Thomas Raffl

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Thomas Raffl
Date of birth June 19, 1986
place of birth Villach , Austria
size 194 cm
Weight 92 kg
position Left wing
number # 5
Shot hand Left
Career stations
2001-2005 EC VSV
2005-2006 Kelowna Rockets
Swift Current Broncos
2006-2009 EC VSV
2009-2010 Luleå HF
2010-2015 EC Red Bull Salzburg
2015-2016 Manitoba mosses
since 2016 EC Red Bull Salzburg

Thomas Raffl (born June 19, 1986 in Villach ) is an Austrian ice hockey striker who has been under contract with EC Red Bull Salzburg in the Austrian ice hockey league since July 2016 . His brother Michael and his cousin Alexander Rauchwald are also professional ice hockey players; his uncle Gerald Rauchwald was also a long-time VSV player and multiple Austrian international.

Career

Club career

Thomas Raffl is the son of the former VSV player Peter Raffl . So he came to the EC VSV as a teenager . After playing 76 Bundesliga games at the age of 19, he was drafted as the 69th player in the 2005 CHL Import Draft by the Kelowna Rockets . He then ventured overseas, where he could not prevail in the Western Hockey League but neither with the Rockets nor with the Swift Current Broncos . Raffl blames the lack of time to get used to it, as he only moved to America in the fall. So he returned to Villach during the season.

After Raffl had been nominated for the KELLY'S All-Star-Game of the ÖEHL last year , he became a key player for the VSV in the 2008/09 season - he scored 35 points in 41 games. His achievements enabled him to move to Sweden, where he signed a two-year contract with the Elitserien team Luleå HF . At the start of the 2009/10 season he was unable to work for several weeks due to a severe concussion. After his recovery, he completed 45 games for his new team, scoring seven goals and eight assists. In November 2010, he signed a contract with EC Red Bull Salzburg after starting the season in Luleå.

In early October 2015, Raffl received a one-year contract worth $ 575,000 for the 2015/16 season with the NHL franchise Winnipeg Jets , although he was only used with the Manitoba Moose farm team . Several injuries prevented a climb to the jets. After 31 appearances for Manitoba, in which he posted five goals and five assists, Raffl suffered a back injury in mid-March 2016 and had to end the season prematurely. Raffl then returned to Austria after just one year and rejoined the EC Red Bull Salzburg.

National team career

Raffl played for the first time in the senior national team on February 7, 2008 in a 3-2 win against Italy in Sanok, Poland . That same year he was also at the World Championship Division I there. With three points in five games, he played a key role in Austria's promotion back to the top division. Also in 2010 , 2012 and 2017 , when he was elected to the All-Star-Team as well as the most valuable player of the tournament , he took part in the tournaments of Division I, where he was also promoted to the top division. In the top division, however, he played at the 2011 and 2015 World Championships , when the Alpine countries had to accept relegation. He also represented his colors in the qualifying tournaments for the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics and the Games in Sochi itself.

Raffl also completed two U20 ( 2005 and 2006 ) and one U18 world championships ( 2004 ) in Division I for Austria.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2001/02 EC VSV U20 Austria U20 10 2 2 4th 10 - - - - -
2002/03 EC VSV U20 Austria U20 30th 16 16 32 54 - - - - -
2003/04 EC VSV U20 Austria U20 23 12 11 23 65 - - - - -
2003/04 EC VSV EBEL 25th 1 1 2 4th 4th 0 0 0 0
2004/05 EC VSV EBEL 44 7th 12 19th 49 3 0 0 0 0
2004/05 EC VSV U20 Austria U20 7th 2 3 5 24 - - - - -
2005/06 Kelowna Rockets WHL 12 2 1 3 11 - - - - -
2005/06 Swift Current Broncos WHL 21st 2 6th 8th 28 - - - - -
2005/06 Des Moines Buccaneers USHL 4th 0 0 0 7th - - - - -
2005/06 EC VSV U20 Austria U20 3 1 3 4th 0 - - - - -
2005/06 EC VSV EBEL 6th 0 2 2 2 13 0 0 0 2
2006/07 EC VSV EBEL 42 8th 5 13 36 8th 0 0 0 0
2007/08 EC VSV EBEL 43 11 4th 15th 78 5 0 2 2 0
2008/09 EC VSV EBEL 41 23 12 35 57 - - - - -
2009/10 Luleå HF SHL 45 7th 8th 15th 24 - - - - -
2010/11 Luleå HF SHL 22nd 1 1 2 10 - - - - -
2010/11 EC Red Bull Salzburg EBEL 25th 5 7th 12 51 16 4th 8th 12 12
2011/12 EC Red Bull Salzburg EBEL 50 12 42 54 16 6th 5 0 5 2
2012/13 EC Red Bull Salzburg EBEL 28 5 16 21st 16 11 4th 1 5 2
2013/14 EC Red Bull Salzburg EBEL 51 23 22nd 45 47 14th 6th 4th 10 9
2014/15 EC Red Bull Salzburg EBEL 52 26th 27 53 20th 13 5 4th 9 8th
2015/16 EC Red Bull Salzburg EBEL 1 1 1 2 2 - - - - -
2015/16 Manitoba mosses AHL 31 5 5 10 42 - - - - -
2016/17 EC Red Bull Salzburg EBEL 53 26th 24 50 22nd 11 5 5 10 2
2017/18 EC Red Bull Salzburg EBEL 42 18th 27 45 18th 16 3 4th 7th 4th
2018/19 EC Red Bull Salzburg EBEL 43 18th 26th 44 26th 13 4th 7th 11 4th
EBEL total 546 184 228 412 444 133 36 35 71 45
SHL total 67 8th 9 17th 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

Commons : Thomas Raffl  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Raffl's Big NHL Opportunity . Interview on redbulletin.com, September 2015. Accessed April 5, 2016.
  2. ↑ thefanblog.at, interview with Thomas Raffl
  3. ↑ Thomas Raffl receives NHL contract with Winnipeg Jets , accessed October 6, 2015
  4. ↑ Thomas Raffl has to end the season. kleinezeitung.at, March 10, 2015. Accessed April 5, 2016.
Cadre of EC Red Bull Salzburg in the season 2020/21
personal data
SURNAME Raffl, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Villach , Austria