Uwe Krupp

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GermanyGermany  Uwe Krupp Ice hockey player
IIHF Hall of Fame , 2017
Uwe Krupp
Date of birth June 24, 1965
place of birth Cologne , Germany
size 198 cm
Weight 107 kg
position defender
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1983 , 11th lap, 214th position
Buffalo Sabers
Career stations
1982-1986 Cologne EC
1986-1991 Buffalo Sabers
1991-1994 New York Islanders
1994-1995 Nordiques de Québec
1995-1998 Colorado Avalanche
1998-2002 Detroit Red Wings
2002 Atlanta Thrashers

Uwe Gerd Krupp (born June 24, 1965 in Cologne ) is a former German ice hockey player and current coach , who has been training the Kölner Haie for the second time in his career since February 2020 . From 2005 to 2011 he was also the national coach , having previously worked as an assistant coach for the U18 and U20 youth teams. In the course of his active career between 1982 and 2002 he completed 810 games for the Buffalo Sabers , New York Islanders , Nordiques de Québec , Colorado Avalanche , Detroit Red Wings and Atlanta Thrashers in the National Hockey League on the position of defender . In the service of the Colorado Avalanche, Krupp was the first German winner of the Stanley Cup in 1996 . In addition, he became German champions with the Cologne EC in 1984 and 1986 . His career was crowned in 2017 with the induction into the IIHF Hall of Fame , he is also a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame Germany .

Career

Player career

Uwe Krupp after winning the Stanley Cup (2002)

Krupp began his career in the ice hockey Bundesliga with the Kölner Haien in 1982 . In 1986 he was elected to the All-Star Game and best defender here. In 1986 and 1990 he took part in the ice hockey world championships. At the 1990 World Cup, his doping test was positive for ephedrine , which he claimed he had taken with a cough suppressant. He was banned internationally for 18 months.

After four years in his hometown, he moved to North America. In the 1983 NHL Entry Draft , the Buffalo Sabers had selected him in the 11th round in a total of 214th place. Krupp only found out about this when a sports journalist approached him a week after the draft. With the Sabers farm team, the AHL club Rochester Americans , he completed 42 games in 1986/87 (including winning the Calder Cup ) before moving to the NHL in Buffalo, where he played 26 games in the same season . He stayed with the Sabers until 1992, when he was elected Buffalo's "Unsung Hero" (1990) and the 1991 NHL All-Star Game . The next stops were the New York Islanders and the Québec Nordiques , the later Colorado Avalanche . The lockout season 1994/95 began with the right- shooter at EV Landshut in the DEL . Then he experienced the greatest successes of his career with the Colorado Avalanche. In the team's first season in Denver, Colorado in 1995/96 he won the Stanley Cup and scored the 1-0 winning goal in the third extension of the fourth final game against the Florida Panthers . Also in 1996 he took part in the World Cup of Hockey for Germany and in the 1998 Olympic Games . For the 1998/99 season he moved to the Detroit Red Wings .

Also this season Krupp was elected to the All-Star Game again, but could not participate due to injury. In 2002 , the native of Cologne won the Stanley Cup again, but his name is not engraved on the trophy, as he only made six games in this series and did not appear in the finals against the Carolina Hurricanes . In his last season as a professional, he was employed by the Atlanta Thrashers in 2002/03 . With a total of 810 NHL games (310 scorer points), he was the German with the most appearances in the NHL for a long time. In the 2009/2010 season he was replaced by Marco Sturm in this category.

In January 2017, the International Ice Hockey Association Krupps announced admission to the Hall of Fame . This made the Cologne resident the 13th German to receive this honor. Among other things, the reasoning states:

"It is difficult enough to make an impression at the highest level of ice hockey, but for players who do not come from the 'Big Six' it is doubly difficult because their ability to create an impressive vita by winning medals is significantly lower. Nevertheless, it is easy to name Uwe Krupp the best ice hockey player Germany has ever produced: As a defender of imposing height, he was still a supple skater who regularly brought the puck out of the defensive third. "

Coaching career

GermanyGermany  Uwe Krupp
Uwe Krupp
Coaching stations
2005-2011 Germany
2011-2014 Cologne Sharks
2014-2018 Polar bears Berlin
2018-2020 HC Sparta Prague
since 2020 Cologne Sharks

The Atlanta Duluth Ice Hawks were Krupp's first coaching position in 2002/03, where he trained his son Björn , among others . At the DEB he was involved in youth work for a few years, where he also worked as a trainer (U15, U18) together with Ernst Höfner . As early as 2004 he was traded as the successor to Hans Zach as national coach . On May 22, 2005, the DEB first announced that Krupp, together with his predecessor Greg Poss and a new goalkeeping coach, would form the senior national team's coaching team with immediate effect . After talks in the summer it was decided that Greg Poss would remain national coach and Uwe Krupp would be his assistants together with Klaus Merk (goalkeeping coach). After Poss had terminated his contract on December 14, 2005, Krupp was presented as the new national coach a day later.

Under Krupp's leadership, the German national team dropped out of the preliminary round at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and was tenth, in spring 2006 he led the DEB selection to win the B world championship and thus to promotion to the A group. In 2009 he and his team suffered relegation at the World Cup, but remained in the highest category, as they hosted the World Cup tournament the following year. In November 2009 he led the national team to win the Germany Cup .

At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , Krupp's team remained without a win and finished eleventh.

