Victor Leury

Victor Leury (* 1920 or 1921) is a former Canadian ice hockey referee and coach , both in his home country and in Germany.

At the age of 25, he whistled an ice hockey game at a higher Canadian level for the first time . This was followed by four to five games a week, after which he sometimes had to cover more than 200 km - the day after he had to go back to work early in the morning. Leury came to Germany in the late 1950s. Here he managed Bundesliga games, for which he received consistently good criteria. He lost four teeth in an accident in 1960. The then goalkeeper of EC Deilinghofen Ekke Lindermann was so excited about a goal that he swung his club and hit Leury, who was about to get the puck out of the net. As a result of this unintentional blow, the referee only lay unconscious on the ice for a few minutes, but still led the game against Preussen Krefeld to an end.

For the 1961/62 season Leury took over the coaching position at the same EC Deilinghofen, to which he had been close since his arrival in Germany. Nevertheless, as a referee, he handed out more penalties to the ECD than to his opponents. In the first season in the group league north he led the team with 19: 1 points to a sovereign first place in the north championship. In the promotion round to the league , however, you only came fourth and last. After only one season, Charles McCuaig's successor was replaced by Harry-Henry Craig , an active player on the military team. In Iserlohn, his authoritarian appearance and the respectful treatment of the players were remembered.

Leury is related to the former chairman of the International Ice Hockey Federation John Ahearne , who therefore visited Deilinghofen during his tenure.