Tadas Kumeliauskas

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LithuaniaLithuania  Tadas Kumeliauskas Ice hockey player
Date of birth December 11, 1990
place of birth Elektrėnai , Lithuania
size 190 cm
Weight 85 kg
position striker
Shot hand Right
Career stations
2004-2006 Energija Elektrėnai
2006-2007 HK Liepājas Metalurgs
2007-2009 Energija Elektrėnai
2007-2008 Dover Seawolves
2009-2010 HK WMF Saint Petersburg
2010-2013 HK Arystan Temirtau
2013-2016 Turun Palloseura
2017-2018 Dresden Ice Lions

Tadas Kumeliauskas (born December 11, 1990 in Elektrėnai ) is a Lithuanian ice hockey player who last played between November 2017 and April 2018 for the Dresdner Eislöwen in the DEL2 . Like Tadas, his older brother Donatas is a Lithuanian national ice hockey player.

Career

Clubs

Tadas Kumeliauskas began his career as a hockey player in his hometown Elektrėnai with the Lithuanian record champions SC Energija , for whom he made his debut in the then Latvian league in 2004 . After two Lithuanian national championship titles with Energija, he switched to Latvian league rivals HK Liepājas Metalurgs for one year in 2006 . He then played for Energija again for two years and won two more championship titles in 2008 and 2009. In 2008/09 he also played for the Dover Seawolves in the United States. After spending the 2009/10 season at HK WMF Saint Petersburg , he played for three years at HK Arystan Temirtau , with whom he won the Kazakh Cup in 2011. From 2013 he played for Turun Palloseura in the Finnish Liiga and showed increasing performances until 2016, so he was also able to convince in European competitions. In his best career season - he was the fourth best scorer on his team in 2015/16 with 25 points in 37 games - groin problems forced him to end the season and Kumeliauskas missed the entire 2016/17 season. After several operations on the groin and careful training, he took part in training at HC Dynamo Pardubice in the summer of 2017 . However, this commitment did not result in a commitment by the Lithuanian, only in November 2017 did he receive a trial contract with the Dresdner Eislöwen from the DEL2 . A few days later, his contract was extended until the end of the 2017/18 season.

International

For Lithuania, Kumeliauskas already took part in the junior division at the U18 World Championships in Division II in 2005 , 2006 and 2007 , when he contributed to the ascent of the Lithuanians as the top scorer and with the most assists, and in Division I in 2008 and in the U20 World Championships in Division II in 2007 when he was the tournament's best assists, in 2009 when he was voted the most valuable player of the tournament as the top scorer, best preparer together with his compatriot Povilas Verenis and top scorer , and in 2010 when he was the top scorer, best assist, second best scorer (behind the Dutchman Nardo Nagtzaam ) and player with the best plus / minus balance was also named the best striker of the tournament, and Division I 2008 participated. Together with Povilas Verenis he is the top scorer of the Lithuanian U20 selection with 49 points .

He made his debut in the Lithuanian men's national team at the 2008 World Cup in Division I. There he also played at the 2009 , 2010 and 2018 World Championships .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2004/05 SC Energija Latvia 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2005/06
2006/07 HK Liepājas Metalurgs Latvia 15th 1 4th 5 2 - - - - -
2007/08 SC Energija Latvia 16 4th 4th 8th 10 - - - - -
2007/08 Dover Seawolves AEHL 21st 35 33 68 21st - - - - -
2008/09 SC Energija Latvia 16 8th 10 18th 4th - - - - -
2009/10 HK WMF Saint Petersburg WysHL 23 3 5 8th 14th 2 0 0 0 0
2010/11 HK Arystan Temirtau Kazakhstan 10 4th 2 6th 2 2 0 0 0 0
2011/12 HK Arystan Temirta Kazakhstan 11 7th 7th 14th 37 - - - - -
2012/13 HK Arystan Temirtau Kazakhstan 50 25th 19th 44 32 12 3 4th 7th 10
2013/14 TPS SM-liiga 21st 4th 3 7th 33 - - - - -
2014/15 TPS SM-liiga 27 7th 6th 13 16 - - - - -
2015/16 TPS SM-liiga 37 9 16 25th 24 - - - - -
2016/17 not played because of injury
2017/18 Hockey punks Vilnius NLRL 2 2 1 3 4th - - - - -
2017/18 Dresden Ice Lions DEL2 31 10 13 23 51 1 0 0 0 0
Liiga overall 85 20th 25th 45 73 - - - - -
Kazakhstan as a whole 71 35 33 68 21st 14th 3 4th 7th 10

International

year team event Sp T V Pt SM +/-
2005 Lithuania U18 World Championship Div. II 5 1 5 6th 2
2006 Lithuania U18 World Championship Div. II 5 4th 8th 12 8th
2007 Lithuania U18 World Championship Div. II 5 5 7th 12 4th
2008 Lithuania U20 World Cup Div. II 5 2 8th 10 8th
2008 Lithuania U18 World Championship Div. II 5 5 3 8th 8th
2008 Lithuania U20 World Cup Div. I. 5 0 2 2 0
2008 Lithuania WM Div. I. 5 1 0 1 0
2009 Lithuania U20 World Cup Div. II 5 9 10 19th 2 +10
2009 Lithuania WM Div. I. 5 0 4th 4th 12 +2
2010 Lithuania U20 World Cup Div. II 5 7th 11 18th 2 +12
2010 Lithuania WM Div. I. 5 5 4th 9 0
2018 Lithuania WM Div. IB 5 1 5 6th 6th +3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Hentschel: Eislöwen find what they are looking for in Eastern Europe. In: fcbadlions.blogspot.de. November 23, 2017. Retrieved December 8, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Dynamo vyjede na led is hráči na zkoušku. In: hcdynamo.cz. July 8, 2017, Retrieved December 8, 2017 (Czech).
  3. ^ Dresden: 26-year-old Lithuanian becomes an ice lion. In: Focus Online . November 24, 2017. Retrieved December 8, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Kumeliauskas, Tadas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Elektrėnai , Lithuania