Thomas Dolak junior

Thomas Dolak
Date of birth	March 25, 1979
place of birth	Gottwaldov , Czechoslovakia
size	180 cm
Weight	85 kg
position	Left wing
number	# 9
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1995-1997	EHC Freiburg
1997	Kingston Frontenacs
1997-1998	North Bay Centennials
1998-2000	Kassel Huskies
2000-2002	Munich Barons
2002-2003	Hamburg Freezers
2003-2011	Hanover Scorpions
2011-2013	Hamburg Freezers
2015	Düsseldorfer EG

Thomas Dolak (born March 25, 1979 in Gottwaldov , Czechoslovakia ) is a German - Czech ice hockey player and coach who last played in the DEL in 2015 for the Düsseldorfer EG and then worked as a junior coach for the Düsseldorfer EG before becoming an assistant coach the professional team was. His father, Thomas Dolak senior (1952-2013), was a Czechoslovakian born ice hockey player and coach.

life and career

In order to play in a strong junior league, Thomas Dolak junior moved from EHC Freiburg to Canada in 1997 , where he was on the ice for the Kingston Frontenacs and the North Bay Centennials in the Ontario Hockey League .

For the 1998/99 season the winger signed a contract with the Kassel Huskies from the German Ice Hockey League , which he left after two seasons in the direction of the reigning champions Munich Barons . Dolak had a decent season here, but disappointed a year later, which did not change after the team moved to Hamburg, where they played as Hamburg Freezers . For the 2003/04 season , the left-handed player moved to the Hanover Scorpions for this reason , where he made the breakthrough with 31 scorer points in the 2005/06 season .

Thomas Dolak was one of the crowd's favorites at the Hannover Scorpions and became German champions with them in the 2009/2010 season. In the decisive final game on April 25, 2010 against the Augsburg Panthers, he scored the decisive goal to make it 3-2 for the Hannover Scorpions and therefore goes down in history as the winning goal scorer.

For the 2011/12 season, Dolak moved within the DEL and returned to the Hamburg Freezers, which he left after the 2012/13 season and returned to the Hannover Scorpions. Here he worked as an assistant coach until December because he was unable to play for health reasons.

From 2014 he was employed as a trainer in the junior division of the Düsseldorfer EG . On February 15, 2015, due to the tense personnel situation, he was licensed with the DEL and played on February 20, 691 days after his resignation in the game against Adler Mannheim , where he immediately contributed a template to the 4-3 win after extra time.

Between January and April 2018, Dolak was Tobias Abstreiter's assistant coach and looked after the professional team of the Düsseldorfer EG in the DEL. In March 2019, the Düsseldorf team announced that Dolak would be part of the DEG professional team as an assistant coach at the start of the 2019/2020 season, having previously looked after the U17s.

International

For the German junior national teams , Thomas Dolak took part in the U20 World Cup in 1999 , with the seniors he took part in the 2000 World Cup and in the qualifying tournament for the 2002 Olympic Games that took place in the same year .

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1995/96	EHC Freiburg	1. Lg		41	21st	25th	46	10
1996/97	EHC Freiburg	1. Lg		47	21st	39	60	26th
1997/98	Kingston Frontenacs	OHL		3	1	2	3	0		-	-	-	-	-
1997/98	North Bay Centennials	OHL		48	13	29	42	20th		-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	Kassel Huskies	DEL		49	5	15th	20th	10		-	-	-	-	-
1999/00	Kassel Huskies	DEL		56	6th	13	19th	20th		8th	1	0	1	6th
2000/01	Munich Barons	DEL		59	9	14th	23	16		3	0	0	0	0
2001/02	Munich Barons	DEL		60	1	7th	8th	2		9	0	0	0	6th
2002/03	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		51	0	5	5	35		5	0	1	1	0
2003/04	Hanover Scorpions	DEL		51	8th	5	13	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Hanover Scorpions	DEL		52	2	10	12	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Hanover Scorpions	DEL		49	9	22nd	31	22nd		10	1	1	2	4th
2006/07	Hanover Scorpions	DEL		52	13	32	45	22nd		6th	1	4th	5	0
2007/08	Hanover Scorpions	DEL		47	11	19th	30th	12		3	1	0	1	0
2008/09	Hanover Scorpions	DEL		50	16	29	45	12		10	1	3	4th	0
2009/10	Hanover Scorpions	DEL		56	20th	33	53	22nd		10	4th	7th	11	6th
2010/11	Hanover Scorpions	DEL		51	18th	28	46	10		5	2	2	4th	4th
2011/12	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		45	6th	20th	26th	22nd		5	0	2	2	2
2012/13	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		47	6th	19th	25th	14th		6th	5	1	6th	4th
2014/15	Düsseldorfer EG	DEL		3	0	1	1	0		7th	2	2	4th	0
OHL total				51	14th	31	45	20th		0	0	0	0	0
1st league overall				88	42	64	106	36		0	0	0	0	0
DEL total				778	130	272	402	247		92	18th	28	46	34

( 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

• Thomas Dolak junior at rodi-db.de
• Thomas Dolak junior at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Thomas Dolak junior at hockeydb.com (English)
• Thomas Dolak junior at eurohockey.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DEG separates from head coach Mike Pellegrims. Retrieved February 3, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Thomas Dolak will be assistant coach at Düsseldorfer EG for the coming season. Retrieved March 9, 2019 .