Tomáš Pöpperle

Tomáš Pöpperle
Date of birth	October 10, 1984
place of birth	Broumov , Czechoslovakia
size	185 cm
Weight	85 kg
position	goalkeeper
number	# 42
Catch hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2005 , 5th round, 131st position Columbus Blue Jackets
Career stations
1999-2005	HC Sparta Prague
2005-2006	Polar bears Berlin
2006-2008	Syracuse crunch
2009-2010	HC Plzeň
2008–2012	HC Sparta Prague
2012-2013	HC Lev Prague
2013-2014	HC Sparta Prague
2014-2015	HK Sochi
2015-2017	HC Sparta Prague
since 2017	Fischtown Pinguins Bremerhaven

Tomáš Pöpperle (born October 10, 1984 in Broumov , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech ice hockey goalkeeper of German descent who has been under contract with the Fischtown Pinguins Bremerhaven in the DEL since 2017 .

Career

Pöpperle played 96 games with the U18 team of HC Sparta Prague between 1999 and 2001. He played 89 games with the U20 team from 2001 to 2004. In the 2003/04 season he played next to the U20 team of HC Sparta Prague in the first Czech ice hockey league five games for HC Berounští Medvědi and two games in the second-highest Czech league for HC Příbram . In the 2004/05 season he was again for HC Berounští Medvědi in goal and played 16 games before moving to the Eisbären Berlin in summer 2005 , with whom he won the German championship on April 17, 2006 .

In September 2006 he completed a preparation game with the NHL team Columbus Blue Jackets , which selected him in the fifth round of the 2005 NHL Entry Draft at position 131. The season 2006/06 he played with the farm team of the Blue Jackets, the Syracuse Crunch , in the American Hockey League . There he formed the goalkeeper team together with Ty Conklin .

At the end of January 2007 he was appointed to the NHL team for the first time because the goalkeepers Pascal Leclaire and Fredrik Norrena were injured. On February 2, 2007, Pöpperle was used for the first time in the NHL. In the game against the Calgary Flames he was substituted on after 35 minutes when the score was 1-5. The game ended 2-6 and Pöpperle was able to fend off seven of eight shots. For the 2008/09 season he then moved back to his home country for HC Sparta Prague. After one season and 41 league games, he was loaned to HC Plzeň for the 2009/10 season. After the 2010 playoffs, he returned to Sparta.

In May 2012 he moved within Prague to HC Lev Prague from the Continental Hockey League , where he signed a two-year contract. A year later, after about 30 missions in the KHL, he was loaned from HC Lev to Sparta Prague. After HC Lev left the KHL, Pöpperle was looking for a new club and found it in the newly founded HK Sotschi . After a season in Sochi, he returned to his home club Sparta in 2015.

For the 2017/2018 season, Pöpperle moved to Germany to the Fischtown Pinguins Bremerhaven in the German Ice Hockey League . In the first season he reached the playoff quarter-finals with the Bremerhaveners, where they then had to give way to Munich.

Apparently the Czech goalie liked it so much that he immediately extended his contract on the North Sea coast.

successes

• 2005: Best rookie in the Extraliga 2004/05
• 2006: German champion with the Eisbären Berlin
• 2006: Silver medal at the world championship

statistics

season	team	league	Sp	GTS
1999/2000	HC Sparta Prague	U18-CZ	54	1.71
2000/01	HC Sparta Prague	U18-CZ	42	2.10
2001/02	HC Sparta Prague	U20-CZ	34	2.43
2002/03	HC Sparta Prague	U20-CZ	25th	2.08
2003/04	HC Sparta Prague	U20-CZ	30th	2.02
2003/04	HC Berounští Medvědi	1st league (Cz)	5	1.38
2003/04	HC Příbram	2nd league (CZ)	2	2.00
2004/05	HC Sparta Prague	Extra league	25th	1.58
2004/05	HC Berounští Medvědi	1st league (Cz)	16	1.80
2005/06	Polar bears Berlin	DEL	33	2.18
2005/06	Polar bears Berlin	DEL playoffs	11	2.11
2006/07	Syracuse crunch	AHL	49	2.86
2006/07	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL	2	1.33
2007/08	Syracuse crunch	AHL	12	3.08
2008/09	HC Sparta Prague	Extra league	41	2.69
2009/10	HC Plzeň	Extra league	35	2.20
2010/11	HC Sparta Prague	Extra league	50	2.56
2011/12	HC Sparta Prague	Extra league	46	2.02
2012/13	HC Lev Prague	KHL	38	2.25
2013/14	HC Sparta Prague	Extra league	44	1.61
2014/15	HK Sochi	KHL	45	2.68
2015/16	HC Sparta Prague	Extra league	35	2.38
2016/17	HC Sparta Prague	Extra league	39	2.23
2017/18	Fish town penguins	DEL	46	2.64
2017/18	Fish town penguins	DEL playoffs	7th	3.61
2018/19	Fish town penguins	DEL	44	2.76
2018/19	Fish town penguins	DEL playoffs	3	2.48
2019/20	Fish town penguins	DEL	25th	2.63

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; ¹  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

Web links

Commons : Tomáš Pöpperle  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tomáš Pöpperle at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Tomáš Pöpperle at eurohockey.com
• Tomáš Pöpperle at hockeygoalies.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ eishockey.info, Eisbären borrow young Czech goalkeepers - 21-year-old Tomas Pöpperle comes from Sparta Prague , October 27, 2005
2. ↑ hockeyweb.de, polar bears lose Tomas Pöpperle
3. ↑ Ice Hockey News , From KHL dropout to KHL newcomer - ex-polar bear Tomas Pöpperle hires in Sochi ( Memento from March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), August 2, 2014
4. ↑ Spartakian Pöpperle mutates into a penguin. In: Fischtown Pinguins. May 2, 2017, accessed on December 22, 2018 (German). 
5. ↑ Over! Fischtown Pinguins lose in Munich - buten and within. Retrieved December 22, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Penguin goalkeepers extend their contracts. In: Fischtown Pinguins. December 14, 2017, accessed on December 22, 2018 (German).