Thomas Koch (ice hockey player)

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Thomas Koch
Date of birth 17th August 1983
place of birth Klagenfurt , Austria
size 173 cm
Weight 77 kg
position center
number # 18
Shot hand Left
Career stations
until 2004 EC KAC
2004-2006 Luleå HF
2006-2011 EC Red Bull Salzburg
since 2011 EC KAC

Thomas Koch (born August 17, 1983 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian ice hockey player . Since 2011 he has been playing in the Austrian ice hockey league for his home club EC KAC . Koch also completed two seasons for Luleå HF in the Swedish Elitserien .

Career

Koch made his debut at the age of 16 in the 1999/2000 season at EC KAC in the highest Austrian league. During this season he also played for the Telekom team in the national league. He went through all junior national teams in Austria and was the most successful Austrian scorer and most successful assists in the play-offs in the 2003/04 season .

In 2004 he moved to Sweden to Luleå HF in the Elitserien . After the NHL went on strike in its 2004/05 season, the team was reinforced with stars from the NHL. Among them were Tomas Holmström , Mikael Renberg and Justin Williams .

After two years in Sweden, he returned to Austria for the 2006/07 season and joined EC Red Bull Salzburg , with whom he became Austrian champion . As a player with the best plus / minus balance in the league, he himself made a decisive contribution to winning the title. In 2009 he was awarded the Ron Kennedy Trophy as the most valuable player in the league . After winning the title in 2011, when he scored the winning goal in extra time in a 3-2 win in the decisive seventh game of the play-off final, he signed a three-year contract with final opponent EC KAC , which has since been extended to 2018. He was Austrian champion five times with Klagenfurt AC and four times with EC Red Bull Salzburg. Of the players currently active in the Austrian league, Koch is the one with the most goals, assists and thus scorer points.

International

In the junior division, Koch first played for Austria in 2000 in the U18-B World Championship and the U20-C World Championship . After switching to the division system, he was on the ice in Division I at the U20 World Championships in 2001 , 2002 and 2003 .

With the men's national team of the Alpine country, he took part in the world championships of the top division in 2003 , 2004 , 2007 , 2009 , when the Austrians only had to relegate because the German team, as the host, could not relegate the following world championship, in 2011 and 2013 as well as division I. In 2006 , when he was named the best striker of the tournament, in 2008 , 2010 , 2012 and 2014 , when he was appointed to the all-star team as the best preparer and - without having scored a goal himself - top scorer of the tournament Player of his team was chosen to take part.

He also played in the qualifying tournaments for the Winter Olympics in 2006 , 2010 and 2014 . In the latter, the Austrians benefited from the defeat of the German team against Italy at the tournament in Bietigheim-Bissingen and - although they themselves had lost to Germany in extra time - were able to qualify for the Winter Games for the first time since 2002 . There , however, Koch's team was largely in a losing position and after three defeats from four games, only Norway could be defeated, tenth place out of twelve teams.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1999/00 EC-KAC IEL 13 1 0 1 2 - - - - -
1999/00 EC-KAC Austria 11 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1999/00 Team Carinthia 2006 Austria2 17th 9 3 12 12 - - - - -
2000/01 EC-KAC Austria 49 15th 34 49 52 - - - - -
2001/02 EC-KAC U20 Austria U20 1 1 0 1 0 - - - - -
2001/02 EC-KAC Austria 32 12 11 23 40 11 5 3 8th 8th
2002/03 EC-KAC Austria 42 17th 25th 42 26th 6th 1 7th 8th 2
2003/04 EC-KAC EBEL 47 22nd 29 51 34 8th 2 5 7th 4th
2004/05 Luleå HF SHL 50 9 8th 17th 22nd 4th 1 0 1 0
2005/06 Luleå HF SHL 50 7th 9 16 34 6th 0 2 2 4th
2006/07 EC Red Bull Salzburg EBEL 54 30th 46 76 72 8th 5 6th 11 10
2007/08 EC Red Bull Salzburg EBEL 46 10 33 43 40 15th 6th 10 16 4th
2008/09 EC Red Bull Salzburg EBEL 52 20th 38 58 34 16 8th 11 19th 20th
2009/10 EC Red Bull Salzburg EBEL 50 19th 43 62 24 18th 5 11 16 6th
2010/11 EC Red Bull Salzburg EBEL 49 23 34 57 34 18th 5 9 14th 16
2011/12 EC-KAC EBEL 48 7th 23 30th 30th 15th 3 5 8th 10
2012/13 EC-KAC EBEL 44 13 38 51 24 14th 4th 5 9 12
2013/14 EC-KAC EBEL 47 16 20th 36 30th - - - - -
2014/15 EC-KAC EBEL 54 11 21st 32 34 9 3 7th 10 12
2015/16 EC-KAC EBEL 50 10 29 39 24 4th 1 4th 5 2
2016/17 EC-KAC EBEL 51 11 30th 41 34 14th 3 10 13 6th
2017/18 EC-KAC EBEL 53 15th 21st 36 20th 6th 0 0 0 2
2018/19 EC-KAC EBEL 55 14th 29 43 26th
2019/20 EC-KAC EBEL
Austria as a whole 134 44 70 114 118 17th 6th 10 16 10
EBEL total 700 221 434 655 460 145 45 83 128 104
SHL total 100 16 17th 33 56 10 1 2 3 4th

( 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Koch, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt , Austria