At the start of the 2010 home World Cup , the Germans won against the United States under Krupp's leadership. This game was played in the football stadium in Gelsenkirchen in front of 77,803 spectators, which at the time meant a world record setting for ice hockey. His team made it to the quarter-finals, where Switzerland was defeated 1-0 in a heated game. In the semifinals, Germany was eliminated by Russia (1: 2) and lost in the game for third place against Sweden. With participation in the semi-finals and fourth place, Krupp had led the German national team to their greatest success since winning the Olympic bronze in 1976 and to the best result at a World Cup since silver in 1953.

In November 2010, Krupp and his team managed to defend their title at the Deutschland Cup. In the same month it was announced that Krupp would no longer extend his contract as national coach. For the 2011/12 season he returned to his home club, the Kölner Haien, as a trainer and sports manager. In 2013 and 2014 he led the Haie to the DEL play-off finals. There they lost to Berlin and Ingolstadt. In 2013 he was named DEL Trainer of the Year.

On October 10, 2014, the Kölner Haie released Uwe Krupp from his position as head coach due to the bad start to the 2014/15 season .

Uwe Krupp as trainer of the Eisbären Berlin (2018)

On December 16, 2014, Eisbären Berlin announced that Krupp would be the new head coach. In spring 2015 the Eisbären were eliminated in the playoff qualification against Nuremberg, in the 2015/16 season Krupp Berlin led to second place in the DEL main round, in the playoff quarter-finals they were eliminated with 3: 4 wins against Cologne. In 2016/17, Krupp's team secured a place in the quarter-finals of the championship round via the detour of play-off qualification, where the Adler Mannheim were defeated 4-3 wins. In the semifinals it was then against the eventual champions Munich (1: 4 wins).

In the 2017/18 season, Krupp led the polar bears into the final series, where they met defending champions Munich. Krupp's team lost in an extremely competitive series with 3: 4 wins. Then Krupp decided to leave the polar bears and on the same day HC Sparta Prague confirmed contract negotiations with Krupp. On May 2, 2018, he was introduced as Sparta Prague's head coach. At the end of January 2020, Krupp was dismissed after five defeats from six games despite a third place in the table. In the previous course of the 2019/20 season he had been at the top of the Czech league with Sparta. In February 2020, Uwe Krupp replaced Mike Stewart as head coach of the Kölner Haie after he suffered 17 defeats in a row. Krupp received a contract until April 2022. Krupp won his first game on February 25 in front of a home crowd against Wolfsburg 5-0 and thus prevented the DEL negative record of 18 defeats from being achieved. Three more victories followed, but the Haie only finished the main round in eleventh place and thus did not qualify for the playoffs, which were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic .

Achievements and Awards

As a player

As a trainer

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1982/83 Cologne EC Bundesliga 11 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1983/84 Cologne EC Bundesliga 26th 0 4th 4th 22nd - - - - -
1984/85 Cologne EC Bundesliga 31 7th 7th 14th 24 9 4th 1 5 12
1985/86 Cologne EC Bundesliga 35 6th 18th 24 83 10 4th 3 7th 0
1986/87 Rochester Americans AHL 42 3 19th 22nd 50 17th 1 11 12 16
1986/87 Buffalo Sabers NHL 26th 1 4th 5 23 - - - - -
1987/88 Buffalo Sabers NHL 75 2 9 11 151 6th 0 0 0 15th
1988/89 Buffalo Sabers NHL 70 5 13 18th 55 5 0 1 1 4th
1989/90 Buffalo Sabers NHL 74 3 20th 23 85 6th 0 0 0 4th
1990/91 Buffalo Sabers NHL 74 12 32 44 66 6th 1 1 2 6th
1991/92 Buffalo Sabers NHL 8th 2 0 2 6th - - - - -
1991/92 New York Islanders NHL 59 6th 29 35 43 - - - - -
1992/93 New York Islanders NHL 80 9 29 38 67 18th 1 5 6th 12
1993/94 New York Islanders NHL 41 7th 14th 21st 30th 4th 0 1 1 4th
1994/95 EV Landshut DEL 5 1 2 3 6th - - - - -
1994/95 Nordiques de Québec NHL 44 6th 17th 23 20th 5 0 2 2 2
1995/96 Colorado Avalanche NHL 6th 0 3 3 4th 22nd 4th 12 16 33
1996/97 Colorado Avalanche NHL 60 4th 17th 21st 48 - - - - -
1997/98 Colorado Avalanche NHL 78 9 22nd 31 38 7th 0 1 1 4th
1998/99 Detroit Red Wings NHL 22nd 3 2 5 6th - - - - -
1999/00 Detroit Red Wings NHL not played because of back injury
2000/01 Detroit Red Wings NHL not played because of back injury
2001/02 Detroit Red Wings NHL 8th 0 1 1 8th 2 0 0 0 2
2002/03 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 4th 0 0 0 10 - - - - -
Bundesliga / DEL overall 108 14th 31 45 135 19th 8th 4th 12 0
NHL overall 729 69 212 281 660 81 6th 23 29 86

International

Represented Germany at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1983 BR Germany U20 World Cup 7th place 7th 0 0 0 0
1983 BR Germany U18 European Championship 5th place 5 3 4th 7th 2
1985 BR Germany U20 World Cup 7th place 7th 0 1 1 8th
1986 BR Germany WM 7th place 3 2 1 3 2
1990 BR Germany WM 7th place 2 0 0 0 2
1998 Germany Olympia 9th place 2 0 2 2 4th
Juniors overall 19th 3 5 8th 10
Men overall 7th 2 3 5 8th

( 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 )

Personal

Krupp has four children: two sons from his first marriage as well as a daughter and a son with his current partner. His second oldest son, Björn Krupp , is also a professional ice hockey player.

Web links

Commons : Uwe Krupp  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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Squad of the Kölner Haie in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME Krupp, Uwe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krupp, Uwe Gerd (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne , Germany