Saša Martinović (ice hockey player)

Saša Martinović
Date of birth	September 27, 1984
place of birth	Fuessen , Germany
size	186 cm
Weight	95 kg
position	defender
number	# 23
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2000-2004	EV Füssen
2004-2006	Hamburg Freezers
2006-2008	Krefeld penguins
2008-2009	ERC Ingolstadt
2009-2011	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg
2011-2015	KHL Medveščak Zagreb
2015-2017	Nuremberg Ice Tigers
2017-2019	Iserlohn Roosters
since 2019	EC Bad Toelz

Saša Martinović (born September 27, 1984 in Füssen ) is a German - Croatian ice hockey player who has been under contract with EC Bad Tölz from the DEL2 since June 2019 . His brother Siniša is also a hockey player.

Career

Martinović began his career in the position of striker in the youth team of EV Füssen . At the beginning of the 2001/02 season , the left shooter belonged to the senior team of the Leopards for the first time , with which he was henceforth active in the major league . The then 17-year-old was able to improve in the following years and finally signed a two-year contract with the Hamburg Freezers from the German Ice Hockey League for the 2004/05 season .

On the Elbe, the attacker was given a funding license so that he was also eligible to play for the cooperation partner, the ETC Crimmitschau from the 2nd Bundesliga . There, however, Martinović only played two games and was most of the time for the Freezers on the ice, who also used him more often as a defender . In the end, the German-Croatian completed 58 DEL games in his first year in the Hanseatic city, in which he scored five points.

Because of an operation on his right foot in December 2005, Saša Martinović was only able to play 37 games for Hamburg in the 2005/06 season . The defender then joined the Krefeld Penguins , where he developed into a regular player and wore the penguins' jersey 102 times. His contract with the Rhinelander was not extended after the end of the 2007/08 season, instead the defender signed a contract with ERC Ingolstadt , for which he was only on the ice in the 2008/09 season . Then he left the ERC again and moved to the 2009/10 season, the Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg with whom he in the 2010/11 season was runner-up. In July 2011 Martinović was committed by the KHL Medveščak Zagreb from the Austrian ice hockey league . From 2013 he played with the Croatian capital club in the Continental Hockey League . In addition, he also took the second team Medveščak the playoff games for the Croatian national championship in part and was so in 2012, 2013 and 2014 Croatian national champion . In October 2015, the Nürnberg Ice Tigers signed him for an initial four weeks.

For the 2019/20 season, Martinović moved to the DEL2 at EC Bad Tölz , where he met his brother.

International

For Croatia , Martinović took part in the 2014 World Cup for the first time. As a newcomer, the Croatians were not only able to stay in the B group of Division I, but also took second place right behind A group promoted Poland . Also in 2015 he played for Croatia in Division I.

Achievements and Awards

• 2011 German runner-up with the Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg
• 2012 Croatian champion with the KHL Medveščak Zagreb
• 2013 Croatian champion with the KHL Medveščak Zagreb
• 2014 Croatian champion with the KHL Medveščak Zagreb

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2001/02	EV Füssen	OIL		50	5	5	10	24		4th	2	1	3	2
2002/03	EV Füssen	OIL		53	4th	11	15th	58		3	1	2	3	2
2003/04	EV Füssen	OIL		54	13	28	41	100		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		52	1	3	4th	30th		6th	0	1	1	16
2004/05	ETC Crimmitschau	2nd BL		1	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		37	0	0	0	24		1	0	0	0	0
2006/07	Krefeld penguins	DEL		51	2	10	12	44		2	0	0	0	2
2007/08	Krefeld penguins	DEL		49	1	16	17th	42		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	ERC Ingolstadt	DEL		51	1	3	4th	26th		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg	DEL		56	4th	8th	12	48		7th	0	1	1	6th
2010/11	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg	DEL		39	0	3	3	18th		9	0	0	0	0
2011/12	KHL Medveščak Zagreb	ÖEHL		42	2	8th	10	79		9	0	0	0	20th
2011/12	KHL Medveščak Zagreb II	Croatia		0	0	0	0	0		3	0	0	0	2
2012/13	KHL Medveščak Zagreb	ÖEHL		53	3	11	14th	73		6th	1	0	1	4th
2012/13	KHL Medveščak Zagreb II	Croatia		0	0	0	0	0		4th	1	0	1	2
2013/14	KHL Medveščak Zagreb	KHL		43	0	4th	4th	22nd		4th	1	0	1	2
2013/14	KHL Medveščak Zagreb II	Croatia		0	0	0	0	0		3	1	2	3	32
2014/15	KHL Medveščak Zagreb	KHL		58	2	3	5	42
Oberliga overall				157	22nd	44	66	182		7th	3	3	6th	4th
DEL total				335	9	43	52	232		25th	0	2	2	24
ÖEHL overall				95	5	19th	24	152		15th	1	0	1	24
KHL total				101	2	7th	9	16		4th	1	0	1	2

( 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

• Saša Martinović at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Saša Martinović at eurohockey.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Sasa Martinovic: “Continue to work hard, keep a cool head and try to give the best”. In: eishockey-magazin.de. September 21, 2014, accessed September 8, 2015 . 
2. ↑ "Nuremberg gets Martinović" on www.kicker. de, accessed on October 13, 2015.
3. ^ Brother double pack for the Tölzer Löwen: Sinisa Martinovic comes from Bietigheim, Sasa Martinovic from Iserlohn. In: eishockeynews .de. June 29, 2019. Retrieved July 25, 2019 .