Sepp Puschnig
 Sepp Puschnig 
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| IIHF Hall of Fame , 1999 | |
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| Date of birth | September 12, 1946 |
| place of birth | Klagenfurt am Wörthersee , Austria |
| Nickname | Seppi, Karawanken bear |
| size | 178 cm |
| Weight | 86 kg |
| position | striker |
| Shot hand | Left |
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| 1963-1976 | EC KAC |
Josef "Sepp" Puschnig (actually Josef Pušnik ; born September 12, 1946 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee ) is a former Austrian ice hockey player who celebrated great success with the EC KAC in the Austrian ice hockey league in the 1960s and 1970s . To this day he is one of the best Austrian ice hockey players of all time.
Career
Sepp Puschnig began his career in the junior teams of the EC KAC and made his debut in the combat team at the age of 16, celebrating his debut with the winning goal to 2-1 over EV Innsbruck . In the following years he developed into one of the best Austrian ice hockey players of all time. In a total of thirteen seasons and 299 Bundesliga matches, all of which he completed for the EC KAC, he scored 190 goals and prepared 296 more. He was able to win the Austrian championship title a total of twelve times with his club .
He also proved to be one of the most valuable players in the national team and took part in a total of eleven world championships and three Olympic Games , with 50 goals and 55 assists in 123 international matches.
Over the course of his career, the National Hockey League showed interest in the striker. However, the latter refused the challenge with a simple reason, always saying: “What am I supposed to do as a Carinthian in America? I prefer Klagenfurt to New York. "
Achievements and Awards
- In 1997, one of the two halls in the Klagenfurt ice sports center was named Sepp-Puschnig-Halle after him.
- 1999 induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame of the international ice hockey federation
- Twelve times Austrian champion with the EC KAC in 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976
- Austria's ice hockey player of the century. Elected in 2012 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Austrian Ice Hockey Association
- 2014 Great Decoration of Honor from the State of Carinthia (presented by Governor Peter Kaiser and his deputy Gabriele Schaunig-Kandut )
- 2016 The number seven , with which Puschnig played, was banned by the KAC, so that no player in the club can wear this number on his jersey. His jersey was hung in the hall named after him.
Career statistics
| Seasons | Games | Gates | Assists | Points | Penalty minutes | |
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| Austrian Ice Hockey League (EC KAC) | 13 | 299 | 190 | 296 | 486 | 590 |
International
| WM | Olympia | Games | Gates | Assists | Points | Penalty minutes | |
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| Austrian national team | 11 | 3 | 123 | 50 | 55 | 105 | 180 |
Personal
- Puschnig's sister Erika married Adelbert St. John, one of Sepp Puschnig's striker colleagues.
- With Andreas Pušnik , Sepp Puschnig's son also celebrated great successes as an ice hockey player and scored 829 points in 731 appearances in the Austrian league.
- Puschnig's grandson Julian Pušnik (born November 5, 1999) also started playing ice hockey for the EC VSV and will be part of the U20 team from Mora (Sweden) from the start of the 2017/18 season.
- Name spelling: The correct name spelling is everywhere according to the Pušnik birth certificates , but Sepp Puschnig has always been written with "sch" and "g" in the media. Andy Pusnik (Pušnik) should actually be written without this Haček over the "s" because it is entered in this way in the passport.
Others
- Due to his not necessarily slim stature, Sepp Puschnig was nicknamed the Karawanken bear at the beginning of his career .
- At the end of 1999 the training hall of the ice sports center Klagenfurt was named after him. This was determined through an election that the director of the Klagenfurt trade fair, Erich Hallegger, had among the readers of the Kärntner Tageszeitung .
- In the same year, the artist Wu Shaoxiang honored the athlete with a 400 kilogram sculpture made of mahogany and spruce wood . The sponsor was the art patron Peter Schellander. The figure, christened Seppi, elicited a laugh from the former ice hockey player at the presentation, when, referring to his nickname, he remarked: "I've never been that slim."
- In 2014 a film about Sepp Puschnig was released. This film is called Sepp Puschnig the Karawankenbär , was shot by Ferdinand Macek and Sigi Bergmann and shows Puschnig's unique career.
Literature and Sources
- Margreiter, Haiszan, Kilias: The Great Austrian Ice Hockey Book , Verlag Buch Spezial Dornbirn, ISBN 3-900496-04-4
- OMR. Dr. Hellmuth Reichel: KAC - ice hockey conquers a city! , Publisher: Klagenfurter Athletiksport Club, Klagenfurt, 1995
- Club brochure: 75 years of KAC, 1909-1984 , publisher: Klagenfurter Athletiksport Club, Klagenfurt, 1984
- Anniversary book: Red as blood, white as snow - 100 years of KAC , publisher: Klagenfurter Athletiksport Club, Klagenfurt, 2009, author: Dr. Gert Seeber, Walter Grill, Heinz Traschitzger
Web links
- Sepp Puschnig in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b An eagle with red feathers. In: kleinezeitung.at. January 28, 2013, accessed September 29, 2015 .
- ↑ Puschnig is ice hockey player of the century. In: kleinezeitung.at. September 17, 2012, accessed September 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Ice hockey: No more number seven at KAC on ORF from December 14, 2016, accessed on December 18, 2016
- ^ "Kleine Zeitung Kärnten" from July 24, 2017, page 39; Title: «Puschnig, Pusnik or even Pušnik»; Subtitle: "About the person"
- ^ "Kleine Zeitung Kärnten" of July 24, 2017, pages 38 and 39; Title: «Puschnig, Pusnik or even Pušnik»
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Puschnig, Sepp |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Puschnig, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian ice hockey player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klagenfurt am Wörthersee , Austria |