Udo Kießling
IIHF Hall of Fame , 2000 | |
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Date of birth | May 21, 1955 |
place of birth | Crimmitschau , GDR |
size | 180 cm |
Weight | 84 kg |
position | defender |
Shot hand | Left |
Career stations | |
1972-1973 | SC Riessersee |
1973-1974 | Augsburg EV |
1974-1976 | EV Rosenheim |
1976-1979 | Cologne EC |
1979-1982 | Düsseldorfer EG |
1982-1983 | EV Füssen |
1983-1992 | Cologne EC |
1992-1996 | EV Landshut |
Udo Kießling (born May 21, 1955 in Crimmitschau ) is a former German ice hockey player . With 321 b appearances, he is the record player for the German men's national team . In the 1981/82 season he also played an NHL game for the Minnesota North Stars , making it the first German a player in NHL history.
Career
When he was born, his father Gerhard Kießling was the coach of the GDR national ice hockey team . His parents moved to West Berlin in 1957 . In Krefeld, where his father started his first coaching position in West Germany, Udo started ice skating before his third birthday. His father had brought children's skates for him from Canada. At Preussen Krefeld , Udo played in his youth. Even when his father took a job in Frankfurt, Udo traveled to Krefeld on weekends to play there. During the week he trained with his father.
A job at the DEB brought his father to Garmisch-Partenkirchen . Udo therefore switched to SC Riessersee . There he made his debut in the Bundesliga together with Ignaz Berndaner . As the two young defenders made a good impression, national coach Gerhard Kießling nominated his son and Berndaner for the German national team for the 1973 ice hockey world championship .
The Augsburg EV was the next stop for Kießling after the World Cup. He couldn't prevent the team's relegation, but was voted one of the best defenders in the All-Star team. In 1974 he moved to the 2nd Bundesliga for EV Rosenheim , where his father was hired as a coach. He made promotion to the Bundesliga with Rosenheim in his first year. In 1981 he played his first and only NHL game for the Minnesota North Stars , because he stayed in the ice hockey Bundesliga despite a contract offer.
He played a total of 1,020 games in the top German division and scored 881 points scorer. With the Cologne EC he was German champion six times . Internationally, he is Germany's record-breaking male player with 321 b internationals - Andrea Lanzl had 322 internationals by February 2020. In addition, Kießling was a world record player until 2003.
Particular successes were winning the bronze medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics and being appointed to the All-Star Team at the 1987 World Cup. In total, he took part in five Olympic Games and once in the Canada Cup . Due to injury, he ended his active career in 1996 and has lived in Cologne ever since. His extraordinary talent and successes were recognized with the induction into the Hall of Fame Germany and the IIHF Hall of Fame .
successes
- German champion with the Cologne EC: 1977, 1979, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988
- Player of the Year: 1977, 1984, 1986
- Bundesliga All Star Team: 1977–1991 15 times in a row
- Leonhard Waitl Trophy: 1977, 1979, 1980, 1985
- Bronze medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics
- 1987 World Championship All-Star Team
Career statistics
( 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 )
Club competitions
Regular season | Play-offs | |||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
1972/73 | SC Riessersee | Bundesliga | 40 | 8th | 6th | 14th | 44 | |||||||
1973/74 | Augsburg EV | Bundesliga | 36 | 16 | 6th | 22nd | 52 | |||||||
1974/75 | EV Rosenheim | 2nd Bundesliga | 34 | 20th | 18th | 38 | 73 | |||||||
1975/76 | EV Rosenheim | Bundesliga | 34 | 30th | 22nd | 52 | 72 | |||||||
1976/77 | Cologne EC | Bundesliga | 46 | 13 | 21st | 34 | 143 | |||||||
1977/78 | Cologne EC | Bundesliga | 46 | 16 | 18th | 34 | 48 | |||||||
1978/79 | Cologne EC | Bundesliga | 40 | 28 | 32 | 60 | 78 | |||||||
1979/80 | Düsseldorfer EG | Bundesliga | 48 | 39 | 44 | 83 | 84 | 7th | 2 | 2 | 4th | 10 | ||
1980/81 | Düsseldorfer EG | Bundesliga | 39 | 14th | 29 | 43 | 93 | 11 | 8th | 4th | 12 | 22nd | ||
1981/82 | Minnesota North Stars | NHL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1981/82 | Düsseldorfer EG | Bundesliga | 38 | 15th | 22nd | 37 | 54 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7th | ||
