Samuel Circle

Samuel Circle
Date of birth	April 4, 1994
place of birth	Burgdorf BE , Switzerland
Nickname	Sami
Size	181 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	defender
number	# 9
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2007-2017	SC Bern
since 2017	EHC Biel

Samuel "Sämi" Kreis (born April 4, 1994 in Burgdorf BE ) is a Swiss ice hockey player who has been playing for EHC Biel in the National League since the 2017/18 season .

Career

Samuel Kreis began his career as an ice hockey player in the youth team of SC Bern, for whose professional team he made his National League A debut in the 2012/13 season . During the season he was used in a total of 15 games. Kreis was born and raised in Burgdorf in the canton of Bern. At the end of January 2017 he was temporarily awarded to the NLB club EHC Olten . For the next season he moved from SCB to canton rivals EHC Biel .

International

For Switzerland, Kreis took part in the U18 World Junior Championships in 2011 and 2012 , where he acted as team captain at the 2012 tournament . On January 22, 2015 Samuel Kreis was called up for the first time by national coach Glen Hanlon for the national team.

Achievements and Awards

• 2013 Swiss champion with SC Bern
• 2015 Swiss Cup winner with SC Bern
• 2016 Swiss champions with SC Bern
• 2017 Swiss champions with SC Bern

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2012/13	SC Bern	NLA		7th	0	1	1	0		8th	0	0	0	0
2013/14	SC Bern	NLA		38	2	8th	10	16		4 1	1	0	1	0
2013/14	EHC Basel	NLB		8th	2	0	2	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	SC Bern	NLA		48	2	4th	6th	12		11	0	0	0	4th
2015/16	SC Bern	NLA		21st	1	0	1	10		9	0	0	0	0
2016/17	SC Bern	NLA		31	0	2	2	4th		1	0	0	0	0
2016/17	EHC Olten	NLB		7th	0	5	5	10		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	EHC Biel	NL		49	5	18th	23	18th		12	0	0	0	2
2018/19	EHC Biel	NL		44	2	14th	16	18th		12	0	0	0	4th
2019/20	EHC Biel	NL
NLB total				15th	2	5	7th	14th		0	0	0	0	0
NLA / NL total				238	12	47	59	78		57	1	0	1	10

( 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

• Samuel Kreis at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Samuel Kreis temporarily to Olten . In: SCB Eishockey AG . ( scb.ch [accessed on January 25, 2017]).
2. ↑ Kreis changes to Biel . In: The Bund . December 12, 2016, ISSN  0774-6156 ( derbund.ch [accessed April 26, 2017]).