sheffield Steelers
  • 2012 Young British Player of the Year
  • 2014 EIHL Challenge Cup Champion with the Nottingham Panthers
  • 2015 Best Striker in the Elite Ice Hockey League
  • 2016 Playoff champion and winner of the Challenge Cup of the Elite Ice Hockey League with the Nottingham Panthers
  • 2017 IIHF Continental Cup win with the Nottingham Panthers

International

statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
EIHL regular season 9 393 111 166 277 771
EIHL playoffs 9 22nd 3 4th 7th 18th

(Status: end of the 2017/18 season)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lusatian foxes bring attacker Robert Farmer from Nottingham for an initial three months. In: eishockeynews.de. July 31, 2019, accessed September 10, 2019 .
Squad of the Lausitzer Füchse in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME Farmer, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Nottingham , UK