Roland Kaspitz
Date of birth | November 1, 1981 |
place of birth | Spittal an der Drau , Austria |
size | 170 cm |
Weight | 78 kg |
position | center |
number | #8th |
Shot hand | Left |
Career stations | |
until 2004 | EC VSV |
2004-2005 | HC Innsbruck |
2005–2012 | EC VSV |
2012-2013 | Landshut cannibals |
2013-2014 | Asplöven HC |
2013-2014 | Graz 99ers |
2014-2015 | HC Innsbruck |
2015-2016 | HDD Olimpija Ljubljana |
2016 | Graz 99ers |
2016-2017 | Lyon Hockey Club |
since 2017 | ELV Zauchen |
Roland Kaspitz (born November 1, 1981 in Spittal an der Drau ) is a former Austrian ice hockey player who was active for many years in the Erste Bank Ice Hockey League for EC VSV , HC Innsbruck , EC Graz 99ers and HDD Olimpija Ljubljana . Since 2017 he has been playing for the amateur club ELV Zauchen in the Carinthian Division II-Mitte.
Career
Kaspitz began his career in the youth team of the EC VSV , where he started playing in the Bundesliga regularly at the age of 18 and was Austrian champion for the first time in 2002 . After five years the striker moved to HC Innsbruck for one season , then returned to VSV and won a second championship title with the Villach team in 2006. In 2007, 2008 and 2009 he was elected to the league's all-star team, in 2010 he was the best preparer and second-best scorer in the league behind Eric Healey . In twelve Bundesliga seasons, Kaspitz played 515 games and scored 363 points. In September 2012, the native Austrian moved to the reigning German second division champion Landshut Cannibals . In the 2013/14 season he first played in Sweden with Asplöven HC and then in Austria with the Graz 99ers . After exactly 10 years he returned to HC Innsbruck, where he completed the 2014/15 season. After playing the basic round of the Austrian Bundesliga in 2015/16 with the Slovenian club HDD Olimpija Ljubljana , he returned to the Graz 99ers for the qualification round in January 2016. The following season he moved to the Lyon Hockey Club in the French Ligue Magnus .
International
In the junior division, Kaspitz played for Austria at the U18-C European Championship in 1998 and the U18-B World Championship in 1999 as well as the U20-C World Championship in 2000 and the U20 World Championship in Division I in 2001 .
In the men's national team , he made his debut on November 9, 2001 in a 4-2 win in a friendly against Italy in Grenoble, France . He took part in the top division World Championships in 2002 , 2004 , 2005 , 2009 and 2011 . After relegations in the meantime, he joined Division I in 2006 , 2008 and 2010 , with an immediate return to the top division. He also represented his colors at the qualifying tournaments for the Winter Olympics in Turin in 2006 and in Vancouver in 2010 .
Achievements and Awards
- 1998 Promotion to the B group at the U18-C European Championship
- 2000 Promotion to Division I at the U20-C World Championship
- 2002 Austrian champion with the Villacher SV
- 2006 Austrian champion with the Villacher SV
- 2006 Promotion to the top division at the World Championship Division I, Group B
- 2007 All-Star-Team of the Austrian Ice Hockey League
- 2008 All-Star-Team of the Austrian Ice Hockey League
- 2008 Promotion to the top division at the World Championship Division I, Group A
- 2009 All-Star-Team of the Austrian Ice Hockey League
- 2010 best preparer of the Austrian ice hockey league
- 2010 Promotion to the top division at the World Championship of Division I, Group A.
Career statistics
Regular season | Play-offs | |||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
1999/00 | EC VSV | IEL | 22nd | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1999/00 | EC VSV | Austria | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - 1 | - | - | - | - | ||
1999/00 | Team Carinthia 2006 | Austria2 | 18th | 11 | 5 | 16 | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2000/01 | EC VSV | Austria | 46 | 16 | 29 | 45 | 50 | - 1 | - | - | - | - | ||
2001/02 | EC VSV | Austria | 31 | 8th | 18th | 26th | 26th | 16 | 6th | 5 | 11 | 28 | ||
2002/03 | EC VSV | Austria | 41 | 11 | 22nd | 33 | 53 | 13 | 0 | 7th | 7th | 10 | ||
2003/04 | EC VSV | EBEL | 47 | 7th | 25th | 32 | 34 | 8th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 14th | ||
2004/05 | HC Innsbruck | EBEL | 47 | 11 | 20th | 31 | 75 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 12 | ||
2005/06 | EC VSV | EBEL | 46 | 8th | 22nd | 30th | 46 | 13 | 3 | 4th | 7th | 18th | ||
2006/07 | EC VSV | EBEL | 48 | 3 | 30th | 33 | 52 | 8th | 2 | 2 | 4th | 10 | ||
2007/08 | EC VSV | EBEL | 46 | 13 | 32 | 45 | 26th | 5 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 31 | ||
2008/09 | EC VSV | EBEL | 54 | 17th | 31 | 48 | 38 | 6th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8th | ||
2009/10 | EC VSV | EBEL | 53 | 14th | 51 | 65 | 58 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8th | ||
2010/11 | EC VSV | EBEL | 53 | 11 | 43 | 54 | 113 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 7th | 2 | ||
2011/12 | EC VSV | EBEL | 48 | 5 | 39 | 44 | 79 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2012/13 | Landshut cannibals | Germany2 | 36 | 5 | 23 | 28 | 45 | 6th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 20th | ||
2013/14 | Asplöven HC | Allsvenskan | 20th | 1 | 8th | 9 | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2013/14 | Graz 99ers | EBEL | 29 | 8th | 23 | 31 | 26th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2014/15 | HC Innsbruck | EBEL | 49 | 4th | 25th | 29 | 48 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2015/16 | HDD Olimpija Ljubljana | EBEL | 41 | 9 | 17th | 26th | 26th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2015/16 | Graz 99ers | EBEL | 9 | 1 | 3 | 4th | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2016/17 | Lions de Lyon | Ligue Magnus | 41 | 5 | 16 | 21st | 125 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | ||
Austria as a whole | 131 | 35 | 69 | 104 | 129 | 29 | 6th | 12 | 18th | 38 | ||||
EBEL total | 570 | 111 | 361 | 472 | 625 | 60 | 9 | 21st | 30th | 103 |
( 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
- Roland Kaspitz at eurohockey.com
- Roland Kaspitz at eliteprospects.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Markus Rinner: KEHV: Roland Kaspitz is back on Austrian ice! In: hockey-news.info. December 27, 2017, accessed January 2, 2018 .
- ↑ hockeyfans.at Transfer whispers : Roland Kaspitz signs in Landshut
- ^ ÖEHV: Kaspitz back in Graz. (No longer available online.) In: eishockey.at. February 1, 2016, archived from the original on February 1, 2016 ; accessed on February 1, 2016 . 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.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kaspitz, Roland |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1981 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Spittal an der Drau , Austria |