1982/83 | EV Füssen | Bundesliga | 21st | 12 | 13 | 25th | 52 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1982/83 | Cologne EC | Bundesliga | 9 | 4th | 0 | 4th | 2 | 8th | 3 | 7th | 10 | 8th | ||
1983/84 | Cologne EC | Bundesliga | 45 | 9 | 19th | 28 | 74 | 8th | 0 | 3 | 3 | 10 | ||
1984/85 | Cologne EC | Bundesliga | 36 | 14th | 26th | 40 | 38 | 9 | 4th | 10 | 14th | 22nd | ||
1985/86 | Cologne EC | Bundesliga | 27 | 13 | 18th | 31 | 24 | 10 | 5 | 8th | 13 | 17th | ||
1986/87 | Cologne EC | Bundesliga | 42 | 10 | 34 | 44 | 70 | |||||||
1987/88 | Cologne EC | Bundesliga | 35 | 9 | 20th | 29 | 54 | 11 | 3 | 7th | 10 | 22nd | ||
1988/89 | Cologne EC | Bundesliga | 31 | 11 | 24 | 35 | 38 | 9 | 6th | 4th | 10 | 8th | ||
1989/90 | Cologne EC | Bundesliga | 35 | 7th | 15th | 22nd | 45 | 8th | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | ||
1990/91 | Cologne EC | Bundesliga | 35 | 7th | 13 | 20th | 36 | 14th | 2 | 4th | 6th | 18th | ||
1991/92 | Cologne EC | Bundesliga | 42 | 11 | 23 | 34 | 38 | 4th | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||
1992/93 | EV Landshut | Bundesliga | 44 | 9 | 19th | 28 | 50 | 6 1 | 1 | 5 | 6th | 10 | ||
1993/94 | EV Landshut | Bundesliga | 44 | 3 | 16 | 19th | 74 | 7th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10 | ||
1994/95 | EV Landshut | DEL | 41 | 7th | 15th | 22nd | 40 | 18th | 3 | 7th | 10 | 22nd | ||
1995/96 | EV Landshut | DEL | 50 | 3 | 19th | 22nd | 44 | 7th | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4th | ||
Bundesliga & DEL overall | 898 | 308 | 473 | 781 | 1339 | 139 | 40 | 66 | 106 | 202 |
International
year | team | event | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | |
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1973 | BR Germany | WM | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6th | |
1974 | BR Germany | B-WM | 7th | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8th | |
1975 | BR Germany | B-WM | 7th | 1 | 3 | 4th | 8th | |
1976 | BR Germany | Olympia | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6th | |
1976 | BR Germany | WM | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8th | |
1977 | BR Germany | WM | 10 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 10 | |
1978 | BR Germany | WM | 10 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 10 | |
1979 | BR Germany | WM | 8th | 2 | 4th | 6th | 14th | |
1980 | BR Germany | Olympia | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4th | 6th | |
1982 | BR Germany | WM | 7th | 1 | 3 | 4th | 12 | |
1983 | BR Germany | WM | 4th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10 | |
1984 | BR Germany | Olympia | 6th | 3 | 1 | 4th | 4th | |
1984 | BR Germany | Canada Cup | 4th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4th | |
1985 | BR Germany | WM | 10 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 16 | |
1986 | BR Germany | WM | 10 | 4th | 2 | 6th | 22nd | |
1987 | BR Germany | WM | 10 | 5 | 3 | 8th | 18th | |
1988 | BR Germany | Olympia | 8th | 1 | 5 | 6th | 18th | |
1989 | BR Germany | WM | 10 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 12 | |
1990 | BR Germany | WM | 10 | 2 | 2 | 4th | 10 | |
1991 | Germany | WM | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6th | |
1992 | Germany | Olympia | 8th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6th | |
Total international matches | 321 | 45 | 68 | 113 | 289 |
Remarks
Web links
- Udo Kießling at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Udo Kießling at hockeydb.com (English)
- Udo Kießling in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Udo Kießling on the homepage of the KEC “Die Haie” Traditionsmannschaft eV
- Udo Kießling at internationalhockeylegends.com
- Honor banners under the hall roof - sharks honor Udo Kießling
- Udo Kießling: Hard against himself, hard against others - the EV Landshut ice hockey player is playing his 1000th first division game
Individual evidence
- ↑ Germans in the NHL: Kießling was the first - and quickly gone. In: rp-online.de. June 16, 2011, accessed February 27, 2020 .
- Jump up ↑ National ice hockey record player: “No man, no animal”: Udo Kießling turns 60. In: rp-online.de. May 21, 2015, accessed February 27, 2020 .
- ↑ 322 games - Andrea Lanzl is the new German record national player! In: deb-online.de. February 7, 2020, accessed February 27, 2020 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kiessling, Udo |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1955 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Crimmitschau (GDR) |