Tim Bender

Tim Bender
Date of birth	March 19, 1995
place of birth	Mannheim , Germany
size	182 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	defender
number	# 77
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 2013	Mannheim ERC
2013	EHC Red Bull Munich
2013-2014	London Knights
2014-2015	EHC Red Bull Munich SC Riessersee
2015-2018	Schwenninger Wild Wings
since 2018	Nuremberg Ice Tigers

Tim Bender (born March 19, 1995 in Mannheim ) is a German ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Nürnberg Ice Tigers in the German Ice Hockey League since 2018 in the position of defender .

Career

Bender first went through the youth teams of the Mannheim ERC, based in his hometown . With his U18 youth team, the “Jungadlern Mannheim”, he won the German Junior League (DNL) championship twice in two of the three seasons he played ( 2011/12 and 2012/13 ) .

For the 2013/14 season, Bender was signed by EHC Red Bull Munich from the German Ice Hockey League , for which he played eleven competitive games. At the end of October 2013, Bender received the approval from the club to move to Canada in the Ontario Hockey League to the London Knights in order to be better promoted.

Bender has been back in the EHC Red Bull Munich squad since the 2014/15 season, for which he played 25 main round games that same season and contributed four assists. Bender, who was equipped with a sponsorship license , played a further 21 competitive games at SC Riessersee in the DEL2 . With the main round, Red Bull Munich, Bender was eliminated in the playoff quarter-finals against Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg .

For the 2018/19 season, Bender moved to the Nürnberg Ice Tigers .

National team

In March 2018 he was appointed to the German national ice hockey team for the first time by national coach Marco Sturm .

Achievements and Awards

• DNL champion with young eagles Mannheim 2011/12 and 2012/13

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	A.	Pt	SM		Sp	T	A.	Pt	SM
2010/11	Young eagle Mannheim	DNL		33	2	6th	8th	12		4th	0	3	3	8th
2011/12	Young eagle Mannheim	DNL		36	7th	15th	22nd	16		8th	1	3	4th	4th
2012/13	Young eagle Mannheim	DNL		31	14th	16	30th	53		7th	3	4th	7th	10
2013/14	EHC Red Bull Munich	DEL		11	0	0	0	10		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	London Knights	OHL		45	2	5	7th	16		9	0	1	1	8th
2014/15	EHC Red Bull Munich	DEL		25th	0	4th	4th	8th		4th	0	0	0	0
2014/15	SC Riessersee	DEL2		21st	4th	6th	10	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Schwenninger Wild Wings	DEL
German junior league overall				100	23	37	60	81		19th	4th	10	14th	22nd
DEL total				36	0	4th	4th	18th		4th	0	0	0	0

( 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 )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tim Bender moves to the London Knights. EHC Red Bull Munich, October 28, 2013, accessed on March 28, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Tim Bender strengthens the defensive. Retrieved May 20, 2018 . 
3. ↑ http://www.deb-online.de/2018/03/mit-neun-debuetanten-nach-sotschi/

Web links

• Tim Bender at eliteprospects.com (English)