Roger Nicholas

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Roger Nicholas
Date of birth April 8, 1958
size 175 cm
Weight 81 kg
position Left wing
number # 9
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1975-1976 Avon Old Farms
1976-1980 Middlebury College
1981-1982 GSC Moers
1982-1983 EC Hanover
1983-1985 EC Bad Nauheim
1986-1987 ECD Iserlohn
1987-1989 Cologne EC
1989-1991 Eintracht Frankfurt
1991-1992 Mannheim ERC
1992-1994 Frankfurt ESC

Roger Nicholas (born April 8, 1958 ) is a former American ice hockey player who was active in the Bundesliga during his career for the Cologne EC , the Mannheim ERC and Eintracht Frankfurt . Since June 2016 he has been a full-time trainer at ESC Darmstadt die Dukes . He is currently a trainer at Eintracht Frankfurt in the Hessen League.

Career as a player

After Nicholas had played in the high school league system of the United States and in the third division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association since 1975 , but without making the breakthrough and getting into a team in the National Hockey League , he moved to the GSC in the summer of 1981 Moers which was the first German team he played for. From there he moved to EC Hannover in 1982 in the third-class German Oberliga Nord . Then he went to Hesse for the first time to EC Bad Nauheim , where he was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga with Nauheim in the following year . Afterwards, Nicholas moved to the GSHC - Genève-Servette HC - in Switzerland. During this season, the ECD Iserlohn became aware of him and took him under contract. From then on, Nicholas played a total of six seasons in what was then the highest German league, including at the Cologne EC - with which he became German champion in the 1987/1988 season - and at Eintracht Frankfurt where he was part of the successful trio with Jiří Lála and Mark Jooris was.

In the 1993/94 season he had to end his career abruptly due to a knee injury after a total of 200 games in the Bundesliga with 215 points and a final 131 games for the Frankfurt ESC with 242 points.

Career as a coach

After the abrupt end of his professional career, Nicholas did not immediately seek a career as a coach. From 1996 to 2011 his coaching stations were always the Frankfurt Young Lions and the Rote Teufel Bad Nauheim, where he always looked after the junior division. From 2009–2011 he was also head coach of TSV Schott Mainz before he successfully brought the 'Dukes' through the season as head coach of ESC Darmstadt in the 2011/12 season. Since the 2012/13 season he has been head coach at Frankfurter Eintracht and from the end of November 2013 to April 2015 Nicholas was also a coach at EC Lauterbach, whose junior division he also looked after as head coach .

From 2016 Nicholas took over responsibility again at ESC Darmstadt. In addition to being responsible for the senior sector, he is also head coach for the junior sector in Darmstadt.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. luchse-lauterbach.de, new trainer for the lynx