Sam Antonitsch

Sam Antonitsch
Date of birth	January 3, 1996
place of birth	Villach , Austria
size	186 cm
Weight	92 kg
position	striker
number	# 76
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2011-2014	Lower Austria Stars
2014-2015	Connecticut Junior Rangers
2015-2016	Okanagan Hockey Europe
2016-2017	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Knights
2017-2018	EC VSV
2018-2019	HC Innsbruck
since 2019	Dornbirn EC

Sam Antonitsch (born January 3, 1996 in Villach ) is an Austrian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Dornbirn EC in the Austrian ice hockey league since 2019 .

Career

Sam Antonitsch started ice hockey with the Okanagan Vienna Tigers , where his father was a founding member and chairman. At the age of 15 he went to the Okanagan Hockey Academy in St. Pölten and played with their Lower Austria Stars in the Erste Bank Young Stars League (EBYSL). In his last season there, he was one of the strongest players in his team along with Marco Richter and Florian Baltram and scored 41 points in 43 games. His 155 penalty minutes are also the fourth-most a player in a season in the history of the league.

In the summer of 2014 he moved to the Connecticut Junior Rangers in the United States and played mostly in the U18 division of the United States Premier Hockey League , but also received four appearances in the Premier division. For the following season he moved to the Okanagan Hockey Club Europe , also playing in the USPHL , where he came on 34 missions with 24 points and 54 penalty minutes.

At the U20 World Cup (Division IA) in Vienna , Antonitsch took second place with the Austrian U20 national team . In five games he had scored three goals and one assist, making him the team's third-best scorer behind Dominic Zwerger and Floriam Baltram.

In the 2016/17 season Antonitsch played for the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Knights in the North American Junior League, North American Hockey League, and scored 42 points in 57 appearances. In June 2017 the EC VSV from the EBEL announced the commitment of Sam Antonitsch for the following season. He scored his first goal in the league on October 22, 2017 against Vienna Capitals .

family

Sam Antonitsch is the son of the two former professional tennis players Alexander Antonitsch and Karin Oberleitner . His younger sister Mira is also a tennis player. His paternal grandfather was one of the founding members of the EC VSV in 1923.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2011/12	Lower Austria Stars U20	Austria U20		6th	1	0	1	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Lower Austria Stars U20 II	EBYSL		25th	4th	5	9	51		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Lower Austria Stars U20	EBYSL		43	21st	20th	41	155		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Connecticut Jr. Rangers 18U	USPHL 18U		24	11	11	22nd	28		3	2	5	7th	0
2014/15	Connecticut Jr. Rangers	USPHL Premier		4th	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Okanagan HC Europe	USPHL Premier		34	14th	10	24	54		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Knights	NEAR		54	18th	23	41	28		3	0	1	1	0
2017/18	EC VSV	EBEL		53	3	4th	7th	36		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	HC Innsbruck	EBEL		52	2	2	4th	34		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Kitzbühel EC	Alps Hockey League		4th	1	0	1	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	EC Bregenzerwald	Alps Hockey League		6th	4th	0	4th	10		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	EC Bregenzerwald	AHL Final Four		3	1	2	3	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Dornbirn EC	EBEL		35	3	3	6th	12		-	-	-	-	-
EBEL total				140	8th	9	17th	82		-	-	-	-	-
EBYSL total				68	25th	25th	50	206		-	-	-	-	-

( 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

• Sam Antonitsch at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sam Antonitsch receives contract from VSV
2. ↑ Interview with EC VSV newcomer Sam Antonitsch ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Alexander Antonitsch: A versatile musketeer