Timo Helbling

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Timo Helbling
Date of birth July 21, 1981
place of birth Basel , Switzerland
Nickname T-bone
Size 189 cm
Weight 94 kg
position defender
number # 56
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1999 , 6th lap, 162nd position
Nashville Predators
Career stations
until 2000 HC Davos
2000-2001 Windsor Spitfires
2001-2004 Milwaukee Admirals
2004 Utah grizzlies
2004-2005 Kloten Flyers
2005-2006 Springfield Falcons
2006-2007 Hershey Bears
2007 Rochester Americans
2007-2010 HC Lugano
2010-2011 Oulun Kärpät
2011-2013 EV train
2013-2015 Friborg-Gottéron
2015-2016 SC Bern
2016-2018 EV train
2018-2019 SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers

Timo Helbling (born July 21, 1981 in Basel ) is a former Swiss ice hockey player . He played 728 games in the National League and eleven in the National Hockey League . He took part in two world championship tournaments with the Swiss national team.

Career

Timo Helbling began his career as an ice hockey player in the youth department of HC Davos , for whose professional team he was active in the National League A from 1998 to 2000 . During this period, the defender was selected in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft in the sixth round as a 162nd player overall by the Nashville Predators . First, however, he played for a year for the Windsor Spitfires in the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League . Towards the end of the 2000/01 season he also ran in a playoff game for the Milwaukee Admirals in the International Hockey League after the Nashville Predators had signed him. Until 2004 he was only in the American Hockey League for the Admirals, who had moved to this league after the IHL was dissolved, as well as the Utah Grizzlies on the ice. He was also used in the ECHL for the Toledo Storm .

Timo Helbling (right) and Marcel Goc

During the lockout in the 2004/05 NHL season , Helbling was under contract with the Kloten Flyers in his Swiss homeland . He then returned to North America , where he made his debut in the National Hockey League for the Tampa Bay Lightning in the 2005/06 season . In nine games he gave a template. However, he spent the rest of the season with their farm team from the AHL, the Springfield Falcons . For the following season the national player signed with the Washington Capitals . But he mainly played for the farm team, the Hershey Bears . Subsequently, the Capitals were transferred to the Sabers. But Helbling only played for the farm team, the Rochester Americans . After one season he moved back to Switzerland and signed with HC Lugano , with whom he has been under contract ever since. In the 2009/10 season he was the player with the most penalty minutes in the entire league. In November 2010 he signed a contract with Oulun Kärpät in the SM-liiga .

From the 2011/12 season he was under contract with EV Zug for two years before signing a three-year contract with Friborg-Gottéron in December 2012 , which was valid from the 2013/14 season. In April 2015, Friborg-Gottéron and SC Bern agreed on a player swap that brought Helbling to Bern and Ryan Gardner to Friborg in return. He won the championship with the SCB.

For the 2016/17 season he returned to EV Zug . Two years later he moved to the SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers within the National League . In April 2019, the defender, known for his body-hugging style of play, ended his professional career and entered the financial sector.

International

Helbling represented his home country for the first time at the U18 World Junior Championship in 1999 . This was followed by further appearances in the junior division at the U20 Junior World Championships in 2000 and 2001 .

His first only World Cup appearance in the A-Team was in the 2006 World Cup in the Latvian capital Riga . Four years later, he finally took part in the 2010 World Cup in Germany . Helbling received a match penalty at the end of the quarter-final game against the hosts after provoking a violent argument with the German assistant coach Ernst Höfner across the board . The match penalty resulted in an automatic suspension of one game.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1997/98 HC Davos Elite A Jr. 34 6th 6th 12 38 - - - - -
1998/99 HC Davos Elite A Jr. 28 5 10 15th 116 2 1 3 4th 35
1998/99 HC Davos NLA 44 0 0 0 8th 4th 0 0 0 0
1999/00 HC Davos NLA 44 0 0 0 49 5 0 0 0 0
2000/01 Windsor Spitfires OHL 54 7th 14th 21st 90 7th 0 2 2 11
2000/01 Milwaukee Admirals IHL - - - - - 1 0 0 0 0
2001/02 Milwaukee Admirals AHL 67 2 6th 8th 59 - - - - -
2002/03 Toledo Storm ECHL 35 3 8th 11 75 7th 0 1 1 2
2002/03 Milwaukee Admirals AHL 23 0 1 1 37 - - - - -
2003/04 Milwaukee Admirals AHL 37 0 2 2 46 - - - - -
2003/04 Utah grizzlies AHL 23 3 2 5 47 - - - - -
2004/05 Kloten Flyers NLA 44 2 9 11 118 5 1 1 3 4th 8th
2005/06 Springfield Falcons AHL 60 7th 14th 21st 56 - - - - -
2005/06 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 9 0 1 1 6th - - - - -
2006/07 Hershey Bears AHL 49 1 16 17th 106 - - - - -
2006/07 Washington Capitals NHL 2 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
2006/07 Rochester Americans AHL 20th 0 8th 8th 50 6th 2 0 2 6th
2007/08 HC Lugano NLA 49 3 11 14th 127 2 1 0 0 0 10
2008/09 HC Lugano NLA 49 2 9 11 136 - - - - -
2009/10 HC Lugano NLA 46 1 6th 7th 168 4th 0 1 1 10
2010/11 HC Lugano NLA 17th 0 0 0 26th - - - - -
2010/11 Kärpät Oulu SM-liiga 39 2 3 5 46 3 0 0 0 6th
2011/12 EV train NLA 45 2 6th 8th 108 9 0 2 2 16
2012/13 EV train NLA 48 3 7th 10 48 14th 1 2 3 45
Elite A Juniors total 62 11 16 27 154 2 1 3 4th 35
NLA total 386 13 48 61 508 43 2 8th 10 99
SM-liiga total 39 2 3 5 46 3 0 0 0 6th
OHL total 54 7th 14th 21st 90 7th 0 2 2 11
ECHL total 35 3 8th 11 75 7th 0 1 1 2
IHL total - - - - - 1 0 0 0 0
AHL total 279 13 49 62 401 6th 2 0 2 6th
NHL overall 11 0 1 1 8th - - - - -

International

Represented Switzerland at:

year team event Sp T V Pt SM
1999 Switzerland U18 World Cup 7th 1 0 1 35
2000 Switzerland U20 World Cup 7th 0 2 2 16
2001 Switzerland U20 World Cup 7th 1 1 2 10
2006 Switzerland WM 4th 0 0 0 2
2010 Switzerland WM 7th 0 1 1 25th
Juniors overall 21st 2 3 5 61
Men overall 11 0 1 1 27

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Capitals acquire first-round pick, Novotny from Buffalo . capitals.nhl.com. February 27, 2007. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
  2. ↑ Ice hockey news: SCB picks up Helbling and gives Gardner. In: Swiss radio and television . April 2, 2015, accessed September 1, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Timo Helbling returns to the EVZ. (No longer available online.) In: evz.ch. Archived from the original on April 15, 2016 ; accessed on April 15, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.evz.ch
  4. ↑ Timo Helbling to the SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers. In: lakers.ch. June 18, 2018, accessed October 17, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Hägendörfer Timo Helbling ends his career and enters the financial sector. Retrieved April 12, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Timo Helbling is hit hardest . nzz.ch. May 21, 2010. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Helbling, Timo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel , Switzerland