Thomas Schinko

Thomas Schinko
Date of birth	May 8, 1969
place of birth	Landshut , Germany
size	180 cm
Weight	73 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1987-1991	EV Landshut
1991-1999	Berlin Capitals
1999-2000	Polar bears Berlin
2000-2001	Düsseldorfer EG
2001-2002	Cologne Sharks
2002-2003	Nuremberg Ice Tigers
2003-2004	ERC Ingolstadt
2004-2007	Landshut cannibals

Thomas Schinko (born May 8, 1969 in Landshut ) is a former German ice hockey player who worked for the Berlin Capitals , Eisbären Berlin , Düsseldorfer EG , Kölner Haie , Nürnberg Ice Tigers and ERC Ingolstadt in his active time from 1987 to 2007 of the German Ice Hockey League .

Career

Thomas Schinko began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown in the youth team of EV Landshut , for whose professional team he was active in the Bundesliga from 1987 to 1991 . The attacker then switched to their league rivals, the Berlin Capitals , for whom he was on the ice for the next eight years - from 1994 in the newly founded DEL . After two seasons with the Eisbären Berlin , the left shooter moved to the newly promoted Düsseldorfer EG in 2000 , which he left after just one year to play for their Rhenish rival Kölner Haie , with whom he became German champion in the 2001/02 season . The winger then played for the Nürnberg Ice Tigers and ERC Ingolstadt in the DEL for a year before ending his career at his former club from Landshut, for which he was active in the 2nd Bundesliga from 2004 to 2007 .

In the 2010/11 season Schinko took over the school team of EV Landshut as coach. From 2012 he was part of the extended coaching staff of the Nürnberg Ice Tigers, but also worked as a physiotherapist for the team. In 2019 he was promoted to assistant coach.

International

For Germany Schinko took part in the 1994 World Cup, where he finished ninth with his team.

Achievements and Awards

• 2002 German champion with the Kölner Haien

DEL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	10	487	71	90	161	519
Playoffs	5	45	3	5	8th	28
Relegation round	1	11	3	3	6th	27

Web links

• Thomas Schinko at hockeydb.com (English)
• Thomas Schinko at rodi-db.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ice hockey: Realist or gamer. In: tagesspiegel.de . September 21, 2000, accessed August 30, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Thomas Schinko comes to the ERC from the IceTigers. In: erc-ingolstadt.de. March 27, 2003, accessed August 30, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Kleinendorst becomes a trainer in Nuremberg. In: kicker.de . April 25, 2019, accessed August 30, 2019 .