Sebastian Furchner

Sebastian Furchner
Date of birth	May 3, 1982
place of birth	Kaufbeuren , Germany
size	174 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	Winger
number	# 17
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1998-2001	ESV Kaufbeuren
2001-2002	REV Bremerhaven
2002-2008	Cologne Sharks
since 2008	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg

Sebastian Furchner (born May 3, 1982 in Kaufbeuren ) is a German ice hockey player who has been playing in the DEL for Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg since the 2008/09 season .

Career

In his hometown Kaufbeuren, Furchner started early with ice hockey at the traditional ESV Kaufbeuren , where he went through all youth teams. In the 1998/99 season he made his debut for the professional team in what was then the 2nd Bundesliga . In the following season he ran on with the ESVK in the Regionalliga and after promotion in 2000 in the Oberliga . At this time, the left-handed shooter also took part in the first international tournaments for the selection of the German Ice Hockey Federation . At the U18 World Cup in Switzerland in 2000 and the U20 World Cup in 2001 , Furchner was one of the regular players. 2001 followed the move to Bremerhaven in the 2nd Bundesliga. Furchner, who was just 19 at the time, impressed with consistently strong performances and scored 27 points in 59 games. As a reward, he was nominated again for the U20 World Cup in 2002 .

Sebastian Furchner in the jersey of the Kölner Haie

The Kölner Haie , who originally wanted to bring him to the Rhine a year earlier, signed the winger for the DEL for the 2002/03 season . Although Furchner would have been eligible to play for a lower-class club with a sponsorship license , he played the entire season with the Haien and ended up being German runner-up with the team. In the next two years, the attacker was a support in the Cologne team and was able to increase his points yield from season to season. Furchner's plus / minus statistics in the third year stand out, where he achieved a very good value of +13. After 6 years with the Haien, in which he was able to score 153 points (of which 72 goals) for the Domstädter in 350 DEL appearances, Sebastian Furchner switched to at the beginning of the 2008/09 season for private reasons and the possibility of a longer-term contract League competitor Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg . Also in Wolfsburg, Furchner was able to convince with 30 points player per season and so his contract was extended in 2010, 2013 and 2015 and is currently valid until 2020. If Furchner was already the top scorer of his team with 21 goals after the 2014/15 season , he was able to score in in the following season 2015/16 with 44 points of which 22 goals also become top scorers of the grizzlies and landed in 11th place in the DEL ranking.

Records

Furchner completed his 1,000 DEL game in Cologne on September 27, 2019, placing him fifth in the league. Furthermore, Furchner has scored the fourth most goals (278) in league history and, with 566 points scored, is their tenth-best scorer (as of September 2019).

International

In addition to his appearances in the DEL, Furchner played a total of 31 times for the national team . He took part in the tournaments for the Germany Cup in 2003 and 2004, as well as in the 2005 World Cup in Austria , where he was relegated with the DEB selection. In the 2005/06 season, the left shooter was injured during the first game of the Olympic Games in Turin and had to end the season prematurely due to a shoulder operation.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1998/99	ESV Kaufbeuren	2nd BL		2	1	0	1	0
1999/00	ESV Kaufbeuren	RL		49	17th	12	29	26th
2000/01	ESV Kaufbeuren	OIL		41	10	11	21st	24
2001/02	REV Bremerhaven	2nd BL		50	15th	7th	22nd	34		10	4th	2	6th	8th
2002/03	Cologne Sharks	DEL		51	5	11	16	14th		15th	1	0	1	6th
2003/04	Cologne Sharks	DEL		52	11	7th	18th	10		6th	0	0	0	0
2004/05	Cologne Sharks	DEL		49	13	17th	30th	38		7th	0	2	2	2
2005/06	Cologne Sharks	DEL		45	9	12	21st	65		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Cologne Sharks	DEL		49	13	13	26th	36		9	0	0	0	8th
2007/08	Cologne Sharks	DEL		55	15th	13	28	50		12	5	0	5	4th
2008/09	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg	DEL		39	11	17th	28	30th		10	4th	4th	8th	14th
2009/10	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg	DEL		55	16	23	39	30th		7th	3	3	6th	6th
2010/11	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg	DEL		52	10	14th	24	24		6th	1	2	3	25th
2011/12	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg	DEL		52	12	22nd	34	20th		4th	0	1	1	2
2012/13	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg	DEL		50	17th	18th	35	26th		12	2	5	7th	4th
2013/14	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg	DEL		48	18th	5	23	18th
2014/15	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg	DEL		46	21st	15th	36	16		11	5	1	6th	6th
2nd BL total				52	16	7th	23	34		10	4th	2	6th	8th
DEL total				643	171	187	358	377		99	21st	18th	39	77

( 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

• Sebastian Furchner at hockeydb.com (English)
• Sebastian Furchner at eurohockey.com
• Sebastian Furchner at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Grizzlies attract two national players , Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , February 14, 2008, accessed on March 28, 2016
2. ^ "Eis-Blitz" Furchner packs the things , picture , April 23, 2008, accessed on March 27, 2016
3. ↑ Four years! EHC extends with Sturm-Ace Sebastian Furchner , Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung , June 12, 2010, accessed on March 27, 2016
4. ↑ Grizzly Adams extend the contract with Sebastian Furchner , Hockeyweb, July 26, 2013, accessed on March 27, 2016
5. ↑ Furchner extended early , sport1 , September 16, 2015, accessed on March 27, 2016
6. ↑ DEL-Topscorer ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , del.org, March 10, 2016, accessed March 27, 2016 
7. ↑ RP ONLINE: Attacker loses with Wolfsburg in Cologne: Furchner conceded a defeat in his 1000th DEL game. Retrieved September 28, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Ice Hockey News special edition 2019/20, page 218